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Barabbas and the Beards

Louis Barabbas

Louis BarabbasEvery now and then something crops up in the life of every record label that absolutely no one thought to prepare for. Recently just such a thing happened as Debt co-founder Louis Barabbas was approached to model for the Beards Of Manchester calendar 2011.

So it was that during one of the busiest months in the music industry calendar, Louis grabbed Alfie the Debt Records dog and flounced off to have his picture taken.

The calendar was the brain child of B&N Magazine’s Samantha Bail and Hey! Manchester’s Chris Horkan, and was produced to raise money and awareness for Manchester’s homeless charity Lifeshare.

The photographs are currently on exhibition in Common’s Kestrel Suite in Manchester’s Northern Quarter, where they will remain there until the end of the year. You can’t miss Louis’ June photo (see alongside) – it’s the biggest picture in the room!

Other beards included our friend Jay Taylor from The Ruby Lounge and Pat “Mad Dawg” Macaulay (who also has a cameo in The Bedlam Six‘s music video for their cover of “Relight My Fire” – released in November).

All photos by Gill Moore.

Visit Beards Of Manchester for more information about the project and to buy a copy of the calendar.

Debt at the Museum

Becca Williams, Events, Honeyfeet, Louis Barabbas, Richard Barry, The Bedlam Six

It’s Un-Convention time again.

From the amazing team who brought you the public recording of an album in one day (plus a dozen international conferences and showcase events) comes Un-Convention Salford 2010 – number twelve in the Un-Con series – held in the city where it all began.

Debt’s first signing Louis Barabbas & The Bedlam Six have played at two Un-Conventions so far, and this year our little label has been asked to curate a stage of its own – a Saturday afternoon acoustic showcase in the Edwardian Engine Hall of Manchester’s People’s History Museum.

The Debt Records Stage at the People’s History Museum will be the only Un-Convention event open to the general public as well as to pass-holders (free entry).

In addition to providing music Debt’s own Louis Barabbas will don his “industry cap” and join one of the panels at Sacred Trinity Church. The discussion – entitled “Building A Sustainable Career In Music: 9-5 What A Way To Make A Living” – takes place at 2.30pm on the Saturday.

He will then be playing with The Bedlam Six on the Now Then stage at The Rovers Return at 9pm.

Line-Up for the Debt Records stage is as follows:

12.00 – 12.30 Becca & The Broken Biscuits
12.35 – 13.05 Sarah McQuaid
13.10 – 13.40 Richard Barry & The Chaps
13.45 – 14.30 Honeyfeet
14.40 – 15.10 Kaya & Captain Temper
15.15 – 15.45 Phillious Williams
15.50 – 16.20 Red Tides
16.25 – 17.00 John Fairhurst