The Adventure Begins...

One week to go before Christmas and I'm sure everyone is looking forward to a well earned rest. Personally I can't wait to get home see the family and friends eat wayyy to much, drink way to much and also get rehearsing ready to play some epic gigs in January. Apart from shopping, partying and wrapping presents this week, I've been busy organising and promoting a few gigs!

Firstly, January 2nd at The Musician in Leicester; this gig is part of the Original Bands Showcase (OBS). This is a kind of 'battle of the bands' competition where bands from around Leicester and Leicestershire play for a place at Leicester's Summer Sundae Weekender Festival held at De Montfort Hall. This year, a new section of the OBS has been added to incorporate acoustic artists and singer songwriters called OBS Unplugged and this is the event we are playing in.

Here is the link to the OBS Unplugged Facebook page. Please feel free to come along to this event if you are around. It should be a good night and of course I'll tell you all about it in the blog.




On January the 14th Davenport Folk play at the Crumblin' Cookie in Leicester. This gig is an acoustic night featuring Refuge, Buenos Aires and Grace and the Magic Roots.

The next gig that we have coming up in January is at Derby University's Acadamy Bar. This gig is part of the January Re-Freshers events that are taking place. Unfortunately, promotions for this event aren't under way yet so I don't have any flyers to post etc. More on this as it comes!

Finally, is a gig that I am orgnising myself. The Gentle-Folks Ball on the 20th January takes place at the Donkey in Leicester. Featuring Sophie Mapplebeck (of Derby Uni), Thomas Shepherd, Davenport Folk and headlining The Kirkland Turn.

The Facebook events page is right here. So feel free to check it all out.

So that's about all for gigs in January at the moment! Band Practises should be taking place this week and we're hopefully going to be joined on Trumpet for some gigs by a friend of the bands Craig Neal. Any more info I have coming up I'll post, along with pictures from all these gigs and information on how they went etc!

Thanks for reading :)
Dan Wright

Hours So Far....

Planning: 4hrs
Rehearsing: 6hrs
Travelling: 0hrs
Time at Gig: 0hrs
Blogging: 1hr
Total: 11hrs

Total So Far: 12hrs