The Saltaire Review |Issue 31 |Oct/Nov 2018

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Yorkshire’s Open Air Pools

By Alison Wainwright, Dipitus copywriting service Whether you argue the word ‘lido’ should be pronounced (lee-doh or ly-doh), it is indisputable that the weather this summer was perfect for making use of Yorkshire’s three outdoor pools. This article briefly examines their history and looks into their future.

The rise of lidos The 1920s saw the first women swim across the Channel, fifty years after the first man, and changing attitudes allowed women to abandon bathing in billowy dresses for swimming in practical suits. In the 1930s people first saw the health benefits of outdoor activities such as hiking and swimming, and so most of the UK’s lidos were built around this time.

Otley Lido was the first of Yorkshire’s existing pools to open, built on the banks of the River Wharfe in 1924.

Ingleton pool opened in 1934. It was built on manor land by the river, later donated to the Parish Council for a peppercorn rent which is still paid today - 5 pence a year.

Ilkley Lido opened in 1935 and is now Grade II listed as being a ‘largely intact example of a 1930s lido built in an unusual timber-framed vernacular style in an upland rural location’, with its unusually shaped pool, the fountain, and its café design.

Post-WW2 Many pools closed for the duration of the Second World War and were slow to re-open, if at all.

However, they were still popular and new pools were built, such as Helmsley in 1969.

Helmsley is Yorkshire’s largest heated open air pool at 25m. Ingleton was originally larger at 30m, but in 1974, it was virtually rebuilt as part of a refurbishment, and reduced to 20m to keep the cost of the newly installed heating down.

does have funds for ongoing improvements, and new changing blocks were built in 2005 and the seating was upgraded in 2013.

Helmsley is also run as a charity. It will be 50 years old next year and is showing its age, with a leaking tank, among other issues. Fortunately its future looks good after high takings from nearly 12,000 visitors this summer and additional funding will allow repairs to commence this autumn.

Ilkley Lido receives up to 4000 visitors a day according to The Friends of Ilkley Lido website​. It made this summer’s The Telegraph list 17 Of Britain’s Best Outdoor Swimming Pools, but was later criticised in the Ilkley Gazette for the poor condition of the changing rooms and toilets. The indoor pool has been closed all summer for refurbishment, so it’s hoped that these issues will be addressed by Bradford Council, though the issue of transferring the site to private ownership has been raised.

The Friends Of Otley Lido formed as a Community Interest Company in 2016 with plans not just to restore the lido, but to make it better than before. It is to be run on renewable energy, have a retractable roof, public toilets for the park, and a gym, café and dance studio.

The Friends held an Open Day on 4 August to showcase their vision, hear people’s memories of the old facilities, and obtain feedback on the new plans.

The Friends are currently a third of the way to raising the £55,000 capital needed for a feasibility study.

Once they have established that the pool is a feasible project they will apply for Heritage Lottery Funding to support the restoration.

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Otley Lido closed in 1993. The pool is filled in but you can still see its tiled outline. The buildings are in disrepair, making it a blot on the landscape of the picturesque Wharfemeadows Park.

The pools all closed at the beginning of September, though Helmsley offers unheated swims until later in the season.

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There’s a 95 mile cycle route between Helmsley and Ingleton, via Otley and Ilkley. Helmsley offers free swims to anyone who has cycled from the other two lidos, and may hold an official cycle event next year to celebrate its birthday.

Ingleton pool made it into The Guardian’s 10 Of The Best Lesser-Known UK Lidos list this summer. It is part of the Ingleton Rural Community Association, a charitable organisation, and is kept going by local volunteers. It

Whether by bike or otherwise, when the warm weather returns remember to visit your nearest lido to support Yorkshire’s outdoor swimming heritage.

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Discover the work behind the beer From sampling Saltaire’s high-quality Yorkshire beers at the source to witnessing what goes into making its much-loved brews, there’s no better time to discover the wonderful world of great tasting, internationally award-winning beer.

This year Saltaire opened the brewery gates to beer fans, offering exclusive behind-the-scenes access and letting visitors see the impressive, newly developed brewery, home to a semiautomated 40-barrel brew kit. Brewery tours allow guests to experience an intimate, tutored tasting where they can indulge in the finest cask and keg beer while learning about the quality ingredients and intricate processes involved.

The beer industry is so fast paced today, with fascinating launches of exciting products and interesting recipes. Saltaire’s tours offers an insight into this while delving into its heritage and discussing favourites and what makes them taste so great.

Events and hospitality manager at Saltaire Brewery, Alice Phillips, said: “We want to make Saltaire Brewery the best it can be, not just the beer but the brewery experience. We want people to enjoy beer right at the heart of where it’s made.”

Saltaire Brewery’s famous and loved Beer Clubs are a sell out each month with regular MTB Cycle Yorkshire social rides and street food pop ups, drawing in ale lovers and craft beer fans from West Yorkshire and beyond.

The Tap Room has a bar and bottle shop stocked with top ales and craft beers from highly regarded breweries around the world. Open Tuesday until Sunday, it’s the perfect place to try out the latest releases from across the globe.

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Saltaire Brewery Beer Club Saltaire Brewery’s monthly ‘mini beer festival’, Beer Club, takes place on the last Friday of each month. See inside the brewhouse, drink its finest cask and keg beers right at the source and soak up the Fridayfeeling atmosphere.

Guest breweries have included North Brewing, Thornbridge, Buxton, Verdant, Northern Monk and Marble with wine, prosecco and cider available at every event for those fancying an alternative tipple. With a delicious hog roast and a guest street food vendor every month, relax into a different kind of Friday night at Saltaire Brewery.

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A GEM of an exhibition from InCommunities and David Tovey

By Mike Farren If we think about Saltaire-based business InCommunities, chances are we think in practical terms. There’s the multi-storey office block below Salts Mill, or the liveried fleet of vans delivering services to the properties the group administers in Shipley, Bradford and beyond.

We probably don’t think about more abstract matters but InCommunities is behind the GEM (Graduate Employment Mentoring) Programme, a ground-breaking graduate training scheme recognised for outstanding work in building careers in housing for students in a range of housing associations and councils in England and Scotland.

With the tenth GEM intake about to graduate, InCommunities will also be staging an exhibition of the work of artist (and InCommunities patron)

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David Tovey as part of the celebration and this will be open to the public in a previously closed-off part of Salts Mill.

I spoke to David Tovey and to Geraldine Howley, InCommunities Group Chief Executive, about the history of the GEM programme and the exhibition celebrating it.

Howley tells me, “Back in the Blair years, the Labour government recognised there were a lot of people coming out of university and not getting

career jobs. There was funding to encourage people to take on graduates and that’s how it started.”

As for the exhibition, Howley tells me that it is, in effect, a graduation. “This cohort of GEMs will be recognised for having completed the programme.”

Among topics covered on that programme is homelessness. This is the link to artist David Tovey.

“I got involved with InCommunities in 2016,” he tells me. “Initially I was asked to talk about homelessness and how art and creativity can help recovery. We really hit it off. We were all in the same mentality that we’ve got to start teaching people about homelessness but showing the positive sides of what can be done.”

Formerly homeless himself, Tovey tells me his case reveals just how easy it is to become homeless. “I was a businessman for God’s sake. I had my own businesses and if I lost everything and ended up on the streets, then anyone could.”

Also an ex-soldier, Tovey is acutely aware of the prevalence of homelessness among people from the Forces. He says, “Soldiers fight to keep our country safe and when they come back we treat them as heroes. A few years down the line, when these heroes have problems like marriage breakdown, alcohol problems or PTSD, we as a nation treat them as criminals. As an artist, I thought it’s my duty to do something about this. I’ve got to do an art piece and raise awareness.”

The piece has previously been in the Tate Modern and Tate Liverpool, where Tovey tells me, “I had grown men crying. It’s a simple art piece: 5 mannequin soldiers. But they represent hundreds and thousands who have been homeless throughout the world, who have gone to war and been let down by their countries.”

The space itself also presents an exciting opportunity. Howley says, “Somebody suggested we should have a word with Maggie and Zoe Silver about using Salts Mill. Zoe herself says, “We’re delighted to be working with our neighbours at InCommunities and with David Tovey on this exciting project. We have used the space before but it has never been open to the public.

This particular space seemed just right for what InCommunities were proposing.”

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Governments and funding opportunities changed over the next few years but InCommunities felt they wanted to continue bringing graduates into the organisation. Howley continues, “What we’ve got now has evolved over nearly 10 years from 3-month placements to a year’s placement in an organisation in housing or construction. During that year, students are paid the living wage and do the Chartered Institute of Housing professional qualification.”

engage with the homeless person on the street.

They’re gaffer taped up because they’re voiceless and because soldiers will not ask for help. On their backs are 5 soldiers’ stories. They are absolutely brutal.”

Tovey enthuses about “The setting, the mood, the stonework – it will add new elements. I think the soldiers will have some sort of mood to them because it will be quite eerie in there, looking at the room. Depending on the rest of the room, I’m going to make a decision on what else to bring up.

It’s probably going to be some large-scale portraits.

I have to feel the space. The room is quite rough and ready I think it will add more emotion and mood: the place looks bloody amazing!”

InCommunities’ exhibition, featuring the work of David Tovey, will be open to the public at Salts Mill, Saturday 21 to Sunday 22 October.

The result of this and the centrepiece of the work Tovey will bring to Saltaire is The Soldier’s Story.

“It’s a firing squad of soldiers dressed in desert uniforms actually worn during the first Iraq war.

The soldiers are facing the wall: I didn’t want them to engage with the public because the public don’t

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Oliver Neilson: creativity addict and corraller of chaos

By Mike Farren

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Long-time associate of the Triangle, Oliver Neilson, is back there with a new exhibition right now Not only did the artist stage one of the earliest exhibitions there (see Saltaire Review issue 14) but he has also supplied posters, as well as vinyl to sell in their upstairs space, formerly known as the ‘Pyramid’.

Describing the catalogue of events – the death of his brother and the subsequent sinking of his houseboat, the death of his grandfather, the repeated loss of studio space and the flooding of the place where he stored his beloved records – he falls back on the old blues line: “If it wasn’t for bad luck, it would have been no luck!”

What turned things around for him was what might seem like a relatively minor gift of some records a friend inherited. “If, for the longest time you feel unlucky,” he suggests, “then mentally you are unlucky and you’re acting accordingly. These records were just enough to make me think the tide on my luck has turned.”

Most significantly, the newly-positive feeling has translated to his art, in which he describes his revitalised approach as being like “a creativity addiction”.

The work he shows me bears some of the hallmarks of earlier paintings, with abstract, calligraphic sweeps and isolated figures often painted onto (or into) unusual objects such as old suitcases or woodblocks. What has changed is the palette, with an emphasis on rich blue shades, and an infatuation with both the content and the style of early photography.

“I collect early photography,” he says, “and I try to sample, like a DJ with music. In the work of Julia Margaret Cameron and early woman photographers, there are lots of motes, phosphenes and dust. You’ve got a layer of distortion, where a corner will go from detail then just fuzz into abstraction. There’s a hazy, otherworldly quality that’s perfect for me, who’s not a painstaking, realistic painter. She photographed a lot of women who have this far off look I really like, because they probably had to stand there all day for one photo.”

Such an intrusion of chaos mirrors what he is trying to achieve with the development of his calligraphic style. “I’m trying to get a more random, unstable edge by starting doing these flowing shapes with my left hand then getting my right hand to come to the rescue if they go wrong. I’m trying to make it

look like corralled chaos. I’d like to get to the stage where it’s like someone doing Tai Chi or Kung Fu or playing an instrument, making these shapes in the air. I want to get to the point where you’re trying to do that but with a pen in your hand.”

He adds, “I’m trying to get a sense of flow and what I call a ‘spirit space’, where you get people deep in thought – ‘off in a dwam’, as Scottish people would say.”

As for the found objects that carry some of his art, he compares them to a rock you might smash and find geodes and crystals inside. “I really like something like psychedelia going on inside a hundred-year-old suitcase that doesn’t reveal itself until you open it. There’s something almost folkloristic about that it could almost be from a Grimm’s Fairy Tale, where a suitcase is opened and a portal is revealed.”

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When I catch up with Neilson at his Shipley studio / storage space, he tells me how art has kept him going through a couple of years of setbacks ranging from misfortune to tragedy.

Picking up on the idea of otherworldliness and spirituality, in some of the paintings, particularly the woodblocks, the richness and mystery remind me strongly of an Orthodox icon. When I put the idea to Neilson, he responds, “I can make them look candlelit or put in a magical patina of Gold, as if stardust is coming into the photograph. I like to make things rich and luxurious but within a small format, so it’s got a lot of detail when you get close.

It’s something that looks chaotic with just the right amount of beauty in it.”

There are still other, more worldly, sources feeding into the art, include graffiti street art styles, and comics. In particular, Neilson enthuses about Marvel’s Jack Kirby, “He’s one of my favourite artists. Kirby wasn’t some San Francisco psychedelic poster artist: he was a family man who just went to his study and had this lysergic chemical already in his mind. He just created these worlds from nothing. It was great when I saw the latest Thor film, because that was a Kirby comic come to life!”

Such a disparate mix gives a clue to why chaos is important to Neilson. It’s the artist’s balancing act to corral all of these elements into a coherent whole.

You can see how he manages it in this exhibition.

Nowadaze, by Oliver Neilson, is showing at the Triangle, Shipley, now

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Murder most foul in sleepy Saltaire!

By Si Cunningham Bradford author and historian Alan Hall has just released his latest novel – Saltaire Blonde – a gripping murder mystery in which the Aire Valley becomes a backdrop for a terrible unsolved crime laced with shocking secrets along the way.

The book’s central character, Alison Booth, quits London for a new life in sleepy Saltaire, but things take a turn for the unexpected once she meets new neighbour Marta (the eponymous “Saltaire Blonde) – an older lady with a truly fascinating background. Alison soon learns that Marta had arrived in England as a refugee after the Second World War, and that her father Petro was murdered over here in the late 1960s – a crime that has never been solved.

As the case begins to unravel, Alison (along with a retired police officer who investigated the murder at the team) a shocking link to Nazi war crimes is uncovered, and revenge appears to be the primary motivation for Petro’s killing. But is everything as it seems?

Alan Hall, author of Saltaire Blonde, was partly inspired by the real-life social dynamics of Bradford – particularly in the aftermath of the Second World War. Alan says, “West Yorkshire welcomed an influx of displaced people from Poland, Ukraine and other European countries after the Second World War, and few questions were asked at that time about what role some of

the newcomers had played during the conflict.”

Although the murder of Petro is entirely fictional, references are made in the Alan’s book to real-life murders in the area – notably those carried out by Peter Sutcliffe [who became commonly referred to as the “Yorkshire Ripper”] in the 1970s and 1980s.

There was also the 1977 murder of Mary Gregson in Saltaire, a crime which remained unsolved for many years.

As well as being a straightforward murdermystery, the story examines the nature of friendship and loyalty, and explores issues of exile (Petro and Marta came to England as refugees; Alison is in self-imposed exile from London), as well as the aftermath of the atrocities perpetrated during the Second World War in eastern Europe.

Alan says, “The very beautiful places of Bradford, Saltaire and beyond most definitely have their fair share of dark secrets too…”

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Shows & Exhibitions

Saltaire Inspired Makers Fair 10 November, 4pm - 8.30pm, Victoria Hall, Saltaire

Saltaire Inspired’s ever-popular Makers Fair returns to Victoria Hall with new dates for 2018, as the first ever Winter Makers Fair takes place on 9 & 10 November. After a successful trial last year, the event will include a Friday evening shopping event (4pm – 8.30pm), as well as a full day on Saturday.

Victoria Hall will be filled with 48 top designer-makers from the North and further afield, showcasing a range of high quality, skilfully handmade contemporary craft and design that you won’t find on the high street.

Regular visitors to the Makers Fairs (held in May at the Saltaire Arts Trail, and in the Autumn) will know that whilst some of the exhibitors will be familiar faces, organisers Saltaire Inspired make sure that each event includes new designer-makers and fresh ideas.

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Makers Fair co-ordinator Samantha Pickard said, “We work with a panel of independent curators to select the exhibitors for each Makers Fair, so that the range of contemporary craft that we offer remains fresh, varied and interesting. The event has developed a reputation for presenting the best quality contemporary craft that the region has to offer, and we work really hard

to maintain that. We love getting feedback from our visitors, and lots of people have asked if we run a Christmas event – we hope that this November Winter Makers Fair, with its festive feel, will provide a relaxed and enjoyable alternative to the busy high street for those who want to make a start on their Christmas shopping!”.

The Makers Fair offers a unique shopping experience with the opportunity to chat to the makers themselves, watch demonstrations and feast your eyes on captivating ceramics, irresistible jewellery, sumptuous textiles, masterful original printmaking, stylish homewares and lots more, all of it original in design and construction. This is your chance to browse, buy or even commission something special for yourself or as a gift.

Saturday will see the return of the popular Art Tombola, with the chance to win some stunning prizes donated by exhibitors, and there will also be the chance (on both days) to stock up on this year’s new set of Saltaire Living Advent Calendar Christmas Cards.

Entry is just £1 (under 16’s free).

Information on the event and exhibitors can be found at the Saltaire Inspired website www.saltaireinspired.org.uk.

Museums at Night: Lantern Parade 26 October, Lister Park, Bradford

The theme for this year’s event, ‘There is no planet B’, was decided at community visioning events where many people discussed the struggles of living on this planet, both personally and environmentally, locally and globally.

Cecil Green artists create lead lanterns inspired by our theme and many creative Bradford people create their own lanterns in the weeks leading up to the parade.

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Cecil Green Arts will host the 6th Lister’s Lantern Parade in Lister Park on 26 October, an event that seems to be growing year on year.

There are lots of community lantern making workshops at Cecil Green Arts HQ at 28 – 30 Darley Street and with community groups around the city. The Darley Street space is open every Tuesday from 4pm- 6pm and every Thursday from 6pm-8pm for anyone wanting to make a lantern for the parade.

Once again this year Cecil Green Arts have partnered with Cartwright Hall to hold lantern making workshops on parade day 26th October and as part of the Big Draw on the 25th October.

The Cartwright Hall galleries will be open late as part of Museums at Night.

The event starts in the park at 5.30pm with local choirs performing. The parade will begin at 6.30pm with live music during the parade from the Peace Artistes, Jamba Samba and Orixa Bloco. For the first time Cecil Green Arts will be installing a fire drawing, intrigued? Come along and see the spectacle.will be provided by Bradford Grammar School. www.bradfordmuseums.org

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Joolz

By James Collingwood

Joolz Denby is a performance poet, artist and novelist. She has published and recorded poetry and performed from a young age. She did all the artwork for the band New Model Army and her books Stone Baby and Billie Morgan have won awards. She currently also runs a tattooist studio on North Parade, Bradford

Hi Joolz When did you first start performing?

Your stuff is more character and stories than ranting?

When I was 11. I was at school in Harrogate and they regarded me as a poetry prodigy. Ted Hughes critiqued my work. No pressure! At the age of about 16 I was in a performance group called Krax that toured. I already had it in my head that that is what you can do. And I even had a guitar player behind me at that age.

That was the point. You didn’t have to conform to a set style. Ranting poetry exists now in the south but it’s different, what they’ve done with it now is they’ve stuck to a particular style which we didn’t. It was about what anybody could bring to the table.

We didn’t like things that were overly personal either. Not “me me me. Look at me.”

Was it hard to get gigs in the early days?

Tell us more about Steven Wells.

This was the 70s. There was a real explosion of anything creative. Like arts happenings, poetry, music, drawing. We played all types of weird venues.

The thing about Swells was he was a very funny guy to be around. He was just a force of nature.

People would be gobsmacked with things that he did. But there was no malice in him, so he could get away with it.

You may have heard the story of how he started working at the NME. The NME were not

How did the ‘Ranting Poetry’ label come about?

It was Swells (performer and journalist the late Steven Wells) really. We all shared a house together. Swells came in one day and went “I’ve got an idea – we need to tear this ivory tower, academic poetry scene apart!”. At first it was a boy’s club. Swells wanted me to do a poster and I thought I’m not just going to do a poster mate! It was a broad umbrella – poetry and comedy. The poetry was a backlash against poems about two academics talking about divorce in Tuscany which meant nothing to me.

I suppose before the Bradford poets there were the Liverpool poets.

Yeah, I always quite liked Roger McGough. He wrote me a nice letter once. Nice guy.

looking at employing men at the time, so he wrote his articles to them under the name Susan Williams.

When they wanted an article from “Susan” they phoned him up and I had to be “Susan”. He’d be listening in and whispering in my ear telling me what to say – asking for more money from them etc. I was glad when that ended. When they found out Susan Williams was really him I took the photograph of him dressed up as a girl. Full photograph. He was the worst girl!

He also used to make band names up all the time for the NME. We used to have this game - who’s got a good band name? New Model Army were nearly named Barry Jetsons Third Bollock at one point!

Seriously though he used to pick a band name and ask what genre we think the band was e.g. are they Swedish death metal, light indie, American college and then write a review. I don’t know if any were published!

It must have taken a lot of confidence to perform in those days?

None of us lacked confidence. We maybe lacked confidence in the work. You’d have proper agonies about making the work as good as possible but on stage it was doing what we wanted to do. And with my background in biker gangs I never lacked confidence.

With the other poets Dave (Little Brother) was a brilliant comic in the Stanley Holloway style.

It was really genius. And Willie Beckett was a very conventional but theatrical Arthur Brown style performer. The Poetry In Motion gigs that I organised at the Vaults Bar really crystallized it all.

The owners thought there wouldn’t be an audience but there was a queue round the block.

People like poetry.

Well, they like engagement with the human voice.

They like a person up there speaking to them and telling stories.

About Little Brother. We always thought he had the most commercial talent and would succeed but his health was never good.

We weren’t commercial. He was a bright star in Bradford and people’s memories are short. He’s underappreciated like Andrea Dunbar. I fought the council tooth and nail to get a writing room in the old Central Library in memorial to Andrea.

New Model Army are underappreciated as well.

Bradford needs to recognise its heroes I knew you had a studio, but I didn’t know it was in the centre of Bradford.

Yes, it’s nice and small - I get people from all over the world. Tattoo chat and a cup of tea! I still make albums and perform as well. Next year we’ve decided to do RED SKY COVEN again which is a touring show we’ve always done. They booked it in Newbury and Bury and it sold out in 24 hours.

There are always people who want to listen to stories.

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Tom Weir: At home among Shipley’s emerging poetry scene

By Mike Farren

It’s hard to be sure when poetry came to Shipley but it arrived with a vengeance. With regular open mics, recent launches at Salts Mill and the poetry prize, plus events, at the Festival, poetry has become part of the rich cultural offering.

It’s only natural, then, that poet Tom Weir should end up living here. He has won and been highly commended in prestigious competitions and had a first collection, All That Falling, published by Templar Poetry. I met up with him just before the publication of Ruin, his second collection.

Born in North Yorkshire but raised in the south, his career teaching English as a foreign language took him far and wide before changing to primary school teaching returned him to Yorkshire. “I went to Vietnam for a year and did some teaching,” he tells me. “Then I moved to Lisbon for a year. I was planning to go back to Portugal but it never happened. I got offered a job in York, then I did a PGCE.” Travel played a large part in his first collection but not necessarily in an obvious way. “I was writing obsessively about home. In South-East Asia, I wrote loads about the Shropshire countryside, the lush green, the cold and the sheep. In Lisbon, I started writing about Vietnam and that’s when the first collection started coming together. I was mostly on my own: I had a lovely time but it also afforded a lot of writing time.”

His ambition to write began at an early age. “I remember a conversation with a teacher when I was 15, saying lots of people want to be footballers – I just want to be a writer. I liked poetry when I was little. I went on a school science trip to London and skived off to watch Benjamin Zephaniah.”

A fanatical Wimbledon supporter, he tells me, “What I was writing at Uni was narrative nonfiction about AFC Wimbledon being formed.

Then I met a poetry tutor and she convinced me to do a module of hers and I was converted!”

When I ask Weir the question all poets hate – about his poetic influences – he says, ““When I was young, I loved Benjamin Zephaniah and as a teacher I obsessively make the kids listen to him. My mum used to have these Linton Kwesi Johnson albums. Mostly, at that age, it was music. I had a Bob Dylan obsession and then there was Leonard Cohen. Later, a tutor gave me Landing Light by Don Paterson. I loved Matthew Sweeney: it was sad that he died recently. I like Jacob Polley. Kim Moore is somebody I admire. Kathleen Jamie is also someone I like a lot.”

Publication of a pamphlet, The Outsider, by Templar seems to have come at just the right time, “Having always had writing as something I wanted to do, there came a tipping point. Not knowing many poets and getting

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rejections, I started thinking, what’s the point? Then, I was having a drink with a poet and he said there’s a deadline tonight. I sent off to that and got a call saying I was one of the winners. After the pamphlet, I got enough poems for All That Falling.”

Ruin, Weir’s new collection, deals with bonds of family, both when they are strong and when they end up letting people down. It deals powerfully and emotionally with loss, in the shape of the death of someone he was close to. “I started Ruin after my aunt passed away. She was going to come to the launch of my pamphlet but was too ill. I got a poem highly commended in the National Poetry Competition and I remember reading it to her when she was very ill and she loved it.

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“I feel very grateful to be around people who don’t think you’re a knobhead for being into poetry”

“I imagined Ruin as a pamphlet-sized collection about her but other things came into play. A lot of it was about language. The sea seems to have found itself in the collection quite heavily – and the weather and rain… The crux started off about her death and looking at the hole it left. What ended up happening from these very raw poems, was that it went elsewhere. I think the themes are quite grand – love, death and language.”

Weir feels strongly that he has found a community of poets in Shipley and beyond. “I feel very grateful to be around people who don’t think you’re a knobhead for being into poetry. It’s good when there are a lot of people into the same thing. It normalises it.”

Despite his relatively recent arrival, he feels a strong attachment to his adopted home: “I love it here!

Work’s stressful at the moment and the other day I took the dog for a walk through the village, along the canal and through Hirst Wood, then went to work. I went to Northcliffe Woods afterwards then walked down to Fanny’s. I feel it’s getting better all the time. Then there’s Rhubarb: massively renowned poets five minutes from your door! At Christmas, I get really excited – all the lights, the calendar windows and a brass band playing.”

Rhubarb @ The Triangle 31 October & 28 November, The Triangle, Shipley Rhubarb welcomes two more great poets to Shipley. On 31 October, there’s Bradford-born, Sheffield-based Rachel Bower whose wonderful poetry collection, Moon Milk, focusing on pregnancy, birth and early childhood, was published this year by Valley Press. The Yorkshire Post called it, “A thing of beauty ... uplifting and heart-breaking in equal measure.”

On 28 November, we’ll be hosting Vicky Foster. Co-founder of Hull’s spoken word event Women of Words, her first collection Changing Tides was published in 2016. Ian McMillan said, “Vicky Foster’s poems are steeped in the right kind of nostalgia… the kind that assault the senses with beauty and poise... These words matter.”

As always, there’s the chance to bring 4 minutes of poetry or prose to read at our brilliant open mic and there are the finest beers in the world to enjoy, courtesy of the Triangle. These are pay-as-you-feel events, starting 7:00 for 7:30

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Saltaire Festival 2018 – it was a blast!

By Claire Gibbons

For ten days in September, the village of Saltaire was alive with a feast of music, theatre, comedy, heritage, art, sculpture, food and drink, and so much more.

After almost a year in the planning, the 16th annual Saltaire Festival welcomed thousands of visitors to the World Heritage Site and people weren’t disappointed!

The Festival was first established in 2003, when it was set up to commemorate 150 years since Sir Titus Salt created Saltaire, and it has grown considerably over the last few years. The Festival now stretches right the way across the village itself as well as there being events and activities in the surrounding area.

From the opening weekend, with the Open Gardens trail and village pop-ups, right through to the legendary finale weekend with the Continental Market and bands in Roberts Park, there really was something for everyone.

Festival Director, Vicky Bower, is thrilled with this year’s Festival: “It’s been a huge success and we really must thank everyone that has been involved throughout the year. From the volunteers who

help keep everything ticking over during the Festival itself to the programmers and event planners, the performers, the stall holders, our sponsors and supporters, the stewards, Bradford Council, the Festival Board – and of course the villagers and visitors themselves; everyone played their part in making the Festival the great event that it was. We’ve loved seeing everyone’s photos and comments over the various social media channels – they have really brought the Festival spirit alive!

“We ran a ‘Pound per Person’ campaign to raise much-needed funds for future festivals and are delighted with the response. We have raised £3,049.57 through our bucket collections over the two weekends, so the message is getting out that future funding isn’t guaranteed, and every pound helps. A massive thank you to everyone who popped something in one of our buckets and to all of our sponsors and funders who have helped to make this year’s Festival such a success.”

So, as the glitter settles on Festival Towers here’s to 2019!

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Saltaire Festival Comedy Night

By Chris Cooper

“When’s the comedy night and who’s on” are questions regularly asked ahead of the annual Saltaire Festival. Those who parted with their hard-earned this year would not have been disappointed. No (as yet) household names, just a bellyful of laughs.

Ben Dodds hosted an evening in which the only disappointment was that it could have gone on longer. Mick Ferry and Steve Shanyaski both from Manchester and Oldham were the main acts and the three complemented each other well. Too often comedy nights are events where shouting and gratuitous swearing are seen as the way to get laughs, but that should have stopped with Ben Elton. This was clever and intelligent comedy, not a drunken student night.

Ferry and Shanyaski’s narratives were very skilfully woven, talking about everyday things that the audience can relate to, whether

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it’s people who vape despite having never smoked or trying for a baby (without the unnecessary graphic details!).

All expressed surprise at the kind of audience at Caroline Street without actually saying what they were expecting. Like those there, they probably didn’t know anything about who they were going to see but will have gone home thoroughly entertained and desperately trying to remember the best lines to tell those who weren’t there. As is always the case after a really good night, that’s a futile exercise. There were simply too many. As Shanyaski said, with regards to something else, “It was bob on”. When’s it on next year?

An awesome Autumn lineup at...

Bingley Arts Centre Friday 5th October, 7:30pm

Highway To Hull - ACDC Tribute Thursday 11th October, 8:00pm

Rock Solid Productions present The Counterfeit Stones Friday 12th October, 7:30pm

The Police Sting Show 22 - 27 October, 7:30pm

Bingley Little Theatre - Snake in the Grass Friday 2nd November, 7:45pm

City of Bradford Brass Band - Annual Concert Saturday 3rd November, 2:30pm

Doctor Dolittle Musical Show For All The Family Sunday 4th November, 3pm

Bingley G & S present Ruddigore Thursday 8th November, 7:30pm

Badapple Theatre presents The Thankful Village

Tuesday 13th - Saturday 17th November, 7:30pm

Bingley Amateurs present Our House the Madness Musical

Friday 23rd November, 8pm (venue open 7pm)

Stephen K Amos: Bouquets & Brickbats

Monday 3rd - Saturday 8th December, 7:30pm

Bingley Little Theatre - The White Carnation

Bingley Arts Centre, Main Street, Bingley, BD16 2LZ Box office 01274 567983 Mon to Friday 11:00am to 3:30pm ticketsource.co.uk/bingleyartscentre | bingleyartscentre.co.uk

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Theatre Listings Jackie Hagan - This Is Not A Safe Space

Riptide - The Lucky Ones: Lailah

Funny Girl - The Musical

4 - 5 October, 7.30pm

22 - 28 October Meet at Theatre in the Mill, Bradford

24 October, 7.30pm Pictureville Cinema, National Science & Media Museum

A one-week open residency followed by a 48 hour performance. The Lucky Ones is a bold new form of theatre. Your city becomes the backdrop and your choices directly influence your story.

Featuring ‘an unforgettable star turn’ (The Times) from Sheridan Smith, this semi-biographical musical is based on the life and career of Broadway star, film actress and comedienne Fanny Brice (a role made famous

by Barbra Streisand), and her stormy relationship with entrepreneur and gambler Nick Arnstein.

Theatre in the Mill, Bradford From the award-winning creator of Some People Have Too Many Legs, a new show about life on disability benefits – celebrating the wonky, the unruly and the resilient

One Last Dance (An Chéad Damhsa) Instant Dissidence 8 October, 7.30pm Theatre in the Mill, Bradford

A perambulating dance between Guildford (the city Instant Dissidence’s Rita Marcalo lived in when she arrived in the UK as an Erasmus student in 1994) and Cloughjordan (the rural Irish village that she is moving to post-Brexit).

New Queers On The Block: Bradford 10 October, 7.30pm Theatre in the Mill New Queers On The Block is a new touring scheme showcasing a selection of the artists in a celebration of all things queer.

Where We Began Stand and Be Counted Theatre 12 - 13 October, 7.30pm Theatre in the Mill, Bradford When every citizen is ordered to return to their place of birth, Where We Began examines where we could end up.

24 Hour Show 2018 (participants) 19-20 October Bradford Playhouse 24 Hour Show is Bradford Playhouse’s annual theatre creating challenge, in which they produce a full theatrical show overnight.

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Suggs - What A King CNUT 23 October, 7.30pm King’s Hall and Winter Garden, Ilkley Fame is a tightrope and Suggs has fallen off many times. With help from Deano his trusty pianist, he tells his story in words and music with the help of some Madness classics and a couple more what he wrote all on himself.

Commonweal present Vive la Zad - James Brady Theatre in the Mill, Bradford 23 October, 7.30pm James Brady reflects on his experience of visiting, la Zad – a utopian experiment of collective common living in rural Western France.

Often Onstage - Figs in Wigs 25 October, 7.30pm Theatre in the Mill - Bradford Often Onstage is an offbeat facetious romp that explores the ins and outs of theatre through the medium of dance. Expect nods to the new, bows to the bard, blood baths and drag kings

The Super Muslim Comedy Tour – Bradford 28 October, 6pm The Bradford Hotel Hold on to your hats and hijabs as the Super Muslims are arriving! An uproarious evening of halal entertainment awaits you at the Super Muslim Comedy Tour this October.

We’re assembling a league of super funny Muslims from both sides of the Atlantic to bring you a night of hilarity.

Doctor Dolittle the family musical 3 November, 2.30pm Bingley Arts Centre Join in the mayhem this Halloween with Doctor Dolittle and his animal friends. This family musical will take you on a journey from Puddleby on the Marsh to the high seas of the Caribbean.

Confessions Of A Cockney Temple Dancer 3 November, 7.30pm Kala Sangam In this funny and honest solo, Complicite Associate, Shane Shambhu combines Indian dance and stand-up comedy to lead audiences on a revealing journey of his life.

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The Bradford Playhouse Presents Chicago 7-10 November Bradford Playhouse This sharp-edged satire features a dazzling score that sparked immortal staging by Bob Fosse.

Badapple presents The Thankful Village Comedy-Drama 8 November, 7.30pm Bingley Arts Centre The return of the original comedy-drama by Kate Bramley with songs and music by Sony Award-winning songwriter Jez Lowe starring Frances Tither, Zoe Land and Sarah Raine.

Bradford Scratch Kala Sangam, St Peter’s House, Bradford, BD1 4TY 8 November, 7.30pm Every year Bradford organisations Kala Sangam, Mind The Gap and Theatre in the Mill support a large number of artists to create high quality, innovative, entertaining new work. Join us at Bradford Scratch to see a selection of performances that have been created through this support.

Under Their Feet: A Suffragette Story (Fresh Aire Productions) 14 November, 7pm Bradford Cathedral 1910. A protest for the right to vote. Two feisty women wait in the dark for twenty-two hours to confront Prime Minister Asquith.

Find out how Miss Runciman and Miss Hitchcock get on in this reimagining of a true story.

Not An Open Mic Night - Women’s Comedy Workshop 23 November, 8pm Theatre in the Mill, University of Bradford At Not An Open Mic Night, you’ll see a wide variety of comedy from a diverse range of comedians; developed at Theatre in the Mill’s Women’s Comedy Workshop.

Stephen K Amos: Bouquets & Brickbats 23 November, 8pm Bingley Arts Centre Highly acclaimed stand-up comedian Stephen K Amos hits the road this autumn with his brand new tour, Bouquets and Brickbats.

The King And I: From The London Palladium 29 November Pictureville Cinema, National Science & Media Musem Enjoy the greatest show from the golden age of musicals from the comfort of Pictureville. Reprising her Tony Awards-winning role of Anna, Broadway Queen Kelli O’Hara takes to the stage alongside Tony and Oscar nominee Ken Watanabe as The King and Tony Award winning Ruthie Ann Miles as Lady Thiang.

Ankusha and Other Mysteries - Kamala Devam Company 29 November, 7.30pm Kala Sangam Ankusha and Other Mysteries present their signature contemporary dance pieces Ankusha and Babushka vs.

Renaissance Man, alongside a new classical Bharatanatyam solo Jati-Swari-Leela and a showing of the acclaimed dance film The Art of Defining Me.

Consent - Irregular Arts 30 November, 7.30pm Theatre in the Mill In a post-‘#metoo’ scratch performance Jenny Wilson explores how we begin to build a culture of consent.

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Music

Music Listings Kath Edmonds - ‘We Shall Overcome’

5 October Glyde House, BD5 0BQ

7 October, 3pm Malik House, Bradford

Ubunye (‘one-ness’) unites singers hailing from Kwa Zulu Natal in South Africa (now Huddersfield-based) with gospel and R’n’B players from Yorkshire, in an inspirational blend of jazz, Isigqi traditional Zulu music - and Afro-pop. £7 / £5 (members)

Kath Edmonds playing live for ‘We Shall Overcome’ in Bradford at Malik House, Manor Row in Bradford. A fantastic event supporting and highlighting the great work that local charities do across Bradford and beyond. 7 hours of local music, acoustic artists and chilled Sunday vibes.

Flea Market & Box Jellys Split Single Launch

FREE ENTRY - starts at 1pm through to 8pm - Kath playing at 3pm.

5 October, 7.30pm The Exchange, Keighley Flea Market and Box Jellys launch FLEABOX; a split 7” single through One Step Outside Records featuring ‘Team Scarlet’ and ‘Anti-Social’ respectively. The two poppy fuzzy bands conjured up the idea of teaming up to release music together whilst on tour in the far reaches of Burnley rock city.

The Record Club 6 October, 8pm The Triangle, Shipley Play records meet friends.

There’s a different theme every month, check the page for this months, bring some records if you like or just come along and enjoy the tunes (or not!) that other people bring. Easy going good times & free pakoras. The ultimate not out out night out, come & dance. 1st Saturday of the month. Free Entry.

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Topic Folk Club present…The Hometowners 11th October, 8pm Glyde House, Glydegate, Little Horton Lane A return visit from these four lads from across t’border with their wit, banter, stories and songs, many with an Irish flavour. £6 (£5 for Topic members).

Smiley & The Underclass 13 October, 7.30pm The Underground, Bradford Formed in 2014 in the infamous melting pot of London’s Ladbroke Grove, Smiley & The Underclass are a punky reggae explosion from a world on fire. Their musical call-to-arms invokes a passion and honesty rarely seen in these times of cardboard cutout pop pollution.

Gnod R&D Takeover Golden Cabinet 6 October, 7pm Kirkgate Centre, Shipley Golden Cabinet have handed the reins of their next event over to the mighty GNOD’s Research & Development department.

GNOD and their various side projects, such as Ahrkh, Negra Branca, Druss and Dwellings, have played for Golden Cabinet a number of times over the last five years, so they felt it would make sense to invite them back to take over the whole evening.

Few other groups could soundtrack a supernova as convincingly as the Salfordbased collective. And, that witnessing a GNOD show is a transcendental barrage of volcanic psychedelia; the gig equivalent to having your amygdala replaced with a palantir and letting Sauron’s will smash your future and your past together with hellish zeal. Gnod will make you dance like St Vitus. They are that good.

Featured Event

JATPJazz present...

UBUNYE

TLR Present...Blue Rose Code 26 October, 8pm Caroline Street Social Club, Saltaire

Groovers in the Heart 13 October, 8pmThe Kirkgate Centre, Shipley Get up, get down, get groovy! It’s the October edition of Groovers and we’re excited as always to be hosting special guest Trainer Trouble with incredible DJ superpowers and a magnificent collection of vinyl tunes, all personally selected and tried and tested to get your feet happy on the dance floor!

Topic Folk Club present...Bella Gaffney & Polly Bolton.

18th October, 8pm Glyde House, Glydegate, Little Horton Lane

Pink Floydian - The Exchange Keighley

TLR Present...Moore Moss Rutter

20 October, 7.30pm The Exchange, Keighley

2 November, 8pm

One of the most impressive tributes we’ve ever seen, with a dedication to the Pink Floyd sound and high quality musicianship not often witnessed.

Arcus Quartet at Bradford Cathedral 24 October, 7.30pm Bradford Cathedral

As a new addition to the Northern Tour Take II, the Arcus Quartet will be making their Bradford debut in the Anglo-Saxon splendor of Bradford Cathedral.

Stunning partnership of two fine Yorkshire musicians. Bella, wellknown to Bradford audiences, for Polly it’s a Topic debut. £6 (£5 for Topic members).

JATPJazz present...Dan Whieldon Quartet

JATPJazz present...

ARTEPHIS

Pianist Dan Whieldon’s new band playing contemporary pieces.

19 October Glyde House, BD5 0BQ RNCM Alumni Artephis are a forward looking, contemporary ensemble casting late 60’s/ early 70’s Miles Davis influence onto a Christian Scott / Antonio Sanchez / Brian Blade Fellowship Band musical plane yielding an eclectic sound of explosive groove and light-footed nuance.

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A nomad both geographically and musically, Ross writes from the heart eschewing any specific genre and the twelve songs on new album The Water Of Leith, addressing themes of love, loss, travel, home, accepting the past and embracing the future, are painted with colours of folk, jazz, soul and pop; an eclecticism that has become a hallmark of Blue Rose Code and has seen him compared to John Martyn, Van Morrison and Tom Waits.

2 November Glyde House, Bradford, BD5 0BQ

Caroline Street Social Club, Saltaire Widely regarded as three of the best players, innovators and performers in traditional folk amongst a precociously gifted generation, their finely-crafted arrangements wield a rare potency.

The Festival of Remembrance 4 November, 5pm Bradford Cathedral Join The City of Bradford Brass Band, The Military WAGS Choir (Catterick Garrison) and Bradford Cathedral Choir as we remember those who died in armed conflict. Community Singing, Parade of Standards, Service of Remembrance.

Topic Folk Club present...The Heathen Kings.

8 November, 8pm Glyde House, Glydegate, Little Horton Lane Leeds-based trio with original, contemporary and traditional material with an array of instruments. £6 (£5 for Topic members).

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Music Listings Music

DRIFT ft Kyoka / Grischa Lichtenberger / YTAC 14 November, 8pm Fuse Art Space, Bradford Fusing heavy electronics, hypno-chaotic grooves and pristine frequency control within a unique, audio-visual environment, DRIFT ft. KYOKA / GRISCHA LICHTENBERGER / YTAC sets forth an intoxicating, hyper-sensory experience.

Topic Folk Club present...Jack Blackman 15th November, 8pm Glyde House, Glydegate, Little Horton Lane Exciting young performer making a return to the Topic. His guitar playing has been described as “exceptional” and “brilliant”. £6 (£5 for Topic members).

King Of Pop starring Navi 15 November, 7.30pm The Alhambra, Bradford

Don’t miss the world’s number one Michael Jackson tribute artist with his incredible Live band & Dancers. Navi once received a standing ovation from Michael Jackson himself! Michael also chose Navi as his official body double and decoy.

Disco Galores Gun on Ice 16 November, 8pm The Underground, Bradford Disco Machine Gun & Galores will be taking over the Underground for one special night.

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Peter Bruntnell Trio feat. BJ Cole 18 November, 8pm Caroline Street Social Club, Saltaire NME claimed that ‘Peter Bruntnell’s records should be taught in schools’ and if you ask the likes of Rumer, Peter Buck, Scott Mccaughey, Willy Vlautin, Jay Farrar, John Murry or Kathleen Edwards they’ll all agree that Peter Bruntnell is a writer with rare and mysterious qualities.

Bradford Blues Club 22 November, 8pp Al’s Dime Bar, Bradford Live blues music hosted by New Brunswick Blues finalists Chris James & Martin Fletcher.

Martha Tilston 24 November, 8pm The Exchange, Keighley With a voice like spiderwebbed hollows and lyrics that inspire and captivate, Martha Tilston has developed a successful musical career with a large and loyal following worldwide.

Topic Folk Club present...Clay Liftin’ 29th November, 8pm Glyde House, Glydegate, Little Horton Lane A recently-formed talented Irish roots band based in Huddersfield. Songs and tunes with bodhran, whistles and fiddle. A Topic debut. £6 (£5 for Topic members).

Topic Folk Club present...Roger Davies.

TLR Present...

WinterFolk: O’Hooley & Tidow

Glyde House, Glydegate, Little Horton Lane

30 November, 8pm Caroline Street Social Club, Saltaire

22nd November, 8pm

Well-known to Topic audiences, and the acoustic music scene generally, Roger returns with his original take on Yorkshire people and places. £6 (£5 for Topic members).

JATPJazz /Glyde House present...Eirik Svela Group 23 November Glyde House, Bradford, BD5 0BQ LCM alumna Eirik, an established jazz guitarist in Norway, visits Bradford as part of a UK tour.

Belinda and Heidi’s boundless songwriting has been described

by The Guardian as ‘exceptional’ and The Independent as ‘defiant, robust, northern, poetical, political folk music for the times we live in.’

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