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Last Updated: 05/12/2005 18:41:43
13th October 05 - thisisUll.com Keeping It Peel at The Silhouette (1/11)
By Joe Hakim
Photographs by Darren Rogers and Mo
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I need excitement; yeah, I need it bad...
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Whenever a musical icon dies, there always follows a period where their name and
image is turned into a commodity.
The best current example would be John Lennon.
The celebration of what would have been his sixty-fifth birthday and the impending
twentieth anniversary of his death has sent the record companies and the various
conglomerates that distribute Lennon affiliated products into overdrive.
There are the inevitable greatest hits CDs, books and TV shows - as well as the
insipid documentaries and biographies claiming to reveal the real Lennon.
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It's sick as fuck really, but we all buy into it, myself included.
I don't mind admitting that I dug out a tape with Instant Karma on it the other
day in an attempt to prove to someone that Lennon's solo output wasn't entirely shit.
Okay, by the mid-seventies the fucker had totally lost it, warbling on about his
punk-bitch, Yoko every two seconds but he did write a couple of good tunes outside
The Beatles, you have to give him that.
And so, to my surprise, John Peel is thrust into this strange realm of
commercial life after death.
Books about him are sat next to CDs honouring him when you walk into Virgin Megastore.
On the adjoining shelves cut-price Undertones compilations are being flogged.
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It's weird really, because John Peel always represented outsider culture and
music, but now there's an album available featuring Dave Gilmour and The Datsuns,
so what's all that about then? I can't quite get my head around it.
Predictably, every one and their uncle has organised some kind of John Peel themed evening.
I myself have grown a beard as some sort of sideways tribute, so it's clear, for
whatever reason, that Peel's voice and image have made an impression on a lot of people.
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There is always going to be the mainstream culture that literally cashes in on an image,
but I'm happy to say that there has been a real attempt to mark the anniversary of
Peel's death with a call-to-arms for all Hull's undiscovered and unsigned bands.
And I truly believe that if there is any place, person or thing that has been truly
inspired by Peel's championing of the undiscovered, then it is thisisUll.com.
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Because I'll tell you something, the guys who put this site together are doing it for fuck all.
That's right kids, it's the love and belief in what they do that keeps them going.
It's a good job too, because in a town like Hull, no fucker likes to get involved in
things unless there's a heap of cash on offer.
As you can probably tell, I'm pretty cynical, so that gives me the ability to spot
other cynics and tell them to fuck off, sending them scattering like the three blind mice:
I'm gonna chop off yer tails yer rodent sons-a-bitches...
So click on the thisisull shop and buy a fuckin' CD, because these
guys need your support.
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Photographs courtesy and Copyright © Darren Rogers and Mo
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Music Reviews - Tuesday 15th November - She Likes Parties at The Sesh By Becky
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Over the last few weeks I have watched She Likes Parties come forward in leaps and bounds.
Having gained a reputation from Sally Likes Parties (vocals) performing a capella at
Staks cafe bar, acoustic sets at Linnet, Staks and Adelphi and drunken spur of the moment
sets in the back room of Saturday night Silhouettes, the band had a lot to live up to at
their debut gig as a full
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Music Reviews -
Scarborough Beached Festival 2005 Sunday By Michelle Dee Photos by Roland Standaert and Michelle Dee
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Sand beneath my feet, sounds of activity on the stage, blue skies overhead, sun blazing: a strange
but rather pleasant surrounding for a gig.
Amaya Huntly and Jon Neeves had the unenviable task to open the show on Sunday.
An acoustician and Keyboard duo; the highlight of their set was the Credence Clearwater Revival
cover where they proved with a strong number they can do a
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Music Reviews -
Friday 25th November 05 - Franz Ferdinand at Hull Ice Arena By Michelle Dee
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Last night probably the biggest name in recent Indie music touched down in Hull as part of their Europe-wide tour. A tour, which, will see them play thirty-seven dates in sixteen different countries.
The tickets were sold out almost as soon as they came on sale, so we knew we were in for a
packed gig with plenty of people and a great atmosphere.
The Glaswegian multi-award winners sure know
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Music Reviews -
Friday 4th November 05 - Shinobi featuring Grooverider and MC AOB at The Welly By Michelle Dee - 3 Page Photo Gallery.
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Drum n bass creeps up from your feet to your fingaz and puts a smile on everyone's face...
I am aware of the genre drum n bass or d n b as it is commonly referred.
A good few years ago I stayed by my radio all night to tape the Bristol pioneer Roni Size playing live on air.
I watched with interest a docu-road movie on LTJ Bukem and the antics of MC Conrad.
The show ended up with the
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Music Gig Gallery - 11 November 05 - Midnight Bandits, Kill Surf City, Sal Paradise and Unless at The Ringside by Michelle Dee
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Sometimes we get photographs of a Gig in without a review.
This 4 page Photo Gallery of Midnight Bandits, Kill Surf City, Sal Paradise and Unless at
The Ringside Hull
Friday 11 November 05 by By Michelle Dee. Check it out...
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Music Reviews - Sunday 6th November - Staks Battle of the Bands 05 By Michelle Dee
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On Sunday 6th of November the popular cafè bar cum restaurant on Beverley
Road held the final of the Battle of the Bands competition.
This event is not to be confused with Band Wars organised by the staff at the
Polar Bear on Springbank.
The bands that had successfully made it to the final were Hollywood, Minus 272 and the Vels.
Regular readers of this site will
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Music Gig Gallery - Tuesday 20th September - SideWinder and The Raindogs at The Sesh By Darren Rogers
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Sometimes we get photographs of a Gig in without a review.
Check out some great shots in a 5 page Photograph Gallery of SideWinder and The Raindogs
at The Sesh on Tuesday 20th September 2005 By Darren Rogers.
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Music Gig Gallery - Friday 9th September - Above It All and Your Demise At Apocalypse at The Silhouette by Michelle Dee
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Sometimes we get photographs of a past Gig in without a review.
This Photo Gallery of Above It All and Your Demise At Apocalypse at The Silhouette,
Hull Friday 9th September 2005 is by Michelle Dee with photograph production by Kayleigh Tate.
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Music Reviews - Saturday 8th October 05 - The Mardous and 59 Violets at Yo-Yo By David Thurlby Photos By Michelle Dee
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The Yo-Yo night at The Welly Club on Beverley Road is slap bang in the middle
of its most hectic period what with all the students back in place and the host of bands that
are lined up to play it's Live Lab. Tonight saw a band from just across the bridge
share a small and compact stage with some up and coming chancers from down south.
Barton's own 59 Violets
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Music Reviews - 14th August 05 - Frank's Right Hand Trouser, Shindigg, Sal Paradise and The Vultures at the Adelphi By Anthony Baine.
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So, another week, another gig.
This time it's the Paul Jackson's gaff for some of Hull's top local fare.
Sundays are usually quite hit and miss in the summer months while there are
no students about and this on this occasion I took a seat in a half-full
Adelphi just in time to witness four bands strut their stuff.
First up were The Vultures.
Hull's music scene at the moment consists mainly of
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Music Reviews - The Leeds Festival Diary - 25th to 28th August 05 By Andy Knudsen Photos by Em Alexander, Steve Clappison at (www.tallorders.org) and Sam Saunders
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In the same inexplicable way that you sometimes wake up a second or two before the alarm goes off, I wake up just before the door to the room I'm sleeping in opens. Dave bends his blonde head round the door.
"Helloo" he sings and advances into the room wearing a face like the Cheshire Cat.
I muster some kind of greeting and check my watch for the time.
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Music Reviews - Night Clubs - 26th August 05 - Eat Your Words at The Welly By Diane
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What a night to remember!
If you enjoy continuous dance music then get yourself down to Eat Your Words
at the Welly Club on Beverley Road and dance the night away like I did.
Very friendly staff as I entered the building.
Somewhere to drop your bag and coat and helpful staff at the bar if you're like me and can
never decide what you want to drink! A kind lass behind the bar offered
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Music Reviews -
Saturday 13th August 05 - Arctic Monkeys at The Silhouette by Nick Quantrill Photo Gallery by Darren Rogers
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Supported by The Applewhites, Sheffield's Arctic Monkeys rolled into Hull as the current
NME-approved future of music, and for once they might just be correct.
Despite having released just one single, the band has already toured extensively to build
a formidable word of mouth fan-base, and they look equipped to explode into the musical mainstream.
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