Do also check out the Arctic Circle Daylight Music Facebook page and website, the Daylight gigs are regularly at the Union Chapel throughout the year and are magnificent, here’s the link…..www.jointhecircle.net

We look forward to seeing you all at the next one!  Don’t forget that our next show, on Sunday, 24th June will be at the Leigh Folk Festival, Clarendon Scouts Hut, High St, Old Leigh, Leigh-on-sea.  We’ll have music from Matt Boulter, The Fancy Dress Party, James Canty and Dirty Water with comedy and poetry from Richard Allen & Simon Blackman. We’ll be on straight after Rif Mountain from 3:00pm, tis FREE and the full line-up can be found here: www.leighfolkfestival.com

On the Saturday, 23rd June, Sundown Arts shall have its own stall in the Leigh Library Gardens as we do every year, we sell new and 2nd hand books, homemade wheat free goodies, homemade chutneys, crafts and promotional schizz.  We’ll also have some friends in tow with some fun on our ukes!  So join us, bring some ginger ale in plastic cups and lashings and lashings of…..well, you decide…

Our first Sundown of the year shall take place on Sunday, February 26th @ The Alex, 7:30pm. We already have some treats in mind for you so keep checking the website for as and when they’re confirmed.  After Feb, we’ll be at the Union Chapel on Saturday, April 21st, 12-2pm for our successful collaborative event with the Arctic Circle, known as ‘Daylight Events’. This is a FREE shindig with a refreshments stall that raises money for London homeless charity The Margins Project. It’s always a good’un, don’t miss it.  So far we can confirm that we shall have the excellent musical comedian JAY FOREMAN, who has just been touring with DAVE GORMAN. Exciting. So what follows April?  Well, we have our regular performance at the Leigh Folk Festival, 22-24th June, where we have a stall on the Saturday in the Library Gardens.  This is fun because people bring cakes and ukeleles and 2nd-hand books and stickers and we all just sort of sit in the sunshine, or misguided rain, having a chat and a giggle whilst listening to the folk, drinking fizz in plastic cups.  On the Sunday, we’ll be in the Clarendon venue with…so far….MATT BOULTER and THE FANCY DRESS PARTY (more acts, including comedy & poetry TBA).

We will also be performing at another local festival in June but I’m keeping schtum about that until I have more details.  In September, we are planning a big, exciting Sundown project which I shall tell you more of soon.  I’m being quite mysterious aren’t I?  Yes.  You like it don’t you?  Yes.  What am I wearing?  That’s not important right now (except a ‘Lund’ style jumper and nothing else!) but as ever, keep checking the website.  We’ll have our annual BIG BIRTHDAY BASH in November where we celebrate being 9 years old.  Crikey.  There’s talk of a Christmas Po’Down in December but it’s far too early to be talking about Christmas 2012 (or, 2021) so we’ll leave that for now.

Yes, a lot going on this year!  Please feel free to get in touch with us if you’d like to perform at Sundown, indeed we’re going to be putting on another Open-Mic event @ Rayleigh Library, one evening this year and soon hopefully.  So, what have you been reading?  I’m reading a book called The Death and the Penguin once recommended to me by Ben Eshmade of www.jointhecircle.net and so far, I quite like it.  A book I read this year and loved was – Just Kids by Patti Smith. Oh, it was marvellous.  Beautifully written it was.  Television wise?  I’m still not over The Killing or Forbrydelsen and have series 2 ready and waiting.  A friend, who looked a lot like Richard Sandling, introduced me to American comedy series; Community, so I’ve been enjoying that.  Movies?  I’ve not been that enthralled with a lot of films this year but absolutely LOVED Beginners with EWAN MCGREGOR, it reminded me of Lost in Translation. If you like quaint, stunning, thoughtful indie films then this is your ticket.  Anyway, rambling again.  Happy New Year to all of you, we look forward to seeing you at a Sundown soon.  Our 2012 (21) advice to you?  Eat less bread, get a bobble hat, realise that most of life’s unanswered questions are stored in the bobble, don’t let the bobble go a-foot in the 90mph winds, eat less bread.

Au revoir onions.

Hello, beauties.

As part of our 2011 rebrand of Sundown, where we move away from the Sundown Multimedia moniker, we have created a spanking new Facebook fan page called, originally enough, Sundown Arts. There, you can keep up to date with all our events, look at our photos, hear our bleatings and even say hello. How jolly interactive. To ‘like’ us is simple; you just need to go to http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sundown-Arts/131253286969433 where you click like: one click and you’re in.

If you were previously a member of the Sundown Multimedia group on Facebook, or belonged to the Sundown Multimedia fan page, you will need to move over to the new Sundown Arts page or you will miss out – and nobody wants that. Do they.

We will be using the delicious Sundown Arts logo across all our marketing from now on, which is pretty exciting. Everyone loves a bit of consistent branding.

Bye for now!

Here is the link – Sundown Oo-Toob