We’ve been on our annual excursion to Bridlington. We go to the Spa theather to watch the weekend long Musicport World Music festival.

The same B and B as last year and had already pre-booked our stay a year ago on our last visit.

Musicport is pretty eclectic. Not in your cliched “Oh my music taste are eclectic” kind of way – but proper different. It ranged form Indo Jazz fusion from Leeds, Samay performing with this year with a school form Hull through to Japanese Dub and some Brel and Piaf mixed in for good measure.

Art work was supplied by David Owen with a English folk with an iconic twist: http://theinkcorporation.co.uk/5000-morris-dancers-2/

Friday night highlight was Richard Hawley of Long Pigs and Pulp fame – and producer of Lisa Marie Presley’s new album.

Anarchic punk poetry was supplied by John Cooper Clark http://www.johncooperclarke.com/ I especially liked his take on “Urban City Living” marketing of the last few years.

He did his classic poem Beasley Street and then gave it an Urban Splash redevelopment and re-read it as Beasley Boulevard, cappuccinos and all – excellent.

A Brummy reggae band – Xova (pronounced crossover) doing UB40 style big brass reggae – checkout their cover of Gangster Paradise.

Lastly Sunday had a few highlights but the best for me was Jah Wobble (ex Public Image Ltd) teaming up with Keith Levene (The Clash) and some traditional Japanese musicians to do reggae and dub mixed with Taiko drums etc.

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