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Sweeps Festival 2012: Meet the bands
Posted on May 2, 2012 | 1 Comment'What’s not to like? Love everything about it… the people, the music, the beers, the feeling of togetherness that never seems to happen in Medway at any other time' -
Sweeps Festival 2012: Know Your Morris
Posted on May 1, 2012 | No CommentsWalk down Rochester High Street during Sweeps Festival and the one thing that you can't help but notice is the huge array of different Morris dance sides, leaping, jangling, whooping or stick-clashing their way through a repertoire of fast-moving folk dances. -
Sweeps Festival 2012: Jack-In-TheGreen
Posted on April 29, 2012 | No CommentsWhat they are celebrating, as a precursor to the Sweeps Festival the following weekend, is the pagan festival of the awakening of Jack-in-the-Green ceremony -
Crybaby Special and The Monsters ‘Man In the Woods E.P’ review
Posted on April 27, 2012 | No Comments‘Man In The Woods’ is driven by rhythms, be they the macabre rolling waltzes of ‘No Excuses’ or the off-beat heavy songs like the title track or ‘One Thing Left to Try’. -
We are the 17%: An interview with Sam Hall
Posted on March 19, 2012 | No CommentsName three contemporary UK female playwrights. Okay, two. One…? Male playwrights any easier? -
The Year in Pictures: October-December 2011
Posted on January 31, 2012 | No CommentsThe best of the Medway Towns Flickr Group from 2011, as chosen by the Medway Broadside -
Introducing: The Gunpowder Works promotions
Posted on January 14, 2012 | No CommentsThe Gunpowder Works' aim is to promote local music by 'staging interesting performances in unique settings' -
Review: The Love Family – Out of Reach
Posted on January 6, 2012 | No CommentsNever ones to shy away from a melody, this album of re-workings of old songs, and a couple of new ones, is a welcome and long overdue offering. -
The Year in Pictures: July-September 2011
Posted on December 29, 2011 | No CommentsThe best of the Medway Towns Flickr Group from 2011, as chosen by the Medway Broadside -
The Year in Pictures: April-June 2011
Posted on December 27, 2011 | No CommentsThe best of the Medway Towns Flickr Group from 2011, as chosen by the Medway Broadside
