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Nick is a brilliant writer who's contributions to thisisUll.com
include food, theatre, books and music reviews alongside sports and articles.
Nicks contributions are listed below..
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Album Reviews - Sixty 6 - Crash and Burn By Nick Quantrill |
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Sixty6 are an exciting power-pop three-piece from York who are
starting to make waves across the country and attract the interest of major label record companies.
The band confirms this potential with the release of the CD, Crash and Burn.
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Album Reviews - Holly Taymar - Less Than Nothing (GenieCake Records) By Nick Quantrill
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Less Than Nothing is the debut release from York based record label GenieCake Records.
GenieCake Records is an ambitious new project created by sisters, Catherine Cowan
and Lisa-Marie Baker, with the intention of nurturing the talent
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Album Reviews - Sidewinder CD By Nick Quantrill
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With their high quality and energetic live shows, Sidewinder are regarded as one of the finer Hull bands.
Looking as comfortable playing to a packed house at the Kingston Communications Stadium as they do
playing in the local pub, Sidewinder have demonstrated their ability to capture the
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Album Reviews - Silver Sun - Disappear Here (Invisible Hands Records) By Nick Quantrill
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Back in the days of Brit Pop, when guitar bands desperately aped Oasis, one band was bucking
this trend by trying to assert some individuality and kick back against the corporate sea of mediocrity.
Despite several chart-hits and an ever growing live following, Silver Sun were
amongst the
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Reviews, Theatre - Julius Caesar at Hull Truck Wednesday 10th November 04 By Nicholas Boldock
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Predictably, Hull Truck dispenses with tradition for this pulsating performance
of one of Shakespeare's most ambitious plays. The differences between Godber's version
and Shakespeare's are glaring - an original cast of 51 is slashed to just 6 actors
(although most of them play multiple roles)
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Reviews, Theatre - Gaffer! at York Theatre Royal By Nick Quantrill
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Gaffer! is a one-man black-comedy which sees Deka Walmsley deliver a convincing
portrayal of a variety of comedy football characters and caricatures.
The central character is George, manager of struggling Northbridge Town.
George and Northbridge Town are old school. George has strong socialist values
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Music Reviews - Josh Rouse and Tim Keegan at Pocklington Arts Centre - November 22nd 2004 By Nick Quantrill
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Pocklington Arts Centre is a beautifully intimate all seated venue.
It's the perfect venue for tonight's gig. With high sound quality and acoustics, it's no
wonder so many acts speak well of this little known venue. Tonight saw one of America's finest
singer-songwriters, Josh Rouse, take to its stage
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Reviews, Theatre - Fields of Gold at Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough By Nick Quantrill
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For some time now thisisUll.com has been bringing news
and reviews of events that are happening in Hull.
It is quite noticeable that what is going unreported is what's happening in the near-by towns
surrounding the city of Hull.
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Coming Up - What's on - Pocklington Arts Centre (Autumn 2004) By Nick Quantrill
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Boasting 109 performers over 29 events, a huge array of talent is coming to Pocklington Arts Centre this autumn. Conveniently located between Hull and York on the A1079, Pocklington Arts Centre is an intimate 200 seat theatre hosting a wide variety of live music, comedy, drama and workshops.
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People - An Interview with Joesolo by Nick Quantrill
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Joesolo is the alter ego of Paul Thompson, formerly of Hull
guitar-pop outfit Lithium Joe.
As the band's songwriter and vocalist, Paul played in excess of 350 gigs as the
group released a string of self-funded records through their own label,
Resolve Records.
After a musical hiatus, 2004 saw Paul commence recording as a solo artist with
his
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Album Reviews - Last Gang - Beat of Blue (48 Crash Records - Limited edition 7" vinyl and download) - Reviewed By Nick Quantrill Release Date : 30th October 06
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If you like your guitar-pop with a bit of kick and bite, then you could do a
lot worse than to check out one of Yorkshire's best kept secrets.
It's taken a while for this debut release to materialize, but the slow and
steady approach looks set to pay dividends, especially now that influential
figures in the music industry such as Steve Lamacq are beginning to
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Single Reviews - The Holloways - Generator (Sensible Recordings) By Nick Quantrill
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Hailing from the Holloway Road area of London, this limited edition,
vinyl-only debut release is a prime slice of ska-tinged pop from a
band destined to be one to watch out for in 2006.
Lead track Generator is a three-minute snapshot of what the band have to offer.
With its prominent harmonies and choppy guitars, Generator is something
approaching a 21st Century take on
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Music News, Interviews - Interview with Jeff Caudill and Francis Garcia feat. I Was The Lead Singer EP (Allabout Records) Available from iTunes By Nick Quantril
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It really shouldn't work; two former punk-pop stalwarts, Jeff Caudill and Francis Garcia,
choose to showcase their development into Americana singer-songwriters by covering songs
from each other's back catalogues.
As a way of laying the past to rest, it's certainly more inventive than most.
Former front-man of California based Gameface,
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Reviews, Books - Daniel Mayhew - Life and How to Live it (White Horse Publications)
Reviewed By Nick Quantrill
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Writing successful novels about music or bands is a notoriously difficult thing to do,
and something that rarely succeeds.
Step forward Daniel Mayhew to prove the exception to the rule with his debut,
which tells the tale of Serpico, the band formed by flatmates, Reilly and Jacob,
and the adventure that ensues when Reilly takes a week off work sick, and binging
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Reviews, Books - Complicity by Nick Quantrill Reviewed by Steve Rudd
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The rain refused to ease as Coleman made his way through Queens Gardens
and on towards King Edward Street. He pulled his collar up and hurried his pace...
This is a staggeringly enthralling showcase for Hull-based writer Nick Quantrill's
unmistakable talent for writing fiction - and crime fiction, to be more precise.
He has written a fair few short stories that revolve around crime
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Album Reviews - Joesolo - An Exile In Suburbia By Nick Quantrill
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History lesson - Lithium Joe were much more than graffiti on the Hull train
station wall. Whilst the majority of Hull bands are happy to settle for receiving meaningless
platitudes from their mates and being great in the local clubs,
Lithium Joe was different.
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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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Music Reviews -
Jesse Malin - York Fibbers 10/07/04 By Nick Quantrill
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I have to admit it, I'm biased. Jesse Malin rules and I won't have a
word said against him.
Like most people I discovered Jesse's music through his association with
Ryan Adams.
After numerous years plodding along with quite frankly,
bad to mediocre punk bands, best mate Ryan produced and provided
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Reviews, Theatre - Up n Under Hull Truck Theatre 17th July By Nick Quantrill
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This special production of Up N Under is being staged to celebrate twenty years of
John Godber productions at Hull Truck.
As Godber's Olivier Award winner it's only right this should be the chosen play as well
as it being an opportunity to reclaim its reputation back after the sheer awfulness of the film it spawned.
It's truly
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Food Reviews - Pier Luigi's, Princes Avenue - 19th June 2004 By Nick Quantrill
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Birthdays are special. They are even more special as you hurtle rapidly towards the door marked
30. It's becoming increasingly rare, for one reason or another, that my friends
and I all gather in one place. All it takes is one
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Food Reviews - Yankeeburger - Hessle Road, Hull
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By Nick Quantrill
Hull undoubtedly has many fine places to eat and enjoy different styles of food in pleasant surroundings.
When we cut away the often pretentious warbling about contrasting flavours, smells and colours
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Music Reviews -
Mark Joseph, The 59 Violets, Blue Sand, Pave - Hull Adelphi, May 28th 2004 By Nick Quantrill
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It's undeniable that the Under The Influence nights have been a massive success at drawing new acts to the city. Dean really deserves credit for getting the bands of the moment into The Adelphi. Hull needs these kinds of gigs.
I also suspect Dean is a canny promoter. Having the support bills filled by the better bands in the city means
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Articles Reply to - Woe is Me - I Live in Hull
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By Nick Quantrill
After reading the article by Allen Miles on the 'is Hull crap or not?' debate I want to add my views. It's something that has been on my mind recently owing to my girlfriend moving to the city full time. Although I've lived in Hull all my life it's only now that I've really thought about whether or not Hull qualifies as a..
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Music Reviews - Pave Perform at the Linnet and Lark
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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.
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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 - 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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Review of 2003 - By Nick Quantrill
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In the festive tradition of polls, surveys and what have you that all the best magazines and websites carry at this time of the year, you'll have to settle for some things I liked in 2003 and some things I didn't..
1 Gigolo Aunts - Pacific Ocean Blues
2 Jesse Malin - The Fine Art Of Self Destruction
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Reviews, Books - "Cradle Song" by Robert Edric
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By Nick Quantrill
Being a bit of sucker for crime fiction, and more pertinently, hard-boiled private investigator stories, I picked up this book purely on the basis it fulfilled the above criteria and is set in Hull.
Upon further investigation it turns out this is the first part of a trilogy set on the mean streets of Hull by Booker Prize nominated Robert Edric.
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Sports - Great Britain v Australia - 15/11/03 KC Stadium
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By Nick Quantrill
Wow, this was sport! I'm not normally a huge fan of rugby league. My interest in playing the game ended when I lost a front tooth in a school 'friendly'. Nowadays, I tend to favour games in which you can predict the bounce of the ball. This game was special though; huge even, and what's more, it was being played in Hull by a Great Britain team
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Music Reviews - Riley and The Landau's - Hull University 16th February 04
By Nick Quantrill
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As any keen reader of this website will know, one of the bands who have been getting consistently great reviews is Riley.
So Cilla rings me and says; Get yourself down to the university and review them.
We love Riley at thisisUll.com
(only more politely of course!). How could I refuse this kamikaze mission?!
It was the first time I've been to a gig..
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Music Reviews - Stereophonics & Tim Burgess Hull Arena 10/11/2003.
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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.
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Aircraft and Airshows - The Shuttleworth Collection - Military Pageant Air Display - 1st August 2004 By Tony
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I can only say that this was without doubt one of the most enjoyable events I have visited over the years.
Not so much a flying display as a nostalgic happening.
The mood was set as I arrived to hear 17 members of the James Goff Big Band playing a
selection of tunes from the 1930's
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Aircraft and Airshows - Aircraft Stamps By Tony
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By popular request, the ballroom dancer is back! I've been urged by email and phone to give you more aircraft stamps from around the world.
So here is a selection of my favourites which I hope will whet your appetites. I'm hoping that other philatelists will come forward and show us what stamps they are collecting.
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Aircraft and Airshows - Philately - Concorde Stamps By Tony
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I'm a philatelist. In these modern times, that's like being a ballroom dancer on a skateboard ramp, a bit embarrassing.
Over the years I've been a collector of aircraft stamps and have now around 4,000 stamps dating from 1922 to the present day.
I've selected some of the stamps featuring Concorde to show the wide range of countries who felt the need to show this fantastic aircraft.
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