Three Open Mic Surgeries, expertly compered by Creedy, Mandy & Craig, & Marcus, respectively. Three weeks which saw the last of the old smoky OMS, & the dawn of a bright new age where we can actually see each other across the room – Mandy was glad to see the audience at last, but Alice wasn’t so keen (can’t say I blame her, having looked around…) Three great evenings with loads of old favourites & plenty of new acts – far too many to list individually (29 acts in OMS 241 alone). Audience participation both human and canine (appropriately, to Tall Paul‘s Gone To The Dogs) Highlights included Cayn‘s witty & fast-moving spoken word, The Queen Is On The Game (OMS 240) Aoife‘s brilliant a cappella rendition of Fever (OMS 241) Ben‘s haunting medley & drum, Tim Radins‘ etherial harp-playing (OMS 242), and loads more…

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Following the afternoon activities, further fundraising took place in the evening at the Trades, with Maghribibeat, dancers, and support from Mike, Pete & Nic.

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Well, we’re back! Apologies for the recent silence – matters beyond etc…

Surgery 191 was another doozy! 19 Acts and standing room only by twenty past nine! In no particular order, the purely subjective picks of the night were:

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Paul Weatherhead must be Hebden Bridge’s most prolific musician du jour. Two recent concept ep’s, Night of the Hippy Dead and Hebden Calling have recently hit the streets, and he is apparently hard at work on yet another opus. Paul’s songs are witty like the Bonzo’s, dark like Kafka, and more entertainingly parochial than the Hebden Bridge Times.

The highlight from ‘Hebden Calling’ is definitely ‘Hebden Council’s digging up the Ley Lines’, a heartfelt paean to better days when the Old Town bus could actually move along the streets.

Paul’s a huge favourite down at the Stubbings on a Wednesday, and if you come down too, he’ll be more than happy to flog you a cd or two.