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Music Reviews - The Saved, still life and We Start Fires at Under the Influence
	Billed as Ball crunching guitars with tingly piano riffs. These female pop punkers kick arse (NME). I was delighted to see some females at last (yes, I know you're out there). A girl band? No, not quite. The drummer is a bloke! The line-up looks terrific ... Read more...

Music Reviews - A Champion Night - Welly Club 16th January By Cilla and Greg
	One cold night in January (actually it was bloody freezing) my mate Greg and I went along to the Welly for a night with Champion Sound, the Reggae and Dancehall magicians who are currently gracing the Hull night club scene with their individual and blistering repertoire. We arrived early - about 10.15 and the club had a cold feel. There was a steady trickle of people arriving and after an hour or so, so the music began to build .. Read more...

Music Reviews - Pave - Promotional CD by Nick Quantrill
	It's often said that bands use the opportunity of recording as a means of 'capturing the live sound.' What a load of cack! It's an opportunity to sound better than you do live! Due to the pressures of working far faster than a signed band would be expected to, and in lower quality studios, the recording process must be incredibly difficult for your average Hull band. Read more...

Music Reviews - The Landau's - Sweet But True (single/ DAGALOST Records) By Steve Rudd
	Hull's something of a hotbed for cool indie-rock bands, and The Landau's - along with Still Life - are one of the freshest bands forging ahead within such a musical genre. An exclusively laddish quartet, this is the young band's first major release, and has been recorded at the city's famous Fairview Studios. The production qualities are fantastic, Read more...

Music Reviews - Pave - Linnet and Lark 05 February 2004 by Nick Quantrill
	2004 hasn't been the greatest years so far. It kicked off more than adequately in the Old Town Square of Prague but went rapidly down hill from there. Returning home I battled unsuccessfully against tonsillitis for a couple of weeks before slipping on the ice and breaking two fingers! Almost recovered, I decided to unleash myself upon Hull once again. The return of 'The Sesh' at Linnet and Lark seemed as good any place... Read more...

Music Reviews - Komplikated at theTurnpike Thursday 5th Feb By Scarrie
	This was the first time I'd seen the Hull 5 piece in action but I'd heard good things and I wasn't disappointed. The band certainly aren't lacking in talent, Leah (lead vocals) has a stunning voice complemented by some fine guitar work. The indie/pop rock songs quickly have you tapping your hands, feet (or whatever bodily instrument you choose) and singing along. Read more...

Misic Reviews - Birthday Party with a Difference - February 1st at the Adelphi By Sue Watson.
	The day didn't start too well. One of the top bands (Shindigg) informed me that their drummer had quit the band and wouldn't be coming (Ouch). Luckily for me the other 3 members have an alter-ego (The Flatmates) and they agreed to open the event. I wondered how the Goths and young punks would take to them, but I was pleasantly surprised and they were very well received. Read more...

Music Reviews - still life and Sidewinder play the Welly Club Late Nite Line-up 13th November By Cilla.
	A fabulous live band. Honestly, I feel so privileged to have seen these guys right now. They're tight. They're all connected by an invisible thread. They kind of flow into each other - I guess its what you might call synergie. I've got to say they seem to have it all - even pyrotechnics! Read more...

Music Reviews - Stereophonics & Tim Burgess Hull Arena 10/11/2003.
	By Nick Quantrill I'm not quite sure why I was actually at the gig in the first place. I think it was the fact the gig was actually in Hull. With Hull suffering from an acute shortage of larger venues, you kind of get accustomed to either travelling around the country to see bands or catching them at small venues on their way up or sometimes down. Read more...

Music Reviews - Tired of hearing the same old songs?
	By Mike Richmond. Hull is a city full of musical talent. Look at a flyer for the Adelphi any day of the week and you'll see three or four bands, the majority of them from the local area, with one thing in common. They are all playing entirely original sets. As a musician, you face a choice early on, when you learn to play your instrument. Read more...

Misic Reviews - The best way to spend a Sunday! Hull's Adelphi 1st February 04 By Mike Burton.
	Well, we arrived late and caught the Bob Monkhouse dedicated last song from Killer of Saints, best described as "Nirvana get heavy!" Then it was the turn of prepubescent punkers, Mad Crowd Disease. We didn't actually get to see much of the band due to flailing of arms and thrashing of limbs, but the set was promising none the less. Stained with Offspring style guitars, occasionally breaking into .. Read more...

Music Reviews - Night of the Sidewinder - Silhouette Club 24th January 04 By Lee Cassanell
	Sidewinder have the moves and the tunes to become the darlings of the Hull Music scene which is exploding with milky white talent at this present moment in time. Read more...

Band Reviews - Badness and All Mod Cons at the Piper Club - 29th Dec 03 by Jane Foster
	I went to see Hull's favourite Madness cover band - Badness- at the Piper club on Newland Ave. They were supported by All Mod Cons, who are a tribute to The Jam. It was a fantastic night.. I'm old enough to remember Madness quite well, I confess..although at the time I wasn't particularly into them, they were definitely a band for the lads. Read more...

Music Reviews - Drypool Hulls Best Band By Rob Dolman
	In my opinion, the best band in Hull at the minute is Drypool. I have seen all the rest -Diablo, Turismo, The Raywells, The favours etc. etc. Yawn, Yawn. I mean these bands tout themselves as original. C'mon, some cover bands are more original than this lot. Drypool are tight, musically creative and no two songs sound alike. I really recommend them.. Read more...

Music Reviews - Die for, Silence in the Streets, Mourning Wood - Adelphi 23rd December By Marcus Lewis
	I, like many others, began the night with disappointment at the news that The Freaks Union were unavailable to play, after being on the bill. However, it was two days before Christmas and I was determined to have my drinks and enjoy some live talent. I understood the bulk of the bands were .. Read more...

Music Reviews - SIT UP and Listen to Riley by Cilla
	Dave Robertson, Riley song writer has a way with words. You can just hear a ghost of a twang of his Liverpudlian accent come through. Just enough to melt one or two hearts, I suspect. And the tunes? Well, I can't stop listening. They stick in your brain. Sit Up, the single from their new EP is, to me, their most memorable song. The lyrics are simple; like the Sunday morning when you woke up .. Read more...

Music Reviews - Miss Black America at the Adelphi Wednesday 10th December By Cilla
	I was as always, in a blind panic - half an hour to get ready (unheard of - and a girl my age needs time to apply the slap!) - late news that Miss Black America were playing at the Adelphi - tonight - the band that apparently John Peel (my hero) had heralded as 'the next big thing' ... and the batteries for the camera still hadn't recharged from the its last outing .... Late again, but the Adelphi was really heaving - obviously more people read the Daily Mail.. Read more...

Music Reviews - DJ DEFUNKT AND BEATMASTER WRIGHT at the Adelphi by Carolyn
	Now then all! As usual a review or two from me - better late than never!! I hope that you are all well and have been partying hard to get into the Christmas Spirit this year. It's been a busy year, especially for all those involved in thisisull.com. It has literally gone from huge to massive for this website and there have been some fantastic events covered by all the reviewers. Read more...

Music Reviews - Shindigg/Silence in the Streets/Build Up to Nothing/Killer of Saints/The Flatmates Adelphi, Hull
	by Eammon Chirdlich - Sunday 30th Nov. I arrived at the Adelphi with some trepidation - an afternoon of live music with five bands, only one of which I'd seen live before and from their names, it sounded like a real mixed bag. Nevertheless, I paid my three pounds and prepared.. Read more...

Music Reviews - Sidewinder, still life and Martyn Wharrie Adelphi Club 20th November by Cilla and Mo
	We started off the evening badly by arriving late at the gig. Shame on us, we missed most of the first performance. However, what I did hear made me want to listen. Mo came along too and he was knocked out - by all the musicians we saw. I think he thought I was exaggerating when I raved about still life and Sidewinder in my last review - until he saw for himself. Read more...

Music Reviews - Silhouette Club - Friday 14th November 12 Inch Thumpers Tour - Headlining: Jason Nawty
	I've decided that I want to write this review anonymously. The reasons for this I'll try to make clear: I'm sorry, Silhouette, but your staff are the worst 'team' my friends and I have come across in Hull. Your doorstaff act like untrained monkeys, your bar staff walk around like they work in a funeral parlour and the only member of staff who was very pleasant and witty was the cloakroom attendant. Read more...

Music Reviews - Silhouette club, Shaun Ryder DJ at the Tube indie night by Allen Miles
	Cilla suggested that I go with a friend down to the Silhouette club in Park Street on Saturday night, to see the infamous ex-Happy Mondays and Black Grape frontman Shaun Ryder DJ at the Tube indie night. A fine idea. For those of you who have never been, silhouette is quite a small club which is centered by it's massive dance floor, surrounding this is a concourse which forms the rest of the main room of the club. Read more...

Music Reviews - Pave Perform at the Linnet and Lark
	by Nick Quantrill 23rd October 2003 Pave were the latest band to perform on the Thursday evening session in the Linnet and Lark and showed what an exciting development they are in the local music scene. It has been far too many years since a band in the city have actually looked determined to demand that people take notice of them. Read more...

Music Reviews - Turismo, Hull Adelphi, 29th September by Albert Dukes.
	Being a member of Turismo must make for a busy life; What with running what is easily the best looking and informative website of Hull's bands, giving seemingly endless interviews and press releases to the Hull Daily Mail - they're also the most written about band in the locality, too. Add to that the fact that they've recently lost a guitarist/vocalist and have introduced a fair bit of new material in their live set Read more...