Located on the vibrant North Street of the historic Cathedral City of Ripon, the Samphire atmosphere evolves throughout the day from a relaxed and social setting into a more lively and adventurous evening menu and ambience.

The premises was once home to the Cornbell Cafe, named after the bell used by the traditional Ripon Bellman to signal the opening of the local Corn Market. The bell is still rung at 11 o’clock every Thursday to officially open the Ripon Market. The café was later turned into a sandwich shop before finally being taken over by the Samphire families.

Samphire Bistro is dedicated to drawing out the best food that the Yorkshire Dales and Vale of York have to offer and serving it up as a unique, memorable dining experience.

The chefs are also the owners with extensive experience and a passion for creating good food. The restaurant is open daily for breakfast, lunch and dinner, with an early Thursday opening time for those visiting Ripon Market Day as well as on weekends, with a Great British carvery every Sunday. Visit Samphire Bistro Ripon online

WEBSITE FEATURES…

• Fully self editable (CMS website)
• Custom website design
• Logo design
• Graphic design and branding
• SEO and social media marketing advice
• Technical support
• Managed web hosting
• Email

Client based in Ripon, North Yorkshire. 

Would you like a website like this? Call Paul for more details on 07868 07 33 01

A wonderful festive weekend in the picturesque  North Yorkshire  market town of Knaresborough  with quality stalls,  shops and entertainment. Held annually on the first weekend in December, this historic market town steps back in time to recreate an unforgettable festive experience for everyone.

 ABOUT THIS WEBSITE

It’s a highly individual custom styled (brochure) website with easy to use content management functionality. An the ideal online solution for organisers / owners of special events, seasonal markets, suppliers of  traditional and speciality food products, natural farm produce, seasonal gifts,  the entertainment and tourist industry, Christmas markets, Farmers markets, French markets…

NB A website is not just for Christmas!

WEBSITE FEATURES

• Custom design
• Search engine optimised – Google Analytics and SEO
• Custom web development and branding
• Self edit pages
• Google maps
• Web hosting and technical support

Client based in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire. 

Would you like a website like this? Call Paul on 07868 07 33 01

Feeling uncertain and unsure of your way ahead?

At a time when many past certainties have become less clear, is it not surprising that we can sometimes lose our way. To this end, Andy Coates and Associates offer a range of solutions to help people bring clarity and purpose to their lives, the teams they work with and their organisations through enabling change and developing the space to perform. Therapies and approaches include hypnotherapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, emotional  freedom technique and neuro-lingusitic programming (NLP).

Website specifications

• Fresh, modern, instantly recognisable branding 
• Easy to use admin section
• Easy to navigate
• Easy to update news section
• Search engine friendly structure
• Fully scaleable – website designed to evolve with the business
• On going technical support

Client based in Harrogate, North Yorkshire.

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Laughlines provide a fantastic range of comedy entertainment services including producing award winning world-class COMEDY SHOWS, available for corporate & private bookings, a public TOURING SCHEDULE and a dedicated SPECIAL EVENT MANAGEMENT service and COMEDY WORKSHOPS training department.

Their experience and professional approach ensures the audience enjoys exceptional entertainment brought to life by a cast of critically-acclaimed PROFESSIONAL ACTORS.

Laughlines’ accolades include being “Ranked in the Top Five Guide to the best theme breaks in the UK” – Mirror Newspaper,  filmed by ITV/HTV, Tiger Aspect Productions for Channel 4 Television and  recorded by BBC radio and Irelands News Talk, Stephanie Abrahams American Radio.

Laughlines has received five star rave reviews in the national media, many sell-out performances at comedy festivals including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and lists many famous celebrities as clients.

Website specifications

• Sharp, fun, instantly recognisable branding 
• Easy to use admin section
• Easy to navigate dinner show listings
• Easy to update news section
• Social Media (Twitter/Facebook) integration
• Email marketing/ Newsletter / Mailing list functionality
• Search Engine Optimisation
• Search engine friendly / SEO controls on every page
• On going technical support provided

Client based in Harrogate, North Yorkshire.

VISIT LAUGHLINES

St John Fisher has introduced its new school logo into its uniform from September

Designed by Aube Creative in close partnership with Head Teacher Paul Jackson and St John Fisher’s leadership team, teachers, its students and governors, the circular logo reflects the school’s modernisation whilst retaining the strong Christian ethos and educational values central to its teaching. Already featuring on the main school sign, on the school website, prospectus and stationary, the logo is gradually being introduced across all school communications and display material.

The new badge will be phased into all uniform over the next three years, but the first item of clothing to adopt it fully is a brand new navy blue polo shirt with light blue trim, which can be worn in the summer term and throughout September.

Emma Lambden, Deputy Head, said, “Now that the logo and colour scheme have been widely adopted throughout the school, the uniform is one of the final areas of the St John Fisher ‘brand’ to be updated. The blue kilts, blue shirts and black trousers are very popular and will remain unchanged, but the blazers and jumpers will have a new badge, and the new logo will soon be introduced into the new style PE kit.”

“It is compulsory for all incoming Year 7s to wear the new blazers from September and we are looking forward to seeing the new look. The new blazers and jumpers are available on request from our official uniform suppliers Emblazon in a range of sizes for all Year Groups, but stock of the traditional uniform will still available for some time.”

The unisex cotton polo shirt comes as a welcome addition for girls and boys for the summer term and throughout September. Harley Holman, pictured, said, “I really like the new polo shirts. They look great under blazers, they give us a smart, up-to-date look, and they’re really comfortable. The new logo looks good too.”

Based in Roundhay, Leeds, in West Yorkshire, Hair by Jude provides you with a warm and personal hairstyling service tailored to suit your exact requirements. 

Whether you want an every day trim, or an ‘up do’ for that really special occasion Hair by Jude is just the place for you…

An easy to update CMS content managed website solution hosted in the clients’ own Yola account. All graphics / design / layout by Aube Creative.

Ideal cost effective small business website solution for hairstylists, beauty salons and beauticians in Harrogate, Knaresborough, Wetherby and Ripon.

Visit HAIR BY JUDE online

You can have one of the best nights out in Leeds here at The Well Live Bar and Live Music Venue. Drop in for something hearty to eat and drink in our light, airy bar from 5pm, or get yourself down to our 350 capacity gig room for you to enjoy some of the best live music Leeds has to offer.

Whatever sort of night out you are looking for, we offer plenty of space, a warm, welcoming atmosphere, real ales and great drinks offers. We are only a ten minute walk from the Headrow and a two minute walk from the Leeds General Infirmary. Dive into the website to see what’s on offer.

Website features:

• Sharp, instantly recognisable venue branding 
• Easy to use admin section
• Edit any element on the website and publish changes immediately
• Easy to navigate gig listings and archive section
• Easy to update news section
• Social Media (Twitter/Facebook) integration
• Email marketing/ Newsletter / Mailing list functionality
• Search engine friendly / SEO controls on every page
• Hosting and technical support provided

Client based in Harrogate, Knaresborough and Leeds.

Kaye Kent is a successful art consultant and prop buyer/set decorator in the TV & Film industry.

Her professional portfolio comprises sourcing and commissioning exciting and original art for interior design projects. Kaye has also worked on a wide range of television productions and film including drama, documentaries and commercials.

Kaye’s broad creative experience has helped her to develop a unique range of specialist skills in the supply of art, sourcing props and set styling.

Website features:

• Easy to use admin section
• Crisp company branding
• Easy to navigate portfolios
• Easy to update news section
• Search engine friendly / SEO controls on every page
• Hosting and technical support provided

Client based in Harrogate, North Yorkshire.

“I employed Paul to create a simple website to promote myself as a self-employed freelancer in the Art and TV/film industries. From the outset Paul understood my specific requirements and has created a website which I am delighted with. He was also very clear in explaining each step of the process so I understood how it all works and can now manage the site myself.”

Top qualities: Great Results, Personable, Good Value

Visit Kaye Kent Art & Styling Services

The Well Live Music Venue opens under New Management in time for Live at Leeds 2012

On 5th May 2012, The Well Live Music Venue in Leeds opened its doors under new management, for the massive live music phenomenon that is Live at Leeds.

Featuring China Rats and Royal Republic (currently supporting Blink 182 and The Subways as part of their international tour) The Well’s opening day proved it was well and truly back in the game as one of Leeds’ best loved live music venues. Although under new management The Colgan Machine will be extending The Well’s music genre offerings to blues, rock, indie, soul, DJ nights, comedy and cabaret, it has confirmed it will also be staying loyal to fans of the venue’s more recent specialism of metal and punk.

About The Colgan Machine

On 16th March 2012, Simon and Sharon Colgan of the Colgan Machine took over management of The Well, formerly Josephs Well, perfectly positioned to restore the much loved venue to its former glory, the Colgan Machine has extensive experience in promoting live music at its two other highly successful pubs The Duck n Drake in Leeds, and Blues Bar in Harrogate.

The combined force of Simon’s and Sharon’s experience and enthusiasm, and their passion for mixing live music, fun and beer with insightful business acumen is obvious. Sharon is a talented and well-established singer in her own right, so she is well aware of the makings of putting on a good show. Simon has been booking high quality live music for years, is well respected in the industry, and as such, has an eye for a good band and an impressive book of contacts.

Live at Leeds 2012 : Opening Day

The Well’s hardcore fan base was not denied for the Live at Leeds opening day. China Rats kicked off an impressive line up at 1pm. Unions, Bearfoot Beware, Bears Killing Bears, Wot Gorilla, Post War Glamour Girls, Hawk Eyes, Royal Republic (featured video), Turbowolf and Blacklisters followed with 30 minute sets each, climaxing with a solid performance from hardcore Leeds band Eagulls.

After a comparatively gentle but enthusiastic start, the arrival of Turbowolf hailed the start of the stage diving, crowd surfing and mosh pits for which The Well is famed. The fun and mayhem continued with hearty vigour right up to ‘total carnage’ on the stage at the end of the Blacklisterset, with more than one crowd member being supported in his first ‘surf’.

It was no doubt reassuring to the new managers that by and large, the audience of metal and hardcore punk is often of the most friendly, welcoming, considerate and entertaining around.

Even with cheap drinks on offer throughout the event, and a venue full to capacity, there was not so much as an angry word in earshot. Instead, the gig room was alive with showmanship. And there’s nothing better than a good inclusive show to enhance the feel-good factor.

With high aspirations and a positive attitude, The Colgan Machine is determined to bring The Well back up to its rightful place as one of Leeds’ best-loved music venues. Watch this space everyone. The Well is back.

(from the Whitby Goth Weekend website)

“Founded by Joe Hampshire in 1994, The Whitby Goth Weekend has grown into one of the world’s premier goth events, bringing thousands of people to the town year after year. And not just Goths attend either. Punks, steampunks, Emos, Bikers, Metallers and people from all genres of the alternative lifestyle turn up year on year…”

What is Whitby Goth Weekend all about?

So who ARE the Goths?

From s Wikipedia article on The Goth Sub Culture

The goth subculture is a contemporary subculture found in many countries. It began in England during the early 1980s in the gothic rock scene, an offshoot of the post-punk genre. The goth subculture has survived much longer than others of the same era, and has continued to diversify.

The goth subculture has associated tastes in music, aesthetics, and fashion. The music of the Goth subculture encompasses a number of different styles including Gothic rock, Deathrock, post-punk, darkwave, Ethereal, and Neoclassical. Styles of dress within the subculture range from deathrock, punk and Victorian style attire, or combinations of the above, most often with dark attire, makeup and hair.

Gothic fashion is stereotyped as a dark, sometimes morbid, eroticized fashion and style of dress. Typical gothic fashion includes dyed black hair, dark eyeliner, black fingernails, black period-styled clothing; goths may or may not have piercings. Styles are often borrowed from the Elizabethan, Victorian or medieval period and often express pagan, occult or other religious imagery such as pentacles or ankhs. Present-day Fashion designers, such as John Paul Gaultier, Alexander McQueen and John Galliano, have also been described as practicing “Haute Goth”.

OK, if that’s what GOTHS are, then who are these guys…

All about Steampunks…

Taken from a Wikipedia article on Steampunks

Steampunk is a genre which came into prominence during the 1980s and early 1990s and incorporates elements of science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, horror, and speculative fiction. It involves a setting where steam power is widely used—whether in an alternate history such as Victorian era Britain or “Wild West”-era United States, or in a post-apocalyptic time —that incorporates elements of either science fiction or fantasy.

Works of steampunk often feature anachronistic technology, or futuristic innovations as Victorians might have envisioned them, based on a Victorian perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, and art. This technology includes such fictional machines as those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or the contemporary authors Philip Pullman, Scott Westerfeld and China Mieville.

Other examples of steampunk contain alternative history-style presentations of such technology as lighter-than-air airships, analog computers, or such digital mechanical computers as Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace’s Analytical Engine.

Steampunk also refers to art, fashion, and design that are informed by the aesthetics of Steampunk literature. Various modern utilitarian objects have been modded by individual artisans into a pseudo-Victorian mechanical “steampunk” style, and a number of visual and musical artists have been described as steampunk.

The photos above are just a handful of snaps taken to give you an idea of what the Whitby Goth Weekend is all about.

If you want more photos taken from this and past events go here >>> WHITBY GOTH WEEKEND

Or better still – go to the next Whitby Goth event at Halloween. See you there?