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TOM DALPRA & CHRIS FULLER HOST
THE CAMBRIDGE BAND COMPETITION
STARTING THURSDAY March 3rd
@ The Portland Arms / Cambridge
Organised by "The Strawberry Fair"
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Ride with Me !!!
CBSCENE - 2010
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I
had an epic time at Fordfest. As the compere I met
a bit of Manchester rock history in the shape of
Bez - he was lovely: came, vomited, stumbled about
sideways after a minor case of mistaken identity,
took his money, went) and Bonehead - not a let down
as a funny, cool Manc-fucker with his new singer
and protege John Mackie).
I
enjoyed watching Rat Scabies start his set with
a fat dooby in his mouth and proceed to knock ten
parts of crap out of the drum kit with The Bermoundsey
Joyriders. Then Dreadzone just grooved- on-out joyfully,
on Saturday Night.
X Simple Minds drank and sang all
night from sundown to sun up and there was a rare
appearance from Deaf School- that Liverpool Art
College entity from 1974 - with their fascinating
cast of music industry success stories.
Thinking Merseyside, Kerry and Keltrix
have been working hard and they were brilliant on
the Saturday night. Kerry is talented, honest, driven
and beautiful.
She reflects the spirit and the
people around Fordfest in general.
" Some say it can take seven years to establish
a Festival. On the back of the good vibes of this
one, support is already gathering for next year.
it's exciting. Good times. Thanks Ange and Mark.
xx
"
VISIT - http://www.fordhammusicfest.org/
Tom Dalpra to Host Strawberry
Fair Day
ALL DAY June 5th @
The
Hopbine
ATTENTION:
EVENT CANCELLED!
Amanda of The Hopbine has decided to cancel
the all day event through "fear" that
the Police and Authorities would hold it against
her and the Pub for marking the Strawberry Fair
day and somehow encouraging protesters that are
in favour of Strawberry Fair. Amanda
would like to make it clear that she supports the
Strawberry Fair and looks forward
to it's return next year ! She also adds that "peaceful
protesters" are welcome at The Hopbine on the
5th June.
KELTRIX WILL STILL PLAY ON THE EVENING
OF JUNE 5th
www.thehopbine.co.uk
SPECIAL FEATURE
WATCH
TOM DALPRA CELEBRATE THE STRAWBERRY FAIR BY FILMING
ON THE MID-SUMMER COMMON ON JUNE 5th AT THE EVENT
KNOWN AS THE RASPBERRY FAIR
www.CBSCENE.co.uk
ALSO,
ALL DAY BANDS @ The
Zebra
Tom
Dalpra has embarked on a series of "secret"
gigs to "work up" his new Album and his
new Band !!!
Lately Tom has played at the "Red Lodge Inn"
and The BIkes & Bands Bash to enthalled audiences.
To Book Tom Dalpra + friends - CALL
TOM- 07984 391070
TnT
Live at Roundchurch Cambridge
Sat - 29th May
Bikes
& Bands Bash - Soham
SUNDAY
30th May before
2pm & after 6pm
Tom
Dalpra+ friends
ALSO AT THE FOX BURWELL
Between 2pm & 6pm
June
9th @ The Portland Arms
Tom
Dalpra+ friends - Love Songs
Set
Supporting "Th'Parish"
& others.
June
9th @ The Portland Arms
See
Tom Dalpra present
www.CBSCENE.co.uk
An
informal look at Music & Entertainment
in the CB area !
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16 bands compete for 5 places in the
final and the chance to win £250, lots of
great gigs and the hearts and minds of the Cambridge
music scenesters! The first heat featured the indie
rock stylings of The Whisky Jax, Trevor Jones, Yo
Yo Yo Litvinenko and The Loop and the standard was
really high with great sets from everyone. The winners
were Yo Yo Yo Litvinenko by a whisker and this weeks
heat looks just as promising.
Cambridge Band Competition Final
www.junction.co.uk
Strawberry Fair presents the legendary
Cambridge Band Competition Final.
Strawberry Fair
Cambridge Band Competition Finalists !!!
Heat 1 winners - Yo
Yo Yo Litvinenko
Heat 2 winners - Th'
Parish - 2010 WINNERS !!!
Heat 3 winners - KTP
Heat 4 winners - Unit
Nine
Audience Vote winners - Sachanovak
Young band winners - Chloe
and the Soundjackers
Audience Vote winners - Injera
Strawberry Fair Appeals for Aid
to Fight Court Battle
We have been grateful for the
many messages of support for the Fair - it is very
heart-warming to realise how many people appreciate
and enjoy the hard work that goes into the Fair
year after year.
We would like to give a little more detail about
our decision, and in particular why we felt it was
impossible to fight the appeal and continue to organise
an event for this June.
At the licence hearing that the police spent a great
deal of time and money attempting to get the fair
closed down, employing a London-based law firm and
barrister to present the evidence they had gathered
at significant cost to the tax payer.
Strawberry Fair is almost entirely reliant on income
from traders. With no event there is no income and
the battle through the magistrates court is going
to cost us dearly so we are appealing to the people
of Cambridge to come along to our fund raising events,
for example the Band Competition final on Thursday
15 April at the Junction (more to be announced soon)
and possibly to donate a few pounds via our website.
As a voluntary group we don't have access to the
kinds of legal resource or the public finance used
by Cambridgeshire Police in their objections to
the license. It is going to be an very tough task
for us to prepare for the appeal hearing both in
time and money, we hope that the people of Cambridge
will support us in our mission to secure the fair
for 2011 and onwards and give generously whilst
not doing anything to exasperate the situation unnecessarily
and damage the future of the fair. We would also
welcome people to come up with their own fund raising
ideas, please contact us if you want to get involved.
community@strawberry-fair.org.uk
At last years fair, Cambridgeshire Police invested
a significant amount of time and money into information
gathering activity at the Fair. Despite several
written and verbal requests from the Committee,
they declined to share important information they
had gathered other than the overall assessment they
published in the press. It appears to the committee,
therefore, that the purpose of that information
gathering activity was not to help improve the event,
or assist our planning processes, but specifically
to object to a license for the Fair.
In spite of this lack of information the committee
had implemented a raft of changes that were widely
accepted to be moving the fair in a good direction.
We have regular meetings with the council, residents
groups and police and we have made massive changes
to the event in recent years in response to the
concerns raised. We feel it would be more productive
for the police to raise any specific concerns they
have with us about the event at these meetings rather
than pursuing it through the courts.
It would have been an impossible task to fight the
appeal whilst also being able to maintain the high
standards of event planning and management necessary
for a successful and safe Strawberry Fair. We are
surprised that the Police had not realised what
the effect of their decision to appeal would be.
The timetable for the appeal process is well known,
and will take us to within weeks of the Fair. They
are also fully aware that the Fair is a community
rather than a commercial event, with all the work
carried out by volunteers.
The committee would like to stress that much of
the work the police have done with the fair in previous
years has been very constructive and helpful and
we would very much like to build on this but it
is hard to see the constructive input from this
year?s objection to our licence and the appeal against
a decision by publicly elected officials.
Strawberry Fair 2010 Stopped
In view of the continuing hostility of the police
towards Strawberry Fair and their decision to ignore
the decision of elected councillors to grant it
a licence to run in 2010, the organisers have reluctantly
taken the decision to cancel this year's event.
Justin Argent, Chair of Strawberry Fair said "Gaining
a secure license that will allow the Fair to continue
for many years to come has to be the top priority
for the Strawberry Fair committee. The police appeal
of the decision made by Cambridge City Council means
that we now have to put all our efforts into fighting
that appeal, rather than into the detailed preparations
for the 2010 Fair which should now be taking place,
and we are not prepared to compromise either the
appeal or the Fair itself.
The timetable for the appeal means that we will
not know whether the Fair can go ahead as planned
until far too late in the day. We do not want to
pass this risk on to the many supportive suppliers,
traders, and artists whose livelihoods would be
severely damaged by a last minute cancellation.
By taking this decision now, people will be able
to find alternative activities for 2010 safe in
the knowledge that we are doing all we can to make
sure Strawberry Fair returns in 2011 and beyond.
Cambridgeshire Police have made it absolutely clear
they do not want the event to go ahead and have
put an incredible amount of time and resource into
preventing it. We feel the police action shows just
how far out of step they are with the people of
Cambridge, who have shown overwhelming support for
the event; and had the same enthusiasm been spent
on working with us rather than fighting us, many
of the key concerns would have been dealt with.
We sincerely hope that the police will make use
of the extra time before the 2011 event to develop
a more sympathetic and realistic policing strategy
- and we look forward to entering into detailed
discussions with them, the Council and local communities
to ensure that there is a secure future for this
well-attended and popular cultural event."
The programming committee will be working on plans
for alternative, venue-based activities across the
city through out the year to provide an outlet for
the fantastic local talent showcased every year
at the Fair. Keep your eye on www.strawberry-fair.org.uk
and the local press over the coming weeks for details.
Green Area Strawberry Fair Benefit Thursday 1st
of April
Hey Hey People...
Well by now you're all aware that
this years Fair has been stopped...however we at
Strawberry Towers have decided to carry on with
the fundraising to ensure that next years event
is even more fabulous that usual!! ;))
So, we have one of the best festival acts in the
country, a selection of Strawberry Films (as shown
at the film night a few weeks ago) and a host of
other luvli things to sate your strawberry needs!
TARANTISM: A very welcome return for one of our
favourite bands..if music and dancing led to drug
taking (as the police would have you believe) these
guys would have had us in and outta rehab for years
now!!
DAVE CROWBARR: Dave went down a storm at our December
benefit, so we've asked him back for more punk classics,
done in his own unique style.
And if that wasn't enough we have our very own NOVA7
filling in the bits between the bits, CRAZY EDDIE
on visuals and the special selection of Strawberry
Films.
http://www.strawberry-fair.org.uk/
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Colonel Gomez + Tom Dalpra &
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Location: Melbourn
Rock Club @ Eternit Sports & Social Club
Time:7:30PM Friday, April 30th
Tom
Dalpra joins the download generation !
Tom Dalpra, well known in Cambridge as a Singer
Presenter is about to release his debut album on
the world wide web albeit a "Greatest Hits"
copulation (no spelling error ! ).
Many old rockers will remember a high-energy
Tom heading the Soham band Nutmeg to victory in the
1988 Cambridge Rock Competition as it was and after
that, on the Cambridge circuit, playing with master
musicians Ted Koehorst and Kimberley Rew in The Lonely.
A regular face on the Cambridge Music scene Tom is
currently promoting "Johnny Wright's Wednesday
Night Hopbine Revue" presenting and filming selected
events for exposure on the web via the website - www.hopbine.ge.ms
and youtube. Tom is also presenting the 2010 Cambridge
Band Competition once again which this year is at
The Portland Arms, Mitchhams Corner every Thursday
evening.
The Greatest Hits Rock Copulation is the first of
the Tom Dalpra releases for 2010. As well as performing
his past "hit" songs at a string of forth-coming
gigs ( TBC & kicking off with a "Live
Launch" performance at The Hopebine on Wednesday
the 31st March, he will be playing some of
his new material which he is also recording for his
first official solo album due to be completed and
available for release sometime this summer.