Impromptu performance at Keya Bobo

Our Keya Bobo dance party this week was a storming success. The boys gave their best performance yet and the sound was spot on thanks to our new portable sound desk donated by a friend of Martin, our web designer from Still Moving.

Thanks also to Aaron and Sam from Southampton Solent Uni who came to sound engineer for the night as part of their studies and to Martin, their tutor, for arranging it.  Big up to our amazing volunteers who danced about behind the bar while serving drinks, while managing not to spill any, and to DJ Hubert Carpet for mixing some great worldy tribal beats.

During the evening, one of our neighbours from Hampton's Bar, Colin, came in to give us an impromptu performance (see pic) of a Zimbabwean song which went down a storm - thanks mate.

We were also celebrating the birthday of one of our directors, Nina, who, like everyone else, seemed to have a great night. A fab, appreciative crowd made the whole thing an evening to remember.

If you haven't seen Keya Bobo yet, here is a film we made at the last gig to give you a feel of what it's all about, so you don't miss the next one.

Monday, and here we are again!!

Oh yes, the building work continued and Zigz was in nice and early to start making cakes and let Chris the builder in! The baby change unit is up and I'm hiding up here whilst the chandelier gets put up (I'm still recovering from the mission involved in hanging the one in the loo! Me and my bright ideas!)

I've just finished hanging the Iris Hill show and it's just BEAUTIFUL.

Saturday night was a total joy with Keya Bobo playing (they were just mindblowingly awesome) and lots of people dancing :) We put the tickets as 'Magic Hat' and people nominated the price, so that all could come and pay what they could afford. On the whole people were very generous and we're going to run this system as much as we can, it's a nice way of staying affordable.

This week we have lots on, as always, sometimes I have to pinch myself when I look at our programme - it's twice what some fully-funded arts centres put on - shows what can be done with a lot of passion & strong will (and coffee!).