It was a night of contrasting events yesterday when I firstly went down to the Showroom cinema to see a documentary made locally in Sheffield called “Get Over It”. The blurb said it was about the decline of the mines in South Yorkshire and what is happening now, and whether the local residents should get over it and get on with their lives… It was possibly the worst documentary I have ever seen screened. It was a combination of non-existant script, terrible camera work, awful sound (but the band who performed over some tracks were good). Some scenes you couldn’t hear people being interviewed for the noise of doors slamming and kids screaming. The footage went from one subject to another. Sometimes there was not enough information (about the miners strike) then there was too much (Do we really need a 10 minute interview with a woman who was in debt?)… It was tedious and I kept closing my eyes hoping it would end sooner.. But it didn’t.. It was like they’d just decided to film it one day, wrote the script in the afternoon (or over lunch) and filmed it later that day..

Luckily, I then headed up to the Grapes to see the delightful Tegwen Roberts performing with Hazel Leigh. These two are incredibly talented singer/musicians and for (possibly?) one time only were performing in the small intimate upstairs room in the pub. The two of them performed each other’s songs with just guitars and the occasional Saxaphone (Tegwen) and Trumpet (Hazel). It was just great. They had the small audience in the palm of their hands. The sound was just perfect too. I could hear the fan spinning above me and my own breathing but then their incredible voices just blew me away! If you get a chance to see them you should…