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Category Archives: Historic
Anniversary countdown: 5 days to go
Five days to go until our Silver Jubilee, and preparations continue apace. Jack the Bag is making last minute arrangements with the pubs, Ioan the Squire is working on his twenty minute presentation on the History of Northgate (including Powerpoint … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversary, Bath, Historic, Performance
Tagged Anniversary crawl, Bath, Northgate Rapper
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History Today: what are rappers?
Those who know us well will also know that we have a habit of bursting into pubs and whipping our swords out(*). In general, this provokes at least one punter to ask what the hell they are. This is a vexed question and … Continue reading
Posted in Historic, History, Performance, Wessex Folk Festival, Weymouth
Tagged History, Horse scraper, Northgate Rapper, performance, Weymouth
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Time for some Silver Jubilee motivation!
As we’ve mentioned before, 2016 is our Silver Jubilee year. Now, many people would see this as motivation enough, but it appears that this is not the case for the more jaded members of the team. We have therefore produced a lovely … Continue reading
Posted in Bath, Historic, Jubilee, Random Northgate stuff, Rapper
Tagged Northgate, Northgate Rapper, Silver Jubilee
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What we looked like in History
For the want of anything better to tell you today, we thought we’d do Some History and show you what we looked like when we appeared at the very first of the modern DERT competitions. This was 1993, in Derby. And what … Continue reading
Posted in Historic, Kit, Practice, Random Northgate stuff, Rapper
Tagged Bath, DERT, Northgate
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History Today
You see here one of the earliest sightings of Northgate at the Saddleworth Rushcart. This photo is marked 1823, so clearly we were settling in for an evening’s drinking. Those in the photo are Ken, Brian, Martin, Mike, Henry’s hand and … Continue reading
Northgate memories of Glastonbury
It’s nice to see rapper appearing at Glastonbury as part of the Demon Barbers show, and if you’re going, make sure you see them! Even the BBC are recommending them. However, they’re not the first rapper team to appear at the festival. Way back in 1998, Northgate were … Continue reading
Posted in Bath, Glastonbury, Historic, Performance, Rapper
Tagged Bath, Glastonbury, Glastonbury Festival, Northgate, Northgate Rapper, performance
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Northgate: sword dancing zombie apocalypse forces social silence
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie rapper dancer in possession of brains must be in want of more brains, or so said Jane Austen in Bath the other day. No side has more experience of this than us, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bath, Northgate, Northgate Rapper
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History Today: Northgate go to Belgium
Back in the olden days (2003 to be precise) we were invited by Boerke Naas Folk Group to visit them in the delightful town of St Niklaas in Belgium, and what a splendid time we had. Only a few photos exist … Continue reading
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Tagged Bath, Belgium, Boerke Naas, Crawl, Northgate, Northgate Rapper, performance
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More innocent times…
Many years ago, we were invited to dance at the anniversary celebrations of the old Tin Church in Bailbrook Lane, Bath. Even Radio 4 came along to capture the moment, which was nice. Going through the photos on a cold, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bath, BBC, Northgate, Northgate Rapper, performance
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