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Favourite city - favourite city in general, favourite one on the tour?
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It's tough. I like the village where I live but it's good to travel with all these gigs. We are gigging; we don't get to see much. On the European front I liked Utrecht in Holland and Metz in France. Utrecht seemed like a slightly quieter version of Amsterdam and Metz the same of Paris.
On the American tours, I loved New York. Seattle's really good, didn't get to see anything of it, it just happened to be the best turnout on the tour and the best crowd. So there's a memory of Seattle being great but I didn't really see any of it other than the venue. But yeah, I really like New York quite predictably, I also enjoyed places like L.A. Yeah it's cool.
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Favourite food?
Erm I'll have to go with pizza. I'm a really unhealthy eater, for years I didn't eat any fruit or vegetables except potatoes; that doesn't count...it's chips, its crisps, it's everything it's the super veg. Yeah for years I didn't eat any fruit and vegetables, I mean I'm getting better now, started to eat a bit more healthily now, but yeah pizza, preferably as a plate for the meat that's on top.
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Favourite Simpsons episode?
Ooh for some reason the one that springs to mind, probably because it's not shown that often, is the one where Homer goes to Rock Camp and he gets taught by Gene Simmons or Paul McCartney or someone like that. It's like a weekend thing to go and learn to be a rock star.
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I don't think I know that one.
Yeah it's a good one but so many Simpsons episodes have lost their excitement because you've seen each one a hundred times. I hope that doesn't happen to Family Guy because at the moment I love every Family Guy episode. I appreciate Simpsons is good, it's legendary, but I don't laugh out loud anymore, where as Family Guy I'm just in tears constantly.
Yeah I like Family Guy. I like the one where the dog Brian gets addicted to coke.
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Yeah that's good that's very, very good, he plays it well.
Erm have they not noticed they have a dog in their family and everyone else is just people?
I don't quite know and the baby, Stewie, is always brilliantly confusing cos...can they understand
him speaking or can they not? Sometimes it's all ignored and others it seems to be understood.
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I like that though it's good.
Do you like voices? I like voices, different voices on the radio, and newsreaders and so on from television. I liked whispering Ted Lowe and the dulcet tones of the guy who does the golf commentary. Do you like voices?
Yeah there are some good voices. I always think when we were in America the guy we were touring with
B Dolan he knows so much about hip hop.
I posed the question to him of what are your top 5 hip-hop voices cos there's been some real variation. Is it the smooth slick delivery or the more erratic Busta Rhymes, Dirty Bastard type voice?
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So yeah I'm a fan of voices, again there's the poet I mentioned earlier Inua Ellams, I don't know if he's an amazing poet or not, that's because he's got the best voice in the world. He could read the menu to me and I'd just go...(shuts his eyes as if in oratory heaven) Ahh that's beautiful.
I'm pretty sure his poems are really good or it could be he's just got the best voice.
I recommend you check him out if you're a fan of voices.
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People - Interview with Outspoken Silence By Bekki Stephenson and Michelle Dee
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This site has long been the first choice for information on the local Indie scene,
but due to the voluntary nature of submissions each and every genre does not always get covered.
One of those genres is Emo and so to remedy this we travelled to
Chocolate Factory rehearsal rooms on
Wincomlee to meet leading band Outspoken Silence.
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People - An Interview With Tajinere By Steve Rudd
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Tajinere is an extraordinary Hip-Hop artist who is based in Hull.
He's been writing songs from a young age and has recently set up his own record
label in order to better promote his music, including his recent single release Ours Tonight.
He not only dabbles in Hip-Hop, as there are plenty of other musical influences thrown
into the artful mix from Soul, Pop
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People - An Interview With James Lovegrove By Steve Rudd
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James Lovegrove is an extraordinary writer of novels in every respect imaginable.
His novels are in turns surreal, life-affirming and bizarre.
He has written a number of acclaimed novels such as The Hope and The Foreigners,
and his latest masterpiece in Provender Greed has recently been published to rave reviews.
He is also the author of Wings, a bewitching
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People - An Interview With Local Writer Ian Newton
By Jane Foster
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Ian Newton, aka Ahmed Debani, is a local writer known for his exposure of John Prescott in his book Dustbingate, which caused a scandal a few years back. Ian is also the author of two other books with a local theme - Pizza Wars, about corruption in the takeaway industry, and The Night Shift, a
comedy written in the form of a sitcom about the antics of a group of local
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People - Meet Michelle - A Tale of Two Halves By Jo Allison
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From tanning salons, to nightclubs and inventions galore, we meet Hull's most
fabulously fascinating tranny.
Michelle, or Mike, depending how you know her, proves
that transvestites are not, as widely believed, like vampires who only come out at night.
Sitting in a hotel, cigarette and coffee in hand, Michelle blends into the classy,
traditional setting.
Dressed like all the other
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People - An Interview With Hey Negrita By Steve Rudd
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Hey Negrita are an awesome Americana-laced indie-rock outfit based in London.
Fronted by singer and guitarist Felix, the band has recently released a new
single, Can't Walk Away, which is a sublimely catchy song that precedes their
forthcoming album, The Buzz Above.
Here Felix chats to Steve Rudd about their new material, touring and some of
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People - An Interview With Nick Quantrill By Steve Rudd
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Regular visitors to thisisUll.com should be familiar with the writing talents of
Nick Quantrill, as he often contributes short stories to the site.
His Complicity novella recently featured on the site, an exciting Crime Short that
was unmistakably set in Hull and that featured a number of decidedly shady characters
getting up to no good in and around various well-known
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People - The Genius of Eric Bogosian By Steve Rudd
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Eric who? Eric Bogosian!
What do you mean you've never heard of him? Ah, well that's your loss, ain't it?
Still, there is a chance that you might have seen him and not even realised it, as he's
appeared in numerous US movies such as Under Siege 2 and Dolores Claiborne for starters.
Having said that, over in the US he's probably far better
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People - Interview with Afterglow By Michelle Dee Photographs By Ashleigh
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Bathing in the Afterglow at Quintessential Sessions Quayside
The latest band to catch my ear Afterglow, take their name from the nineteen sixty-eight,
Mod anthem Afterglow (of your love) by East end boys The Small Faces.
I met up with the fresh faced group in new music venue Quayside, where they were
playing live later
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People - An Interview With Peter Moore By Steve Rudd
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Peter Moore has been described as the Jim Carrey of travel-writing,
and whoever boldly coined such a cunning comment actually isn't half wrong.
Anybody who has read any of Peter's genuinely madcap travel books, such as
The Wrong Way Home or The Full Montezuma, will surely agree, as he manages
to negotiate all manner of
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People - An Interview With Woody Woodmansey By Steve Rudd
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Brace yourselves, one and all. Michael Collins, who is actually related to
the famous Irish Nationalist of the same name, is the author of acclaimed novels
The Keepers of Truth, The Resurrectionists and Lost Souls.
He has just finished tying up all the loose ends of his latest story in
The Secret Life Of E. Robert Pendleton, which is due to hit bookstores
very soon indeed.
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People - An Interview With William Landay By Steve Rudd
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William (or Bill, for short) Landay is a hot new American crime writer who has recently published
his debut novel - Mission Flats - to widespread critical acclaim.
William is currently hard at work on his second novel, which is due to be published next year.
Still, amidst his busy writing schedule, William kindly managed to take a little time out to
chat exclusively to Steve Rudd
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People - An Interview With Peter May By Steve Rudd
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I'd like to introduce you to Peter May, a writer of thriller novels that
are genuinely exhilarating affairs from start to finish.
Peter is famous for writing his series of China Thrillers - a
series that includes his Firemaker novel, along with the racy
Snakehead story that is set in Texas.
Peter always carries out intensive research into the places in
which he sets his stories; he also
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People - An Interview With Peter Gadol By Steve Rudd
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Peter Gadol is the exciting author of a number of uniquely
exhilarating novels including the deliciously dark, drama-driven thriller
The Long Rain.
His latest novel is Light at Dusk, and here he spares some time
to chat to Steve Rudd exclusively about his life and times, and trials and
tribulations as a highly respected and hugely talented writer of the type
of stories that
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People - An Interview With Meg Gardiner By Steve Rudd
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Meg Gardiner is an incredible Thriller writer, brought up in
the US but currently residing in the UK. Her debut novel called China Lake
provided the perfect showcase for her amazing talents, and since its publication
there has been no stopping her when it comes to writing novels, with
Mission Canyon, Jericho Point and Crosscut being other well-known books of
hers that been
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