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DANNY ROBINS' EVENTS GUIDE 9TH SEPTMEBER 2010
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|13:58 UK time, Thursday, 9 September 2010
COVER VERSION - 11th SEPT - 8th OCT
The Month of Sundays gallery in Sheffield is hosting a new exhibition based around 'cover versions' of famous iconic album art. A mixture of artists and well known non-artists have been asked to come up with their own artwork inspired by an album cover they hold dear.
People taking part in the exhibition include Sir Paul Smith, Richard Hawley, poet Simon Armitage and 6Music's own Marc Riley. They've all done their own version of album covers from artists including The Jam, Neil Young, Pink Floyd, Public Enemy and Van Morrison. The idea is that it's the artist's take on their personal relationship with that album.
Pete McKee, the Sheffield-based cartoonist who runs the gallery has done a version of Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland called Electric Landlady. The artworks are displayed alongside the original with a supporting text from the artist. Sounds interesting and worth getting along to if you're in the Sheffield area.
The exhibition launches on Saturday and the gallery is open Tues to Sat 10am-5pm.
LOST MARATHON - MON 6th SEPT - THURS 9th
Do you like the TV series Lost? How much do you like it? Do you like it enough to watch all 121 episodes of it back to back?
Oh yes, let's get a little nuts! I'm talking about 80 consecutive hours of baffling mysterious cliff-hanger TV. This potentially dangerous feat is going to occur at the Prince Charles cinema in London's Leicester Square next week. It's made all the more crazy by the fact that you're going to have to take 4 days off work to do it.
Episode 1 starts at 10am on Monday morning and Episode 121 will screen sometime on Thursday afternoon. There'll be the odd 15 minute break to go to the loo and grab something to eat, but other than that it's full on non stop Lost - don't even think about sleeping.
The first 280 people to turn up get in and then after that things will whittle down to the last man/woman standing. Organisers are hoping fans will turn up in costume and that there'll be a bit of a party atmosphere with people bringing sleeping bags and supplies.
Apparently it's the first ever public Lost marathon (some crazy fans have done it in private) and probably the longest ever TV marathon of this kind.
If you fancy getting in on the action you can email [email protected] to pre-register attendance or just turn up on the day, but remember, it's first-come-first-served.
THE WORLD BLACK PUDDING THROWING CHAMPIONSHIP - SEPT 12th
And something very silly to finish with. You don't have to be a genius to work out what happens here from the title, but it's the why people are throwing black puddings that's intriguing.
It takes place in the small town of Ramsbottom, near Bury in Lancashire. This ancient event is apparently held to commemorate the brave men and women who repelled raiding parties from Yorkshire during the War of the Roses. Legend has it that one day the two armies of York and Lancaster ran out of ammunition and started chucking food at each other. Whether it's true or not it seems a good enough excuse for the locals to lob black pudding around.
To celebrate the old rivalry between Yorkshire and Lancashire, contestants have to chuck their black puddings at a stack of Yorkshire puddings piled on a plinth 20ft off the ground (that's quite high if you think about it!).
The rules are simple. You can throw three competition-standard 6oz puddings, underarm only. The person who fells the most Yorkshire puddings is the winner. Apparently people travel from all over the world for it.
It takes place at the Royal Oak pub in Ramsbottom and they even lay on 'Pudstock', a day of live music starting at 1pm.
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