Excited about the Manchester Jazz Festival next month! Check out the youtube video above for a preview of what the festival is about, and keep an eye on the website at manchesterjazz.com in the next few days as the full lineup will be revealed very soon. Pleased to officially announce that we’ll be playing on the closing night of the festival on Saturday 31st July at the festival pavilion in Albert Square – this will be a bit of a party for us too as it will officially end our tour, back at the scene of our first ever gig at the festival only two years ago… See you there!
Posted by on 24/06/2010 at 09:51 in gigs, misc, news and tagged gig, jazz festival, manchester, mjf. Leave comments here.
If you’re a subscriber to the Beats & Pieces mailing list you’ll already have heard about this from the latest newsletter but if not, I hope you’ll be as excited as we are about our upcoming tour dates all over England and Wales! Dates as they stand are as follows:
Friday 21st May – The Forge, Camden (info & tickets)
Saturday 5th June – Groove on the Green, Liverpool (info)
Tuesday 8th June – Dempseys, Cardiff (info)
Wednesday 9th June – Jazzland, Swansea (info & tickets)
Thursday 1st July – Bridgewater Hall (bar), Manchester (free gig after RNCM Symphony Orchestra perform music by Jonny Greenwood & Stravinsky – info)
Saturday 10th July – Marlborough Jazz Festival (info & tickets)
For more information check out the individual venue websites as listed below or the gigs page. You can also join the facebook group for the tour here.
We’ll also be playing with the Jo McCallum & Alice Zawadski Orchestra at a secret venue in Manchester on Thursday 20th May… Location to be revealed a few days before on this site, twitter, myspace and facebook – keep those eyes peeled!
It’d be awesome to see you down the front at one (or more…) of the dates, do come and say hi! We’re all well excited and counting down the days, not long now…
p.s. thanks again to the amazing Angela Guyton for letting us use her artwork again for the poster!
Posted by on 30/04/2010 at 11:54 in gigs, news and tagged bridgewater, camden, cardiff, dempseys, forge, jazzland, liverpool. groove on the green, london, manchester, marlborough, swansea, tour, uk. Leave comments here.
In case you haven’t heard, we’ve got an EP coming out soon (2 weeks today!!) and we’re going to be celebrating that with a launch party on Wednesday 2nd December in Odder Bar, Manchester. If you’re in Manchester, keep an eye out for this amazing poster that I’ve had done to promote the gig… (click for full-size image)
Its been designed by Angela Guyton who is a local artist, originally from the USA, and amongst other things regularly performs as one third of Takashi’s Shellfish Concern. Thanks a lot to her, as I say it looks amazing!
Posted by on 16/11/2009 at 14:38 in beats & pieces, gigs, news and tagged angela guyton, beats, beatsandpieces, efpi, ep launch, gig, manchester, odder, pieces, poster, takahashi's shellfish concern. Leave comments here.
It gives me great pleasure to announce that the Beats & Pieces Big Band’s debut EP will be released on Efpi Records on November 30th, and that this will be celebrated to great extent at the official launch party at Odder in Manchester on December 2nd – come one, come all! We’ll be playing two sets featuring all of the EP’s 5 tracks, some newer stuff thats not on the EP and some stuff thats so brand new they don’t have names yet… Its also FREE ENTRY so you can save all your cash to buy the CD!
Doors open 8.30pm, live set from 9.30pm sharp. Odder, Oxford Road, Manchester (opposite the BBC). Contact info@beatsnpieces.net for more information
Posted by on 26/10/2009 at 12:02 in beats & pieces, gigs, news and tagged efpi, ep, gig, manchester, odder, party. Leave comments here.
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