Under The Number – It’s Only Right

Most of the music videos that I post in this blog are from well-known bands.  Today we’ll go for something completely different. Under The Number – a local band, based in Pafos.  The video is not even a music video yet, but the song is pretty cool.  Now I’ll just have to catch them playing live somewhere.

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If you like this one, there is another song coming out next month.  Subscribe to their YouTube channel, visit the web site, and follow them on Facebook not to miss out.  Tell a friend too.

Tonight : Cold Shot at Ten Richter Tavern, Pafos

A blues rock band Cold Shot will be performing tonight at Ten Richter Tavern, Pafos.  Here is my digitally remastered snapshot of the poster.

Just in case you aren’t very good at reading blurred text from distorted images, here is my take on the content:

Groovejet Media Productions present live music with Cold Shot

a night of blues and classic rock

Saturday 26th February, doors open at 6:30pm, food served from 7:30pm

Ten Richter Tavern on the Emba Tala road

20 EUR includes full hot buffet meal

tickets are availalbe from Ten Richter, Music Gallery, Glam-R-Us

by email – info@groovejetmedia.com

ticket hotlines – 2619562, 99831136, 99115957

Blues and Classic Rock at Krasares Tavern, Pafos

A friend of mine sent me an SMS with the following:

Krasares Bar and Tavern are presenting a Blues and Classic Rock evening on the 8th of January at Krasares Tavern.  Live music by Cold Shot and friends with special guest from UK Davey Woodford.  Only 100 tickets will be available.  Tickets are 25 EUR and include a full buffet. Tickets are available at Krasares Tavern and the Music Gallery.  Or call on 99-115957, 99-457483, 96-510378.

This sounds like a lot of fun.  I’m a fan of blues and classic rock, especially when it’s live music.  I’ve heard Cold Shot perform before and they are really good.  I have no idea about the quality of either sound or food at Krasares Tavern, but that shouldn’t be too bad.

What’s too bad is that I won’t be able to make it due to scheduling conflicts.  However, I’m interest to hear how it went from all of you who are lucky enough to attend to the event.  Please let me know.

Tribute to the blues in Pafos

Ladies and gentlemen, mark you calendars.  Here is the content of the SMS from one of the musicians who will be participating in the event:

Cold Shot are playing a tribute to the blues on the 30th of July at the Velvet Hall.  Doors open at 19:30 and the support band is Zacsuss.  Tickets are 10 EUR and are available at Music Gallery, Elvicom, and Olivers deli. Hope to see you there.

For those of you who haven’t reached your calendar yet, that will be next Friday.  Hints and tips on how to find the Velvet Hall and how to buy tickets are welcome via comments.  I am definitely planning to go, as I’ve heard some of the these guy play before and they are really good.

Update: Thanks to Chris Ergatides, we know have a map with both the event location and tickets shop (click the image for larger view).

Cyprus on the way to renewable energy

Working in the office on Omonia Avenue in Limassol, I couldn’t have not noticed the wind turbines.  They were transported in pieces by huge trucks from the new port to somewhere.  Some people went adventurous and actually located the wind farm near Pafos.

But until today I haven’t heard any news coverage of the wind farm.  Today, however, Cyprus Mail runs the story.

The first of the planned 41 turbines at Orites wind farm was turned on for about an hour on Wednesday and produced the first independent renewable energy for Cyprus using the wind. The electricity was then fed onto the main power grid.

These are excellent news!

The 41 wind turbines of the farm – the first of its kind in Cyprus and the largest in the region – will soon be providing the island with 83MW of renewable energy. Orites is regarded as a big project for the wider Eastern Mediterranean region, as in Greece and Spain 20 to 30 MW production is regarded as a huge amount. At its peak, the total power consumed island-wide is between 1,000 and 1,200MW.

And of course there was no way that these excellent news wouldn’t be shadowed by something and someone.   It turns out, none of the officials have much interest in what is going on with the energy on the island.

Wednesday’s event was not attended by any officials despite invitations being sent out. “Despite sending out numerous invitations none of the Ministers, MPs or officials came. I can’t believe they weren’t even curious to see what was happening,”

This is sad.  Obviously it is an important moment and many people worked really hard to make it happen.  It would be nice if some interest was shown from the government.  Hopefully the president will attend the official opening of the farm in September or October.