First gig of 2025?
Why man. It'll be in Peterlee.
Kimakaze down the Central Club.
Jan 1 2025.

'Tell us a joke!! shout out Perfect Chicken.
So, Bethan shouts out.
'Why did the baker have brown hands?
Cos he'd been kneading a poo all day!'
Bethan is the manager at the fabulous Cafe Etch.
Working the cafe & dancing away too.
Brilliant night Industrial Coast
#UTFB !

Finally got to see Perfect Chicken Industrial Coast last night. Like a chas'n'dave Xmas special covered in bechemal. Good to meet the gig machine that is timdredge1 (no Steve Spithray tho)

I’m voting Jamie Driscoll because The Labour Party have nothing but contempt for me and the trans community. Sorry 🤷‍♀️ You deserted us. What you give, you get back #Labour . @WesStreeting 🏳️‍⚧️ #DontVoteLabour

What an evening!
Good to meet Gordon Dalton
Great set from Julie Easley (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 including a world premiere of some of her new poems.
Mackem Fox 's first Industrial Coast event.
Perfect Chicken doing songs about pork scratchings & stolen steel & also doing a take on 'Midnight Cowboy'.

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Give RE:VULVA a follow.
Brand new band, a band of women.
Janice Burns-mandolin, Holly Clarke on vox/guitar, Cathy Geldard-fiddle, Amy Thatcher on accordion, synth/drum pad. Reclaiming classic folk tunes & refreshing them plus their own compositions.
revulva.org

ROBERT PLANT Stockton ticket holders please note.

I met Annie at an art exhibition at Pineapple Black in #Middlesbrough where they were exhibiting a piece. It was of an old building on Greatham Creek I recognised. Annie noted I was the only one that had. We talked about birding & art & nature.
R.I.P.
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Mary is an excellent MP and I have voted for Joy Allen for Durham PCC but my NE Mayoral vote & time spent campaigning is for Mayor Jamie Driscoll who should have been The Labour Party 's selection.

Gig 25 of 2024 today.
Is in a Cafe called Etch in #Middlesbrough where gigs, art, exhibitions, improv comedy & singer songwriter sessions take place. They also do coffee!

Monday...
Few hours leafletting for the Nth-East Mayoral elections for Mayor Jamie Driscoll
& then to Boro with Mackem Fox & Mike Ray
for some USA noise from Volt & Woods, some Teesside absurdity from the Lazenby boys & some political spoken word from Julie.
Phil's first Industrial Coast gig.

It's Willson Williams album release day kathryn williams One Little Independent Records - kathryn-williams.lnk.to/willson-willia… What a joy this record was to make.

GIG PLANNING.
MAY-12 gigs on the probable list with tix bought for 10.
JUNE-8 gigs on the probable list with tix bought for 6 but then there's also Sonic Arts week in June in the Boro. Is it possible to go to too many gigs/sound experiences? No, it's not!
sonicartsweek.com

If you know you know.
Now, where's that Mexican wrestling mask?
Industrial Coast

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Seen a lot of posts about people feeling down on here because of negativity in their replies, weird bots ruining engagement etc. To counteract it, what's the bounciest song you can think of? Just bubblegum joy? Here's mine: 🥥🥥

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Mr IC Steve Kirby is exactly right.
Brilliant & superb scenes in the Boro in the Old Courthouse.
Really pleased for Steve it all went so well.
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