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Monday night Chess Club
Monday 7th January 2013, 7.00pm (day 501) Another of my occasional drinking haunts, the Trades Club in Hebden Bridge, has yet to feature on this blog, but let’s allow it to sneak on today with its...
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Friday night out
Friday 4th October 2013, 9.20pm (day 771) Posted to prove I do occasionally have a Friday night out, with sexy companionship.
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String section
Friday 30th May 2014, 10.55pm (day 1,009) Second gig in a week, and there’ll be another one tomorrow. Unlike last Sunday’s arena event this was in the more intimate surroundings of the Trades Club,...
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Peter Hook
Tuesday 9th December 2014, 8.50pm (day 1,202) So, this is Peter Hook. Bass player with Joy Division (who then became New Order), the greatest rock band ever to walk the surface of the Earth. Playing in...
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Clare, Saturday night out
Saturday 6th February 2016, 9.30pm (day 1,626) It’s been months since there was a proper portrait of the wife on this blog, so let’s make up for it with this shot from our night out at the Trades Club...
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Saint Etienne at the Trades Club
Friday 24th June 2016, 9.40pm (day 1,765) This was Clare’s night out as though I knew of this band I didn’t really care one way or the other about them. However, having seen them, they were bloody...
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Bar at the Trades Club
Saturday 10th December 2016, 11.20pm (day 1,934) This blog has simple rules, and only a few of them, but I stick to them, and they shape what appears in subtle ways. The one about only using what...
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May Day street party
Monday 1st May 2017, 4.30pm (day 2,076) Am I making a political point? Well…. not as strongly as I certainly would have twenty years ago, and probably would have ten years ago. But it is May 1st,...
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Red Helen
Friday 17th November 2017, 9.25pm (day 2,276) Red Helen DJs at the Nutclough City Limits night at the Trades Club every couple of months or so. She used to run the legendary Brighton Beach nights in...
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Trades Club, Friday night
Friday 12th January 2018, 9.50pm (day 2,332) Planet Glitterball oversees the fun and frolics at the Friday night disco in the Trades Club. I remember going out. Not necessarily coming home, but that’s...
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Trades club bar
Friday 23rd March 2018, 10.40pm (day 2,402) Great night out, thanks again to the wife and Red Helen for the music. Terrible photography, but that’s 10.40pm on a Friday night for you.
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Trades Club
Saturday 16th June 2018, 10.10pm (day 2,487) It is of course impossible to produce a decent photo of people who are moving, in club lighting, with my crappy camera, without using a flash. But one can...
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Friday night out
Friday 1st March 2019, 11.25pm (day 2,745) Dreadful photo, but a fun night out in the Trades Club. This is about the best that can be done with my camera in such an environment, but evening photos have...
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Disco (throwback)
Friday 30th July 2021, 10.15pm (day 3,627) Discos/nightclubs — possibly the worst venue for photography, at least with my mediocre equipment. But, I don’t care! Because we were out in a nightclub! How...
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Saturday night, Trades Club
Saturday 24th September 2022, 9.25pm (day 4,048) It’s increasingly easy to find excuses not to go out on a Saturday night, or indeed a Friday or any other night, at least if ‘going out’ means ‘being...
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