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Plague, Album Progress, Tour, T-Shirt, Swing, Other
Plague The plague has hit the Crypt. A daubed red cross adorns the door and a trough has been placed outside to wash the monies used to pay for incoming pasties. No man shall leave and no man shall enter. We have written and signed our pledge to contain the disease within these walls and…
April 15, 2011 -
One small step for man…
Note: We sent out an email to everyone on our mailing list yesterday… here’s the email, but in web-page form. “These are extraordinary times. And we face an extraordinary challenge” On May 25th, 1961 President John F Kennedy told a nation that by the end of the decade they would have safely landed a man…
March 24, 2011 -
Snowball Week – Ho-Ho Hope and Social
“Oompa oompa ooompa oompa!” Four pubs, one school, two busses, one town hall with 23 steps, 720 pints of Ho-Ho Hope and Social, 160 revellers, 6 band members, three trumpets, four saxophones, three trombones, one christmas tree (more on that tomorrow), hundreds of pom-poms, secret santa pressents, a band of merry helpers and one amazing…
December 17, 2010 -
The Snowball Keeps on Rolling
Well ladies and gentlemen The Snowball was a wonderful wonderful thing filled with Christmas joy and unending goodwill. There will be lots more stuff coming your way to make you green with envy or happy with glowing memories. We’ll be showing you how we got the marvellous Ho Ho Hope and Social beer, and our…
December 14, 2010 -
The Hope and Social “SnowBall”
It’s a Christmas Party “It’s that time of year, when the world falls in love…”, and we embark on another ill-advised day of fun, frollicks and more Christmas cheer than you can point a stick at. Hope and Social are pleased to announce that on the 4th December 2010 – from 1pm to 8pm, we will…
November 2, 2010 -
B-Sides Beside The Seaside
An amazing day made by our Hope and Social tribe On September the 4th this year, Hope and Social hired an open-top, double decker sharanang to eek that last bits of sun and warmth out of summer… and with 70 amazing people, we headed for the seaside. It was an amazing life affirming day for…
October 29, 2010 -
It’s a Masked Ball
It’s all for Charidee mate OK, This is fairly last minute, but tonight Hope and Social are playing a masked ball. It’s a fund-raiser for an ECG machine at Pontefract Hospital’s Bevan Unit. Up until last night this was a closed event, hence not advertising it up here on H&S.com but we’ve got some last minute cheap-seat…
October 29, 2010 -
Please see Reblog of this post….. > Our Third Album: Release Date and Launch Tour
PLEASE NOTE THIS POST HAS NOW BEEN RE-BLOGGED HERE as we had an image posting problem… Please head over there to comment… and all that. Thanks As you may have noticed from us lot on twitter, we’ve been slogging away making the third Hope and Social studio album for the past couple of months… and…
April 26, 2009