Musicathon
The ELFM Musicathon 2010 has been and gone! 
24 hours of music: all live, all local, non-stop… from 3pm on Saturday 1st through to 3pm on Sunday 2nd May 2010. This year the Musicathon was an official Live@Leeds fringe event.
Over 300 performers played, sang and acted over the 24 hours whilst a whole bunch of writers “chimed” the hours in with poetry and prose.
You can to listen again to all 24 hours of Musicathon 2010 right here on the ELFM website (and even watch the live video stream) and, if you still haven’t had enough, then you can still listen to the whole of Musicathon 2009 …
Thank you for all the donations we received during the musicathon … but you can still help ELFM save the Chapel and promote community arts making a difference in East Leeds.
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Musicathon 2010
Posted by Adrian on 4th May 2010 - 12:12pmThanks to everyone who made the musicathon possible! It was a simply fantastic 24 hours of music, poetry and drama – 24 hours that you can listen to again. And if you want to see the video of it all then it’s all here just waiting for you!
3pm: Start all the Clocks
We’ve put a taste of the whole schedule in the first hour: The utterly stunning Jon Gomm; the lovely sounds of The Is of Idaho; together with some fantastically appropriate songs from young people at The David Young Community Academy. Each of our hours is themed and local writers are working with us to ‘chime’ in each of the hours – we start of with the theme of time.4pm: The Next Generation
At Easter we started a new initiative for ELFM – The Next Generation. Twenty five young people from 6 different schools worked at the Electric Press building alongside the fabulous Rich Huxley from Hope and Social and Cleve Freckleton aka Rev Chunky. Taking the theme of the chapel itself, they created four brand new songs specially for the musicathon. They will all be performed in the second hour of the musicathon together with songs from The Scandals, The Koodoos, Little Primrose and Subconscious.5pm: The Shiny Hour
More young people – this time the Shiny Band from Garforth Community College; who have created some acoustic loveliness specially for the musicathon. We are proud to be working with Garforth which has become such a hotbed of fantastic musical happenings and we’re already starting to get excited about this year’s Garforth Arts Festival6pm: Folk this
A stunning hour of folk ahead with the best of Irish from The Jimmy Knocks and Sabrina Piggott rounded off with a touch of the pyscha-vaudevillians with Family Feelie7pm: Jurassic Park: The Musical
From the sublime to the … absolutely fantastic. After last year’s delving into musical-thon-ness, Maggie 8 return with a specially written and created 1 hour musical extravaganza… prepare to be amazed8pm: Saturday Night, Night Out
So you’re sat at home at 8 o’ clock on a Saturday night… time to get yourself ready and get out there on the town. Amongst the Saturday night stories we have music from Lunchtime Disco Club and the Escort Knights9pm: Barefoot in the Chapel
For those who have seen him perform, you’ll know that Rob Galloway always performs barefoot. Anyone know why? Well – you just might find out, whilst listening to The Yalla Yallas, Kath Edmondson and Mojo 5710pm: Heavenly Objects
We present a bunch of fantastic singer-songwriters – people not averse to braving the rigours of an acoustic night down at the pub. For one night only our heavenly objects will be Mr Gary C, Steve Bolton, Geraint Jones, Liz Reynolds and Giles Winterton. Sit back and enjoy11pm: The Soundmillers
As the day draws to a close enjoy performances from two artists who’ve all been recording recently at Soundmill Studios: Dan Pearson and Hannah Trigwell12pm: Acoustic Revolutionaries
Midnight has come and gone… but we’ve got a whole wealth of music to share with you. We’ve worked with the Adelphi-based Acoustic Revolutions on the two Cuckoo Fests and more. Tonight the revolutionaries in question are Miss Quincy (all the way from Canada), Hayley Gaftarnick, Charlie Bath and The Finnlys1am: Cannonball Express
Charging out of Cannonball Studios for this year’s musicathon will be Ben Pike, Bootscraper and SSSSS … Yeehah2am: Open All Hours
And this time we really are. Tonight we open our doors to Matt Bentley, The Phoenix Fall and Spirit of John3am: Sound People
Well you might have noticed that there’s an election round the corner – and we’re not averse to a little dabbling in politics ourselves (although admittedly not usually at this time in the morning). Strong talk and strong music from Silverlode, Tsienna, Defenders of Style4am: Funk That
It’s been a night to remember so far. Time to turn down the volume a bit (but not the bedcovers) with the Turnways and a some lovely ‘floaty wistfullness’ from March of Dimes5am: Dawn Chorus
Finish the night with the beautiful sounds of Lucy Barker and Troy Faid and then it’s time for the musicathon to make the transition from night into day. We celebrate the coming of the new day with Giuliano Modarelli, Al Macsween and Richard Ormerod.6am: Dissolve
Architect Jonathan Lindh has been working with us to develop plans to convert the Chapel into a permanent live broadcast centre. A musician himself he wanted to do something special that really allowed you to hear the chapel itself…7am: Back to the Future
Writer Peter Spafford has been developing a whole new aspect of ELFM’s creative output. The spoken word. He has been responsible for all the writers’ involvement with the musicathon this year – chiming in the hours and developing the themes. For his own hour, he is joined by musicians Matthew Frederick and Heather Woodhead.8am: Vegging Out
It’s well and truly morning now. Time to get yourself woken up, plant some ‘marrers’ and join the gentle madness that is King Courgette.9am: Music Central
East Leeds’ best kept musical secret – the East Leeds Music Centre bring us a heady Sunday-morning combination of folk and steel pans to keep your musical juices flowing.10am: Star-Cross’d Lovers
‘From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star-cross’d lovers, take their life.’ Young people from Corpus Christi High School debate love and fate (as you do on a Sunday morning!) accompanied by the charming Jack and Gill’s daughter and the lovely Laura Jayne Hunter.11am: The Local Delivery
Sunday morning deliveries are back in fashion with the Free Range choir, MILK ,The Gonzos and Seakipz. Keep it local!12pm: If walls could talk
You know what they will… Keeping up our new-found love of all things radio drama. A specially written radio drama brings the chapel alive accompanied by Andie Mills and the Good in Parts choir.1pm: I believe
Seacroft Methodists have welcomed us wholeheartedly into their church. And we truly believe that we can do something special with the chapel and bring it to life again. But what do you believe? David Laycock discusses with music from the Concordia choir, singers from David Young Community Academy, the Domaine Youth Band and Cleve Freckleton – Rev Chunky .2pm: Stop all the Clocks
It’s almost over. Just the little matter of Tigers that Talked and Hope and Social to bring the musicathon to a storming conclusion.3pm: Phew It’s all over. Time for a rest.
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Info for the Musicathon 2010
Posted by Natasha on 28th April 2010 - 10:22pmFor all of the Curators, Performers and Volunteers involved in this year’s Musicathon, here are some useful documents to download:
Anyone with questions relating to the venue and volunteering at the event should get in touch with Natasha via email to natasha@headstogether.org
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Many hands make a Musicathon
Posted by Adrian on 28th April 2010 - 10:10am
The Musicathon couldn’t take place without ELFM’s fabulous volunteers dedicating their time and energy in the run up to the event and during the broadcast itself.Volunteers are needed to help out in the three areas of production, technical and venue; and during the Musicathon get-in and get-out.
Anyone interested in getting involved can download Volunteering at the Musicathon 2010 for more information, or get in touch with Natasha via email to natasha@headstogether.org
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ELFM Musicathon Returns
Posted by Natasha on 23rd March 2010 - 3:15pmFrom 3pm, Sat 1st to Sun 2nd May 2010
That’s right – the Musicathon is back for 2010!
This May Day weekend ELFM will return to Seacroft Methodist Chapel with a gaggle of musicians, singers, writers and performers in tow for another 24 hour broadcast: all live, all local, non-stop!
ELFM are also delighted to be part of the Live at Leeds programme this year, guaranteeing a weekend fit to burst with fabulous musical talent.
The Musicathon programme is shaping up nicely, but more bands and performers can still get involved. If you’re interested, email musicathon@elfm.co.uk
Put the date in your diary and keep your eyes peeled for more updates right here over the next few weeks!
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Blimey-that was a Musicathon!
Posted by Adrian on 6th April 2009 - 7:07am
A massive thank you to everyone who helped to make the musicathon such an amazing 24 hours.Just wondering – same time, same place next year?
Anyways – here is the audio. Just follow the links and you can listen again by clicking on the blue play symbol or download a copy on to your computer for you to play whenever you want. And you can have a watch of some of the highlights in the video podcast at the bottom of this post
All 350 performers have given up their time and energies to support ELFM in this adventure. Please, please could you consider making a donation by clicking on the Donate button on the right hand side of this page. All monies will go directly to supporting ELFM in its quest to save the Chapel from demolition and turn it into the vibrant, creative, community space that it was for 24 hours on the 4th and 5th April 2009…
3pm The Gospel according to ELFM
4pm Escape from the Disco Dungeon
5pm Moor Music
6pm Celtic Leeds
7pm Peace and Love, Man
8pm George and the Sea
9pm The Olive Branch
10pm Soundmill Selection Box
11pm The Witching Hour
12am Guitar Heroes
1am Solo Revolutionaries
2am The Cannonball Express
3am Sound People
4am East Leeds FM’s got talent
5am Dawn Chorus
6am The what slot
7am The little wind up
8am Rise and Shine
9am 0-60 in 60 minutes
10am On song
11am Totally Smitten
12pm Singing from the same hymnbook
1pm Oh no it isn’t
2pm A bit of what you fancyAnd below … a bit of a flavour of the event
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2pm: A bit of what you fancy
Posted by Adrian on 5th April 2009 - 11:23pmThe fabulous Finnlys start our final hour. The show’s not over ’til someone’s played the ukelele and Rory’s the man – with Sheila on flute – and then … well, who would you expect to save the day and keep the music going right to the final bing-bong…
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1pm: Oh no it isn’t!
Posted by Adrian on 5th April 2009 - 11:23pmThe beautiful voice of 9-year old Alicia Swain leads us onto the stage. Metro Goldwyn Gipton presents Aladdin in 20 minutes and Roger Harrington sings Tom Lehrer. Oh the lights… the music…
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12pm: Singing from the same hymnbook
Posted by Adrian on 5th April 2009 - 10:22pmPresented by David Laycock on this Palm Sunday, a whole range of music including the Tom Havoc band, Colton Methodist Choir; D-Boyz from Domaine Youth Works, and a re-appearance from our very own Cleve Freckleton. Get that chapel singing… that’s what it was built for!
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11am: Totally Smitten
Posted by Adrian on 5th April 2009 - 10:22pmNicola Greenan works with the newly-formed LS14 Trust. Here she presents local artists including Gav and Daley, Dan Audio, Pat Fulgoni, Sara Garvey and Dan Goldman…
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10am: On song
Posted by Adrian on 5th April 2009 - 9:21pmAn hour dedicated to the voice with three very different styles: teenage sensation Lee Lambert; the Georgian choir Samzeo; and jazz singer Jenny Smith…
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