COVENTRY Music Museum curator Pete Chambers BEM writes for the Observer.
This Town is Our Town
So, it’s good to see photographs are finally emerging of Stephen Knight’s new drama ‘This Town’.
Filmed all over the West Midlands and set in the Coventry and Birmingham, Knight describes it as a ‘love letter to Birmingham and Coventry’ about ‘an era I loved through and know well and [involving] characters who I feel I grew up with’.
Due to air on the BBC in early 2024, you can imagine that it has the Ska fans already excited.
I, for one, cannot wait to see it as I was lucky enough to have a small cameo in the show, along with my museum college Mark Harrison.
I cannot, of course, share any personal photos or information at this stage as everything is still hush hush, but what I can say that this production looks to be a real winner.
With so much attention to detail and some hard-hitting acting (not to mention the killer soundtrack), The Coventry Music Museum was proud to open its archives to the team and cast when they visited the village on a fact-finding mission last year.
Rest assured I and the museum will be all over this next year.
Yes, Princess
Meet our next artists to be crowned Coventry Music Museum Artist of the Month, Yes Princess.
A superb band that will feature on our 10th Birthday celebrations on Saturday, November 4, and they have promised to play a short acoustic set on the day. More about this historic event to follow.
With a new album ‘It’s Nobody’s Fault But Ours’ the band look to be going places, here’s how they see it.
“After two years of sweat, tears, break-ups, screams, shouts, exits and entrances, Coventry (UK) Noise-niks ‘Yes Princess’ are thrilled to finally announce the release of their debut album ‘It’s no one’s fault but ours’, arriving on all major streaming platforms September 23, 2023.
“Entering your ears like the abandoned little brother of the Pixies and Trail of the Dead marriage that never was, the album awkwardly asks Queens of the Stoneage for their ball back, whilst knocking on Radiohead’s door and running away to hide in the bushes with their mates.
“Raging, melodic, angular and joyous – it is a 10-track blast through love, death, pleasure, pain, paranoia, the unknown and the shoulda-known.
“Self-recorded and self-released, with Chris Fairless in the producer’s seat, the love child is released into the wild.
“Formed just as the entire world went into lockdown, Yes Princess was born to the world from the ashes of previous Coventry indie gloomers Holy Thief.
“Consisting of Scott (vocals, guitar), Rich (guitar), Martin (drums, backing vocals) and Dan (bass, backing vocals), with all venues locked away, the band shifted their focus from tearing up the best of the Midlands’ stages to directing their energy to writing and recording the best collection of loud, angular, raging, melodic, songs they possible could.”
Can’t argue with all that – this is an exciting band who look to be making waves very soon.
