It's Northern Soul Time again! Another of the regular and wonderful Soul nights takes place on Saturday 13th September at the Hydro Hotel on Douglas Promenade. 8pm till 1am, £3 on the door, don't miss it!!
Monthly Archive for September, 2003
More excellent news, Safetyword have just announced that they're playing at I am Kloot's album launch at the Night & Day cafe in Manchester (just opposite Afflecks Palace) on Tuesday 9th September. Tickets are £3 on the door with a flyer (click the thumbnail image for the full version), so print yourself one and save some pennies 
Check the listing on our events calendar.
If you know anybody who can make it (or if you've got any mates in Manchester) try to persuade them to go along and support the Manx boys, it's sure to be an excellent gig!
If you're a fan of the Safetyword please sign up to their mailing list over at Safetyword.com, and they'll send you more info on their upcoming gigs.
Congratulations to Dan, Jan and Rob 
Time: (?) 1pm to 5pm.
Venue: The Night & Day cafe, 26 Oldham St., Manchester (just opposite Afflecks Palace).
Price: £3 on the door with a flyer.
Time: (?)
Venue: The Office (part of the Castle Mona hotel), Douglas Promenade.
Price: Tickets are £10 from The Office kiosk.
See Triskel Promotions for more info.
This Friday (19th September) will see another 'Taste' night at the Lounge Bar on Victoria Street in Douglas (opposite Switched On Records). Entrance is FREE, and an eclectic mix of music is guaranteed with Fionn, Ed and Gypo performing DJ duties. Expect all sorts including Jazz, Funk, Soul, Indie, Krautrock, Space-Jazz, Ambient, Dub, Rare Groove, French House, Exotica, Folktronica, Electronica, Punk-Funk and everything in between!
Fun starts @ 7.30 and there is a happy hour (beer £1.50 a bottle till 9pm).....
Time: - 7.30pm till late.
Venue: The Lounge, Victoria Street, Douglas.
Price: Free entry. Happy hour (beer
Last Friday (the 19th) our webserver died and took our site (and all the other sites hosted on it) with it.
Unfortunately I had a overriding work commitment in the UK for four days, but before I left the Island I'd been promised by our hosting provider that no data would be lost, and that they'd bought a new server in a new data center which would be brought online and everything restored by Monday afternoon latest.
Boy did that not happen!
I arrived back on Wednesday night to find our host's backups were all corrupt, so nothing had been fixed, and Ballagroove.com was just a blank holding page 
Not good at all.
Since then we've been struggling to get Ballagroove.com back online. Luckily we do our own backups, but the last one we had was the 11th so we've lost a week's worth of updates, mail and mailing-list subscriber e-mails. I've got static pages and images from browser caches, and most (maybe all) subscriber e-mail addresses, so now I've got to try to reconstruct our database entries, templates, and mailing list from this information. Please bear with us, it'll take a day or so.
It could be a lot worse and we are counting our blessings, but it's still not good enough by a long way, so huge apologies to all our visitors and friends out there that have been unable to access this site or send us mail. If you've sent anything important within the past week please resend it and we'll get in touch.
Thanks for your patience while we get this resolved!
