Reply to Michelle Dee's Review of Band Wars at The Polar Bear By Nathan Walker

What a shame you had a very biased person reviewing the Polar Bear Battle Of The Bands final. A little bit of research will have shown that Jimmy Hates Willy earned their place in the final by virtue of being in the top two bands to play at each of their heats (I have a feeling they were one of the only two in each of their heats, but you know!).

As for The Cyclones being a 60s band and a function band, this is so far off the mark to be laughable. Their musically style is very clearly 50s, and not one of their numbers were covers, which surely shows the quality of their song writing if your biased reviewer thought they were covers.

I assume your reviewer was the petulant freakily dressed moron screaming in a high pitched voice about what an outrage it was at the end, it is shame I left before seeing it thrown out. And how on earth can your reviewer complain about bias, when she* puts out ill-thought out and un-researched rubbish in two pars about each of the other bands in the contest, and about 20 pars on their favourite. Is that not biased?

Also, some of the language used and the inferences made are very, very dodgy, ethically and legally. Apparently, four independent people marked each band out of ten on a number of categories, these included audience reaction, originality, gig experience, stage presence etc. The use of apparently, when it was clearly stated before during and after the event that this is how it was done, does suggest an allegation of foul play, one that I am well aware it is very unwise to make.

You see, the beauty of using judges, and not just being swayed by the band which brought the most mates along, is that they are independent and may not share the view of your reviewer. That is why they are used. I did not agree with the verdict (I thought Konscience were a bad Manics cover band) but I put it down to different people having different views. Your reviewer must have a really hard life if they get so upset about something like this. Also, could you ask this reviewer to do more articles while they are in this mood. Man landing on the Moon? Diana death an accident? UFO's at Roswell? Come on, if we are talking conspiracy theories, let's tackle the big ones.

Your reviewer was an embracement to herself*, the band it purports to support and now this website.

Editors Note:

* www.thisisUll.com reserves the right to remove or edit wording which is abusive towards an individual or group. www.thisisUll.com is a platform for individuals to voice their opinions. We have no paid writers or journalists. Website FAQ.

Opinions - Reply to Michelle Dee's Review of Band Wars at The Polar Bear By Loz Cyclone, The Cyclones

	I had to take umbrage with Michelle Dee's totally cattish and twisted so-called review of Band Wars. Admittedly, she* did provide the highlight of the evening by remonstrating with one of the judges about the unfairness of the decision to give Conscience the grand in cash. The watching Cyclones laughed at the hystericalness of it all. Now to a few facts. The Cyclones, who Read more...

Opinions - Reply to Michelle Dee's Review of Band Wars at The Polar Bear By Sue Watson

	I have just read Michelle Dee's review of the Band Wars final at the Polar Bear and I am outraged and horrified that you have allowed her to write what she did. Not only has she slandered the landlady of the Polar Bear, but also myself, as I was one of the judges that night and can assure you, I know enough about music to warrant my place as a judge. Not only have I been Read more...

Opinions - Response To Anthony Newlyne's Article By Steven Greendale
	Commenting on the article by Anthony Newlyne taking a poke at Ian Newton for his new book The Night Shift, and saying because it is six episodes of a sitcom, 'it is cheating to publish it.' : What a load of rubbish. Ian Newton is one of the best local writers Hull has produced for years, and a real character. We must all remember his antics some time ago now when he Read more...

Opinions - Hull Writer Ian Newton is Cheating By Anthony Newlyne
	Ian Newton the writer had just produced his third book. The book is six episodes of a sitcom and called The Night Shift. THIS IS CHEATING!! Obviously Ian Newton cannot get his sitcom on telly so someone has published it for him. I bought a copy of the book, and all I can say if that is the standard of comedy writing turned down by TV companies, then I have no chance, Read more...

Opinions - Rise of the Madmen By Lee Cassanell

	I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan. And I did, and then God would tell me, George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq... And I did. And now, again, I feel God's words coming to me: go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East. And by God I'm gonna do it. Read more...

Opinions - Mark Pollard's Response to a Couple of Hull's Blinkered Critics

	Well, Channel 4's rubbish programme the other week (I can't even be arsed to mention it's name any more) certainly resulted in the odd fucknut blowing the cobwebs from their PC keyboard and jumping onto that bitter little bandwagon, didn't it? You want to know what's the worst thing about Hull? It's that, like any other city, it has it's fair share of these types - the sort of Read more...

Opinions - MP Diana Johnson Uninspired by Hull By David Sloan

Hull MP Diana Johnson thinks prisoners should be allowed to vote. If she went on the streets of Hull and asked the people what they thought I'm sure she would get a very different answer. She was inspired, she says by a former inmate John Hirst, who served a life sentence for manslaughter. He mounted a legal challenge saying depriving him of his vote was against his human rights. He is now free, Read more...

Opinions - Christmas Shopping Opportunity By Mr. A.N. Gry
	Well Christmas will soon be upon us and everyone is busy getting their Christmas shopping lists ready of what to get their kids or even themselves, but unfortunately at some other poor bugger's expense! Yes, the Christmas bookings for stereos and PCs and play stations etc., etc, etc. are being taken and the opportunists are a knocking at our backdoors and windows (good job we have 3 monsters Read more...

Opinions - Amused or not, a muse on Yo-Yo By Michelle Dee
	Whilst all you scenesters were at Leeds watching the likes of The Killers, The Pixies and The Paddingtons... life continued back home. Welly on Saturday was a little emptier than previous weeks, but that just meant there was more room to move and it wasn't quite so hot. DJ Priya had a difficult job tonight due to the lack of so many regulars Read more...

Opinions - Did Hitler See the Good in Hull ? by David Sloan

	Hull has been voted Worst City in the UK to live, on a recent Channel 4 TV programme. This of course was not always the case. Before the war Hull was a prosperous important sea port. Unfortunately the last politician to recognise this was Adolf Hitler. The Germans saw Hull as a major port and manufacturing centre. That's why Hull was the second Read more...

Opinions - Bringing Me Down By Steve Stewart
	Why do others bring people down all the time? Can people not leave other people alone, or is it because some of us want to get on with our lives but others won't let us? I wrote this and would like to share it with you who read it. At the moment I am feeling that it's never going to end. Maybe, hopefully this may help some of Read more...

Opinions - Reply to Tom Hawcroft By Lee Cassanell

	Well, you rattle a cage and you get a response. Thank you from the bottom of my heart Mr Hawcroft for taking the time and effort to respond. War is indeed Hell (Yes I've seen Platoon) but when someone throws a grenade into your Garden Party I think it's only fair to throw it back so I will indeed respond to your response in the vain hope that you tear yourself away from your moral Read more...

Opinions - Letter to Tom Hawcroft From Maurice Fairfield

Dear Tom Hawcroft, I only know Lee Cassanell as an able though inferior versifier publishing in these pages (although he did call me a genius recently). Reading his vitriolic piece on the old place, I was a bit surprised by the entertaining venom until I got myself back in the Hull mindset which I remember well as generally being expressed in the form of open derision for most things and Read more...

Opinions - Regarding Tom Hawcroft's Retort to Lee Cassanell's Hull By Mark Pollard

	I'm not absolutely certain about this, but I think Tom might have been hoodwinked by a piece of ever-so-clever, post-industrial, post-modern, post-comedy, post-post-whatever, irony schmirony by Master Cassanell. Sorry - I'm being ironic myself now. Or am I? Lee - I think you need to come clean about your motivations here; something that may require a Read more...

Opinions - Retort to Lee Cassanell's Hull By Tom Hawcroft

	Lee Cassanell, when you were drafting out your masterpiece entitled simply; Hull (brilliant, just brilliant), what were you hoping to achieve? If it was to undermine and belittle the hardworking and conscientious people in this city (of which there are many), via the use of a series of independent non-factual rants then you may have succeeded. I understand this is the opinions Read more...

Opinions - Hull By Susan North

	Guess these guys never lived here in Hull and are talking through their arses. Hull is a city full of history and warm hearted people who will open their doors to anyone genuinely needing help. Always has been for centuries. OK, most cities have some bad points but that goes with the generations of the day as they Read more...

Opinions - Hull - A Letter to Jon Snow Channel 4 By Maurice Fairfield - Another program knocking Hull?

	I have lived in Australia for twenty years but I was born in Hull in 1928 and have lived with patronising contempt for the place ringing in my ears all my life. Perhaps less the town and its people in general but the working-class people who have lived with the contempt of the middle-class who lived off them and who I remember as themselves contemptible. Read more...

Opinions - Hull By By Ted Oliver (Manager of the Spring Bank Community Centre, Hull )

I moved to Hull with my parents in 1993 when I was just 13 years old, from a little village called Hunmanby, just near the popular holiday resort Primrose Valley. I must admit that my first impressions of Hull were not good, but over the last 12 years I've really come to love living and working here. Hull is a very multi-cultural city and always has been - ever since the docks first opened over 500 years ago. Read more...