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Last Updated: 16/01/2008 14:45:04
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Album Reviews - Blue Sand - Changed Names and Slaves EP By Michelle Dee
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I was given the enigmatically titled Blue Sand EP and after a couple of hearings I was hooked.
Blue Sand have played the Linnet and Lark on Princes Avenue and the newly refurbished Ringside venue in recent weeks.
The title track has a touch of early Placebo
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Album Reviews - The Alarm - In The Poppyfields
(12-track album - Snapper Music - 2004) By Steve Rudd
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25 years down the punk-rock 'n' roll line and The Alarm - assembled around the ever-photogenic mainman Mike Peters - is still going strong.
In fact, the Cardiff-based Alarm's ringing louder than ever on the back of some fabulous media exposure that vaulted right around the world and back because of the fact that Mike craftily decided
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Album Reviews - CD Reviews - Emma Rugg - When I Looked at You (single)
By Steve Rudd
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Still riding high on the uber-successful crest of her astounding debut album Isolated Impression, Emma's first glimmer of new work comes in the form of this exceptional song.
On the back of her album, Emma ventured Stateside to record a couple of songs with Michigan songwriter
Read more...
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Album Reviews - Cracktown - Songs in the Key of Fuck Off
(Pure West) By Steve Rudd - With the Knighthood Video!
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This gloriously outspoken Hull-based outfit revolves around the musical and lyrical talents of, err.. Silver Fox and King Rat?!?!!!!!
Mmm - so says the CD cover!
I don't honestly know why the two guys who shield their identities under the murky guise of Cracktown don't want their
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Album Reviews - Ricky - The Summer Sun Still Echoes
By Nick Quantrill
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Why exactly is there a review of a band from Portsmouth on a website about Hull you're probably thinking?
I could talk about the similarities between the two cities as a reason, well, the naval traditions of them.
I think I still feel deprived that my only school trip whilst at Hull Trinity House was a rather tedious
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Album Reviews - The Uncle Devil Show -
A Terrible Beauty (P3 Music)
By Steve Rudd
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The Uncle Devil Show is actually a trio of very experienced and hugely respected musicians, all three of them Scottish.
Just like ex-Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker has recently emerged from the dark with an identity crisis on his part to play in the
Cocker-disguised Relaxed Muscle incarnation, ex-Del Amitri frontman Justin Currie is one of the prime components of this new band (who's now ominously known as Jason Barr), who's
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Album Reviews - Todd Rundgren -
Liars (Sanctuary Records)
By Steve Rudd
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All of these songs are about a paucity of truth. At first they may seem to be about other things, but that is just a reflection of how much dishonesty we have accepted in our daily lives.
We are raised from birth to believe things that cannot be proven or that are plainly not true.
People will often brag of their honesty, when there is so much they have simply chosen to ignore or leave
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Album Reviews -
Cathy Davey - Something Ilk (album/ Regal) By Steve Rudd
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This 14-track release is an infinitely interesting and beautifully conceived album, opened with Come Over,
which is reminiscent of the sultry sounds that Italian-born singer-songwriter Elena is making.
Complete with a cool riff and sexed-up PJ Harvey-esque swagger, this is
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Single Reviews - Still Life at the wheel By Michelle Dee
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After a promising start, a distinctive vocal, which can only be described through emotions rather than words,
tells a story of a road trip gone sour.
Short chords punctuate the verse and, at the wheel, gathers pace.
The chorus kicks in followed by rolling guitars.
One or two of the backing vocals seem superfluous but
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Single Reviews - Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue (Parlophone) By Steve Rudd
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Release Date: September 6th 2004.
It's been one hell of a couple of years for this American pop-punk-rock quintet, and deservedly so.
This is the title track from their ever-so-popular Ocean Avenue album that was released to instant
acclaim earlier this year, and - somewhat
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Single Reviews - Sam Roberts Band - Brother Down
By Steve Rudd
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Release Date: August 30th 2004.
This guy - and his band - has long been big business in Canada from where they hail, going so far as
to be awarded with Best Artist and Best Album awards at this year's Juno Awards.
Now it's time for the UK to see and hear what all the amassed fuss
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Single Reviews - Ricky - That Extra Mile/Beat The Best Out Of Me By Nick Quantrill
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Release date - 6th September, 2004.
Following hot on the heels of acclaimed debut album, The Summer Sun Still Echoes, Portsmouth's finest,
Ricky return with a double A-side that will (hopefully) accompany some long awaited summer sun.
The single picks up
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Single Reviews - The Hot Puppies - Green Eyeliner (single/ PURR) By Steve Rudd
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Release Date: September 27th 2004.
I've got a funny feeling that this Aberystwyth quintet is about to become very well known indeed
over here in England, following a prolonged spell of relative fame in Wales, courtesy of their
last Dawn Of Man release
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Single Reviews -
The Beastie Boys, Death Cab For Cutie and The Departure By Steve Rudd
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After all these years, The Beastie Boys are still making amazing music, here
presenting the second single of 2004 from their To The 5 Boroughs album.
These Manhattan-obsessed guys have long been respected for their refreshing fusion of
rap, hip-hop and dance elements, and if
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Single Reviews -
Single of Week - Cornershop Presents: Bubbley Kaur Topknot By Lee Cassanell
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Only in a world of George Bush and Sudanese Genocide could Busted be riding high in
the Charts with the theme from Thunderbirds so in the spirit of such rampant insanity
I've decided to make a little deal with you the good people of Kingston upon Hull.
Every Saturday I'm going
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CD Reviews -
What Ya Cryin' For by The Landau's - By Tony Bates, Jim Hines and Leigh Lee-Roy Stancliffe (Aussie Radio)
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Every now and then a new band comes along, complete with biography promising a new
sound and telling one and all that to miss this band and their release will be at their peril.
I've heard it all before; haven't you?.
Well this time I have to say that I have received a couple of releases from
The Landau's, but without the usual hype.
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Album Reviews -
Michelle's CD choice of the moment CRUSH double CD by Polygram T.V.
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Where did all the good stuff go, those great bands of the nineties with cool
sounding one-word names like Dodgy, Lush and Pulp etc.
The t-shirts were tight fitting, brightly coloured with trims on neck and sleeves.
The band logos were unobtrusive in trendy oval shaped designs.
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Single Reviews -
Agent Blue, Cherry Falls and Elena
By Steve Rudd
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Brazenly busting out of Stoke-on-Trent, this punk-spirited rock 'n' roll bunch of boys
means business.
This is their second single, and although it is only 2 minutes 20 seconds in length,
the quality of the music more than outweighs the accompanying quantity.
Armed with
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Single Reviews -
Ryan Adams, The Divine Comedy and The Beta Band By Steve Rudd
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Something of a bizarre choice of song for this North Carolina-hailing genius to cover,
but Ryan sings and plays this Oasis classic anthem wonderfully.. and, in doing so,
stamps an astonishingly original seal of style on the tune.
This cover version also actually features on his heart-attackingly
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Album Reviews -
The harriWattsband - Comin' Out
By Elsie Creek
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The harriWattsband, purveyors of fine melodies, have finally decided to take the momentous
step for which we have waited so long. Comin' out.
I have been honoured with the task of communicating to you the important knowledge: has it been
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Album Reviews -
The Landau's - What Ya Crying For Pre-release CD Single. By Darren Bunting
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The Landau's second CD single What Ya Cryin For shows quite a step forward in production,
song writing abilities and out and out confidence from their first release Sweet But True.
it is very easy to forget this band are still only teenagers on the evidence of their recordings.
CD opener What Ya Crying For
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Album Reviews -
Marlowe - Popularity Gel (single/ Probe Plus) By Steve Rudd
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With no fewer than eight band members involved, Marlowe songwriter and assumed ringleader
is a brave man by the name of Simon Bradshaw, who shares the vocal duties with
Chloe Mullett's sensual voice.
John Peel is alleged to be a big fan of the band, and their third album is already
on the way, so why
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Album Reviews - Razorlight - Up All Night (album/ Vertigo)
By Steve Rudd
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The rise and rise and rise and rise in popularity of Razorlight, frankly, has been utterly extraordinary.
It seems, in just a few precious weeks, that they have been elevated way above their hard-working class
roots into relative superstars, given the huge
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Album Reviews - X Is Loaded - Raw Nerve (album/ Music For Nations) By Steve Rudd
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This Bath-based band is one of the hottest and most exciting rock bands to really
step-out in the past couple of years, blasting out with sky-scraping Emo-rock guitars,
beguilingly soulful vocals (delivered by photogenic frontman Jake) and plenty of
on-stage energy necessary to enthrall anyone who has ever had
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Album Reviews - Salako - The Story Of Our Life So Far
By Nick Quantrill
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Oh, the frustration of being a music fan. After whining long and hard about how recent years have been a
lean period for good music and searching high and low for things for something to excite my ears,
it came as somewhat of a surprise to find it lurking under my nose in Hull.
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Album Reviews - The Trailers - From The Top - 7 track EP - By the Sea By Steve Rudd
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The DIY punk ethic is still alive and kicking, even down the East Coast of England in the semi-sunny seaside town of Bridlington.
While there aren't many great bands kicking-out of Bridlington at the moment (save for the mighty Goth-Rock spectacular that is Torso Horse)
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Album Reviews - Blue Sand - Changed Names and Slaves EP By Michelle Dee
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I was given the enigmatically titled Blue Sand EP and after a couple of hearings I was hooked.
Blue Sand have played the Linnet and Lark on Princes Avenue and the newly refurbished Ringside venue in recent weeks.
The title track has a touch of early Placebo
Read more...
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Album Reviews - The Alarm - In The Poppyfields
(12-track album - Snapper Music - 2004) By Steve Rudd
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25 years down the punk-rock 'n' roll line and The Alarm - assembled around the ever-photogenic mainman Mike Peters - is still going strong.
In fact, the Cardiff-based Alarm's ringing louder than ever on the back of some fabulous media exposure that vaulted right around the world and back because of the fact that Mike craftily decided
Read more...
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Album Reviews - CD Reviews - Emma Rugg - When I Looked at You (single)
By Steve Rudd
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Still riding high on the uber-successful crest of her astounding debut album Isolated Impression, Emma's first glimmer of new work comes in the form of this exceptional song.
On the back of her album, Emma ventured Stateside to record a couple of songs with Michigan songwriter
Read more...
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Album Reviews - Cracktown - Songs in the Key of Fuck Off
(Pure West) By Steve Rudd - With the Knighthood Video!
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This gloriously outspoken Hull-based outfit revolves around the musical and lyrical talents of, err.. Silver Fox and King Rat?!?!!!!!
Mmm - so says the CD cover!
I don't honestly know why the two guys who shield their identities under the murky guise of Cracktown don't want their
Read more...
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