Celebrating Coventry Weekend

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Reading and Leeds weekend is here, at which local lads The Enemy are playing. and it looks like it’ll be bathed in sunshine unlike Vfestival last weekend. Last night, I met up with a friend who was at VStafford and he said despite the rain he had enjoyed the weekend his highlight being Mark Ronson’s set, he described it in full detail, non of which I can remember. He did mention some heavy handedness by the police a sentiment which was echoed by someone else I talked to who was there, he said the festival was ‘a bit on top’, I will find out exactly what he means when he returns from Skegness were he has been holed up recovering from last weekend.

Local fun this weekend includes various theatre, dance and music taking place arcoss the city centre under the banner of Celebrating Coventry Weekend. I hope it goes well, my wife has been down town this evening and said the music had already started. Sunday will see local artists and bands, signed and unsigned, playing in the Upper Precinct between 12:00 & 3:00pm which will be kicked off by Olivia Broadfield who we rate highly and we once saw perform with SumladfromCov at The Maudsley, she has now adobted a more electronica sound since those acoustic days, you can find out for yourselves on her myspace page where you can have a listen. Thats my tip for the day.

A bunch of us have also managed to grab a couple of tickets to see Hard-Fi at The Coliseum in Coventry on Sep 7th, so we are looking forward to that the last time we saw them was at The Brixton Academy last year and with a hotel and The Mega Bus this time it'll be less of a journey.