Friday 9th May 08 - Pure Techno 4th Birthday Party at The Welly

It's Pure Techno's 4th birthday party at The Welly. Two of underground techno's most respected and exciting names are appearing! Upstairs - Makaton (live set), Mark Hawkins, Idiotek Downstairs - Messica, Volcanics, Ben Jammin, Endoflevelbaddie Admission £6/5members

Makaton- Steve 'Makaton' Bailey, owner of the fantastic Rodz-Konez label which has hosted tracks by some top producers (including rather obviously: Makaton but also Regis, Inigo Kennedy, Olga+Jozef, Fumiya Tanaka, Female, Paul Bailey, 65D Mavericks and more). Makaton's sound is industrial, atmospheric and forward thinking, truly unique music in a sea of clones. Check out Makaton's website www.rodz-konez.co.uk where, in the live feed section, you can grab a load of highly individual sets from some of techno's most innovative producers.

Mark Hawkins - Currently residing in Nottingham where he's resident at the fantastic Pure Filth, Mark is another producer with a truly unique sound: twisted and slamming (check out the links below). Mark also runs his own label Crime and has had releases and remixes on a load of labels, including Djax-Up-Beats, Neue Heimat, 4 x 4 Recordings, Chancer, Mosquito.

Free Music From Mark Hawkins: DJ and Live Sets: crime-productions.com/sets/ Free Trax! mh.fun-in-the-murky.com/archives.html Free Album! crime-productions.com/trax/

Get ya dancin' shoes on =] The Welly 105-107 Beverley Road Hull HU3 1TS Phone: 01482 221113 / 07716582613 www.puretechno.co.uk www.rodz-konez.co.uk crime-productions.com www.giveitsomewelly.com Myspace: www.myspace.com/pure_techno www.myspace.com/thewellyclub www.myspace.com/eolb www.myspace.com/theoriginalmarkhawkins

Coming Up - Sunday 4th May 08 - Loaded Indie Night Bank Holiday Special at Piper Club with DJ Priya
	No Work Next Day! 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 & The Pigeon Detectives. 10pm - 2.00am (bar) £4 nus £5, For more info, call The Piper: 01482 498931 www.myspace.com/loadedfridays www.myspace.com/yoyoindie Read more Coming Up ...

Coming Up, Monday 5th May 08 - Purple Worm Records 2nd Album Launch Party - Bollocks to Poverty On Tour at The Welly
	In association with Love Music Hate Racism, The Sesh, Stripped and Hull College. Bank Holiday Monday Special - Doors open 7pm - till late Purple Worm Records is showcasing all of their recently signed bands, producers and DJs. The event will be open to everyone over the age of 18 and would be a good chance for 'would be' artists Read more...

Coming Up, Charity - Sunday 4th May 08 - Medical Mayhem at Lamp
	Join in the Medical Mayhem and say thank you to the NHS nurses of this region and also raise funds for charity projects which directly help nurses and individuals wishing to become nurses. The fun starts at 4pm and finishes at closing time. Entry is £3.00, but NHS nurses with their ID badge get in absolutely free - this event is for them. Read more...

Coming Up, Community - Saturday 10th May 08 - The Great Plant Giveaway
	A large group of churches in Driffield have been preparing a massive gift for the people of Hull, and it will be unveiled on Saturday 10 May at New Life Church in Hull. Realising thousands of gardens had been hit by last summers floods, Church goers in and around Driffield decided they did not want Hull to remain a "forgotten city", Read more...

Listings - The Welly Club - What's On April and May 2008
	Check the Full Listing..Buy your tickets securely online by credit or debit card using PayPal Friday 25th April - 10.30pm to 3am - welly:two Eight:Zero presents The Sex Pistols Experience plus Complete Control The ultimate Sex Pistols tribute plus Hull's own Clash covers heroes, with Eight:Zero's Paul Dakeyne Read more...

Listings - What's On at Yo -Yo Indie Club, May 08 - 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...

Opinions - The BBC Dipping into Youtube for Viewers By Mo UPDATED BBC's BBC Phil Hayton Denies All knowlege
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Opinions - Response to The BBC Dipping into YouTube for Viewers By Martin Deane
	Fire away Mo! Seconds out, round two. I actually have a soft spot for the Beeb but no, it's not my unrequited love for Neighbours or the Archers. Forgive me for lumping them together, apparently they're different despite hugely annoying theme tunes, but you may not know where I'm coming from yet. This is despite not having a TV licence which is how the BBC funds itself Read more...

Opinions - Lies And War Crimes By Michelle Dee
	The words "weapons of mass destruction" were noticeably absent from the speech by George W. Bush on the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion. The apocalyptic rhetoric used to firstly motivate the political will then move the might of the military forces was replaced by talk of regime change and removing Saddam Hussein from power. It is illegal to go to war in order to Read more...

Opinions - Censored By D R Callaghan
	A few minutes ago I used the readers comments facility in the online Hull Daily Mail to comment on the main story about the killing of Simon Murden. My comment: Ironic is it not? that the police are unable to crack down on the alcohol-fuelled yobs terrorising families, shopkeepers and the elderly, yet when faced with a young man who needs medical attention they can pump six bullets into him Read more...

Opinions - The Sexuality of the 9/11 Attacks By Christopher Skolik
	The Pentagon is itself a potent symbol of manhood and military virility. It goes without saying that was an act of violent homoerotic self extinction and assault-as if the terrorists could not survive such an act of homoerotic penetration, their out dated belief system and self ideation would not allow it-no matter how metaphorical the act. Only the unification of sex and death could breach that gap. Read more...

Opinions - Iraq War Theme Park By Christopher Skolik
	War seems to be a human necessity, a requirement on some basic level. To counteract the dangers of random disorganised war springing up I suggest we turn Iraq into a fully functioning war zone theme park -all the benefits of paint balling but with the relief of tension that only live ammunition and Read more...

Opinions - Notes Toward a Chavology By Christopher Skolik
	The local Hull 'chav' lad needs profiling and placing in his rightful context. Fiercely proud of his 'thickness'- intelligence is not to be trusted, it might unleash all kinds of awful weirdness upon his world, a world he clings to with the whitened knuckles of the drowning man, the perennial cry of 'Don't get clever with me' echoes across council estates of the north ... Read more...

Opinions - Maureen Lipman at Pave By Sean
	Just saw Maureen Lipman at a reading at the Pave. It took two attempts to gain entrance. At the first attempt i was turned away on the grounds that it was a private function - apparently i didn't look 'Avenues' enough. I'm Avenues enough to have my taxes pay for it, mind. I just got in in time to catch a couple of 'anecdotes' which mocked the poverty of working Read more...

Opinions - All At Sea Or Way Out West? (Orwellian Nightmare Or Whitehall Farce?) By D R Callaghan
	Admiral Sir Alan West wants us to 'snitch' on our neighbours, friends and even on our own family. Who's he? I hear you ask. He's none other than the Government's new 'Security Minister'. Isn't it comforting to know that we now have a 'Security Minister' (Big Brother?) looking after our 'way of life'? The former First Sea Lord also warned that Britain faces a 15-year battle Read more...

Opinions - Candle In The Wind By Jim Higo
	Who'd want to be a Bosnian landmine victim? Terrible injuries, lost limbs, scarred for life and then to cap it all, when you thought it couldn't get any worse, you get a visit from Princess Diana. Just when it seemed your life had reached its absolute nadir, you see her coming at you with those big eyes, like a spaced out Desert Orchid. Read more...

Opinions - Depart For New Earth By David Sloan
	Depart for new earth AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Professor Stephen Hawking said recently that for the human race to survive we must gain a foothold on another planet, and as if by divine intervention our astronomers soon found another earth-like planet in the heavens. It has a mass five times that of earth and is probably made of the same sort of rock with Read more...

Opinions - Trees Are Bastards By Sally Satan
	Now amidst all the current chatter of climate change inevitably being a Bad Thing, the still small voice of calm must be heard. How many people do you know who have died recently as a direct result of climate change? Exactly. None. And yet we go on, beating ourselves up for being human and not animal or mineral, and for ruining the planet. But we should Read more...

Opinions - The Reception of Wisdom By Kenton Hall
	There is a story that I tell. I likely tell it far too often and one of these days, a friend or family member is going to sneak up behind me and garrotte me with a length of fishing line. No, it's not the one about that. Or that one, either. Now that I think about it, there are many stories that I tell too often. However, the story I am referring to today recalls the moment Read more...

Opinions - Divided We Fall By Lee Cassanell

	"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them" Karl Marx So Tony Blair's pledge to end poverty has taken a kick in the teeth after the news that 300,000 (or 200,000 or 100,000 depending on which paper or website you read) more children have slipped below the line. Read more...

Opinions - Real Men Do Not Need Real Doll.com By Jo Allison
	At age 12, little girls and boys should put Barbie and Ken back to sleep safely in their plastic boxes, as adults move on from pretend friends, to actual ones. But for a select group of scary cyborg-lovers who prefer plastic to flesh, life size Real Dolls made from 100% silicone are the next step up from Barbie dolls. They make the perfect playmates, so I'm told. But who exactly Read more...

Opinions - Goody, Goody, Yum, Yum - Racism and Jade Goody By Lee Cassanell
	We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced; Herbert Spencer The problem with racism is there is currently no well known or vicious enough word that another race can use to discriminate against white people. In fact during an extensive search of the internet the only even mildly offensive term I could find was "Honky" and if you are white and offended Read more...

Opinions - In Response To Fiona Carr's Hands On Our Arts By Esther Windsor
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Opinions - In Response to The Mental Alchemist's Save Our Free School Meals
	Original article: 1006006399_saveschoolmeals.html Mental Alchemist shows an unerring ability to turn gold into lead with the mixture of inaccuracy, sloppy thinking, and basic political illiteracy. To start at the most basic there is not a Liberal Party Cabinet on Hull City Council. Indeed, despite all the treachery and re-branding exercises, there is not even a Liberal on the Council. Read more...