...a plethora of creative nonsense...
Reading Time: 2 minutes …the main attraction (for me at least) this year was Luke Jerram’s “Museum of the Moon” – a 7 metre diameter accurately mapped spherical installation of The Moon, suspended over Leeds Dock…
We started out for a quick drink, then wandered down to the Docks joining a fairly steady stream.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Leeds West Indian Carnival is the oldest and one of the biggest West Indian carnival events in Britain today. Started in 1967 by Arthur France, and a group of Caribbean strengths in Leeds, it is now in it’s 50th year, and what an event it is! …
Reading Time: 2 minutes I had to post these sillies, taken on the Grove Lane Pond the other day. I need to get out a bit more for short walks and pay some attention to the random things I see, like the nature on the pond – I loved …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Beeston Festival in Crossflatts Park – I do like that all these events have their own distinct character. Beeston is big, but suprisingly roomy – it does not feel crowded and busy and there really is something for everyone. The main band stage is relatively understated, with feelgood music of a generally rocky nature. The main area of stalls and food is immense, with easily over 100 different stalls, mostly of a very community nature – tombolas, tat, plants, books and so on.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Another of the big summer events in Leeds takes place in the grounds of Kirkstall Abbey – Kirkstall Festival has been running in Leeds for 37 years now, and attracts over 25,000 people. It has grown steadily, and has a good formula, with a large …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Leeds has so many little pockets of community action and events, for those in the know… One of these is the annual Woodhouse Ridge Festival, taking place early July each year. This is a wonderful example of grassroots community in action. Woodhouse Ridge is an area of …
Reading Time: 3 minutes Sometimes great things come in small packages. I’ve seen Monster Magnet a couple of times before in bigger venues, but they have recently played the Brudenell Social Club. How on earth they made the finances of a small club tour like this work, I neither …
Reading Time: 4 minutes So, I went to a little bit of a shindig last night. Felicity Hoy, with whom I did a bit of collaboration on some flyers a couple (or maybe more) years ago and who is doing great things in Sheffield has been involved with a couple …
Reading Time: 2 minutes I am not sure where this small obsession with Freightliners came from. I blame my son, and also they are very smartly liveried. If you like them we are lucky to have the maintanance depot in Leeds out on the Hallam Line to Wakefield Westgate …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Another Quick Images from The Underground update. The Latest Remedy, with Lab4 playing which was of course a treat for me!
Reading Time: < 1 minutes Just a quick on. I took this huge panorama of the rooftops of Hyde Park – kind of an extension from my previous rooftop images, but from above and on a larger scale.
Reading Time: 3 minutes We managed both nights of the Carnival this year. I managed to squeeze some life from my Tamron Zoom lens and get some good shots of the Sunday night Concert. The weather was beautiful on Monday, though the light was against me from our chosen …