Loddon Mill Arts

As part of the Jubilee celebrations for Loddon & Chedgrave, Loddon Mill Arts are delighted to host an evening of comedy by 4 wonderful comics.

Entitled ‘We are not amused!‘ we hope you will be amused and delighted by the lovely Meryl Rouke who was nominated for the prestigious SONY ACADEMY AWARD in 2003 who will start the evening. She will be followed by the rising star of the comic scene  Dan McKee in the ‘Open Mike’ spot. The evening will be headlined by Steve Hall, a finalist of the 2002 Daily Telegraph Open Mic Award and a runner-up of the 2003 BBC New Comedy Awards.

Steve is a member of ‘We Are Klang’ with Greg Davies and Marek Larwood, a comedy group who have produced both their own live shows and a sitcom on BBC Three. They received a nomination for the Edinburgh Fringe in 2006 and won the Best Comedy 2009 in Wollaston’s Weekly.

He was the warm up act for Russell Howard’s 2007 tour (Adventures), his 2008 tour (Dingledodies) and his 2009 tour (Big Rooms & Belly Laughs). He had his debut as a solo act at Edinburgh in 2008 with his Vice Captain Loser show. Hall also made a appearance on Russell Howard’s Good News, featuring as a stand up commedian on the good news extra .

Your MC for this fabulous evening is Paul F Taylor who was Comedian of the week in GQ magazine, and is an instantly watchable and likeable performer. With his hilarious and surreal observations he never fails to leave audiences crying with laughter, gasping for air and wondering “What the F?… It’s Paul F. Taylor!”.

To see these fantastic and ‘award winning’ international comedians, tickets are ridiculously cheap at £10′s and doors open at 7:00pm. We have a licensed bar with guest beers from Adnams and Humpty Dumpty.

To book your ticket, please call:

Tel: 01508 521800

Use the link below to purchase via Paypal (tickets available on the night at the show door)

or tickets are available from Caroline at Rosie Lee’s Tea Room, Bridge Street, Loddon.

See you then!

Fancy a relaxed evening, in the company of friends and a drink listening to and discussing iconic music of our era in ‘higher than CD’  sound quality? Welcome to the NEW Music Club evening workshops, from Loddon Mill Arts.

Two evenings will launch these informative and social ‘listening and learning’ evenings in July, beginning on Friday 20th July with an illustrated evening of music and workshop, demonstrating two outstanding albums, entitled: A Return To the 70′s. Up for discussion and audio scrutiny are Pink Floyd’s iconic album ‘ Dark Side of the Moon’ and ‘Who’s Next’ – The Who.

Released in March 1973, by the progressive rock band Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon, their eighth album, was a move away from the extended instrumental excursions that characterised their work with founder member, principal composer and lyricist, Syd Barrett. Recorded at the world famous Abbey Road Studios between 1972 and 1973, it used the most advanced recording methods and techniques of the day including multitrack recording and tape loops and was engineered by Alan Parsons. With an estimated 50 million copies sold, it is Pink Floyd’s most commercially successful album and frequently ranked as one of the greatest rock albums of all time.

Who’s Next is the fifth studio album by English rock band The Who, released in August 1971. The album has origins in a rock opera conceived by Pete Townshend called Lifehouse. Although the project never happened many of the songs written for the project were compiled onto Who’s Next as a collection of unrelated songs, including the now legendary number ‘Won’t get fooled again’  Who’s Next was a critical and commercial success when it was released, and has been certified 3× platinum by the RIAA.

The second music club evening will be a week later on Friday 27th July, when ‘award winning’ sound engineer Andrew Walter from Abbey Road Studios will discuss the History of Classical Recorded Music, highlighting changes in recording methods from the 1890′s to the present day. With fascinating musical examples and using rare and unpublished musical examples, this workshop will draw on the simple and often complex methods that have been used by the music industry to ensure that the best and highest quality recording methods were developed and employed over the past century. Concentrating predominantly on examples from the classical industry and illustrating the evening with ‘insider knowledge’ of the recording industry, it will be an enlightening evening for audiophiles and musically discerning fans not to miss.

Later in the year other music club workshops have been promised by recording artists , performers and representatives from the music industry to demonstrate other eras, styles and types of recorded music. The evenings are being sponsored by Roland UK and audibly demonstrated on Bowes & Wilkins Speakers (B&W). This  iconic speaker company has a long and distinguished reputation for excellence in sound reproduction in the audio industry and are used across the world in the leading ‘state of the art’ studios and sound houses. The evenings will reproduce music at a ‘higher’ audio level than available on ipod or CD, using audio sourced at 96Khz, 24 bit or at the SACD sampling rate of 2.8224 MHz and the resolution of DSD one bit. Come and listen to the difference!

At the unmissable price of £5′s and with ticket numbers limited to 4o, these evenings will bein the comfortable ‘living room style’  surroundings of the historic Steam Rooms at Loddon Mill.

With a fully licensed bar from Adnams and friendly, social atmosphere all fans of music will not be disappointed!

Tickets are available by contacting:

Tel: 01508 521800

email: info@loddonmillarts.co.uk