Thursday December 14th 06 - The Dirty Dreamers, The Johnsons and The Blueprints at New Adelphi Club (2/3) By Michelle Dee and Rachel Photo Gallery by Michelle Dee

(1/3), (2/3), (3/3).

Photograph Gallery   The Blueprints Gallery,   The Johnsons Gallery,   The Dirty Dreamers Gallery 1,   Gallery 2,

Herbert and So Easy followed with Ben and Danny (song-smith and rhythm guitar) getting into their stride. He appeared to be enjoying himself alongside Matty bassist. Every time Matty plays he gets more entertaining, moving and a grooving to Dan's huge beats. Tonight the young bassist played, whilst perfecting a delicious pout.

In between songs a new dynamic within the band develops with Matt and Ben's clash of the accents, Ben defends his Lancashire roots with gusto. Matt's attempts at a Blackburn brogue resembled a gnarled Cornish farmer clearing trespassers off his land much to our amusement.

The song Where's Mike follows after the onstage jibing and Matty -once again- removes his shirt, much to the delight of the ladies in the crowd. My Old Friend, the next song could well be the Gina of 2007. Upbeat with plenty of attack and a shout out sing along chorus made this another one to look out for. Gina (no-one's ever seen her) still stands as one of the best songs to come out of Hull in the last three years, and tonight is relished by everyone.

Carnivore, newly worked, which can be found on the Sesh 4 CD is proving a winner every time. Once more The Johnsons had the crowd from first note to last and promise much for 2007.

The shouts of Dreeeeemers! were ringing around the Adelphi long before the popular four piece took to the stage. The Dirty Dreamers and the management team behind them were one of the hardest working, most gigging and possibly most successful Hull outfits of 2006. They leapt ahead of the other bands playing packed gigs throughout the year sometimes four in one week. They played many of the bigger venues up and down the country including supporting The Paddingtons on their winter tour. And provided many with a highlight early on in the gig calendar us included, with the legendary trip to Lark In The Park, Islington.

The band went through a number of bassist changes losing Keith claiming Carlos then replacing Carlos in favour of Marv ex-Vels drummer.

Throughout these changes The Dirty Dreamers continued to gig in and but more out of town. They acquired thousands of Myspace friends, attracted the attention of labels, venues, promoters and the NME. And were handpicked to play the Unsigned Stage at Leeds Festival as well as playing alongside fellow Hull bands at Humberfest 06.

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Photographs courtsey and Copyright ©  Michelle Dee 2006

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