Peter Bargh

Sights & Sounds
October 17th, 2009

Häagen-Dazs ad – music by Richard Hawley

For Richard Hawley London Roundhouse 2007those who watched X-Factor tonight and managed to stick it through the ads each break you may have enjoyed the melodic track accompanying the new  Häagen-Dazs advert. It happens to be from one of my favourite relaxing musicians Richard Hawley. The track titled Open Up Your Door can be heard on last fm.  It’s not, in my opinion, his strongest track, but it suits the ad perfectly. Now if you want a really good Richard Hawley track try this one: The Sun Refused to Shine – shear genius!

Oh, and he’s from my home town of Sheffield…all the best people came from the Steel City 😉

Find out more about Richard Hawley on his official web site richardhawley.co.uk

July 16th, 1991

Kraftwerk Sheffield City Hall

Kraftwerk Sheffield City Hall

I was in Centre Circle, Row G Seat 41

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October 28th, 1990

Cocteau Twins play Sheffield City Hall

Cocteau Twins play Sheffield City Hall

I was in the Circle E 58

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March 10th, 1986

Tangerine Dream Sheffield City Hall

Tangerine Dream played Sheffield City Hall

I was in the Grand Circle  in Seat A72

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January 29th, 1986

Clannad City Hall Sheffield

I went to see Clannad play at Sheffield City Hall

Sat in the balcony in seat 14 row B

May 5th, 1984

Artery gig at the Sheffield City Hall Ballroom

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Artery played at the Sheffield City Hall Ballroom

October 7th, 1981

Hawkwind play Sheffield City Hall

Hawkwind play Sheffield City Hall

I was in the stall in seat E13

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October 6th, 1981

Steve Hackett Live at Sheffield City Hall

Steve Hackett Live at Sheffield City Hall

I was in the Balcony in Seat A18

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Set list
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
Jacuzzi
Funny Feeling
Ace of Wands
Picture Postcard
Tigermoth
Horizons
(Genesis song)
Kim
Overnight Sleeper
Hope I Don’t Wake
Slogans
A Tower Struck Down
Spectral Mornings
Please Don’t Touch
Band Introductions
The Show
Encore:
Clocks – The Angel of Mons

May 1st, 1981

Exotic Percussion – Mein Glas Fabrik review

Sheffield Fanzine, Tigers On The Moor (cover date May 1981) reviewed our cassette

The review:

Subtitled “Exotic Percussion”, this is a complete mystery to me except I have a sneaky suspicion that Mark Holmes of the Fatales might just know a bit about it…a c60 album with no information attached, beautifully engineered and compiled, of apparently pointless synth which twists and winds its way through an hour of quite often gloomy but ultimately compulsive listening. There are no sides 1 and 2; one

side has a coloured label and the other is grey and t

hat’s probably the best identification. An ideal tape for late listening, especially the deeper grey side, impossible to review because there’s nothing to say about it! Definitely not just another home made tape! Very good sound quality, and good value for dole at £11.50. As the sleeve note says “Incidental Music”.

We were happy with that conclusion. It was limited to ten copies. We sold 1!

June 25th, 1980

ClockDVA and Vice Versa at Sheffield City Hall

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Clock DVA and Vice Versa played this night at Sheffield City Hall Ballroom