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Want to go to WOMAD with Yellow Submarine?

11
May
2013

Yellow Submarine are a charity who organise holidays for people with learning disabilities. This year they’re running a trip to the fantastic WOMAD festival in Wiltshire young adults (20′s-young 30′s) from the Oxfordshire area and we have a few spaces left. They will be camping for the entire festival and have 4 staff/volunteers there to assist [...]

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Where it all began – Heavy Load movie now on Vimeo on demand

04
May
2013

I guess like a lot of movements it started over a pint in a pub. For years Heavy Load had played gigs where we’d watch our audience leave just as we got on stage. We never considered this may be anything to do with the quality of our performances! We thought something else was going [...]

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Stay Up Late on BBC Radio 4

25
Apr
2013

We were delighted to be invited to be interviewed on Radio 4′s ‘The Today Programme’ in the piece about The Punk Syndrome movie. For those of you who missed it (and it was on quite early for some of us!) here it is. Today on BBC Radio 4

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Stay Up Late AGM – Friday 12th April

10
Apr
2013

At our Annual General Meeting this year we’re going to be asking ourselves what our vision is for Stay Up Late’s future work and how we’re going to do that. But we don’t want this to be about 12 trustees sat in a room for an afternoon – we want YOU to join us. So [...]

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Stay Up Late on BBC Radio 4

07
Apr
2013

For those of you who hadn’t had a late night, and were up early on Friday you may have heard this short interview in relation to the movie The Punk Syndrome (about 48 minutes in to the programme) The Today Programme – BBC Radio 4

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