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Now that we have the correct or hopefully the correct recording you can now hear the podcast. Hear our hosts battling it out till he bitter end on who has the better taste in these categories. 

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Marsden Jazz Festival

Sunday 13th October

If it’s raining, a little windy and gloomy, it is a tell-tale sign that you’re in Yorkshire. Despite the rain and wind this did not dampen the spirits of the people visiting the West Yorkshire town of Marsden for the annual jazz festival.

In 1992 Mike Lucas had a vision, a vision that would make use of the newly refurbished Mechanics Hall. He came up with starting a jazz festival in the little town of Marsden. The festival has grown every year and now has a staggering 20 venues that take part of the weekend for almost 10,000 people. As some of the venues may be a little out of walking distance for some, bus company JRT kindly puts on a jazz bus to take you to them. One crucial thing about this festival is that the majority of it is free. There are only 15 gigs over the entire weekend that is ticketed. Previous years have seen the likes of Mercury Music Prize Nominees, Roller Trio and Dennis Rollins play at some of the venues.

At the Railway Inn was what the festival likes to call a ‘Join In’ event. The ‘Poetry Jam with Write Out Loud’ is surprisingly busy for 11am Sunday morning. Here general public are getting up on to the stage and reciting their own poetry, some comical. There was even some jazz and beat poetry going on.

Over in the Marsden Liberal Club, some actual jazz music was being played. The Gelatos are a jazz trio who also play with a little Italian sound infused with it. They even take on the Disney classic ‘I’ve got no strings’. Some of their stuff does seem to be a bit theatrical, but that does add to the sound of the band. There is even a little old couple that have dressed for this occasion and are pulling out all the old moves.

It is time for the Bad Back Blues Band, at the Shakespeare; this is what Dad rock is all about. Four middle aged old men covering all their old favourites from the Stones, Dire Straits and also Hendrix. They even do one of the songs that the lead singer has written.

I made a tough decision to leave the Dads of rock and head down to the crowning moment of this festival which is the national trust duck race. All the money that is raised from this event goes towards looking after beautiful surroundings that are the Marsden Moors.

Back up in the liberal club, they had booked another band to close the festival for them. On came A State of Confusion. After listening to a number of songs in their set. Imagine dad rock but with comedy. Some of that came from the audience, when a highly intoxicated man started dancing and then stole the mic off the confused singer and proceeded to mumble the lyrics.

After a long day experiencing a strange but also interesting boutique festival, it was definitely my cue to leave.

Rochelle Massey

Yorkshire Day

A little while ago Rapture went into the studio and did a show based around Yorkshire day. Is that even possible I hear you all saying, well yes it and they have some pearlers.

So give it a listen here