Buds & Spawn

11/11/2024

Woo hoo! Next up at The Dorothy Pax along with record selections from the excellent Marina Organ! See you on 6th December?

So these have been put away from a few more weeks but we will be back visiting these hamlets at the end of the month.

29th November - The Golden Lion, Bristol w/ & .home
30th November - The Parish, Huddersfield w/ & The Lords Of Misrule
1st December - The New Adelphi, Hull w/ & the Obtuse Angels and
6th December, The Dorothy Pax, Sheffield

Wondering about having a Weekend At Bernie’s 2 listening party with .bourne.54 as there’s nothing going on for a few weeks. What do you think?

08/11/2024

I'm not sure I even have the words to say how utterly glorious it is that these recordings are finally going to be out in the wild!! I was lucky enough to attend a couple of those live shows and remember being completely bowled over 😍

Magnificent.

https://lakeofpuppies.bandcamp.com/album/lake-of-puppies

08/11/2024

For everyone wondering how we're making our next few gigs free entry, yet still making sure our artists get paid. The answer is THESE GUYS!!

Want to help keep this gorgeous venue going and available for our wonky music meet ups? Consider putting a quid or two a month into their Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheDorothyPax

The Dorothy Pax = Heroes 💞

The owner of one of Sheffield’s valued live music venues has told of the industry struggles - but his determination to champion music has not wavered.

07/11/2024

07/11/2024

Tonight at The Globe Glossop!

06/11/2024

If you're wanting to know more about the artists that we've got playing in 2025, then two of them conveniently played some gigs together earlier this autumn and The Progressive Aspect wrote this brilliant and detailed review so you can get fully excited about seeing them in Sheffield!

Kugelschreiber play for us at The Dorothy Pax on Sat 25th January, and a.P.A.t.T. on Friday 7th March. The equally gorgeous Michael Woodman Music has played for us before back in 2021, let's see what the rest of 2025 has to hold, eh?

The Old Library Bar, New Cross, London Friday, 13th September 2024 Sitting on the swerve of New Cross Road (just as the latter prepares to commit itself to the Old Kent Road rat-run), The Old Libra…

01/11/2024

It's tonight!!

Solo piano set from William D Drake (on a proper piano 🤩), surrounded by tune selections from Regal Worm, all in the gorgeous canalside setting of The Dorothy Pax with one of the best bar selections in Sheffield.

There's still a handful of tickets left for last minute decision makers (possibly one or two on the door as well)

30/10/2024

Budget statement from Music Venue Trust:

£7 million in new premises taxes places over 350 grassroots music venues at immediate risk of closure.

Despite extensive briefing to HM Treasury, Department of Culture, Media and Sport and Department for Business and Trade about the negative economic, social and cultural impacts of the removal of the 75% business rate relief for grassroots music venues, the Government has today announced that business rate relief will reduce to 40% from April 1st, 2025. The immediate impact is to create a demand for £7 million in additional premises taxes from a sector that, in 2023, returned an entire gross profit across all 830 such venues in the UK of just £2.9 million. 43% of grassroots music venues in the UK made a loss in 2023.

Over 350 grassroots music venues are now placed at immediate risk of closure, representing the potential loss of more than 12,000 jobs, over £250 million in economic activity and the loss of over 75,000 live music events. Simultaneously with announcing this new tax demand, the Government acknowledged the faults and inequities inherent in the business rate system, promising to deliver a new lower rate of taxes on physical, hospitality and leisure premises in April 2026.

The challenges around business rates and grassroots music venues have been known and accepted for over a decade. Changes in April 2026 are to be welcomed, but will be of no use for the hundreds of music venues that are now likely to be lost before this challenge is finally met with a full, long overdue reform. There are three possible solutions:

1) The Government could think again and act upon the extensive data it has received about the impact of unfair and unreasonable premises tax demands and restore the 75% rate relief for grassroots music venues.

2) The Government could create an emergency fund of a maximum of £7 million and allow venues facing the imminent threat of closure to draw down from this fund sufficient funding to meet the new tax demand.

3) Every grassroots music venue in the country could install a temporary business rate levy of 50 pence applied to every ticket sold and used directly to meet the £7 million demand. This levy would need to be applied until the new business rate system is installed, predicted by the Government to be on 1st of April 2026.

Music Venue Trust believes that ticket prices for local music events should be kept accessible and is reluctant to encourage venues to adopt option 3. Unless the government is willing to think again, it unfortunately may be the only possible option to stop a complete collapse of live music in our communities.

23/10/2024

We are SUUUUUPER excited to have Regal Worm aka Jarrod Gosling (of I MONSTER and Cobalt Chapel) aka genius illustrator Varrod Goblink, selecting some tunes for us at The Dorothy Pax next Friday 1st Nov as part of our gig with the brilliant William D Drake.

I had a lovely long chat with Jarrod a couple of weeks ago about all things prog, mellotrons, writing wonky music and what it's like to be Tik Tok famous.

Read more here:

We're dead excited to have Regal Worm, aka Jarrod Gosling of I Monster and Cobalt Chapel, aka illustrator and artist Varrod Goblink, serving up some suitably psychedelic and proggy accompaniment to our solo show with William D Drake on 1st November 24. Laura caught up with him for a chat beforehand.

19/10/2024

Best summary of last weekend you're gonna get! Thanks for the words as always The Organ 🙌🏻

Cardiacs Family, Spratleys, The Smith and Drake Ensemble , Brighton Concord, October 2024 – Not so much a review as much as a tale of one more seaside treat. In many ways, it felt like that o…

16/10/2024

Oof!! Get yourselves to Glossop this Friday for more of this glorious technicolour riffage!

Ask My Bull at The Globe Glossop
Fri 18th Oct 24 8pm
Tickets budsandspawn.nuwebgroup.com

15/10/2024

This Friday at The Globe Glossop!! Join us!

First weekend of tour absolutely went OFF 🔥 We had an incredible time in the Toon - Huge thanks to .ouseburn & who we LOVE. Highlight of 2024 for sure / Absolute sweat fest - was delicious in every way. 💧🤘🔥 Last night in Warrington with for Mojopia’s 1st Birthday was also a dream! Thanks to .mccools for an ace night. Next up is on Friday.
📸 : 👑

14/03/2023

We're going on an adventure. The Sunfold Hotel The Betsey Trotwood The Rose Hill Bishops House

17/02/2022

Woof! Look at the programme on this! Disco cellist meets classical minimalists, Manchester Camerata showcases the sound of New York 80s underground 😍 Performing works of Arthur Russell, Phillip Glass and Julius Eastman.

YES PLEASE! Thurs 24th Feb at Firth Court.

https://performancevenues.group.shef.ac.uk/event/manchester-camerata-presents-the-music-of-arthur-russell-philip-glass-and-julius-eastman

This show pays homage to three New York Legends. Arthur Russell, cellist, singer, composer and producer of a new genre of music, one that fluidly blended the distinct sounds of country and classical, disco and experimental composition. Russell collaborated with classical composer and pianist (and fe...

07/02/2022

Yet more brilliant live music in Sheffield - this Tuesday at Firth Hall, an evening of intricate wonky jazz guitar and piano with Mary Halvorsen and Sylvie Courvoisier.

https://performancevenues.group.shef.ac.uk/event/sylvie-courvoisier-mary-halverson-duo/

Sylvie Courvoiser is an award-winning pianist, composer and improviser who has appeared on over 50 albums. Mary Halvorson is an American avant-garde jazz guitarist – known for her broad stylistic approach, touching on everything from flamenco, rock, noise, to psychedelia. All About Jazz dubbed her...

22/01/2022

A quiet weekend ahead in the B&S house due to the dreaded lurg, but am looking forward to spending a bit of time in the meditative headspace brought about by the hypnotic improvisational music of Emergence Collective.

If you caught them at our last show in November with ROSH and gannnet then you'll know exactly what I mean. If not, then here's your chance to find out.

Their debut release 'Emergence I' came out in December last year and is available from their Bandcamp.

https://emergencecollective.bandcamp.com/releases

6 track album

20/01/2022

The full moon has been a source of complete delight this week - moon rises, blood moons, just stunning.

For moon lovers, you could do a lot worse than celebrating each full moon with the next installment of the Lunar One project from the composer and songwriter Craig Fortnam (of North Sea Radio Orchestra and Arch Garrison) Over the next year, he is releasing a download only single on each full moon, with four installments released so far.

Frankly gorgeous, but so is his entire back catalogue, so you really can't go wrong.

https://craigfortnam.bandcamp.com/album/lunar-one-jan-22

2 track album