{"id":58697,"date":"2018-04-10T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=58697"},"modified":"2023-03-17T15:44:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T15:44:37","slug":"the-place-we-call-home-avalanche-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/the-place-we-call-home-avalanche-party\/","title":{"rendered":"The Place We Call Home: Avalanche Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having grown up on a musical diet that included Jimi Hendrix and Wilko Johnson, brothers Jordan and Joe Bell have been playing music together since they were 12. They now find themselves as part of <b>Avalanche Party<\/b>, a commanding garage rock band with psychedelic tendencies. Joined by guitarist Jared Thorpe, drummer Kane Waterfield and keyboardist Glen Adkins, they call the North Yorkshire village of Castleton home.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the North Yorkshire moors, vocalist\/guitarist Jordan and bassist Joe spent their youth camping on the moors. First living in the valley of Rosedale before moving to Castleton. While both areas are sparse and rural, <b>Avalanche Party<\/b>&#8216;s activity spreads further afield towards Teesside. As Joe cites below, venues in Middlesbrough and Stockton-on-Tees is where the quintet have been honing their brand of delirious\u00a0rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll.<\/p>\n<p>Read on as\u00a0<b>Avalanche Party<\/b>&#8216;s Joe Bell tells us more about Teesside and its impact and influence.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Avalanche Party - Porcelain (Official Video)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K75qkjxBtsc?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Town:<\/strong><br \/>\nAlthough I was born in Scarborough. I live in the North Yorkshire Moors. A place called Rosedale until I was about 21. It used to have a huge iron mine which was then used to build a\u00a0lot of impressive things around the world. Sydney Harbour Bridge for one. I now live in a little place called Castleton which doesn\u2019t really have much apart from two pubs and a Co-Op. What doesn\u2019t place have\u00a0a Co-Op these days? There is a 10ft sculpture above the village on the moor top of a bloke who looks uncannily like Jeremy Corbyn. Pretty nifty considering it\u2019s a big tory area.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Its People and Culture:<\/strong><br \/>\nAs touched on previously, Rosedale used to have a huge iron mine. Hard to think now as it\u2019s a little, sleepy as fuck, retirement home, holiday cottage that\u2019s lived in for four weeks of the year type place. But\u00a0there used to be thousands of people from all over the world that worked and lived in Rosedale. Constantly mining that iron then shipping it over to Teesside.\u00a0Teesside steel was then shipped all over the world\u00a0to construct such wonders all over the British Empire. From Sydney Harbour Bridge to the Victoria Falls Bridge over the Zambezi to the errr, Birmingham Bullring. Being Northern, we\u2019re all hardy people\u00a0who\u2019ve just discovered how to make fire and like gravy on chips. Or something.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Music It Inspires:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe area has had a bit of a battering recently with the closure of industry and shit TV fodder like Benefits Street. I couldn\u2019t really say that has a bearing on what type of band the area produces but I know it\u2019s\u00a0spurred a lot of artists on. It\u2019s quite pleasant to see local bands doing so well nationally \/ internationally and each in their own way showing the area in a positive light that the media wouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Its Most Famous Musical Sons and Daughters:<\/strong><br \/>\nChris Rea is the man. He is probably the best known, I guess. He must spend a fortune on diesel that gadge. Dave Coverdale from Deep Purple\/Whitesnake came from Teesside. Paul Rodgers from Free too. Heavy\u00a0hitters in their field. Paul Smith from indie darlings Maximo Park was from Billingham. I won\u2019t hear a bad word about any of them, especially Chris Rea. None of these are as famous as a Parmo though.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Its Unsung Heroes:<\/strong><br \/>\nGrowing up bands like The Chapman Family and The High Plane Drifters were hugely inspirational and influential to us. It was mega seeing bands like that coming from our area and touring all over the\u00a0world. I remember watching the Chapmans at Leeds Festival when I was about 18\/19 thinking this is right nice, I\u2019d like to do that. Members from both bands have become really close friends nowadays which\u00a0is cool. There was also a band from the 70s called Back Door. Think they were the first instrumental jazz band to sign to Warner. Pretty hefty stuff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Bands To Watch Out For:<\/strong><br \/>\nMouses, Plaza, James Hewitson, Dylan Cartlidge, Cape Cub and James Brown.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Venues We Visited:<\/strong><br \/>\nProbably seen the most amount of gigs in The Lion Inn, Blakey Ridge as a little nipper. My view was shit as I was a nipper. And little.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Venues We Played:<\/strong><br \/>\nMiddlesbrough\/Teesside is our local scene. Think we\u2019ve pretty much done them all. From little tiny gigs downstairs in the Westgarth Social Club, to KU Bar and The Georgian Theatre, to huge gigs at\u00a0Middlesbrough Empire and the Town Hall. We\u2019ve probably done them all equally over the years. There is a decent platform and venues for a band to grow into on Teesside. We\u2019ve not done our own headline at\u00a0Empire yet though. I suppose that\u2019s the goal. You could get at least three confetti cannons in there. Playing rough pub gigs as a 15-year-old probably shaped us most though. If you can play The Normanby on a\u00a0Saturday night, you can play anywhere pal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If I Wrote A Song About My Hometown:<\/strong><br \/>\nA gabba song about cow tipping. Other bases have been covered.<\/p>\n<p>April<br \/>\n14th Lending Room, Leeds (This Feeling tour)<br \/>\n20th Jimmy\u2019s, Manchester (This Feeling tour)<br \/>\n21st Cafe Totem, Sheffield (This Feeling tour)<br \/>\n27th Broadcast, Glasgow (This Feeling tour)<br \/>\n28th Sneaky Pete\u2019s, Edinburgh (This Feeling tour)<br \/>\nMay<br \/>\n5th Sound City, Liverpool<br \/>\n5th Live At Leeds, Leeds<br \/>\n6th Hit The North, Newcastle<br \/>\nJune<br \/>\n23rd Georgian Theatre, Stockton (band\u2019s own curated festival)<br \/>\nAugust<br \/>\n30th Electric Fields Festival, Scotland<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Porcelain&#8217;<\/em> by <strong>Avalanche Party<\/strong> is available now on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicglue.com\/cluerecords\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Clue Records<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Avalanche Party<\/strong> links: <a href=\"http:\/\/avalancheparty.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Website<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/avalancheparty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/avalanche_party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having grown up on a musical diet that included Jimi Hendrix and Wilko Johnson, brothers Jordan and Joe Bell have been playing music together since they were 12. 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