manchester this week

There’s some great gigs happening in Manchester this week:

1) Tonight (Tuesday) at Sandbar we’ve got Chris Mapp’s Gambol from Birmingham playing as part of the Freedom Principle series of gigs run by Efpi Records – 8.30pm, £3 which also gets you a discount at the bar…

2) Tomorrow (Wednesday) Polar Bear are bringing their new collaboration with MC Jyager to Sound Control, with support from our good friends Gogo Penguin – the Penguins are on about 8pm, tickets are £10 + booking

3) Friday 18th – Beats & Pieces Big Band (thats us!) at the West Didsbury Club, M20 2LN. Come and say bye to us as we head off to Germany at the weekend for the European Young Artists’ Jazz Award next week – its free entry, with cheap beer too: happy days… Our set starts 8.30pm so don’t be late!

See you down the front at all three of these gigs!

Posted by Ben on 15/03/2011 at 16:27 in misc, news and tagged chris mapp, freedom principle, gambol, gig, gogo penguin, polar bear, sandbar, west didsbury. Leave comments here.

polar bear @ marlborough

Thanks to everyone who came to see us last week at the Marlborough jazz festival – apologies again for the slightly delayed start, circumstances out of my control! We really enjoyed the gig though, and hanging around at the festival afterwards as well. Continuing the recent theme of posting videos of gigs I’ve been to, here’s a track from Polar Bear’s set – ‘Happy For You’, one of my favourite tracks from their latest album (which is possibly my favourite album of theirs too!):

Also here’s a nice picture of Sam and Anton taking a quick paddle in the river with the ducks, isn’t that nice…

Posted by Ben on 16/07/2010 at 12:13 in misc and tagged ducks, marlborough, polar bear, youtube. Leave comments here.

space is the place

I went down to Birmingham on Saturday for the Mostly Jazz festival, which was a really great event – highlights of the day were Led Bib, Polar Bear and headliners the Sun Ra Arkestra. Thought I’d put up some of the pictures and video I took of the Arkestra’s set, it was awesome…(video bit shaky in places as I was dancing, sorry!)

The Arkestra are at Cafe Oto in London tonight and tomorrow (5th and 6th) so if you’re in the big smoke make sure you’re there!

Posted by Ben on 05/07/2010 at 18:47 in misc and tagged birmingham, festival, led bib, mostly jazz, polar bear, sun ra, sun ra arkestra, youtube. Leave comments here.