Ian Beestin

@ianbeestin.bsky.social

Founder: Belper Jazz Company Co-founder: FCX Technologies/Video Canvas Co-founder: Consumer Duty (the band) Member: Rattus Co-founder: The Dan Collective

On Saturday October 3rd Rattus are performing the Stranglers debut album Rattus Norvegicus in its entirety at Star Inn, the venue the band made their debut. If a trip to Guildford appeals (and why wouldn’t it*) there’s more info/ticket link in the comments. *Best answer wins a prize.

Rattus gig poster - October 3rd, Star Inn, Guildford.

Pete Long put on a brilliant show in Belper tonight, accompanied by the Belper Jazz Company. After speculating about writing a short suite of music, ‘Liz Truss: The Musical’, he played a fabulous version of ‘Stompin’ at the Savoy’, with the fine folks of Belper on backing vocals. #Derbyshire

An image I captured when I lived beside the Anglican in Liverpool. I was trying to recreate Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai using the cathedral as the focus.

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Great to play with these two awesome dudes tonight - Canada’s Gary Cain and Yorkshire’s Neil Dransfield. Can’t decide if my fave tune was a Hendrix one or a Kenny Wayne Shepherd one - lovely to play outside too.

Guitarist Gary CainBass player Neil Dransfield.

Jim Radcliffe looks, sounds and acts like a biblical tale of a man who cannot find happiness and his belief it lives in money leads to it eating him inside and leads to rash decision like buying Gomorrah FC

Rattus are playing the music of The Stranglers live at the very venue where the band played their debut gig back in ’74. In the second set we’re playing their legendary first album, Rattus Norvegicus, in its entirety. More info in the comments.

A poster for Rattus’s gig at the Star Inn Guildford coming up October 3rd.

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