FRIDAY NIGHT TO SUNDAY MORNING!!!
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In response and as tribute to Nottingham's thriving music scene and with October seeing the release of three Nottingham acts - Jake Bugg's number one album, Natalie Duncan and Dog Is Dead all being released on major labels, the council seem to have finally woken up and realise we have something well worth shouting about and put the wheels in motion to create a free festival celebrating the music and musicians of lace city.
DHP and the other independent venues of Nottingham were used as platforms for this and I'm Not From London were one of the promoters asked to help put the festival together along with Farmyard Records, Denizen Records, Hello Thor and Pete Fletcher of Denizen records was liason with the venues and council for the Branch Out Festival.
Join the Branch Out Festival Facebook group here!
I'm Not From London was given the Rock City basement to stage manage for the day and we had our folk/hip hop/acoustic night Wire & Wool going on all day as part of the festival at the Alleycafe.
We aim to make this festival an annual one and were glad to be part of it's creation and hope to make it bigger and better with each year! Mike Atkinson of the Nottingham Evening post and Katy Lewis Hood of Leftlion said this about it….
Read Mike Atkinson's Evening post review here!
Read Katy's Leftlion Review here!
The day went swimmingly with beer and payment for all bands involved which certainly helped keep the mood upbeat for everyone. In fact every venue was busy all through the day which started at three o clock. This was the third night in a row for the I'm Not From London Crew having had our Friday night at Bunkers Hill.
This was a John Peel day gig with two bands who used to play his show "The Bent Moustache" & "Parliament Of Bats" with two local bands 'Boots Booklovers" and "Her Majesty's Service" featuring I'm Not From London's new band and gig booker "Joe Zain" as drummer- featured here in full sweaty glory!
HMS are a new Nottingham treasure with bombastic punk and indie riffs married with testosterone and primal tongue in cheek energy that you can't help but enjoy watching, last time they played our Kerblammo (last week) I saw a guy getting crowd surfed from one side of the crowd to the other finally being thrown over the stairs accidentally, he was fine!
Here's the bands if you want to listen to their stuff:
The Bent Moustache
Her Majesty's Service
Parliament Of Bats
Boots Booklovers
The next day Saturday 27th October was one of I'm Not From London's classiest night to date, we hired the Nottingham Arts Theatre to put on a 28 piece orchestra supported by both a 10 piece and 16 piece band.
It was a testament to the I'm Not From London team, Our Pat manned door helped by Parisa Elyon and Lee Hughes.
Our video guys Raj Pathak and Richard filmed the whole affair and did the pre gig video to promote the night
Watch it here!
Live recorded video of the set coming soon... Ralph Barklam took some amazing shots. Sonia worked as technician alongside Dave Whitewood, Kaveh Birch and Gordon and I myself even stepped up to compere and in the style of a northern comedian complete with drumbeat both commended and condemned my good friend, best man and I'm Not From London member, designer and band leader of two of the bands playing that night, James Waring of The Invisible Orchestra and Royal Gala. James had put the orchestra together 10 months previously and worked incredibly hard writing the set.
The orchestra comprised some of Nottingham's finest musicians and Justin Dodsworth of Bad Manners played the Hammond Organ, one of the heaviest instruments I've ever had the misfortune of carrying!
We had guest vocalist Percy Dread formerly of the Skatalites, Hannah Heartshape, Ed Bannard from the amazing Hhymn and as an extra special surprise to the audience, fresh from her major signing and Jools Holland appearance, Natalie Duncan absolutely amazed the crowd with her performance!
We arranged the afterparty at Coco Lounge across the road where we partied like children of the night before leaving for an after after party at our friend's studio the Night Rooms then carried it on at the after after after party at our mate Jared's after being refused entry to the local swimming pool and having an early morning fryup and beer!
In the words of our eterny, Pat Cannon - "If there's no rest for the wicked, then we must be pure evil"
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