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Last Updated: 21/07/2007 13:11:04
Wednesday 11th July 07 - Lecorum, The Riffs and Riley and The Mumps at Lamp
By Katie Ashworth
Photos by Michelle Dee
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Despite the recent smoking ban that was predicted to cause a blow to bar and pub custom,
it is safe to say that this is one of the fullest Lamp nights we have seen - the stage
front becomes packed towards the end of the night, and you can still see people in the
seating area and outdoor area, all providing ample support for these all-Hull bands.
First support is Riley and the Mumps. Hard to guess what they'd sound like? It could have
been anything, given the individual band members' different influences, but expect
catchy indie punk/rock with a hint of Dirty Pretty Things, sometimes scuzzy, sometimes
piratey - songs such as White Lies stood out, with a sing-along chorus and a bass line
that occasionally rises above the rest of the instruments.
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Next up was The Riffs, also known as The Beards in their cover-band capacity, but
playing original material. I have never heard their covers, but I know I like their own
songs - stompy and ballsy with various yelps, the rock side outweighing any 'indie' tones.
Fans of Kings of Leon should check them out, as the front man's singing style should appeal.
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Why the headline band can't get a gig in their own hometown is a mystery; they're very
bloody good indeed.
Maybe this trapped enthusiasm is why they put on a great show - they have a soaring,
driving quality akin to The Arcade Fire; the lead singer has a compelling voice, and
the piano part both blends and rises nicely around guitar solos. I found them to be
emotive not emo, calming but not boring.
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Music Reviews - Wednesday 27th June 07 - Maul and Reign Of Chaos and Mechanical Breeding at Ringside By Ian Johansson Reign of Chaos Photos by JWA Photography
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This was one night that shouldn't have been missed.
It was one of the biggest nights I had seen at Ringside in my two years of living in
Hull and attending a lot of local gigs.
The night kicked off a bit late but the atmosphere strong and tense, the first band up
was a band named Mechanical Breeding.
The guitarist was possibly the only decent member in the band,
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Music Reviews - Grace Potter & The Nocturnals By Chris Warne
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I'm always amazed by the amount of musical talent on MySpace that goes
unnoticed, often hidden behind endless streams of lesser artists
trying to promote their "songs" by friend requesting the world and
it's husband.
But sometimes - just sometimes - you make a rare discovery that blows your mind!
Last week I logged on to the profile of Grace Potter and The Nocturnals
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Music Reviews - Sunday 24th June 07 - The Sonic Hearts at Lamp Words and Pictures By Michelle Dee
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Just lately I've found myself down at the Lamp checking out the very different range of artists
performing there. Tonight was a pleasant surprise; one new band The Sonic Hearts.
Another reformed, with a new name in Kalels Cape and one with two new members and new songs,
Red Night Strip.
I'll start with Red Night Strip
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Music Reviews - Monday 2nd July Amy Macdonald at The Lamp Hull By Michelle Dee
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Monday night I went to see Amy Macdonald
www.myspace.com/amymacdonald
at the lamp in Hull.
She came recommended to me by a good friend but I hadn't actually heard anything by the
Glaswegian singer/songwriter signed to Melodramatic Records.
Now I can't stop singing the gloriously catchy Mr. Rock & Roll her new single out
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Music Reviews - 28th June 07 Jelly V Club NME South Central (DJ Set) Welly Hull
By Michelle Dee Pictures
by Kate Langan
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Thursday arriving early before all the prom kids arrived we slid into the lounge downstairs at the Welly.
Drinks in hand we grooved to the Latino sounds of the Spanish Hustle and kudos to the DJ downstairs
for spinning the Junior Jack track featuring The Cure's Robert Smith. As more prom kids came in,
ready to party, the sounds
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Music Reviews - Friday 22nd June 07 - ThisisUll Live at New Adelphi Club By Guest Reviewer Kane Fulton Photos by Michelle Dee
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I'm sweating like a bitch was a common utterance echoing around the Adelphi - the nightmarish
toilet sauna that is the most, like, punk venue Hull has to offer. Does this detract from the enjoyment? Well, not as
much for the punters, but most of the bands look practically in agony on stage.
At £2.40 for a pint of Labatts (albeit deliciously chilled Labatts)
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Music Reviews - Saturday 19th May Great Green Concert Featuring cowfisH, Talamasca and Shindigg At Beverley Green Fair By Michelle Dee
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In the evening after the majority of stalls and stands had been taken down at the Green Fair in
Beverley, the Great Green Concert took place. It was held in the darkened confines of the auditorium
in Longcroft School between 8pm and 10.30.
The audience who'd travelled from York/Hull and the
surrounding area were treated to some top class
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Music Reviews - Friday 11th May 07 - Jesse Malin at Fibbers, York By Steve Rudd
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It might have been raining outside, the weather comprehensively showering a sense of
profound doom and gloom upon the grand old city of York.
Fortunately, inside the cosy confines of Fibbers, Jesse Malin fired out
a ninety minute set of sheer joy, as the New York singer-songwriter extraordinaire
returned to the venue for the third time in his career
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Music Reviews - Saturday 27th May 07 - The Who, The Ordinary Boys and Jackson Analogue at KC Stadium By Julian Thorley Photographs By Roland Standaert
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The 'classic' British summer and the 'curse' of the KC Stadium looked to have struck again
on the evening of the 26th May, when The Who played in Hull.
It rained yet again. Not the torrential downpours of past gigs there, but it was
chilly and damp enough to make it uncomfortable for those out in the open.
It just goes to show though that a bit of lousy weather
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Music Reviews - Saturday Night at Jack Rabbit Slims By Cilla It's Showtime!
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Jack Rabbit Slims bar on the corner of Holderness Road and Wincolmlee seems an unlikely
place for a night out - during the day you'd barely notice it as you pass by.
Saturday night is where that all changes; the neon lights burst into life and it's
time to get ready for a rock n roll extravaganza!
The first thing I noticed as I walked in was a bunny girls serving drinks.
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Music Reviews - 16th May 07 Soulflame Cowfish at Goose and Granite George Street Hull By Michelle Dee Pictures By Natalie Dudding
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Astounding, incredible sounds from both bands due in some part to the excellent work by
Dr. Mike Shindigg at the sound desk.
For award-winning five piece band Cowfish
www.cowfish.me.uk
tonight was a rehearsal for their headline appearance at the Great Green Concert in
Beverley the coming Saturday.
So aside from telling you that Simon (Cowfish keyboards)
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Music Reviews - Thursday 10th May 07 - The Meatloaf Trilogy With Steve Steinman At Hull New Theatre Reviewed By Steve Rudd
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It makes for a rare treat when a tribute act is almost as amazing as the real thing.
In many respects, when Steve Steinman 'does' Meatloaf, the net effect is sometimes even better.
A couple of years ago, Lancashire singer Steve toured with a show called
The Meatloaf Story in which he sung a whole host of classic tracks as
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Music Reviews - From Sleepers To Yo-Yo In Three Bottles Of Red (dis-ably assisted by Cilla) By Michelle Dee
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It was only supposed to be a quick drink down Newland.
At the most a glass or two until the sun set over the railway bridge turning
the terracotta road a fiery orange; a pleasant fiction indeed.
In reality it was turning a trifle cold and clouding over, there might even
have been a few drops of spring rain dotting the pavement as we turned the
corner of Ella Street.
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Music Reviews - Thursday 4th May 07 - Ray Davies at the Grand Opera House, York By Joe Malarky
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A familiar gap toothed grin greeted the assembled audience of the bijou
Grand Opera House in York.
Ray Davies, founder member of The Kinks, original mod and songwriter par
excellence, stood and smiled as the rest of his band took their places alongside him.
The familiar punchy chords of 'I'm not like everybody else' rang out and the
tone of the
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Music Reviews - Friday 30th March 07 - Pure Techno 3rd Birthday at The Welly Club By Tom Lewis Photographs by Tom Lewis, Michelle Dee and Cilla
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March saw Pure Techno, one of Hull's leading innovators and
celebrators of new electronic music celebrate its 3rd birthday at the Welly Club.
After the (really rather sad) demise of the Rhythm Room earlier in the year,
Pure Techno was forced to relocate its base of operations to the
Welly Club, the birthday celebrations on the
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Music Reviews, Galleries -
Live Music - March 07 - The Paddingtons Studio Demo Session By Darren Rogers
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Sometimes we get photos without a review but they are just too good to miss out on publishing
so checkout this photo gallery of The Paddingtons March 07 - at
Studio Demo Session By Darren Rogers.
Checkout Darrens Featured Writers page here.
/writers/darrenrogers.html
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Music Reviews - Lecorum at Dublin Castle, London By Rachel Sanderson
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One band who really caught my eye when browsing myspace was Lecorum.
Having closely watched their progress over the last 6 months since they formed,
I thought it was about time to get down to a gig.
Seeing that they were playing just 5 minutes down the road from me, I figured this
would be the perfect opportunity.
Arriving at Dublin Castle
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Music Reviews - Wednesday 18th April 07 - The American Four Tops Motown Show At The Crown, Holderness Road, Hull By Jane Foster Photographs By Mo
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Get Ready , cos here they come...The American Four Tops Motown Show at The Crown pub, Holderness Road. A perfect night for my first visit to The Crown
(Witham being as far as I'd previously ventured East for a night out).
I soon found that it exceeded my expectations.
The Crown is a large capacity venue built in the 1920s,
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Music Reviews - Monday 26th March 07 Karl and The Gimps Musicians Night Adelphi Hull By Michelle Dee Photos By The Gimps
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Readers with a reasonably good memory will know that Karl Whiting received something close
to local cult status last year with his art work.
By the medium of pen and paper he produced on the spot drawings of live bands.
See some of his work here
/art/211914090_karlwhiting.html
His creative style is akin to the Scottish Colourists Movement, in that rather
than showing clear
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Music Reviews, Galleries - Friday 26th February 07 - We
Are Scientists at Asylum at Hull University By Kate Langan
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Sometimes we get photos without a review but they are just too good to miss out on publishing
so checkout this brilliant photo gallery of We Are Scientists at Asylum
at Hull University By Kate Langan
www.katelanganphotography.co.uk
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Music Reviews - Thursday 29th March 07 - Barenaked Ladies at Leeds University Union Words and photographs by Julia Grant
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It only took us just over an hour of queuing in the cold to secure our place in the front row.
Tonight's show wasn't sold out, whilst back in the States the band can sell out stadiums no problem.
In a selfish sort of way, I kind of like that though.
Their talent and ability to put on one of the best shows you may ever see is somewhat of a secret
here in the UK,
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Music Reviews - Sunday 25th March 07 - The Horrors Plus Kreeps Club NME
At The Welly Hull By Michelle Dee Photographs by Kate Langan
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Eerie spaced out keyboard intros, skull shaped guitar heads, electric skeleton double
bass, flutes saxophones and a Theremin?
These are just some of the elements that make up the demented sound of Kreeps.
The five piece stateside act, create stylized theatrical rock with multi
instrumentation that leaves you open mouthed in admiration.
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Music Reviews - Tuesday 13th March 07 - Towers of London and Dance Bastards at The Welly By Sue Watson
Photographs by Kate Langan
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The Dance Bastards are not your average band. For a start there are only 2 of them.
A female vocalist and a female guitarist, who augmented their offerings with a
synthesized backing track to produce an amazingly full sound.
The music was both hypnotic and repetitive, like early acid house only slower and less manic.
They were a brilliant opening act.
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Music Reviews - Friday 23rd March 07 Superscape And The Painted Sambas at The Adelphi By Michelle Dee Photos By Michelle Dee
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Superscape have been around for many years in fact they were one of the very
first bands to appear on this site.
They dropped out of the gigging scene a while back, since then they have done the
occasional gig usually at the Adelphi.
Now they are having another go with two new members and a different sound.
First though, were one of the few original bands hailing
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Music Reviews - Saturday 17th March 07 - Turismo and The Johnsons at Yo-Yo at The Welly Club By Michelle Dee Turismo Photos by Rob Cranmer, Johnsons Photos by Gareth Jones
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Down the front, groups of regulars from Tuesday's Sesh night dance to the Johnsons' opening number.
Among friends, I take my place stopping to greet DJ Priya and her right hand man Kristian.
It is St. Patrick's Day so I'm not sure what kind of crowd we're likely to get.
As it is the room quickly starts filling from the back and what was an open space
before the
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Music Reviews - Tuesday 13th March 07 - Towers of London and Dance Bastards at The Welly By Becky Martin
Photographs by Kate Langan
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Welly's packed tonight already as Dance Bastards hit the stage with their refreshing
brand of dirty electronic rap with a catchy bass that's to die for.
These two gorgeous girls are hypnotising the crowd not only with their sassy moves and
wrap around skirts, but with serious attitude from lead singer Kate who positively
screams girl power (way overdue!)
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Music Reviews - Monday 24th March 07 - Enter Shikari at Asylum, Hull University By Becky Martin
Photographs by Kate Langan
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No-one gives a crap about Your Codename Is: Milo as the crowd are buzzing with electricity
because they're itching for Enter Shikari and the mosh pits prepare themselves to mosh the
place into the ground with sweaty pent up energy.
The lights go out, the screams begin, they chant Shikari! in unison and with all the glow
sticks flying around it looks more like an
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Music Reviews - Thursday 8th March 07 - Franks E.P. Launch at The Adelphi with support From Lavellion By Michelle Dee Photos by Mo
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I came into Adelphi still shaking my hair from the rain on a rather damp Thursday evening.
By the time I'd reached the bar I was shaking my thang to the cool metal outfit on stage.
Theirs was a name I'd heard being bandied about on Myspaz and seen on a couple of flyers.
I sat down with a pint of Deuchars and listened to the rowdy ear churning guitar and eye
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Music Reviews - Paparazzi Whore at Club NME at The Welly, Hull By Becky Martin
Photographs by Kate Langan
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Welly in Hull's been around for a few years and through all the eyeliner, exaggerated hair,
skinny jeans and beer soaked t-shirts, it's seen enough emo bands, trashed dressing rooms and drunk indie guys to last a lifetime, but tonight was special as Paparazzi Whore took over the stage and set the place alight!
Bass driven??? Man! The speakers made
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Music Reviews - Saturday 3rd March 07 - Edwina Hayes At Driffield Folk Club By Steve Rudd
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Only a few days previous she'd been supporting country star Nanci Griffith, yet
Edwina Hayes was as down-to-earth as ever when she made a most welcome return to
Driffield Folk Club on Saturday night.
Mixing material from her debut album, Out On My Own, along with some fantastic cover
songs, Edwina's enchanting charms immediately had the Folk Club
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Music Reviews, Galleries -
Live Music - Friday 2nd February 07 - 59 Violets and Val Marshall at Barracuda Live Sessions By Michelle Dee
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Sometimes we get photos without a review but they are just too good to miss out on publishing
so checkout this photo gallery of 59 Violets and
Val Marshall Friday 2nd February 07 - at
Barracuda Live Sessions By Michelle Dee
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Music Reviews - Thursday 21st December 06 - Letters And Colours at KGV Barnsley By Rachel Littlewood
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The band kick off the set with Plan A, Gerry on both vocals and keyboard for this one.
Rick, bass player, has now firmly established himself within the band with some pretty good
riffs it seems like he's always been there.
This song has slightly electro-pop undertones and wraps around you like a warm welcome.
Gerry announces a new
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Music Reviews - Tuesday 13th February 07 - The Long Blondes and The Lodger At Club NME at The Welly By Becky Martin
Photographs by Kate Langan
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The warm up band for The Long Blondes do exactly that tonight as Ben, Joe and
Katie of The Lodger hit us with their own brand of gentle indie.
Featuring Lets Make A Pact, Simply Left Behind and Kicking Sand energetic
guitars and expert drumming results in spreading happy feelings throughout
the packed dance floor. Following in the
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