Friday 7th March - Hull Punk Mini-Fest Featuring The Vibrators support from The Cliques Go-Go Kings Mike Watts (1/2) Words and Pictures by Michelle Dee Punk is dead long live punk!

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

Photography Gallery Go-Go Kings Gallery,   The Cliques Gallery,   Mike Watts Gallery.   The Vibrators Gallery 1.   Gallery 2.

In a back street club in Hull, a dark dingy place that smells of piss and vomit, crazed punk fans drunk on riot and revolution, hurl themselves this way and that to raw guitar sounds and anti-establishment rhetoric. If only that were the truth. The reality however is somewhat different. Two local bands and a spoken word artist support the now aged punk outfit The Vibrators and sadly only a handful of people turn up to see them.

The Go-Go Kings fell into place last year, with a floating Steff Landau behind the kit and Ash Dreamer on lead vocals, Fegz on lead guitar and Alfie Chinese Laundry on bass. After their recent first headline gig, I was surprised to see them opening the night. Brief bursts of indie infused with assailing garage punk, much percussive attack with the odd Sunshine Underground undercurrent. Response from the crowd, for what it was, was good particularly on the favourite Runaway.

All too soon the bands shape and almost certainly sound is set to change. The possibility of Grant Paddington stepping in for Steff, whose job is to take him away from the band, was confirmed last night. At the end of the month guitarist Fegz and family leave these shores for sunny Spain. Fegz, Zoe and Daisy, their their1yr old daughter, are looking forward to a new life and fresh start in warmer climes.

Marv Dreamer is set to join the Go-Go Kings on lead guitar so this Saturday will be the last time you'll get to see them in the original line up. Go down to Piper for Yo-Yo Saturday 15th March (AndrewYo-Yo's Birthday bash) for there is no party like a Go-Go party.

Spoken word, stand up poetry - whatever you choose to call it, has been having something of a renaissance lately. In the last month, Mike Watts and Joe Hakim, have played Harrogate, Cleethorpes, York and Hull to audiences of lorcal Yorkels, studious professors and their charges, and drunken music fans. Mike Watts impressed many with his stand up poetry routine. Rocky The Rat received a vigorous round of applause as did the now published Come On You 'ull. Unfortunately he didn't get the singular attention he possibly deserved because stage hands and band members were shifting kit around him as he performed.

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Photography Gallery Go-Go Kings Gallery,   The Cliques Gallery,   Mike Watts Gallery.   The Vibrators Gallery 1.   Gallery 2.

Photographs courtsey and Copyright © 2008  Michelle Dee

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