Fraction of the Cost, Displacements, Cracktown, Jenny Bromley Unite Against Fascism Sunday 19th September - Ringside by Daniel Laney

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I've always admired the second floor function room at the Ringside bar. It looks and feels like a cheesy, but not tacky cabaret bar from Blackpool. If you were to glance at the stage you could imagine various acts leaping out at you from behind the curtains and annoying the hell out of you for half an hour whilst you drink several pints of Fosters and laugh at the ventriloquist ripping the fat man in the audience to bits.

But the reason that I admire this function room so much is because nine times out of ten the acts that perform on stage are a complete contrast to its surroundings. There is a hum of electrons booming out of the PA, its enough to drive anyone mad, but Jenny Bromley, tonight's first act, dares to fight the buzz with her powerful and melancholy tones and wins. A newcomer into the ever-growing Hull music scene Jenny Bromley has so much potential to make a big name for herself and tonight shows us why. You can soon forget about the annoying PA buzz and focus on a very different style of music.

With stand out tracks such like How Do You Feel? I can imagine Jenny's music opening a Quintin Tarentino movie. Very dark and very sensual anyone who is listening will be more than intrigued to listen and look into the songs meanings. The only downside to Jenny's style is that her guitar parts sound very similar and sometimes its hard to find where one song ends and the other begins.

Blues, folk and grunge rapped into one, a very original approach to music but yet Jenny is able to keep the songs sturdy and makes it possible for us to look at the songs as one original style of music. Cracktown have a message to spread this evening and the audience is perfect to hear it. Very political and very conscious about the state of the world in which we live they are able to challenge that negative energy into fun up beat folk songs.

I don't really want to talk about the kind of influences that are noticeable with Cracktown or the different styles which come through, but it has to be said they are just a great live act and perfect for this evening. If you want to get a bit deeper with their style and their messages check them out as soon as you can, but its hard to describe and inspirational lecture that comes out through music.

The youngest band of the evening takes to the stage next. Displacements are not the most political band around but that doesn't mean that they are not aware of social issues. They sing about girls and sound like Blink 182 but they have heart and have obviously drawn in a large percentage of the audience this evening, an audience that can open their minds to issues being raised. Seven songs in and half an hour later we can see that Displacements are genuinely nice guys and I hope they do well for themselves in the future.

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