Big Session 2009
I was up in Leicester over the weekend for the Big Session Festival. If I’m honest, it wasn’t my musical cup of tea on the most part. I can appreciate the folk and all, but it’s not really my thing. That said, a couple of acts did stand out. Babel were a rather pleasant discovery, and Billy Bragg was highly entertaining. I’ve never been a particularly big fan of Bragg, but the man puts on one hell of a show.
A small gallery of photos can be found below. Not many from inside the festival itself largely because I hadn’t worked out how to take pictures in the dark on my new camera. So a handful from the festival and a few pictures from around Leicester in general.
The horrible building is Leicester University, and I think it’s the one they’re knocking down soon and replacing with a new hub that includes a 1700-capacity venue. That’s a venue right next door to a 1600-capacity venue, in a city where the next biggest regular music venue holds 220.
Certainly a bold move. Although if universities up there are like the ones down here, they don’t even do “proper music” anyway.
That the biggest venue is 220 is surprising though given the size of the city.