Saturday Night Was More Than Alright - Sidewinder , Park&Ride, Onelickless at The Adelphi - Saturday 8th May 04 By Paul Monkman

The Adelphi Club on DeGrey Street has witnessed hundreds and thousands of the city's best bands play over the years but rarely are three performances of such a high standard as the ones which entertained the crowd on Saturday night. Onelickless opened proceedings with half-an-hour of genuine rock and proved to be the perfect warm-up for what was to follow.

Fronted by an exceptionally well-dressed lead singer, the gig-opener's deeper side of music can certainly appeal to all kinds of music lovers - the Adelphi-dwelling crowd being one. Surely a band going places. Second up were Park&Ride, a band who last played with headliners Sidewinder in one of the opening heats of the Best Original Band competition at Springhead Pub, which they coincidently won.

Park&Ride's tempo was as refreshing as always, cementing their reputation as one of the city's more feel-good performers. With a gig at the famous Cavern Club in Liverpool awaiting at the end of the month, Saturday night was the perfect warm-up for the band to flex their originality muscles, which they did with Bugsy Malone's We can be whatever we want to be, which certainly didn't disappoint.

Leeds and Sheffield have also enjoyed, now Liverpool are in for a treat. After those two excellent performances, it was time for the headliners. Sidewinder are rapidly becoming one of Hull's finest properties as their feet-tapping flow of music is failing to find any detractors, and Saturday night was no exception.

With a crowd of the usual Park&Ride groupies and a fair proportion of the general public, all music tastes were catered for in Sidewinder 's repertoire, and only the hard of hearing would have failed to be impressed. Just another Saturday night at Adelphi it might have been for the bands in question, but such a trio of performances are the exact reason why Hull's music scene is becoming a force to be reckoned with once again.

Onelickless Gallery Park&Ride Gallery Sidewinder Gallery Photographs courtsey and Copyright © Mo thisisull.com

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