The Fire Beneath The Sea - The Phuxubtelty EP

Click here for my review.

Coming Soon...

BearTown Radio 1st Birthday Bash
Congleton Town Hall
December 20th 2013

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This is the one you DO NOT want to miss!

Join BearTown Radio at The Town Hall, Congleton, on Friday December 20th
and help us celebrate our 1st Birthday.

For ONLY five of your English pounds you can spend an evening in the company of:


Not only that, but local DJs will be providing musical entertainment between the live bands.
It all kicks off at 7pm sharp on Friday December 20th and will go on until 1am.

Over 14s are welcome but ID will be needed to buy alcohol from the bar.
The Fire Beneath The Sea
The Bido Lito Session - Phuxubtlety
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Fantastic poster for The BearTown Radio 1st Birthday Bash by Sonny Ross

Lauren Potts - NCTJ Reporter of The Year 2013

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Congleton Jazz and Blues Festival 2013

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Click on the links, below, for my reviews and photos of Congleton Jazz and Blues Festival 2013.

Congleton Jazz and Blues Festival 2013

Friday - The Weave, Remi Harris Trio.

Saturday - Johnny Hewitt and Tommy Allen, Steve Hayes and Les Hunt, The Slippery Hill Boys, Jim Kirkpatrick and Heavy Weather, Lucy Zirins, Phil Maddocks and Nick Bayes, The Jake Leg jug Band, The Robin Pierce Band, Adrian Ingram's Jazz Dawgs.

Sunday - Ron Sayer Jr, White Knuckle Blues Band, Rob Livesey Trio, Bearcats Blues Band, Sweet Winn Dixie, John Ainsworth, Cry Baby and The Hoochie Coochie Boys, The Freddie Garner Quartet, Junkhouse Dog Blues Band.

Fenton Town Hall

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A couple of weeks ago, I took a trip to see what all the fuss was with Fenton Town Hall.

Click here for my humble opinion.

'Whereisthis?' Minster

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OK. So, I went for a ride in a car with a strange man and this is where we ended up... Well, he offered me coffee and a giant Bourbon biscuit...

Hand on heart, where do you think this is?

I'll bet you are wrong.

Click here to find out if you were wrong.

Parklive 2013

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Click on the link for my review and photos of Parklive 2013

Uncovered
The Mjollnir Affair Pt I

A Max Darkness novel
by Mark L. Potts

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Uncovered is the story of a rock band by the name of Mjollnir. They aren’t quite as popular as they once were. Their CDs aren’t selling, people are not attending their live shows and interest in the band is almost non-existent. They hit rock bottom one night in Huddersfield when five people and a dog turn up to see the show and the singer falls off the stage and lands on the dog, killing it. After the gig, on the verge of packing it all in, someone jokingly comments that they’d probably get a bigger audience as a tribute band. So, they decide to give it a try and Thor’s Hammer take to the stage.

Whilst Mjollnir may not be in demand, Thor’s Hammer, the cover band, certainly is. It isn’t long before they are doing such great business that the genuine article is once more being courted by the fans and press alike.

Rock impresario, Dan D. Lion wants them for his ‘Classic RockFest’ at Donington Park. There’s lots of money at stake and all the band has to do is ensure that no one finds out what they’ve been up to.

It all seems so easy until journalist Dave Malcolm gets suspicious, so, the band’s manager, Mac Biggar, decides to have him kidnapped for a while. That’s when things start to get weird. Dave’s friend Max Darkness turns up and after Dave is released, the two go on a road trip, determined to see that justice is done.

But who is guilty and of what?

There’s the small matter of the band’s first singer – he was murdered and his ghost appears to be haunting the band. Now his remains have been found, but who murdered him? It could be anyone. How about effete snob and Mjollnir keyboard player, Hampton Court, or his heavily armed butler, Turret? There’s no end to the list of possible suspects. Could it be mad Geordie bass player Gordon ‘Gimme’ Moore? Black, Irish ex-punk, Dermot ‘Septic’ Murphy, or even the new boy, psychotic drummer Zil? Last but not least, there’s Mjollnir’s American guitarist Tyler Kennedy Woodrow Davidson III, who is being hunted down by the girl he got pregnant eighteen years earlier, her crazy redneck brothers and the eighteen year-old daughter he’s never seen.

Discovered
The Mjollnir Affair Pt II

A Max Darkness novel
by Mark L. Potts

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Discovered is set amidst the highly competitive world of professional Scrabble and takes place, in Blackpool, during a week-long World Championship tournament.

Edward Turret, butler to Mjollnir keyboard wizard, Hampton Court, is attempting to realise his ambition of becoming World Scrabble Champion. However, during the competition, details of Turret’s strange past begin to emerge; a love affair, his extreme wealth, and, maybe, murder. Naturally, all of this comes as a shock to Hampton Court and his trailer park trash wife, Tammy-Lynn, especially when Turret disappears and Hampton is forced to prepare his own camomile tea.

Journalist Max Darkness is on assignment to cover the week’s events but, in realitity, he’s come to see punk band, The Cynics, who have secured a residency at ‘The Dive on the Prom’. Max and his daughter, Lulu, become fugitives from the law after Max is framed for murder and Lulu assaults a policeman who is trying to arrest her father. In making their escape, they are forced to don disguises, which works out fine until Lulu almost runs her father over, with his own car.

Punk band, The Cynics, fall into the clutches of Blackpool mobster, Patrick Martin, after he sees their guitarist, Shark, deliberately electrocute a troublesome fan during a gig. They become embroiled in a bizarre plot to abduct the head of the ‘midget mafia’, an achondroplasic dwarf named Eeyore. However, The Cynics get so much more than they bargained for when they try to kidnap ‘The Seven Dwarfs’, as the little people arrive at the theatre for their performance.

Reality takes a beating and it becomes apparent that people are not necessarily who you thought they were. Moreover, just because someone died, doesn’t mean that they are actually dead.

Hannah Potts
Graduating from Liverpool John Moores University
July 8th 2013

Rise and Fall - Michael Molloy and Alex Evans

I didn't know Michael Molloy, but I know a number of people who did. They tell me that he was a very talented young man. Michael was one of three people who died in the coach crash on the A3, in September 2012, returning to Liverpool from Bestival. He was a musician and his dream was to create music. Because Michael was denied the chance, his family and friends have made his dream reality with the release of Rise and Fall, featuring Michael on guitar, with vocals from his friend, Alex Evans. You can download the song on iTunes.
www.michaelmolloymusic.com
On 3rd May 2013, Chris Morgan joined me in the studio at BearTown Radio.
Part of the interview concerned Michael Molloy.
Click the Play button to listen.
I played the song on my radio show,
Mid Morning Madness on BearTown Radio,
on 30th April 2013.
Click the Play button to listen
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