Jam up the back passage:
The Second Coming

Can you believe that it is coming up to nearly a whole year since we turned our little alley into a mega music festival (erm don't get too carried away) to rival the best that Chapel Allerton, Glastonbury etc had to offer. This year we are taking on the big boys.... head to head with The Carling LEEDS FESTIVAL. Yes that's right, we have caused the Kaisers to have some serious conflict, do they keep it real or go for the big bucks? Keep your eyes posted to see if they decide to do the right thing.
Anyway set 3pm 1am on SATURDAY 26th August into your diaries for a splendid day and evening of music and munchies, mingling and moshing, mellowing and mincing.
More details will be forthcoming shortly, and feel free to offer up ideas of how you want this to look too. Afterall it's your back yard too.
Stop press: Jim- Armleys Greatest Lover signed up for 2006...........................
Bring your best cutlery for egg and spoon race...................................
Fight breaks out over decision to pull ' best animal made out of vegetable competition'!

So feel free to post comments or email us if you have any ideas/comments etc. All you need do is bring your mates, some food and drink, a fork, a spoon, a something to rest your weary bottoms on! We will lay on some entertainment, get the ice ready for your drinks, a bbq lit for the bangers and ofcourse put up the bunting!

I Love West Leeds I do!

Keep your eyes peeled for posters and brochures about the fabulous 2nd ever I Love West Leeds Festival all around Armely.

The Festival will kick off with a fantastic 1940's stylee tea dance, lovingly put together by Ange and Donna. They have been collecting memorabilia, and vintage tea sets all their lives and now have the perfect outlet for their cute kitsch. There will be cakes galore, pimms, lashings of finest Yorkshire Tea (kindly donated by Bettys and Taylors in Harrogate) a tombola, live singers, bingo, the works!

This is taking place on the 8th July at the Interplay Theatre Hall on Armley Ridge Road

So if you want to have a sophisticated and stylish afternoon of gentle dancing and gossip then put on your Sunday best and come along 2pm.

Feel free to Email for more details.............

Bang up the Back Passage

Yet again a fabulous night was enjoyed by many as they braved the spitting rain to enjoy a rare spectacle of fire, food and fawkes.

Jam Siren has to report that she got a bit drunk on the cider punch as it tasted ever so sweet and innocent she made it her mission to finish it off. BIG MISTAKE!

Again thanks to all the Armley Massive Crew who made it all happen. Fireman Sam and Caroline, Jo and James, Ange and Julian, Jonny and Julie, Tom and Miss Higgins. Amongst them they made sure that we had a safe evening, if not a little bizarre with the burning of a 7ft effigy of Guy, amidst rather pagan chants of 'Burn him, Burn him'

The pictures can explain the rest...........................

Next biggie will be the Jam Up in Summer next year, but please email me with any gigs or parties you would like posting up for the good folk of Armley to attend.

Thanks again for coming along with your fireworks, tatties and booze.

Jam Siren.

P.S I have a picture of Julian wearing Angie's tights that I will auction to the highest bidder!

'Jam Up The Back Passage' tributes and pics!

(Click on the right hand link called Memories of.... to see the pictures)

What a fantastic turn out to the party, it was beyond our dreams.

So thanks to all that came along, brought yummy food, drank the potent punch, and made up some scarily whopping lies! Or even more worrying were some of the fabulous fictions I read about! (Not going to 'out' any cos at this stage my memory is proving to be quite selective, but you know who you are!)

You might recognise your mug shots in some of the photos we have posted.

I am sure that you will all agree that we were blessed by great weather and more importantly some fantastic musicians who gave their all and more. Special thanks go to Julian, Danny and Jonny who got their bands together and played for nowt more than the promise of a burger and some booze.

If anyone wants to see some great live footage of Mick Artistic and his unique 'Baby' song to actually hear what he was singing it can be arranged! The man's a genius.

Who will ever forget Jim (greatest lover in Armley) supported magnificently by his chief groupie Janice, check out the photos to remind you just how he kept everybody entralled by his spooky reincarnation of the Shadows.

The beautiful carnivalesque bunting, bedouin tent and pink flamingos were down to the creative genius of Ange and were utilised perfectly for Chloe's artful nail painting.

And what about the maniac chefs James and Sam who orchestrated 4 barbeques to keep us all fed and content. Mmmmm got to get to the gym to work off those lush chicken satay kebabs...

Boe aka 'Armley Dog' our unstinting DJ spun us through midnight and on into the wee small hours. Apparently he is still in shock after the police turned up to tell him to turn it up! Our sentiments exactly

Finally massive thanks to Joanna who helped whip us all into shape and get our arses into gear and led the dancing and had to be dragged off to bed at 4ish as her face was starting to 'look all wrong?'.

The drunken feedback we got seems to suggest that you want more excuses to get together, eat drink and be merry so watch this space for more events that we are hoping to get going (Bonfire night and Burns are already on the agenda..............)

So we would love it if you would help fill in those post party blanks that will keep us all chuckling whilst back at the old grind by using this site to remind us of your gossip and stories from the party.

If I have done the unforgivable and omitted thanks where they are due please blame it on the fact of Monday morning 'wine flu' as Jo likes to call it. Do feel free to upbraid me on the website.


Emma
The Jam Siren

P.S If anyone else has any pics to upload please email me them on emsystewart@hotmail.com

P.P.S We lassies: Ange Jo and me would like also to admit that men are more tolerant to pain than we are. Jonny (who did not go to bed) Tom, James, Steve and Julian did a grand job of clearing up the back passage assisted ably by the only girl to lift her finger Julie. They even sorted all the bottles into the right order and took them to the bottle bank, and they needed a van to carry them all!

P.P.P.S Did you leave anything behind? We might have it..................................

P.P.P.P.S Sorry to those poor people who could not get to sleep, we all got a bit giddy and carried away with it. Next time we will try to keep it to a reasonable level after the witching hour!

Memories of
'Jam Up The Back Passage'
3rd September 2005