10 May 09 International Pop Overthrow
Saturday 22nd May, International Pop Overthrow, The Cavern, 10 Mathew Street Liverpool L2 6RE
A dream comes true!!! You may have guessed we love the whole 60’s music scene and its history so to get the opportunity to play a venue so key to the careers of those bands really is something else.
The International Pop Overthrow (or IPO, as it has affectionately become known) is a pop music festival which is held in week long stints at 13 cities in America and, for the last few years, a week in Liverpool. Each International Pop Overthrow takes over the local live music hot spots and features showcases from 25-180 of the best pop bands from around the world. The purpose of International Pop Overthrow is two-fold: one aim is to give every worthy band who’d like to play their music in a festival atmosphere the chance to do so, and the other is to bring pop music the attention it so richly deserves.
For further info on I.P.O. go to www.internationalpopoverthrow.com
We are playing two slots on the Saturday: 1:45 PM at The Cavern Pub and 8:15 PM at The Cavern Club on the back stage. Entry is free!!!
Tags: 60s, cavern, deccas, indie, international pop overthrow, liverpool
12 Mar 08 Treachery
The first act dealing with treason was passed in what became the United Kingdom in 1351, and until 1814, when it was reduced to a straighfoward hanging offence, the punishment was:
“[To] be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution and there be hanged by the neck, but not until they are dead, but that they should be taken down again, and that when they are yet alive their bowels should be taken out and burnt before their faces, and that afterwards their heads should be severed from their bodies, and their bodies be divided into four quarters, and their heads and quarters to be at the King’s disposal.”
Although no-one has been executed in the United Kingdom for any crime since 1964, when Peter Anthony Allen, at Walton Prison in Liverpool, and Gwynne Owen Evans, at Strangeways Prison in Manchester were executed for the murder of John Alan West, it took until 1998 and the Crime and Disorder Act to get the punishment further downgraded to life imprisonment.
Tags: bowels, crime and disorder act, execution, faces, hurdle, life imprisonment, liverpool, owen evans, quarters, treason, united kingdom
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