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10 hours ago
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Live art, Eid festival, and club night make for triple weekend fun
A trio of community events - an Eid festival, a live art event, and a club night harking back to a musical "golden era" - took place last weekend. The events were delivered by The Leap, the community-led arts and culture programme covering the Bradford district. One of the events was the Bradford Eid Festival. Held in Peel Park, the festival attracted more than 35,000 people and featured food, music, and dance, as well as craft stalls, Nasheed singers, henna artists, and storytelling areas. The Leap's UK-Pakistan Truck Art Project, an art installation blending traditional Pakistani truck art with contemporary, local designs, also featured. At the Bradford Eid Festival in Peel Park, visitors were able to engage with The Leap's UK-Pakistan Truck Art Project, which sees traditional Pakistani truck art blended with contemporary designs (Image: Supplied) The project was developed by artists from both the UK and Pakistan, working with young people and families in BD3. Another event that took place was Statuesque, hosted at The Beacon in Bowling Park. The live art event saw Naomi Parker and her troupe, known as Chicks on Sticks, perform as living statues. The event, which was created in collaboration with local schools and emerging artists, also included craft workshops and a carnival parade. A Bhangra Legacy Daytimers event, organised by Moss Sheikh and Mick Chandsoor, also took place during the weekend. Daytimers DJs from the 1980s and 1990s were present at a Bhangra Legacy Daytimers event, organised by Moss Sheikh and Mick Chandsoor, which mixed archival footage, live performances, and DJ sets (Image: Supplied) It celebrated the "golden era" of Bradford's South Asian club scene with DJ sets, archive footage, and live performances. Daytimers DJs from the 1980s and 1990s were present. Zulfiqar Ahmed, director of The Leap, said: "This weekend was Bradford at its best – creative, bold, and connected. "Every event, from the beats of Daytimers to the stunning Pakistani truck art, showed what's possible when culture is led by the people who live it every day. The Bhangra Legacy Daytimers event commemorated the 'golden era' of Bradford's South Asian club scene (Image: Supplied) "The Truck Art project, in particular, was a proud moment – blending heritage and innovation in a way that only Bradford can." Councillor Susan Hinchcliffe, leader of Bradford Council, said: "It was a great weekend. "Wonderful to see so many local people out enjoying cultural activities on their doorstep. "It's exactly what we wanted the Creative People and Places programme to do through The Leap - bringing opportunities to enjoy arts and culture to the people, rather than expecting them to search it out. "The council is pleased to support the investment in The Leap, which has enabled the Arts Council to invest significantly in the organisation since its foundation." The Leap is funded by Arts Council England and Bradford Council as part of the Creative People and Places network.
BBC News
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Bradford's Bhangra daytimers pioneers reunite for legacy gig
In 1980s Bradford, hundreds of young people would skip school or college to see their favourite bands and DJs at nightclubs hired for the afternoon, as Bhangra music swept across the events, known as "daytimers", were often held in secret and paved the way for the growing popularity of afternoon for a whole generation who grew up in the 1980s and 90s, they were taboo-smashing, trailblazing spaces for proud self-expression, confidence and former Bhangra DJs Moss Sheikh and Mick Chandsoor have organised a special event to honour the cultural legacy of the daytimers as part of a celebration gig on Friday. Mick recalled how the daytimers scene started in about 1987 with small, clandestine parties on college and university campuses, but soon evolved into a major cultural revolution."From there it just grew and grew," he Mick and Moss, the legacy gig on Friday at the Majestic in Manningham, which was formerly The Maestro and before that the Palace, will be personal and deeply nostalgic."It's about celebrating the people from that era and marking the struggles that we went through," Mick said. The event will feature performances from Bradford Bhangra legends like the band Sahara, who forged their careers in the city's underground scene before going on to huge daytimers DJ Moey Hassan, who later presented Bhangra Beat on Channel 4, is also expected to event, which starts at 18:00 BST, will also feature an exhibition showcasing an archive of Bradford's daytimers said it was when the original daytimers events moved into a new venue at the Palace that people realised their money-making potential - and the scene Javed Maher and Jimmy Dean became involved and the raves became discos, which people would travel to from across the country. Young South Asian people from different faiths and backgrounds would gather in one room together to celebrate a shared musical heritage, Moss said, adding that this was an "absolutely important" part of the movement's legacy."Back in the day we had that unity, we never looked at any differences between us," he said. For homegrown performers like Sahara, and other trailblazers like RDB and Fun-Da-Mental, the daytimers led to huge success."Some of these artists became international performers," said Mick."Bradford became known within the music industry for producing talent."Among the global success stories was Tariq Shaikh, better known as DJ T, who grew up mixed race and said he was unsure of where he belonged until he found the daytimers."I was kind of in between, kind of a mashup," he said."Music helped me find where I was going", he said, adding that it took him across genres, countries, and generations."I've DJ'ed abroad, in Greece, Spain, Miami, all these places. But it really all started in Bradford."Rashad Khan, meanwhile, joined the scene in 1999. "I was like this lost little boy, you know, didn't know what I was doing with my life," he said."I got involved with a few different promoters at the time who I just met and they took a shine to me and then handed me a couple of flyers and said 'there you go, start promoting our shows'."He recalled handing flyers to musicians like RDB before he knew who they were. "They were taking the mickey out of me because I was a young kid," he recalled fondly. Moss, a Bhangra DJ who also travelled the world, eventually came home to Bradford and now works with young said the legacy event was about honouring the people who were part of the "foundations" of the scene but are no longer here, and about preserving their cultural contributions for future generations."These last few years, Mick and myself have had some close friends pass away, people from the scene," he said."This is part of their story that was left untold. We want to tell that story." Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
