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A feature of the Roy Potts ensemble is the integral guitar work of Dave Alexander in tandem with Potts’ powerful trumpet. If only Roy ‘in the words of Shakespeare’ – ‘me thinks he...
Date Published 12/06/2008
The Tame Valley Stompers are based in Ashton Under-Lyne where they have a residency. Six talented musicians producing a tight sound of first class Jazz, having a sense of fun but...
The Old Fashioned Love Band is a crowd pleaser and this was no exception with an evening of the best musicianship and presentation. There has been one chance to the personnel with...
Derek Galloway’s Bunters Imperials is a band which likes to entertain. Galloway plays brash trombone, is a member of the temperance seven (certainly not society) and has a droll...
Frank Brooker often ventures over from the White Rose and his expertise on clarinet and saxes is well admired, but his fellow Yorkies must have ‘visa problems’ as they were all...
Rochdale Council, in partnership with the Environment Agency, is running a Flood Awareness Event at Rochdale Town Hall on 19 June. Residents will be able to find out if their...
Organisers of the Springhill Hospice Midnight Walk 2008 have announced that the latest participant to sign up for the event is ‘Waterloo Road’ and ‘Loose Women’ star, actress...
Barbara Fielden directed Ray Cooney’s masterpiece ‘Funny Money’ creating a laugh-a-minute show. If you are unfamiliar with the story it features Henry, a run of the mill office...
John Shillito has long been one of the best trumpeters in the business and a full house welcomed his select six up from deepest Devon and were not disappointed!
Police have released CCTV footage of a man after three girls were indecently approached within 40 minutes in Heywood. The footage, taken from Market Street at around 1.20pm on...
Coming to Rochdale to end 2007, New Orleans Heat left everyone in festive mood. With musicians from South Wales, Lincolnshire, Derbyshire, et al, this band is top drawer and top...
The visit of the Howard Allen Dixie Landers provided a gig within a gig. Reedsman Howard Murray and bass guitarist Pete Smith were stuck in a motorway jam so the ‘The Quarteteers’...
The long established Lancaster based Quayside Hot Stompers play a slow easy jazz style of the twenties without a trombone, a drummer or a double bass and it is tuba maestro Colin...
Communities Secretary Hazel Blears has set out the range of actions the Government is taking to manage migration, maximise the benefits for the whole of the UK and minimise the...
The Antique Six are a top class outfit from the Midlands. They dropped off in Rochdale on their way home from a Scottish tour, and very welcome too!
The first time I heard Martin Bennett’s Old Green River band, it left me cold but hearing the unexpected sometimes leaves the wrong impression.
Powerful cornetist Denis Armstrong deserted his Yorkshire homeland for Bristol some years ago, but his talents haven’t ‘gone west’ and he makes regular national tours with his...
A visit from the Wirral’s Tuxedo Jazz Band always brings an evening of what I would call, ‘Gentle Jazz’. Plenty of New Orleans and a good variety, but with a softer feel with...
The story line of Thomas’s enduring farce, like most farces, is easy to follow. Two Oxford student friends Jack Chesney (Bernie Culshaw) and Charles Wykeham (Geoff Williams) are...
At a Council briefing at Rochdale Town Hall to identify potential sites for waste facilities in Rochdale Borough, Green Lane and Heap Bridge, Heywood have been identified by the...
The Jazz Gentlemen are a tight knit six piece, that is if any band featuring eccentric trombonist Terry Brunt can be called ‘tight knit’.
The first visit of the ‘Heart of England’ Jazz Band provided an evening of music madness and merriment. Here was a band who liked to entertain and ‘do their own thing’ so that you...
St Ann's Players' Spring production was the comedy "Take My Husbands Please" by Terry Harper. The audience were introduced to a madcap morning in the life of best selling novelist...
The Millennium Eagles jazz band was formed after the death of the founder of the Eagles band trombonist Tony Hobson who had led his band for 50 years Birmingham based.
Rochdale Council has officially opened the doors to its brand new Centre for Learning and Development on Chichester Street, Rochdale, as it continues to place investment in its...
The annual visit of the Phil Mason band always guarantees a full house, ultimate professionals with songstress Christine Tyrrell and regularly tours to Scandinavia, Holland,...
Quiet man leader of the Tame Valley Stompers, drummer Norman Pennington brought his merry men back to “Jazz on a Sunday”, for another evening of pure entertainment. Eccentric...
Bunter’s imperials brought a ‘mint’ of entertainment to the Broadfield led by ebullient trombonist Derek Calloway for the hardy ‘Jazzers’ who had braved the appalling weather! A...
The Howard Allen Dixie Landers takes its name from vocalist and leader Bert Allen and reedsman Howard Murray, and play entertaining happy music, to keep the toes tapping.
It is four months since Jim Wilkes’ trumpet fell silent, and the Rossendale players organised by Len and Mary Taylor at their quaint New Millennium Theatre in Waterfoot did Jim...
