title The Destruction of Padley's, and Alex Hill at the Barrel, Diss and Banham - 12th November 2005 intro From recent photos it might seem like the whole of Diss is being demolished in one way or another, and this particular session is just behind the former Safeway's in Diss where the old Padley's Chicken processing factory is being trashed, probably to make room for more wasteland. In an increasingly common moment of occupational hazzard, one of the demolition dudes even wanders over to do some interrogation, as they're obviously worried about complaints or something. Almost next to Padley's is the Norfolk Feather Mills - makes pillows and duvets and the like - and whilst this is not actually being demolished at the moment, it nevertheless looks derelict enough. After that, Alex Hill, from a Revolution Records in-store a few months before, emails to ask about taking some gig photos at the Banham Barrel, and so it came to pass. On arriving, it almost looks like some sort of photography class is going on, as everyone seems to have actual cameras. imgp1789 A pile of rubble and discarded farm equipment imgp4081 A digger perches on a pile of rubble imgp4083 The end of a building remains imgp4086 A pit in the ground imgp4088 A tangle of metal in the sun imgp4091 A solitary digger bucket, and a pylon imgp4100 Skip, digger and rubble imgp4103 A portakabin's on the huh imgp4106 discarded sunglasses imgp4108 Primitive tags on the wall imgp4110 A demolisher returns from Morrisons imgp4111 An open door imgp4117 The old Feather Mills buildings imgp4118 Boarded-up buildings imgp4122 Padley's main entrace imgp4126 Back at Padley's demolition. imgp4134 Scattered remains near the 1940s huts imgp4143 Redundant signage imgp4145 A derelict building's roof has seen better days imgp4153 Derelict fatory buildings imgp4159 An electrical substation imgp4161 A give-way sign with not much to give way to imgp4167 Derelict huts imgp4173 Some random pipes imgp4177 Danger of death. Bzzzt imgp4178 The Feather Mills building imgp4183 The end of Feather Mill's factory imgp4185 Over in Stuston, it's Geoff's Nissen hut imgp4186 Geoff and Brenda's back garden imgp4187 Geoff in the conservatory porch imgp4189 Geoff in the kitchen imgp4190b Brenda looks all enigmatic imgp4191 Brenda's forgotten something imgp4194 Geoff gets some firewood imgp4195 Sawing wood up imgp4196 Geoff and Brenda's garden imgp4204 Vanilla Kick on at the Banham Barrel imgp4219 Calum does guitar imgp4231 Calum Duncan on vocals imgp4247 Rory Hill on bass imgp4259 Vanilla Kick imgp4277 Rob Folkard is on the desk again imgp4301 Vanilla Kick in action imgp4310 Rob helps switch bands over imgp4313 Alex Hill takes to the stage imgp4339 Alex Hill and the Cracking Daisies imgp4353 Alex Hill pauses imgp4395 On stage at the Banham Barrel imgp4400 The barrel crowds imgp4419 Paz shreds up a guitar imgp4429 Tom and Paz get in the zone imgp4433 Craig Hill thanks the crowds imgp4436 Rob Folkard looks at the stage imgp4438 Rob "The Desk" Folkard imgp4439 Wavy and The Boy Phil imgp4441 Wavy's got a few beers on imgp4442 Packing up after the gig