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  • This is not just any old Christmas show…

    This is an H&S Christmas show (at a former M&S… no less)! This Christmas, we’re super-happy to be working with Rich Warburton (Recognise this lovely face? Thought you would!) of Theatre in The Mill to bring a whole bunch of Christmas present wishes to life. What the Frock is H&S’s Secret Santa? Three things. 1)…

    November 30, 2018

  • Hope and Social’s Secret Santa

    in partnership with “Theatre In The Mill” Christmas is a special time for H&S. We always try and do something that’s special for us, and you… stuff like performing a singalong with 200 people on Leeds Town Hall steps and becoming a big-band, making an acoustic album and performing it as a one off set…

    October 22, 2018
  • This Must Be The Place - Grassington

    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…

    June 12, 2018

  • 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…

    May 4, 2018

  • Yorkshire Electric

    New year, new music, new tour, new van! With Santa and his reindeers safely back in Lapland, this years surviving turkeys breathing a sigh of relief… not only that they’ll see another few months before the Bernard Matthews gang get their hands on ’em, but also that if they traipse north of Watford Gap they’ll…

    January 5, 2018

  • FEEL Again – Oct 2017 Tour

    FEEL Again Well, that was quite a night wasn’t it! All hands on deck, full steam ahead, let’s set sail for obscurity, safe in the knowledge that Hope and Social are at least forty times more strong and stable than the chuffnuts left in charge. In moments of clarity, when you come to the harrowing…

    June 9, 2017

  • The Polar Excess: THIS SATURDAY!

    (WARNING, CONTAINS SPOILERS. If you’ve already bought your ticket and want the day to be a surprise, then look away now) Ho Ho Ho Holy $h1tballs! … that’s rolled around quick! This coming Saturday the 10th of December is “The Polar Excess”, our Christmas dooo, our end of year bash, our bidding farewell to 2016,…

    December 7, 2016

  • FEEL – a song a week #4: Dig Hard

    Dig Hard The Song Si: In our original set of demos for this album there was a song which we all agreed had a lovely melody, but not necessarily one we’d want on one of our albums. It was a little too MOR, even for us. It was certainly a strong melody but it just wasn’t…

    November 16, 2016

  • FEEL – The Album Tour

    Dunno if we’ve mentioned it but this Friday 7th Oct, we’re putting our new album out! Not just any album either. It’s our first since 2013, and we’re putting it out on big fancy crowd-funded blue vinyl too. And as nine beautiful videos… with a worldwide premiere at Leeds’ favourite indie cinema. Plus our usual…

    October 5, 2016

  • “Sunrise Laughing” Available NOW!

    Our DEBUT Single “Sunrise Laughing” Ladies and Jellyspoons, we are positively brimming with excitement to give you the first taste of our forthcoming album “FEEL”, and our first ever single Sunrise Laughing!!!! For you delicious lovelies, we’re sneaking you an early listen of Sunrise Laughing as an exclusive Bandcamp stream and Free/Pay What You Want…

    September 12, 2016
  • Pre-Order "FEEL" on Blue Vinyl - hopeandsocial.bandcamp.com/album/feel

    The Vinyl Countdown

    A Way To Blue. . . 12″ Vinyl Wheels are in motion, cogs are whirring and spreadsheets are being filled in here at H&S HQ, readying ourselves to drop our brand spanking new album ‘FEEL‘ on your laps on Monday the 10th of October. It’s all recorded, we’re just at the stage of signing off…

    August 15, 2016
  • strada music booking agent for gigs, shows, festivals.

    Booking Ace

    Double “O” AWESOME – introducing “Agent Leila” We’re super happy to announce that Hope and Social are to be working with the lovely people of Strada Music. Formed in July 2016, and out of the merger of the Adastra & Regent Music agencies, Strada Music work with some fantastic artists across Folk, Roots, World, Jazz…

    July 27, 2016

  • 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…

    July 13, 2016

  • 9 Videos for 9 Songs

    We need YOU to make our next music video It is with great excitement that we’re putting a call out for film makers for our new album. We’ve poured heart and soul into our new record. It’s taken 3 years to get it to completion, we’ve lost and gained band members, we’ve talked and talked…

    June 16, 2016
  • H&S at Underneath The Stars Festival - Copyright © Jo Cox jocoxphotography-dot.co.uk

    Autumn Tour 2015

    I’ll Take a Tango Yessssss indeedy, after a fun-fueled, festival-tastic time over the summer (check out Jo Cox’s ace Underneath The Stars Festival pic over there on the right – jocoxphotography.co.uk), we’ve decided not to pack it all in and do something more important, but to hot-foot it around the UK one last time in…

    September 10, 2015

  • Introducing…

    Day six at the crypt, and we’re in uncharted territory in a number of senses. It’s different, as I hinted at at the start of the week, both in terms of how we’re approaching this record… and that for the first time since November 2009, we have a change in personnel. First up, we want…

    June 9, 2015

  • 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.…

    April 10, 2015

  • DeerShed Festival

    Hope and Social are soooper excited and privileged to be headlining the Friday night of Deer Shed Festival. A festival by the people, for the people. It’s very much down Hope and Social’s street this one. Real beer, locall, ethically sourced food from independent fooderies, and run by a team of people who are just…

    June 21, 2011

  • Global Enterprise Week Event – Lancaster University

    Re-Posted from TheHuxCapacitor.wordpress.com MUSIC INDUSTRY PANEL EVENT: HAVE YOU GOT WHAT IT TAKES TO MAKE IT IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS? We’re very excited to be speaking at this Grow Creative event hosted by Lancaster University and facilitated by Mushroom Concepts for the forthcoming Global Enterprise Week (followed by a performance at this gig) at 6.30pm,…

    October 29, 2009

  • Cavendish Arms, Stockwell

    Many many thanks to all you lovely people who made it to the Cavendish Arms last night. You were all fantastic, even @dunkr, whose kazoo solo was one of the weirdest to date. Seriously though, the participation in Buzzer Goes, Do What You Must and Looking For Answers was amazing. Thanks to Mr AG for…

    October 8, 2009

  • BBC Radio 2 – The Radcliffe and Maconie Show plug

    Chris Gregory (@MrFurrball on twitter), gave Hope and Social a big ol’ plug on BBC Radio 2’s The Radcliffe & Maconie Show recently. You can hear now hear an archived version of the plug on “The Chain – officially the longest listener-generated, thematically-linked sequence of musically-based items on the radio” here: [soundcloud url=”http://soundcloud.com/thehuxcapacitor/hope-and-social-plug-on-bbc-radio-2-the-radcliffe-and-maconie-show”] “I’ve heard…

    October 5, 2009

  • October Tour – Day 2 – Jason’s Birthday – Ripon Beckons

    It’s Jason’s birthday. Wish him a happy one. First gig in ages last night and good to blow the cobwebs out at the Talbot. Always very welcoming, we get very well fed and waterred, it’s a pleasant way to spend 14 hours is the Talbot. Seemed somehow rowdier last night, in fact it felt like…

    October 3, 2009

  • October Tour – Day 1 – The Talbot

    After two days rehearsal with drummers Ian Firth and Gary Stewart we’re in the van on our way to the Talbot Inn, Chaddersley Corbett. A 16th Century pub who won our second living room gigs competition. We love this place, not least because we get well fed, waterred and they don’t make us go to…

    October 2, 2009

  • Glasto Roundup – part 1

    (Also posted here) Well we played Glastonbury this year and you know what, it wasn’t bad [grin]. We’ve been back to the grindstone at the Crypt since, writing Hope and Social’s second album and 5 songs for Imitating the Dog‘s new Greece/UK project Tales From The Bar Of Lost Souls but, belated as this post…

    September 11, 2009

  • Glastonbury Beckons

    Well, it’s quarter to 10 on Tuesday night and most of the packing is done, I’m about to embark on a round of pick ups at all the chaps houses and then, in 6 wee hours we’ll be getting up to head to Glastonbury. It’s a lifetime ambition of mine, and for us all. Had…

    June 23, 2009

  • Summer Tour

    We’re enjoying this tour. It feels really good to have a record out and to play it to people who’ve downloaded the album or have bought it and are singing the lyrics back at us (the lyrics are up on the website now). The reception at the gigs has been unanimously great so thank you…

    June 13, 2009

  • Glastonbury – Worthy FM, Thursday – “Emerging Talent” headline Friday – Acoustic Stage Saturday

    Hope and Social are ecstatic to announce that we’re playing thrice at this year’s Glastonbury Festival:
    A “Worthy FM” session on Thursday at 2-30PM.
    The Queen’s Head Stage on Friday at 3-45 PM and
    The Acoustic Stage on Saturday at 1PM

    We’ll see you at Bruce too, just to the left of the mixing tent, 45 degrees from the back corner ten yards out. We’ll be the ones with the pear cider and the grins.

    May 26, 2009

  • San Francisco… Ooooh, and Hull!

    So we’ve put a new FREE download up of a live take of one of our album fave’s “San Francisco”, recorded and filmed at the Crypt where the album was made. We recorded this one with Mike “Powerhouse” Heaton who will be joining us again for our forthcoming “Raw Talent” show with BBC Humberside, as…

    April 23, 2009

  • Tour Roundup Part1

    What an amazing couple of weeks, it’s been out and about, I’ll try and keep this succinct. We started out at Joiners on the 19th. Always a pleasure to go there – lovely people and a well looked after venue. Saw some of the tour regulars – keep your eye on flickr for the audience…

    April 4, 2009