Pretty much as it says on the tin. Two super comedians, mr parkin and mr morgan give you a guide to the leicester music scene. it's something we're going to do every month. we think it's ace. and it's free. go listen to it!!!!!

ok. some of you may well have noticed recent articles concerning Richard Haswell and Summer Sundae in the Leicester Mercury. certainly quite a few of you have asked us what we know.

The answer is no more than you. We don't have any further knowledge than what we've read in the Mercury also. We would like to say we are very very concerned over the suspension of Richard Haswell.

We only hope this is not a scenario where certain people are engineering a situation to remove the festivals.</..

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Right ok, so heres some snippets of news. Not gossip, well not malicious gossip at least, however, the following good and bad things have happened in the last month or so, and we'd thought we'd try and details them there :

Good Things

The Charlotte

The Charlotte re-opening : ok, there are some pay to play complaints, but give the place a chance, it's being run by people who have never done this before. They seem open to advice and they've got good intentions. One things for certain..

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we put the dirty backbeats in to Firebug, and we got the great Dave Bartram from Showaddywaddy to introduce them.....(we've always thought the wads a little undervalued in Leicester if we're honest!!).

well, we have the date ?

OK, so this one is easily perhaps the most statisfying and surprising piece of press, if only because we discovered it quite by accident. Whilst in Borders, at the start of the Summer, a keen interest in festivals led us to do a bit of free library browsing, and start flicking through a new book from those intellectuals at the Guardian. They'd gone a produced a guide to the UK festival summer, and not only that, but they did it in partnership with the Big Chill (who themselves know how to run a fe..

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Vice Magazine......yep, y'know, VICE magazine (www.viceland.com). that ultra trendy fashion / culture magazine? y'know the one that is a bit like the FACE but 20 years on, the one that seems to cater for that somewhat odd generation who dress like the characters from SKINS, but are mostly at least over the age of 26? the VICE magazine with a record label who signed the magnificent BLACK LIPS? anyway, they mentioned us in their 2009 VICE guide to festivals. they claimed we were street theatre (well almost ..

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Right, so this is pretty much possibly the wierdest piece of press we've ever yet got. For starters, it's in MORE Magazine, which is kind of like Heat, or Grazia. One of those weekly womens magazines with a combination of gossip, fashion, dieting tips, and `I've got £30,000 of debt and I don't care, I love my man` or somesuch. Seems they do these quiz fests on random good looking members of the public, and oddly. They did one at our gigs!!!!. It was the Sep 7th edition, which looks like this :

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Ok, so it seems to be true. Yep, some 9 odd months post Andy Wright regime, and tonight a new team of people open the charlotte with a first night line up including 2009 fringe band Autohype :

and headliners and fringe 2007 / 2008 band the screening (we think this might be shot in the charlotte in fact):

anyway, so it re-opens. it was a handy fringe venue in 2007 and 2008, and one we'd happily look into re-using if it survives, so heres hoping, and good luck to the new team!!!!!

A Final thank you.....We raised £6500 from the 2009 Fringe Thursday warm up parties. The money is now in the process of making its way to LOROS (http://www.loros.co.uk/), it's taken a surprising while (avoiding VAT, changing money, moving money) but it'll all be there by this time next week. We're utterly staggered and amazed to be honest. We cant thank everyone and all of you enough. We wrote a letter to the mercury to thank you all. We hope you can read it here : <..

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