28th March 08 - ThisisUll Live at The Adelphi

Mermaids in the Basement from Withernsea contested the final of the Ringside Band Comp. 07 where they impressed this particular judge with their musicality and stage presence. thisisUll's breakthrough band playing live with friends Black and White Tango Alternative Indie awash with classical edifice and stirring vocals. The most innovative sounds this side of the summer. CrackTown say that Galileo was on a hiding to nothing.

ThisisUll says, Bide your time and we'll all come up, adorned in trinkets ... All this goodness and more at the spiritual home of live music Adelphi Club on De Grey Street. Checkout the film Idiots In Time on their Myspace page for time traveling capers and irreverent humour. Entry is £3.00 only doors 8pm (first band on stage 8.45pm) If you or a friend want to take photos or write about this gig, get your work seen by over 5000 people a day and get your name on thisisUll.com, send an email to live@thisisull.com for free entry!

Links: www.myspace.com/thisisull www.myspace.com/mermaidsinthebasement www.myspace.com/blackandwhitetango www.myspace.com/hullcracktown

Coming Up - 15th to 20th April 08 - Glimmer, The 6th Hull International Short Film Festival
	The Hull International Short Film Festival returns with a new name and attitude, from 15th April 2008. Glimmer will provide audiences with the very best new short films from across the world alongside numerous special events and exclusive guests. Highlights of this year's festival will include the Glimmer Award for Best International Short Read more...

Coming Up - Sunday 23rd March 08 - Loaded Indie Night Bank Holiday Special at Piper Club with DJ Priya,
	No Work Next Day! Join DJ Priya who'll be playing BIG tunes from the likes of The Cribs, The Libertines, Arctic Monkeys, The Smiths, The Killers, The Strokes, Bloc Party, Foals, The Holloways, The Courteeners, We Are Scientists, Jack Penate, The Clash and The Pigeon Detectives. 10pm - 2.00am (bar), For more info, call The Piper: 01482 498931. loadedfridays yoyoindie Read more Coming Up ...

Coming Up, Thursday 27th to Saturday 29th March 08 - Hull Real Ale and Cider Beer Festival
	Sponsored by The Co-operative Group, the 2008 Hull Real Ale and Cider Beer Festival takes place this year at a new venue - The Horncastle Building, George Street (beside North Bridge). With 75 Real Ales ( 34 served by hand pumps), 25 Real Ciders and Perries as well as Belgian and German bottled beers, the 3 day festival promises to bring some Read more...

Coming Up, Monday 24th March - Easter Monday Oxjam Charity Gig at Sharkeys Live
	Easter Monday sees the third Oxjam charity gig organised by Music HQ as well as the launch gig for brand new Hull City Centre live music venue, Sharkeys who are going to be running three original music nights every Week. Featuring fifteen great local and not so local acoustic/unplugged acts this promises to be an Read more...

Coming Up - Saturday 22nd March - Born To Run Bruce Springsteen Tribute At The Dorchester Hotel Hull
	It's 'Boss' time...... proudly presenting the country's leading Bruce Springsteen tribute band rocking at The Dorchester Hotel, Beverley Road, Hull, on Saturday 22nd March 2008. Fans of The Boss are in for a real treat when Born To Run, the only national touring Springsteen cover band in the UK, provides a rare opportunity to experience Bruce's music performed live on stage in this area. Read more...

Coming Up, - 22nd to 24th March 08 - Easter Weekend Live Music Charity Fundraiser at Retro Hull
	There's been a lot of bad news reports about city centre bars and night life but here's a good one. Easter bank holiday weekend Retro is organizing a weekend of live music to raise money for the British Heart Foundation. On Saturday afternoon there'll be a selection of local live acoustic artists and on Sunday afternoon local live bands. On Bank Holiday Monday Read more...

Coming Up, - Opening Friday 21st March 08 - Bunker Tours At R.A.F. Holmpton
	The Royal Air Force base at Holmpton opens to visitors on Good Friday 21st March 2008. The tour comes with brand new exhibitions, a whole new public tour and new films and shows. Inside the bunker you will find the fully restored 1960's Message Centre which would have handled all the bunkers communications during the 60's and 70's Read more...

Coming Up - Thursday 27th March 08 - Mammal Hum and Domino Effect at the Adelphi
	Mammal Hum will be unveiled to the public in the stinking brilliant legend of a filth pit that is the Adelphi...with flashing lights and other wonders for good measure. Also on the bill is Domino Effect from London. Doors 8pm £3.00 tax. www.myspace.com/mammalhum Read more Coming Up ...

Listings - What's On at Yo -Yo Indie Club - Lincoln and Hull
	Check the Full Listing..Saturdays Lincoln - Yo-Yo Indie Club Night at The Quayside With DJ Andyo-yo and Aron (YAK / Cell) Doors: 10.00pm - 2.20am Entry £2 B4 11pm / £4 NUS & £5 Other Lincoln's Best Club Night: NME The most popular Indie Night in Lincoln: Lincoln Echo The Quayside Read more...

Listings - Stripped at the Wellington Inn - February to April 08
	Stripped Acoustic night at The Wellington Inn, Russell Street every 2nd Thursday. From 8pm. Admission Free Thursday 7th February Shaun T Hunter, Paul Hanafin and My Glass Eye Thursday 21st February Stevie Rigsby, Dan Webster and Daniel Pearson Thursday 6th March Alex Stork and Poncho Pirates Read more...

Listings - The Welly Club - What's On January and February 2008
	Check the Full Listing..Buy your tickets securely online by credit or debit card using PayPal Thursday 17th January - 8pm to 11pm - Club Night to 3am - welly:two Club NME at Jelly in association with Under The Influence presents The Courteeners £7.50 Online Read more...

Fiction - Later. Still. By Christopher Skolik
	Maybe human beings get through life by focusing their attention down to the smallest details, those soap opera comings and goings that make up the flickering magic lantern show of day to day existence, the little things that make life worth living, the details that stand between us and the chasm. Read more...

Fiction - The Hunch-Back (in the style of The Hitman by T.C. Boyle) By Katherine Horrex
	By the age of nine the Hunch-Back is aware that he has no place. He questions the existence of everything he sees and it is not until he grows shady from first stubble and hard with distracting pubescent bulk that he gains any sense of purpose, or raison d'etre if you will, for he is half French. It is his mother to which the French in him must be attributed, Read more...

Fiction - The Terminal Brothel By Christopher Skolik
	Gales crashed onto the housing estate. Grey sky like fractured mountains. In the passenger seat Dennison read through the paper, as Snaith drives. As some story or headline caught Snaith's attention he would ask Dennison to read it in full. The council estate was a maze of similarity -a dizzying optical illusion where homes, roads, and people all Read more...

Fiction - 100 Words Competition - Kundalini By Andrea Longstaff

	She was homeless and walking the streets. Her mind was unhinged but full of new found awareness. A realisation that she was now free in the true sense of the word. Her life always did have a surreal texture to it but after a night of no sleep and helping the stranger who had dropped his pens. He looked into her glazed eyes, "I hope you get a good nights sleep tonight" Read more...

Fiction - The Artist By The Silver Fox
	Pencil in hand, he stands immobile. His eyes are locked onto the pristine expanse before him as though searching for some secret buried within the paper itself; an image that his pencil will simply be highlighting rather than creating. Above and beyond his eye line, the graphite point gleams dully in the harsh light that cascades down onto the easel. Read more...

Fiction - 100 Words Competition - Crackers By Pete Texas

	I was 12 ½ when my dog ate my rabbit He chewed on its head like a malnourished Gannet So I traded Ben for an Arini Parrot Put her in the hutch with the lettuce and carrot I was sure with the straw to build Polly a nest So when she fell asleep she'd have somewhere to rest Read more...

Fiction - 100 Words Competition - The Flat By The Silver Fox

	He emerged from the oven to see the landlord eyeing him as though enquiring as to what he'd expected to find in there. He adopted a knowing expression - as though saying that he hadn't found it and was disappointed. "Seventy a week?" "That covers your water rates," came the expansive reply. He nodded, fearing that further conversation would bring Read more...

Fiction - Independent By Katherine Horrex Photos by Darren Rogers
	The room was pulsing with white noise and euphoria. Giles was positioned behind the sound booth, stupefied by the scene on stage: five Burberry clad men thrashing manically at their instruments, their sixties feather cuts flicking through the damp air. A final power chord growled through the Marshall stack, reverberating triumphantly and the lead Read more...

Fiction - 100 Words Competition - The Prescription By The Silver Fox

	The pen flashed across the pad like a magic wand. Jeff watched, appropriately spellbound. The prescription was pushed across the desk with neither comment nor eye contact. "Not much of a bedside manner." "This isn't a bedside." Pain sent a stinging retort flying to Jeff's lips; need bit it back. "Not funny," he mumbled, leaving. After an agonising moonwalk Read more...