Sunday 16th July 06 - Humber Fest (4/11) By Michelle Dee Photographs by Roland Standaert

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The band decided to air a few new numbers including Soft Start with the slower floating guitar line that grows quickly in to something more pop/rock based. It has the steady verse, the build up the big rock out chorus, and the big guitar finish. Thugg comes hot on its heels but is dynamically different and delivered with more of that I'll fight you tooth and nail vocal tone rather than the more melodic voice of the past. Hearing Satellite was special even more so because we were only a stone throw away from the town that inspired the song.

It ain't easy Digsy sings and he's right, it isn't easy to break out of a small town, with small town attitudes and small town romance. A second new one Crazyman crazy is driven by Bill's bass line and has rather good broken up guitar sections that surprise and challenge. The 59 Violets finish with a cover from a certain northern folk group of yesteryear. Eleanor Rigby gets a dirty rock makeover as the band trash it up and re-work The Beatles number.

H.A.T. So to Fonda 500 the best band in Hull according to many music connoisseurs. They are truly weird and definitively wondrous. Keys argue with guitar strings, drums roll out like a red carpet, creating a river of rhythm, lyrics play word games in the cool water. An adlib Happy Birthday to the bridge from the be-hatted one during one number. All the band fall away to leave the single voice saying thanks to The Bonnitts followed by a brief Queen pastiche that ends with the dominant keyboard sound ringing out.

The next number starts with a buzzing Casio then Beat boxing through sci fi madness. Quirky lines explaining the different dials switches inputs and output sockets. Unmistakably Adelphi, intense distortions, innovation and artistic oddities like an Adelphi crowd.

Perhaps Fonda could have been better appreciated, but they raised cheers and applause from groups spread out over the park, particularly when Bod was shimmying and grooving behind her keyboard adding to a tri keys clamour. Fonda 500 look great on the big stage, and demand your attention as they continue to smash the genres into tiny little pieces and grind them underfoot. Super Dashing lights? Could be, but I spent too much time enjoying the H.D.M. gag that I forgot to write down the title. Demented animal roars, man of many sounds, dedications to the faithful, electric eclectic fuzzy guitar washes, breathe in-breathe out tension and poetry, appliance of science, the science of Simon.

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	Tuesday night after running around like a blue-arsed fly I finally got to the Sesh. As ever, it was packed from the doors to the bar and getting from one to the other was going to prove problematic. Drink in hand I steered my way over to the right-hand side of the tiny stage and caught up with tonight's headliners SideWinder. Also on the bill were Tonik and new Read more...

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	Tonight saw two very different bands playing Hull. First was the hard fast rock n roll chant fest of The Strokes at the city hall, second was the electro disco sounds of Mercury signed London band The Modern. I never got to the former but I heard mixed reports about the gig. Many said it was amazing and commented on an incredible light show, whilst others said Read more...

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	As I sit here four weeks into my three month ban from Hull's premier live music venue, I can't help wondering why I am about to write yet another of my reviews. Is it to justify the wavering of the usual door charge? Is it because I told the bands in good faith that I would? Is it the fact that one day I hope someone of significance will finally recognise my genuine passion for Read more...

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	As the lights go down in and the club fills up, relatively new band Foot Loose take to the hallowed stage. The four-piece play a pleasing blend of U.S. styled popular rock. They have that unmistakable jangly guitar sound which is put to good use on song Rise and Fall. Front man has command over his voice displaying a good range and a good set of lungs. Read more...

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	Wow, what a night. First up, thanks to the hundreds that made it down to The Sesh last night at The Linnet. It really was a case of digging the new breed. Three fantastic bands and an amazing soloist. First up were The Chase, who despite losing their drummer earlier in the day due to injuries sustained in a car crash, were determined not to let anyone down. They put together a Read more...

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	It was far too cold to go out at all. You'd have to be mad. After a long day, all we could see was the front door closing for the last time, kids in bed, listening to some sounds (59 Violets, usually) and sipping our way through a bottle or two of vin rouge. Little did we know that the effort would not be without its reward. Sitting here at home, much later on Read more...

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	Thursday 19th January 2006 meant only one thing - the return for the highly popular acoustic night, Stripped. The event takes place at The Wellington Inn, just outside of the city centre, and always attracts the attention of local music lovers. As a relative newcomer to the area, a bit of research did no harm, and from what popped up in the archives, the line-up did not seem to be Read more...

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	Under The Influence celebrated its Christmas bash down at the Adelphi with a line up of rather new Hull bands them being, GST Cardinals, The Blackouts and The Chase. The billed act, !Forward Russia! sadly cancelled so promoter Dean Shakespeare had to make a few fast decisions to insure the show went on. He called upon good friends GST Cardinals to open with a very welcome Read more...