Legends to take a bow at park event
Kathryn Ryan

February 04, 2010

SOME of the city’s rock and roll legends will play a homecoming gig as part of the Salford Music Festival.

It is hoped the Happy Mondays, Peter Hook, The Fall and The Charlatans will perform at Buile Hill Park in September.

The Mondays, who hail from Little Hulton, Hook, from Ordsall, The Charlatans’ singer Tim Burgess, born in Salford and The Fall, whose singer Mark E Smith was also born in the city, could share the bill with pop band the Sugababes, as part of the event being organised by singer-songwriter Ed Blaney.

Ed is hoping to get the plans rubber-stamped by the council in the next few weeks. If he is given the go-ahead the concert would take place the day after the Proms in the Park event in September.

It would be in the culmination of a week-long festival involving schoolchildren and local bands playing free fringe events at pubs and clubs through the city.

Ed, who has been backed by Hazel Blears MP, Councillor Martin O’Neill and entrepreneur Paul Ashton, said: "It will be really good for the whole of Salford.

"No local band will get overlooked, we will get them in the pubs and clubs and all the big venues are getting involved. We want to put music back into schools because it’s important that kids from Salford know the history of their music. There’s a lot of history here but it always gets attached to Manchester."

Fringe events involving local bands will be free although the main concert will be paid-for tickets.

Ed added: "Depending on funding we want to make it as cheap as possible.

"It’s going to be not-for-profit but if we do make any money we would like to give it back to a music project for children or a community centre."

Ed is hoping to get the plans approved by the council in the next few weeks and has a meeting with the Lottery to discuss funding on Friday, February 5, and a meeting with the council next week.

Bands or venues who want to get involved can contact Ed via Facebook group ‘We Want A Salford Music Festival’.

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Sunday, July 12, 2009

The City Of Salford
Current mood: awake
Category: Music
Ok enough is enough,SALFORD is fast becomming the new home In MUSIC,Finally we have www.salfordcityradio.org 94.4fm,an exibition of Salford Bands/Musicians/history on at The Cresent Museum,www.salfordrecords.co.uk,www.salfordmusic.com,We are not POSH!The stuff that the above are doing is real and we all must keep it that way,What Antony.H.Wilson did for Manchester,we the above are going to do for Salford,too many times Salford has been overlooked,now we have a voice or several compiled into one,What's is going on with "music seminars" held on chapel street?When in fact no Salford Bands are invited to play!
Whats all that about?
As a true Salfordian i am here to put the case for emerging Bands and Groups and individuals that push Salford Music for free.Enough is enough, this is our time.

Salford is a city,not a town.If Leeds can put on a festival so can we.We can bring big acts to Salford aslong as Salford City Council helps to fund such an event.
I was asked last year to submit a decent line up for such an event which i did only to be told the council and police had doubts.
Salford has always had untill recently"bad press" etc,now things are changing fast,the council will i'm sure be happy to get involved in anything thats good for Salford, so help us raise the profile for his event
We want a LIVE MUSIC FESTIVAL in SALFORD for 2010,If Russel Watson can get it on,so can we!Lets have a festival for SALFORD.
I along with a few decent Salfordians are going to make this happen.
Tune into my show on 94.4fm every friday 12-2pm www.salfordcityradio.org and look on the website for the other voluntary DJs that will be supporting this annual event.

This is all about Salford Musically,not profit.

A group will be launched on Facebook,join the group and make this happen.

Salford has an important future in Northwest Music.
I recently had a very good positive meeting with In The City who will at this years event be giving us a stage/platform for the 3 nights dedicated to Salford Music,Things are looking up.Open your ears eyes and mouth and get involved.
Yeah!

We want a real SALFORD MUSIC FESTIVAL!

www.salfordmusicfestival.co.uk   ( official website ) Now Open !!!

http://www.salfordonline.com

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