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S.E.N.T. – Week 6
What the hell is S.E.N.T.? If you’ve no idea what we’re talking about you can catch up with previous weeks over on the S.E.N.T. page. Foreword Lordy lordy, here we are, the final week. What a rollercoaster. It’s all becoming very emotional as we drag these tired, battle worn musical ideas over the finish line.…
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S.E.N.T. – Week 5
What the hell is S.E.N.T.? If you’ve no idea what we’re talking about you can catch up with previous weeks over on the S.E.N.T. page. Week 5 – Flowering IDEA #5 – SI Open up this week’s project. First listen…it’s not bad…got some groove, some sort of pop/indie thing. Another listen…oh no, hang on, maybe…
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S.E.N.T. – Week 4
What the hell is S.E.N.T.? If you’ve no idea what we’re talking about you can catch up with previous weeks over on the S.E.N.T. page. Foreword After last weeks telling off you’d think we would have ironed out all our technical difficulties. Not so. It turns out somebody has been uploading the wrong weeks audio,…
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S.E.N.T. – Week 3
What the hell is S.E.N.T.? If you’ve no idea what we’re talking about you can catch up with previous weeks over on the S.E.N.T. page. Foreword Before we get into the quick witted literary delights below I wanted to add a small preamble about discipline. Discipline is something that is entirely non-existent in this band.…
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S.E.N.T. – Week 2 – Germination?
What the hell is S.E.N.T.? If you’ve no idea what we’re talking about you can catch up with previous weeks over on the S.E.N.T. page. Week 2 – Germination IDEA #5 – HUX Bless Ed. You may have read his self deprecating words in last week’s blog, “I’m not very good at writing music by…
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S.E.N.T. – Week 1 – The Seeds
Making music together….apart… Two weeks ago we were due to pick up where we left off with writing and recording the next album. Unfortunately due to the current world situation we were unable to all be in the same room and make music the way we most enjoy. With the novelty of Joe Wicks wearing…
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How To Be An Artist Ally: Part 1
Or “7 Ways to Help The Bands You Love… …A Guide For The Enthusiastic Fan” It’s a tough ol’ business keeping an artistic career going. The constant need to feel like you’re moving forward, the increased control of the interwebz by large corporations (see this thread by Lee Parson‘s CEO of our online distributor Ditto…
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“Do It All Again” on The Radio
Awesome news everybody! Wowser. Thank you all for an amazing first week of our new album “Happy Bread (& Cruel Hangovers)“. Lots has been happening but first up, a heads up. We’re overjoyed to be able to announce that our lead track Do It All Again will get it’s international radio debut on National Treasure…
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A Change Of Scenery
They say a change is as good as a rest. Find out what happens when H&S take their album writing shenanigans to the inimitable Harewood House.
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This Must Be The Place – Grassington Festival
The sun has got his hat on, hip hip hip hooray! Hope and Social have their hats on aaaand This Must Be The Place. Ok so it doesn’t scan quite so well, but the sun has definitely been out. Gary is even more sun-kissed than his usual complexion suggests, and we’ve been busy completing our…
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This Must Be The Place – Grassington
This Must Be The Place – Why? Do you have that one place in your hometown that when you’re there, you’re the most [insert your home town here] that you can be? The place that most speaks to you, that draws you home when you’re not home… a place and a time you shared with…
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This Must Be The Place – R’n’D
This Must Be The Place Ah, Grassington. Lovely Grassington. Where would we all be without Grassington with your bleak moorside, chocolate box village square, dog and walker friendly country pubs and your AMAZING FESTIVAL!!! We’re working with the awesome Grassington Festival once more this year on a new project “This Must Be The Place”. We’ve…
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Greenbelt – A Band Anyone Can Join
So… you wanna join the band… The summer is fast approaching… or we might have just had it, I can’t decide. Either way, the Hope and Social ‘Summer Festival Tour’ is most definitely upon us and on Monday 29th August we’re going to be donning our Hunter wellies and heading back to see our friends…
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The 12 Signs of Christmas in New Yorkshire
Hello Dear Reader & a merry Yule to y’all, We’re writing to you just now to put a bit of a shout out to all those of you who like helping people at this time of year… and when we say people, we mean us! As you may know, we’ve putting on a Christmas event…
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The Fairytale of New Yorkshire
Friday 11th December! GET YOUR TICKETS HERE! Apologies for the radio silence these past couple of weeks, but oh me my, what fun we have planned for our 2015 Christmas Doooo, “The Fairytale of New Yorkshire“… AND for that matter, what fun we’re having planning it! This is not gonna be some standard, badly…
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Blunder Bust!
Wow, that was tiring! Who’d have thunk that teaching 50 people a bunch of H&S songs in 4 hours across two buses, a stately home and a church then doing a gig at the finish line of the Tour de Yorkshire would prove so tiring? [grins] Well, it was. But it was sooooo worth it.…
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Hope and Social’s Blunder Bus!
Part of the Tour de Yorkshire Festival blunderbuss noun 1. a short large-bored gun, flared at the muzzle so as to scatter shot widely. Literally ‘thunder gun’. 2. an action or way of doing something regarded as lacking in subtlety and precision. Rain coat? Check. Stamina? Check. Vocal Cords? Check. Massive bag of fun-nuts? Check.…
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People Say The Nicest Things
The dust has settled on The Tour Of Infinite Possibility: Weekend #1. As Simon so rightly puts it, it’s been an “incredible, exhilarating and rewarding” project. So much happened over those two days, we played six shows, with hundreds of new band members joining us on stage. All in just under 36 hours. It’s difficult…
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The Tour of Infinite Possibility: Weekend 1
Well it’s taken some serious coffee and a lot of moaning but I think we’re just about human again after the mammoth first weekend of The Tour of Infinite Possibility! And what an incredible, exhilarating and rewarding two days it was. How do we quantify its ephemeral magic? Through some hard stats, that’s how: 470…
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Crypt Covers 10: Dancing Years – Saturday 4th January
UPDATE 7-1-14 Video below! Crypt covers 10 was the beautiful “I’ll Do It All Again” by Leeds own Corrine Bailey Rae suggested by @manwakesup on twitter. It’s SUCH a good song. Quite heartbreaking… The recording was one live take of the whole band and then we just overdubbed all the vocals and a teeny bit…
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Letter to The Mailing List – June ’13
Good morning campers! Gosh hasn’t nature done itself proud this week? Last week the birds had all but given up on our climate and headed south for warmer days and carefree nights, but come Monday they turned tail at Dover and pushed their way back up the M1 to sing their hearts out and dance…
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