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Full English Breakfast / Events / Sat 05 Jul 2014

Full English Breakfast for the Grand Depart in Holmfirth

Full English Breakfast for the Grand Depart in Holmfirth

Eclectic electric/acoustic band Full English Breakfast (FEB) from the Holme Valley and Leeds, are marking Le Grand Depart by teaming up with English/French band le Grand Méchant Guillaume, from Rouen, as part of the Fringe of the Yorkshire Festival. The French band has already hosted FEB’s tour of the Rouen area (The Road to Rouen!), and it’s time to return the complement.

Sat 5th July 7.30pm - 11.00pm
Choppards Mission
Choppards, Bank Road, Nr Holmfirth HD9 2DY
(turn right off Dunford Road opposite Underbank Rugby,
keep left on the high road for ¼ mile).

Tickets £5 from Steve email s.l.sykes@btinternet.com
or Jon tel 01484 681448

Six-piece Full English Breakfast, established in 1996, play a wide range of material - and instruments, including bass, drums, acoustic and electric guitars, banjo, mandolin, keyboards, violin, accordion, saxophone – and, on occasion, bagpipes! Almost all of them sing too.

Personell are Andy Burton, Chris Deering, Dave Bache, Peter Spafford, Jon Rust and Steve Sykes. Their backgrounds include theatre, poetry and teaching.

Expect the unexpected with songs about cycling and bicycling specially arranged for this gig. Dancing to more well-known songs, and the band’s own versions of standards, will also be encouraged!

A spokesman for the band said “We are not just going to peddle our usual songs, but will be re-cycling old and older songs about bikes and biking in order to provide some fun dance music.”

Le Grand Méchant Guillaume are a four-piece with Gareth Wood (lead vocals + accoustic guitar), Yves Durieu (drums + vocals), Bruno Voiturier (bass + vocals) and Big Bad William Barteau himself (on ageing and very expensive fender stratocaster with fender valve amp). They say “ We are more or less French, are good mates and don't take ourselves too seriously. We'll be learning a few French songs for the tour but we mostly do classic pop/rock à la sauce BBB”.

Choppards Mission is in itself a very special place, so combine some local history, perhaps a walk or a cycle-ride, with some English and French music.
The Mission is in a beautiful pastoral and isolated setting near the head of the Ribble Valley in Holmfirth Parish. It was built in 1839 as a school for the surrounding hamlets. It was used as a Sunday School since 1914, and in 2006 the chapel was totally renovated in a very striking and beautiful way, by a volunteer team of church members who are talented artists. The result is quite exceptional.

The adjoining social and function room is the ideal place to get up close to music.

The following day will see the peloton making the arduous climb up to nearby Holme Moss.

For more information visit http://www.yorkshirefestival.com/

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