Friday 27th June 08 - ThisisUll Live Featuring The Favours, O and Fado Rock At Adelphi Club Hull.

Same as it ever was this month with three hot bands last Friday of the month at Adelphi. First up The Favours fresh from the One Up On You single tour and a host of acoustic fixtures this is full band with new guitarist Chris Marsay. Eager to see how Chris ex- Morphines now Holy Orders fame, fares with The Favours. One club in Harlow described the Favours thus: Quite possibly the best (and maybe the only) band to come out of Hull since The Housemartins!"

For band No2 we present O. An alt punk Preston band with a simple name but far from simple sound. O have chosen Hull to kick off their Summer tour, with Jude ( Filo Radio new all girl group the frettes) at the helm promising to rock your socks off and any other bits of you that needs shaking up. Heralded by Clint Boon XFM as the next Sonic Youth, described as British heirs apparent to Green Day, QOTSA and Foo Fighters. And for the musos among you there's an interesting Favours connection.

Fado Rock have been quietly being brilliant producing critically acclaimed music videos and generally climbing to the top of every tree to garner a better view. With new album Six Feet South due for release June 28th expect to be hearing a lot more from these polished intelligent rockers. Check out this link to Falling Fifty Floors. A narrative tale filled with local landmarks in homage to the groundbreaking French movie La Haine by Mathieu Kassovitz. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj_4rZtR20w

Right where you expect us, last Friday of the month at Adelphi. Doors open 8pm. All three bands for three English pounds. Go ahead make my day! Photographers and reviewers contact us if you want to cover this gig and we'll put your name up in lights on the fantastic brilliance, that shining example of good character and cutting edge culture, that is ThisisUll.com Next month July 25th sees scary sonic wizards The Clauberg Opera cooking up something twisted, malevolent and utterly mind blowing with Santas Bugga Boyz and Alison Angus. Bit of an early summer treat for all you lost souls out there.

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Coming Up - Saturday 21st June 08 - Metalore's Midsummer Metal Madness at Expression Nightclub at The Dorchester Hotel
	Come Saturday 21st June, Hull is to be privy to the country's first Summer Solstice Pagan Metal Festival. Headlining shall be Irish Rockers Sirocco, who could well be the finest band to come out of Ireland since Thin Lizzy. As well as maintaining a strong folk element, Sirocco can thrash with the best of em. This band is not to be missed Read more...

Coming Up - 20th June 08 - Yo-Yo Indie Club Night Launch at Fibbers, York
	The Yo-Yo Club night was founded in 1995 and has been hugely successful ever since on Saturdays in Hull and Lincoln. Not only popular with Indie clubbers, Yo-Yo has a whole host of celebrity fans who include Pete Doherty, The Cribs, The View, The Strokes, Kate Nash, Steve Lamacq, Shed Seven, The Enemy and The Holloways Read more...

Coming Up, Education - Thursday 26th June and Monday 30th June 08 - Sexual Health Course
	A need assessment was carried out by Cornerhouse with both parents and workers earlier this year to explore some of the issues that prevent parents from talking to their children about sexual health. On the back of this research a course has been developed to equip workers with the skills to enable parents to talk to their children about sexual health. Read more...

Coming Up, Community - June 18th to 21st - Lajee Center UK Arts and Culture Tour
	The thoughts and voices of the new generations of Lajee Center in Aida Refugee Camp, Palestine, have been spreading across the world through their photographic exhibitions, dance, films, and books. They are speaking out to the world through their art. Their exhibitions have been shown in Palestine, UK, France, Holland, Italy, Australia, and the US. Read more...

Coming Up - Tuesday 24th June 08 - Just a Lizard Talking at Hull University
	An evening of rehearsed readings as part of The Humber Mouth Literature Festival to celebrate the work of students on the part time Creative Writing degree course and to launch the anthology, Just a Lizard Talking, produced by students. 7pm at the John McCarthy bar. Admission Free. For further information please contact the Creative Writing Team on (01482) 466605 Read more Coming Up ...

Coming Up, Community - 15th to 21st June 08 - Refugee Week 2008 Events Throughout the Week
	The Land of Green Ginger - A participatory art project by Fabiane Perrella / Flour at Paragon Station Open to Public 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd June from 10am until 6pm. The Land of Green Ginger will explore spaces of encounters between refugees who have moved into Hull and their host communities and aims to promote mutual Read more...

Coming Up - Thursday 26th June 08 - The Humber Foul Mouth at The Square, Springbank, Hull
	Poetry Is Dead is the debut show from Hull poets Joe Hakim and Mike Watts. Tonight is your chance to see them perform at The Humber Foul Mouth ahead of their first appearance at The Camden Fringe in August this year. Taking performance poetry by the throat, this show is an unflinching observation of life in the twenty-first century, Read more...

Coming Up - Thursday 19 June 08 - Yorkshire Independent Music Network at The Adelphi Club
	Are you a musician/DJ, promoter, record label , manager, venue manager, publisher, writer, composer, music shop, music educationalist ...? Would you like your chance to form a large music network and awards ceremony that will support and strengthen the whole music sector in Yorkshire and the Humber? Read more...

Columns - Martians, Venusians and Other Figments of the Popular Imagination By the Silver Fox
	Firstly, an apology to the more nerdly of you who may, from the above title, have expected a stimulating and wide-reaching reappraisal of populist science-fiction - Battlestar Galactica, Dan Dare, and the like. Perhaps another time though, as such matters are rarely far from the thoughts of most cultural types. It will have a far more apposite title, Read more...

Columns - When I lived Among the Poor of Hull By Steve Regan
	It's not the first time the people of Hull have had a minor royal among them, telling them how to live... Yes, long before Sarah Ferguson fetched up in that rough-and-ready northern city and port the local tykes had their very own King of Hull in residence ... namely moi! Well, I wasn't really their king, though they did often call me 'Your Majesty' and 'the King', and I did on few formal occasions wear a crown... Read more...

Columns - Giving the Axis of Evil Another Spin By the Silver Fox
	While most people doubtless saw their festive holidays rocked by the latest cataclysmic revelations on the annual bonanza of doom that is the Eastenders Christmas episode, one or two of us may have been more put off of our turkey sandwiches by the far more disturbing developments that developed so disturbingly in the real world. Read more...

Columns - Look After the Pennies and the Self-Serving Will Look After Themselves By the Silver Fox
	The disbursement of public monies to various groups has always been a hot topic, being, as it is, one that affects pretty much everyone in one way or another. Public money is, of course, literally that - our money; the pounds and pence we fling at the government with desperate and reckless abandon, so humbly delighted and grateful are we to make a Read more...

Columns - And Peppered Was His Hair By Kenton Hall
	All of life's lessons - and I mean the important life-changing ones here, not the ones involving keeping the cutlery and appliances segregated - can be learned in the hairdressers. Of this I have no doubt. The above is exactly the sort of ridiculous statement that writers should avoid when beginning an essay, as it paints you into a very tight corner - or more correctly, Read more...

Columns - Steve Regan : The Exiled King Of Hull Writes...9th November 06
	Today I shall mainly be writing about love, sort of. Starting point: we are living through confusing times. On the one hand we Brits are now much ruder to each other than we were in the recent past. We are also more prone to seriously anti-social behaviour - and we are generally much thicker too, thanks to the huge failure in schooling (and nowhere is that more the case Read more...

Columns - Morality for Dummies By Kenton Hall
	I was raised in a God-fearing household. And, by God-fearing, I mean, scared witless. We were brought up to believe that if we behaved, prayed and refrained from any variety of pleasure. (Top three no-no: self-abuse, premarital sex and unripe kiwi fruit). In fact, my father had a terrible habit of jumping out from behind doors and screaming, "Now what would Read more...

Columns - Knocking On Heaven's Door? By Jim Higo
	If at first you don't succeed, then maybe being a suicide bomber's not the job for you. Just over a year on from the London bombings and I'm on Kings Cross tube station and, along with all the other white people, I'm carefully scouring the platform for Asians with rucksacks. I'm a socialist, a humanist, an internationalist, yet here I am thinking thoughts that come straight out Read more...

Columns - Patriot Games By Kenton Hall
	The other night, as I lay sun-stroked and pissy along the length of the familial sofa, drinking coffee from a giraffe-shaped mug and watching Gene Wilder get repeatedly thrown from a train, I had an epiphany. I'm prone to them. This particular revelation occurred when I was startled from my grumbling reveries by a flash of blonde and an explosion of sound. Read more...

Columns - Steve Regan - King of Hull 1st May 2006
	The story of John Prescott's sexual indiscretions with his secretary has been an absolute hoot on one level. Suddenly, it was as if Jabba the Hutt had come to life in all his slimy lecherousness. By the time you read this, Prezza might already have been forced to resign. The lairy photographs showing our oafish Deputy Prime Minister cavorting with Tracey Temple Read more...

Columns - Suzie's Social Conscience Part 6
	Hi there! Well, I've given a little thought this week to those amazing people of outstanding conscience, courage and bravery. People who have risked their freedom, and even their lives, for a cause that they believe in. Take Martin Luther King, for example. How inspiring it was when he got up and made that speech.... I Have a Dream. Even more amazing, that over a decade later, Read more...

Columns - Suzie's Social Conscience Part 5
	Hi there. I'm feeling a bit sore this week, gals....my social conscience has suffered a big prick. Why, I hear you ask? Well, I'm ashamed to admit that I didn't respond to my normal call of duty, that is, to help my fellow citizens who are less fortunate and rich than me. I'll tell you what happened. I ignored a beggar. Last night, I was walking past Jackson's on Prince's Avenue, Read more...

Columns - Suzie's Social Conscience Part 4
	Hi people. This week, my conscience goes out to a sad section of society whose lives are blighted by addiction. Yes. They call them substance misusers. Now, I had never heard of them before, but apparently they are what used to be called druggies. They are addicted to substances - but they don't know how to use them properly. What a shame this is. Who knows what untold Read more...

Columns - Suzie's Social Conscience Part 3
	Hi there good people. Who is everyone talking about at the moment? The Kosovans, of course. People are so mean about them, saying they're 'invading' our town. Now, I know there are loads of them, but is there any need to get that upset? Personally I feel sorry for them. I can understand why they wanted to leave Kozavo. For a start, I heard that their country smells. Read more...

Columns - Steve Regan, King of Hull - He's Far From Dead 7th March 2006
	Does anybody - apart from a few fluff-headed showbiz presenters on GMTV - care a flying fig for the Oscars? I certainly find this annual gong-fest intensely boring, and so do most TV viewers, since the ratings have been falling year on year. In fact, I find the whole of the modern Hollywood film industry and its, ahem, "stars" fantastically dull. Take the so-called Read more...