Ian Beestin
@ianbeestin.bsky.social
Founder: Belper Jazz Company
Co-founder: Consumer Duty (the band)
Co-founder: Money Alive
Member: Rattus Inheritus
Member: Metz Jnr Trio
Co-founder: Consumer Duty (the band)
Co-founder: Money Alive
Member: Rattus Inheritus
Member: Metz Jnr Trio
Just two tickets left for singer Jeanie Barton’s Christmas Special gig with the Belper Jazz Company on Sunday 7th December. The performance takes place in the warm and welcoming surroundings of No.28, Belper.
November 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Just two tickets left for singer Jeanie Barton’s Christmas Special gig with the Belper Jazz Company on Sunday 7th December. The performance takes place in the warm and welcoming surroundings of No.28, Belper.
Dance like you’re down in the sewer…
Some seriously good moves going down in Gateshead on Saturday night. If you fancy a boogie Rattus’s next gigs are in Bridlington Nov 29th, Norwich Dec 12th and London Dec 13th.
Some seriously good moves going down in Gateshead on Saturday night. If you fancy a boogie Rattus’s next gigs are in Bridlington Nov 29th, Norwich Dec 12th and London Dec 13th.
November 18, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Dance like you’re down in the sewer…
Some seriously good moves going down in Gateshead on Saturday night. If you fancy a boogie Rattus’s next gigs are in Bridlington Nov 29th, Norwich Dec 12th and London Dec 13th.
Some seriously good moves going down in Gateshead on Saturday night. If you fancy a boogie Rattus’s next gigs are in Bridlington Nov 29th, Norwich Dec 12th and London Dec 13th.
‘My Funny Valen-Thai’ - what other tunes should the Belper Jazz Company be performing at its Food Festival Special gig today?
November 16, 2025 at 7:58 AM
‘My Funny Valen-Thai’ - what other tunes should the Belper Jazz Company be performing at its Food Festival Special gig today?
Ten points if you can name the tune @thefastshow.bsky.social. An extra twenty points if you can name the composer…
November 16, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Ten points if you can name the tune @thefastshow.bsky.social. An extra twenty points if you can name the composer…
Brizzle in the drizzle.
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Brizzle in the drizzle.
People love the work of the Stranglers but few are aware of their efforts to reunite people with their lost pensions…(currently worth in excess of £31bn).
November 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
People love the work of the Stranglers but few are aware of their efforts to reunite people with their lost pensions…(currently worth in excess of £31bn).
“It rainin, duck gone” was my youngest daughter’s first ever sentence.
‘Duck gone’ became our family shorthand for describing days like this.
‘Duck gone’ became our family shorthand for describing days like this.
November 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
“It rainin, duck gone” was my youngest daughter’s first ever sentence.
‘Duck gone’ became our family shorthand for describing days like this.
‘Duck gone’ became our family shorthand for describing days like this.
Can you name that tune?
November 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Can you name that tune?
Greg Abate and the Belper Jazz Company headed up north Sunday to put on a show at Bakewell Town Hall. Lovely to get this email from a happy Peter about his experience of the show.
November 12, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Greg Abate and the Belper Jazz Company headed up north Sunday to put on a show at Bakewell Town Hall. Lovely to get this email from a happy Peter about his experience of the show.
Happy Days - Rattus return to The Black Bull, Gateshead, this Saturday to perform the music of the Stranglers live.
Thanks to Steve Wright for the pic.
Thanks to Steve Wright for the pic.
November 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Happy Days - Rattus return to The Black Bull, Gateshead, this Saturday to perform the music of the Stranglers live.
Thanks to Steve Wright for the pic.
Thanks to Steve Wright for the pic.
November 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Steely Dan fans take note…
November 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Steely Dan fans take note…
Not sure the staff and students of the Uni Of Nottingham’s Music Department will find these banners, prominently displayed next to their beloved facility, particularly ‘exciting’. The uni has just announced that undergraduate music courses are being suspended. Link to petition in comments.
#tonedeaf
#tonedeaf
November 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Not sure the staff and students of the Uni Of Nottingham’s Music Department will find these banners, prominently displayed next to their beloved facility, particularly ‘exciting’. The uni has just announced that undergraduate music courses are being suspended. Link to petition in comments.
#tonedeaf
#tonedeaf
More of today’s wandering in #Derbyshire
November 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
More of today’s wandering in #Derbyshire
Down by the Cromford Canal this morning, #Derbyshire
November 5, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Down by the Cromford Canal this morning, #Derbyshire
A sip at The Trip.
November 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
A sip at The Trip.
Such fun playing the music of the Stranglers with Rattus Inheritus at the International in Leicester Friday. For 10 points can you guess the song?
Our final shows of the year are Black Bull Gateshead Nov 15, Stirling Castle Bridlington Nov 29, Norwich Brickmakers Dec 12 & Water Rats London Dec 13.
Our final shows of the year are Black Bull Gateshead Nov 15, Stirling Castle Bridlington Nov 29, Norwich Brickmakers Dec 12 & Water Rats London Dec 13.
November 2, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Such fun playing the music of the Stranglers with Rattus Inheritus at the International in Leicester Friday. For 10 points can you guess the song?
Our final shows of the year are Black Bull Gateshead Nov 15, Stirling Castle Bridlington Nov 29, Norwich Brickmakers Dec 12 & Water Rats London Dec 13.
Our final shows of the year are Black Bull Gateshead Nov 15, Stirling Castle Bridlington Nov 29, Norwich Brickmakers Dec 12 & Water Rats London Dec 13.
NOW That’s What I Call Music.
November 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
NOW That’s What I Call Music.
On the Chevin in Belper, #Derbyshire.
November 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
On the Chevin in Belper, #Derbyshire.
Enormous fun playing the music of the Stranglers with Rattus Inheritus at the International in Leicester tonight. For 10 points can you guess which song I’m playing in the pic?
Our final shows of the year are in Gateshead Nov 15th, Bridlington Nov 29th, Norwich Dec 12th and London Dec 13th.
Our final shows of the year are in Gateshead Nov 15th, Bridlington Nov 29th, Norwich Dec 12th and London Dec 13th.
November 1, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Enormous fun playing the music of the Stranglers with Rattus Inheritus at the International in Leicester tonight. For 10 points can you guess which song I’m playing in the pic?
Our final shows of the year are in Gateshead Nov 15th, Bridlington Nov 29th, Norwich Dec 12th and London Dec 13th.
Our final shows of the year are in Gateshead Nov 15th, Bridlington Nov 29th, Norwich Dec 12th and London Dec 13th.
Heading to Leicester to spend the evening pretending I’m Jet Black - feels quite appropriate for Halloween.
October 31, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Heading to Leicester to spend the evening pretending I’m Jet Black - feels quite appropriate for Halloween.