germany photos: day 1

Over the next few days I’m going to be putting up some of the best photos that we took of our time in Germany, starting with today – getting from Manchester to Munich and then spending a free day (and night!) there, its a really nice place. It also gives an excellent opportunity to showcase my knack for producing semi-amusing animated gifs… This one stars Anton Hunter (with supporting roles from Graham South and a man doing trays in the background) and was taken over lunch in the Englischer Garten. There’s another beauty of a gif to come later in the week so keep checking back!

Photos over the week are courtesy of Ben Cottrell, Finlay Panter, Owen Bryce, Sam Healey, Simon Lodge & Anton Hunter

Posted by Ben on 04/04/2011 at 16:10 in misc and tagged germany, munich, photos. Leave comments here.

happy 2010! and bye 2009…

Let me be the last person to wish you a happy new year! Hope Christmas and everything was good, its perhaps a bit late for that but its always nice to say it anyway… And whilst we’re being late check out the Efpi Christmas message here if you haven’t already, it’ll put you right in the mood all over again.

Thought now would be an excellent time to recap all the stuff from the end of 2009 that I’ve been meaning to post, just to close everything off nicely. First of all, I’ve just uploaded a load of photos from the EP launch night on 2nd December to the gallery; the pictures were all taken by Martin Wilson and they’re really good so check them out now… I think that this one is my favourite.

Also it was my birthday just before Christmas, and wanted to share with you this picture of my amazing birthday cake – remind you of anything?? Thanks Lucy!

Posted by Ben on 08/01/2010 at 00:48 in beats & pieces, misc and tagged cake, christmas, ep, ep launch, gig, odder, party, photos. Leave comments here.

beats & pieces helsinki

I spent last week in Helsinki on an Efpi Records ‘business trip’, visiting Sam and doing a gig with ‘Beats & Pieces Finland’ – a big band made up of some of the cream of Helsinki’s young jazz talent. There’s a tour diary with pictures of our fun in the snow over at the Efpi site, and I’ve uploaded some photos from the Cafe Mascot (with Sagolik) gig below and to the Gallery.

Thanks to everyone who came to the gig and especially to those who gave up their time and effort to play in the band – it was great to meet and play with you all! Hopefully it won’t be the last gig for the ensemble…

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Posted by Ben on 23/12/2009 at 21:01 in beats & pieces, gigs and tagged beatsandpieces, beatsnpieces, cafe mascot, efpi, finland, gallery, gig, helsinki, photos, sagolik. Leave comments here.