Sunday Funday, Bradford's quirky yet seriously chilled-out monthly music festival is almost upon us, so forget staying in on Sunday and watching Antiques Roadshow, Heartbeat or whatever nonsense is on telly, and instead pop into town and check the eclectic performers spreading their love to the Love Apple Cafe between 4 and 11pm. Like all music festivals, we are laying on entertainment for all ages - Under 18s are allowed in before 8.30pm, and families are thus welcome to attend (kids in for free with a paying adult). Learn how to dance like professional bollywood dancers with an extra special workshop and professional performance by Salma's Bollywood Academy). For the adults, we have hot and stylish burlesque dancing by the wonderful Dagger Dames who regularly perform at the Gasworks. Live bands include local outfit Riley, from Leeds, Biscuithead and the Biscuit Badgers, and soul singer/songwriter Imani Hekima. Plus we have DJs playing downtempo, world beatz, breakbeat, eclectica and dubstep, and plenty of offbeat circus action courtesy of the Skewed Circus All Stars, including fire stunt performers in the smoking area.

Be there or be boring!

It's only £3 in for seven hours solid entertainment!

Sunday Funday, Bradford's unique DIY arts and music monthly not-for-profit music festival takes place at the Love Apple Cafe (near the Alhambra Theatre) in Bradford for your eclectic delight on Sunday Dec 7th, that's the day after Parlez Vous for Mill clubbers and two days after Joy.Pad at Revolution bar. The merry bunch of volunteers who are the Sunday Funday Crew are proudly offering Bollywood dancing and stylish burlesque on the same bill, which has to be a clubbing first, but then, we aways do our own thing, refusing to follow convention. Unlike lying governments and bullsh*tting politicians, we make a point of listening to our audience, and giving new things a try.

Catering for the open-minded clubgoer, December's monthly music festival sends our diversity meter soaring well off the scale, the Sunday Funday Team at the Love Apple delivering on one of the most varied music and art programmes yet, reigniting the retro bohemian vibe of halycon days such as the popular world music "Disoriental". In recent times, throughout the whole of the United Kingdom, clubbing has tragically become monocultural and routine. Specialist music nites have made the Podcast Era more beyond narrowily defined subcultures as if nothing else matters, ignoring the diversity of sound that made the local scene what it once was. This is where the amazing Sunday Funday concept comes into its own.

Fighting back against the standardisation of popular entertainment, featuring all styles of music while increasing our artistic output to maximum effect, operating on a stricly not-for-profit ethos, we take pride in thinking and acting outside the box. Bringing peeps from all backgrounds together is our only aim. We oppose racism, homophobia, ageism, class divisions, commercialisation, globalisation, boredom, musical snobbery, cliquishness, and everything that destroys the common purpose. If you still haven't mustered what we're about, consider our name: -

Sunday-FUN-day.

FUN!!!!! FUN!!!!! FUN!!!!!

While most nightlife events cater solely for musical purists, we pride ourselves in catering for all tastes, encouraging people to loosen up, forget their worries, take things easy and smile.

Sunday Funday is brimming with diversity... Starting at 4pm, Salma's Bollywood Academy are running a dance workshop open to all ages, so arrive early not to miss out! Astonish all your friends with genuine showbiz dance moves, and if you think you can pace the dancefloor better than the experts, don't forget there's an extra special Bollywood performance laid on by the same company after the atmospheric downtempo set from Manchester-based DJ Exstasia.

If all the magical shaking, stepping and shimmying of the dance professionals exhausts you after a hectic weekend, unwind from the fast and furious choreography courtesy of the heartfelt vocals of top local Bradford soulster Imani Hekima. Grooves, melodies and eclectic beats are our mainstay, and always worth checking out is our resident DJ from the Leeds free party scene, Immi. Just like the rest of the Sunday Funday Team, although she's a breakbeat wizardess, Immi refuses to be typecast with one particular genre, thus she will stick in anything and everything into the mix, from the funkiest of beats to the most cheddary of cheese, when you are least expecting it. Witnessing a set from Immi is like tucking into an avante-garde pizza. You just don't know what treats the ingrediants are, until you tuck in with gusto, tickling and teasing your taste buds with artistic stylisation.

Continuing in the uniqueness vein, our second live performance is Biscuithead and the Biscuit Badgers, a strange-sounding band with the most eccentric lyrical ingenuity. Rather than writing songs about everyday urban worries such as money, tax,jobs, and loves lost, the Biscuit Badgers keep it real, telling it like it is with rousing tales of hermit crabs.

Part two is strictly for adults only, and includes Spanish-tinged beats and breaks from Manchester's DJ Mono. As well as being a notable DJ on the other side of the Pennines, Mono is the promoter of dubstep, drum and bass and electronica nite (Plutonic) in the Saki Bar, Oxford Road, Manchester. One of Plutonic's regulars in Manchester is Bradford's very own Miss Kittyflip from Bradford's squat party scene, who will be performing two days earlier at the forthcoming Joy.Pad event at Revolution.

As you might have gathered, we are not opposing or competing against any other event. With the likes of The Mill, The Gasworks and the Escape Bar at the uni, the local music scene is broad enough to accomodate plenty of events, but sunday night parties are few and far between, so we are providing a necessary alternative to staying in. The Love Apple is a unique venue with an extra-special alternative ambiénce, and the ideal venue to appeal to all musical and artistic tastes, so we are hoping peeps from a vast range of subcultures and scenes will reclaim sunday evenings for partygoers by attending Sunday Funday and giving it your all.

Nothing happens on sunday evenings except the same old telly. Rather than going to bed early like a worn out robot on Sunday evening, cowering under the covers at the disembowelling prospect of work or lectures, once you have recovered from your weekend hangover, leap out of your bed, shove on any old togs (there's no dress code), hop on the bus into town, and restart the party vibe in a "devil-may care" fashion. Remember it's December, the time of year when work scedules fly out of the window, many bosses indulging on one too many liquid lunches, or taking sneaky swigs from that saliva-stained municiple bottle of communal brandy after photocopying their booties ten dozen times in the back room of the godforsaken bank call centre, so unless you're driving, or working in sensitive occupations in the public sector such as the medical, teaching or legal professions, don't feel guilty for "swinging the lead" at Sunday Funday and arriving at work with a wee hangover Monday morning. If not, the Love Apple stocks a wonderful range of J20s. There's free "lovely apples" to munch in from the bar, and for the seriously peckish, the Love Apple's exciting Xmas Menu is now in full swing, so tuck in, enjoy, be happy, get merry, and above all, peeps, chill out!!!

Carnival crowd pleasers the seminal Skewed Circus All Stars, are especially laying on a red-hot treat for everyone who can be arsed going out on a cold winter's evening, in the form of a wealth of circus performers designed to thrill, including open-air fire stunt artists in the outside smoking area. Back inside, the thrills continue (albeit artistic thrills, that is!), in the form of the Dagger Dames, who will be unleashing their stylish burlesque moves upon our student-friendly crowd, the unique Sunday Funday cabaret action set to be filmed by a documentary filmaker.

Local songsmiths RILEY will enfuse your psyche with thirst-quenching medodies, and the full-to-brimming mammonth one-day weekend festival will be capped off with Shi'me's amazing dubsteppery... Door tax is just £3 for seven solid hours entertainment, under 16s free accompanied by an adult.

Peace 'n' Love Apples,
Sunday Funday Crew
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