Jon and Libby

The Mighty Nowhere!   Last Thursday was another chance to get back over the Pennines, and a journey through landscapes that could easily melt your eyeballs with their beauty. Yes, it was time for the Holmfirth EMOM at Nowhere again!  This time, Martin Christie started us off with a funky track played on a tiny box of tricks. If it wasn't called "Welcome to EMOM" I don't know what else it could be called. He also told us about setting up the first speculative EMOM a few years ago at Fuel Bar in Manchester and watching it grow like Topsy and become a global phenomenon. Very inspirational stuff.   Martin and his box of tricks! So, next up was a man with quite literally a box of tricks. In this case, a cardboard box holding his kit. How Buildings Fail is a new name to me, and put me in mind of The Fall, or some of the spoken word events I've been to where Mark E. Smith has performed.   Another box of tricks, this time a cardboard one, courtesy of How Buildings Fail....

  Nowhere! Somewhere in Holmfirth. It's easy to forget that the whole summer hasn't been a cold, dank affair with low, forbidding battleship grey skies. Back at the end of June, the 27th to be exact, it was a joy to be cruising through the unfolding landscape above Glossop in the evening sunshine, sunglasses on, with Marjorie the Satnav leading the way through stunning ancient Pennine valleys and over Holme Moss towards Nowhere Bar in Holmfirth. Filter Zombies is someone I've wanted to see again since I caught him at our first outing to Derby in February. His sound is a complex one, melding house, post punk, techno, Soft Cell and even Cocteau Twins! A wild and accomplished ride. Check him out at a future event. Filter Zombies, proving guitars have a place in EMOM! After a couple of issues with sound, multicoloured Mho was up next. He always has as much going on visually as he has musically, and did not disappoint on either front. Call me crazy, but sitting around a corner, ...