Our Experience of The Stop Out Festival, Queens Gardens - Saturday 5th June By Lee Kelly and Joe Marshall- Reignmaker

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We found out some time ago that we would be playing Queens Gardens in the Stop Out Festival and from the outset were very very excited about it. It would be the biggest crowd we have had the privilege to play to and get a chance to play along side some of the biggest names in Hull like Turismo, Age of Jets, and The Landaus, so as the time drew nearer we got even more nervous and excited about it...

When we arrived we saw that there were already over 100 people there and this was at the start of the day (12pm) and we were contemplating how many people would be there later when we played as we were pretty late on in the billing, we were also nervous about what people might think of us.

The first band we got chance to see was Age of Jets and was surprised to see that they used an odd looking instrument from the sound effects dept of an old time movie making company called a Theremin look it up it's a strange instrument, and it made there sound very unique they went down really great with the crowd and the sound through the HPSS setup was awesome.

The next band we got the chance to see was Turismo. Straight away you could tell why they're one of the biggest bands in Hull. Straight after them came The Bonnitts and the crowd really got into their sound. We went on after them and at this point there were probably just short of 300 people there and we as a band were all quiet nervous.

When our time came we decided to wake everyone up and Jason our singer decided to coax the crowd into coming right up close to the stage. Some of the audience obliged and with that we went straight into one of the songs from our forthcoming single called My Hell .

We could see it was a winner straight away as more and more people approached the stage heads rocking with the music. We carried on with our own-penned songs and people really enjoyed it from what we could see. To end our time on stage we decided to cover I Believe In A Thing Called Love by The Darkness and the crowd went wild with that one! We could see people mouthing the words as they bobbed there heads in appreciation.

In Conclusion, the day went without a glitch for everyone including the organizer, Ripon from Genius Marketing and those in benefit of the day The Princes Trust. The only thing to let down the whole day was the weather as it was overcast most of the day but this didn't dull anyone's spirit.. Hulls Music scene over the past 5 years has grown tremendously and this festival is an ode to that fact, Hull is on the music map and is growing by the day

Rock on you Music Lovers... www.Reignmaker.co.uk

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