13th October 05 - thisisUll.com Keeping It Peel at The Silhouette (11/11) By Joe Hakim Photographs by Darren Rogers and Mo

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Darren Rogers Photograph Gallery   The Vultures Gallery ,    BlueSand Gallery ,    The Johnsons Gallery,    59 Violets Gallery 1,    Gallery 2,    The Dirty Dreamers Gallery 1,    Gallery 2,    Gallery 3,    People Gallery.

Mos Photograph Gallery   The Johnsons Gallery ,    59 Violets Gallery ,    Sidewinder Gallery,    People Gallery.

The Hull music needs to be written about properly. There needs to be reviews of demos, gigs and interviews with bands - all that shit - every week. Believe me, I'd love to do it, but I just can't commit right now. I've promised a lot of people stories, so I've got a backlog of stuff to get finished before I commit to anything else. Besides, I need money for beer and fags in order to make it through a gig, and I don't have it. So why don't you lot get writing? Yeah you, the ones reading this ... I know what you're thinking: What, all thirty-six of us?

But when you take into consideration that approximately ten of you will be reading this by mistake, because you took a wrong turn when you entered Buck Rogers into google-search. And then another six of you will have only clicked on to look at the photos.

But of the ten or so remaining (are you keeping up with this?), I reckon at least three of you could be decent writers yourself. Darren Rogers and Roland Standaert and people like that are always at gigs, so more often than not there will be some photos to go with your review. And just because I waffle on for pages doesn't mean you have to; it can be as short and straight-to-the-point as you want. So get fuckin' scribbling.

And once again I'm laying down a challenge to the Hull Daily Fail. I've slagged them off before, and they've increased their coverage and they've put in the Q&A section in Tuesday's music section ... but it's still not good enough.

One week it's The Dirty Dreamers, the next week it's a Neil Diamond tribute act or some other shite. There's no consistency.

And why do they insist on using the same old publicity photos over and over again? Everything I've read about the Paddingtons has been accompanied by one of the same three photos that they've used before. Where are the latest live shots of bands? Why don't they do studio shoots so they have a record of all that's going on?

I think the problem is that they still haven't quite grasped just what's going on. After the release of First Comes First, Clensey and Midgely had one of their pointless debates about whether its release signaled the start of a musical renaissance in Hull. They couldn't see that it is already happening, and has been happening for well over a year.

Anyway, that's me done, at least for the time being. I'd just like to quickly thank all the people that have supported while I've been doing this music stuff - you know who you are. Be seeing you.

Check the thisisUll.com Gallery Photographs courtesy and Copyright © Darren Rogers and Mo

Darren Rogers Photograph Gallery   The Vultures Gallery ,    BlueSand Gallery ,    The Johnsons Gallery,    59 Violets Gallery 1,    Gallery 2,    The Dirty Dreamers Gallery 1,    Gallery 2,    Gallery 3,    People Gallery.

Mos Photograph Gallery   The Johnsons Gallery ,    59 Violets Gallery ,    Sidewinder Gallery,    People Gallery.

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