Taptu: A New Start-up, and The BBs at the Apollo Rooms, Harleston - 3rd February 2007

The BBs do a gig at the Apollo Rooms in Harleston, where there's a spot of demonstration ballroom dancing in the interval from the UK under-21 finalists. The band also take the opportunity to skive off to The Swan in Harleston, and then hang out in the "green room" for a while. Elsewhere, Anne from Qualcomm Cambridge has a house-warming soirée, there are a few scenes of 1960s architecture in Ipswich, there's a misty morning, and Nosher's new job at the start-up Taptu in St. John's Innovation Centre in Cambridge kicks off, where the small company of around 11 people is already checking out its next offices on the Science Park over the road - a decent step-up from the small one-room office we're currently crammed into.

next album: From East End to East Coast: Brick Lane and Walberswick, London and Suffolk - 9th February 2007
previous album: Park Life: The Green Room with The BBs, Park Hotel, Diss - 13th January 2007

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An abandoned trolley on Coldham's Common

An abandoned trolley on Coldham's Common

Marc wanders around the Taptu office

The new Taptu office awaits on the Science Park

Michelle checks out the empty office

The new kitchen area

The building's reception area

Taptu's new home, under gaming company Jagex

The Taptu start-up gang in the current office

Stef runs a meeting

Steve Ives, Matt, Alastair and Jake

Bob Last does a presentation

Taipei Meal on Mill Road in Cambridge

The stage in the Apollo Room, Harleston

At the Apollo, Henry inspects the stage

Rob plugs stuff in

The Apollo Rooms

Henry's on the phone

Max does a bit of a Rodin 'The Thinker' pose

There's a bagpiper piping in the square

In the Harleston Swan, Rob inspects the menu

Jo's got a red wine

Four geezers in the Green Room

Jo sticks on a bit of lippy

Henry and Max

Rob has a bit of a twang

Henry warms up

The lads hang around

Rob makes some final adujstments to the stage

Long exposure captures the flow of the dancers

Demonstration ballroom dancing

Ballroom dancing in the Apollo Rooms

The word 'Apollo' made up from red rope lights

Isobel, Hani and Nadine in Anne's flat

In Anne's new flat

Louise talks to Andrew

The Ipswich Co-Operative, from Tacket Street

The stark 1960s facia of Ipswich Woolworths

A Dutch-influenced building facia

The 1930s-style ex-Odeon Cinema in Ipswich

Venus in the sunset

The sun feebly breaks through the mist