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Single Reviews - Dirty Pretty Things - Bang Bang You're Dead (Vertigo) Release date : April 24th 2006 Reviewed By Steve Rudd
	Whenever 'legendary' bands split, fans of such bands tend to fear the worst, and that life will never the same again. When Pete stumbled out of The Libertines fray for good, a great many people mourned such a fact - yet it wasn't long before he returned with his Babyshambles project of greatness that has in due course made Pete something of a household name... although Read more...

Music Reviews - Tuesday 13th June 06 - Bon Jovi at KC Stadium By Steve Rudd Photographs by Brigitte Freeman
	Fans of rock music in Hull haven't really had much cause to complain over the past couple of years, given the fact that the likes of Bryan Adams and REM have both played at the KC Stadium. I could hardly believe it when Bon Jovi were announced to play as the final date of the band's European leg of their world-wide Have A Nice Day tour, and thus I duly Read more...

Music, Album Reviews - The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster Reviewed by Steve Rudd
	One should never underestimate the power of books. New York-obsessed Paul Auster is back, and he's clearly writing better than ever in light of this astounding novel of epic and forever-surprising proportions. Paul was born back in 1947, and since 1974 he's rightfully become a widely acclaimed writer of novels, screenplays and poetry ... amongst other things. Read more...

Single Reviews - Morning Runner - Burning Benches (Parlophone) Reviewed By Steve Rudd
	Slowly but surely these four lads are breaking into the big time with their anthemic Emo-edged Indie-Rock music. Their sets in support of Coldplay's last tour naturally thrust them into the limelight, and now that their stunning debut album - Wilderness Is Paradise Now - has stormed the charts, this band is fast becoming one of the most famous and respected groups in the country. Read more...

Album Reviews - Propaganda 625 by Phluid Skudakoi Reviewed By Steve Rudd
	Following on from this Leed's quintet's previous album releases, Cynical Smile and Release, this EP is really more of a mini-album in that it's exhilaratingly comprised of three new studio tracks, three live tracks, one specially-recorded acoustic track, plus a secret bonus track that might surprise a lot of ardent fans - even if it's not a Phluid Read more...

Album Reviews - Chapter XIII - Dream Salvation (Level Sound) Reviewed By Steve Rudd
	The debut single from this here Bristol quintet in the undeniably cool cut The Last Time understandably caught the attention of both aficionados of great music and A&R men in high places. Well, in theory such a single should have done, as should this full-length release that stunningly bears testament to just what this band is trying to achieve. Fronted by Gareth Marshall Read more...

Music Reviews - 21st April 06 - Chaser at The Bluebell Riverside Restaurant, Driffield By Steve Rudd
	Chaser are a well-known band in Driffield, largely due to having been around for a few years now, and because they are mean purveyors of some truly awesome cover songs. Driffield, unfortunately, is pretty thin on the ground when it comes to great bands worth shouting about. Since the main venue in town, Mavericks nightclub, didn't renew its entertainments license, Read more...

Album Reviews - Ellenby - Run Away EP (Levelsound) By Steve Rudd
	Ellenby are an exciting London-anchored duo, producing an intoxicating blend of Folk, Pop and Rock. Their debut album is forthcoming, and provisionally titled All You Need To Know. This four-track EP, however, is titled Runaway, which is also the name of the first track that proves to be the perfect introduction to the music of Ellenby. Liz Young is the singer, while multi-instrumentalist Read more...

Single Reviews - Engerica - The Smell (Sanctuary) Reviewed By Steve Rudd
	This madcap trio has to be witnessed, whether via record or in a live situation. Truth is, they are awesome, if a tad eccentric and zany in their frantic rock 'n' roll ways. Fronted by David Gardner, these three guys were going great guns a couple of years ago, but then they seemed to disappear without a trace for a while before re-launching themselves back into the Read more...

Single Reviews - The Fallout Trust - Before The Light Goes (At Large) Reviewed By Steve Rudd
	Pin back your ears, one and all, and listen hard. Busting out of an East London warehouse, here the nation has a band in The Fallout Trust to be proud of. They are making thoroughly exciting music, and hopefully they'll break into the big-time during 2006. Before The Light Goes is their second single, developing as it does from its groovy mid-paced Read more...

Articles - The Oscars 2004 By Steve Rudd

	The highlight of Hollywood's calendar, The Oscars seem to come around faster every year. Our man in LA to report back to Britain on proceedings was Film 2004 face Jonathan Ross who didn't do a bad job at all, but seemed hampered by his panel of three accompanying guests in the form of Welsh (supposed) funnyman Rob Brydon, and the impersonating duo of Ronni Read more...

Single Reviews - Gregory Darling - That'll Be The Day (F.O.D) Reviewed By Steve Rudd
	This exceptionally talented singer-songwriter has certainly had an extraordinary career in the music business to date, having worked with the infamous likes of Julian Lennon and ace producer Tony Visconti, and having recorded with the likes of Faster Pussycat in the past. Now, he's showing off his songwriting talents on his own terms, and in doing so now delivers his Read more...

Album Reviews - Hi Flyer - Here Comes The Sunshine (Reiker) Reviewed By Steve Rudd
	Having been masterfully engineered by Portishead bassist Jim Barr, this melodic Pop-Rock album comes from a young band from Bristol, with two of the members being brother and sister Henry and Elle Williams, who are backed up by Mike Edwards and Tom Raiff. All of the songs are easy listening mid-paced anthems, and any one of them could quite easily get Read more...

Album Reviews - Dirty Days by Jaed on Instant Karma Records Reviewed By Steve Rudd
	The Jaed entity is basically Vanessa Eve on vocals and guitar, backed by a bassist and drummer. It's primarily Vanessa's 'gig' as such, and she's clearly the driving force behind all of these eleven songs. Vanessa grew up in Melbourne, but her childhood wasn't a particularly rosy experience for her, especially when she found herself living Read more...

Album Reviews - Jethro Tull - Aqualung Live (RandM) By Steve Rudd
	Over thirty years on from the release of Jethro Tull's classic Aqualung album, Aqualung Live is an amazing album in its own right, that captures a live performance of all the songs that featured on the original masterpiece. Only legendary band front man, Ian Anderson and ace guitarist Martin Barre remain from the original band line-up, but the Read more...

Album Reviews - The Landaus - 5 Track Demo Reviewed By Steve Rudd
	If the likes of Razorlight can take the nation by storm as they have, then so can these young upstarts from Hull. Each of these five tracks is a chart-hungry monster, packed to the hernia-inducing hilt with jaw-dropping melodies and soul-filled vocal performances that have the power not only to break one's fickle heart, but to effectively smash to smithereens. Read more...

Album Reviews - Lights By Brigade (Mighty Atom) Reviewed By Steve Rudd
	Right from the swirling, tension-mounting intro of single-release Magneto, that proceeds to explode into a euphoric Emo-edged rock tune, through to the mighty closing track of this 11-song-strong album, there is one anthem after another after another after another - and not one of them is dull. Meet Me At My Funeral stampedes, Assemble/ Dissemble is a huge, Read more...

Album Reviews - Revolution EP (4-track demo) by Little Fish Reviewed By Steve Rudd
	Julia Sophie might regard herself as being something of a Little Fish, but she's certainly got a grand talent and huge potential as she swims into the big, bad world of the music industry. Julia is a self-taught British singer-songwriter who has had a hard time of it in her personal life, having had to endure the torment of drug addiction, depression and a debilitating throat Read more...

Album Reviews - CD Reviews - Lorca (10-track demo) Reviewed By Steve Rudd
	Every last one of these ten tracks is special in its own right, with opening tune Nothing Stays The Same paving the way for some grand emotions delivered courtesy of some beautiful music and extraordinarily touching vocals. Indeed, the opening track progresses from its lush acoustic guitar-based foundations into a majestic rock masterpiece, Read more...

Album Reviews - Meg Williams Band - Fragments Of Love (3 Track Demo) Reviewed By Steve Rudd
	Meg and her band here present three rousing rock numbers that have been recorded at Hull's legendary Fairview Studios. Singer and lyricist Meg and her musician friends have fashioned some truly entrancing numbers, with Stole A Kiss being the first song on the CD, which oozes moody atmospherics in a Mostly Autumn kind of way, Read more...

Articles - Chill Out, Why Don't You? An Impromptu Article About Meditation By Steve Rudd

	Face it - it's impossible to avoid getting stressed-out. Still, have you ever considered that age-old method of meditation that is alleged to help overcome stress to an overwhelming extent? No? Well, neither had I until I decided to pay the beautiful Madhyamaka Buddhist Centre near Pocklington a visit on the evening of Thursday June 15th for a spot Read more...

Single Reviews - Mogwai - Friend Of The Night (PIAS Recordings) Reviewed By Steve Rudd
	Mogwai have undoubtedly been one of the most exciting art-rock bands of the past decade, and so it's with open arms that we welcome these five lads back with this new single that's taken from their new album, Mr Beast. Their tear-jerking and spine-chilling Friend Of The Night single is melodramatically enchanting, as a subtly rousing patchwork of sublime Read more...

Album Reviews - Mogwai - Mr Beast (PIAS) Reviewed By Steve Rudd
	While this ten-track affair might not be as exhilarating as Mogwai's 'Come On Die Young' masterpiece of an album, this new long-player - which is the band's fifth - is still an epic and emotional joy to behold. With a running time of almost three quarters of an hour, their Auto Rock tune kicks affairs off, being a subtly enthralling piano melody, before Read more...

Album/EP Reviews - Sandi Thom - Smile ... It Confuses People (Viking Legacy) Release Date: June 5th 2006 Reviewed By Steve Rudd
	If you think that KT Tunstall is an outstanding talent, it's high-time you became better acquainted with Sandi Thom. Whilst KT is a truly incredible singer-songwriter, the Tooting-based Sandi somehow seems to be an even more extraordinary songwriter in a league of her own, armed with a cauldron of top melodies and a voice literally to die for. This debut Read more...

Album Reviews - Screaming Tarts Volume 3 (20-track compilation album) Reviewed By Steve Rudd
	Already it's the third album in the series, and Screaming Tarts: Volume 3 is both sounding better and looking sleeker than ever. Once again the creator and webmaster of the hugely popular www.screamingtarts.com music e-zine (that long-haired, good-looking fellow called Mr Martyn from Driffield, East Yorkshire) Read more...

Album Reviews - Screaming Tarts (Limited Edition 18 Track Compilation Album) By Steve Rudd
	The superb second release from Mr Martyn at www.screamingtarts.com , this is a rare rock compilation album that comes packed with eighteen fresh cuts of Glam-infused rock action that are all genuinely brilliant. Teenage Casket Company headily kick-start proceedings with their catchy Dial It Up riff, before Electric Eel Shock liven affairs up Read more...

Album Reviews - Evon Brennan - Small Mercies (Red Cliff) Release Date : June 2006 Reviewed By Steve Rudd
	Evon is surely destined to become a huge star in her own right when her Small Mercies album is released in June 2006. Born to an Irish mother and African father, Evon spent some of her childhood in a children's home where she learned to play the piano. Brought up in Ireland, once she moved to Dublin she realised that a career in music was the only thing for her Read more...

Album Reviews - Waiting For Tomorrow by Soular Reviewed By Steve Rudd
	Hailing from New Mexico, this top US band has been strutting its highly original stealth since 2002, with this release building on the reputation that their 2004 Time And Space record nurtured. Having opened gigs for the likes of Liz Phair and Longwave, they are already a pretty well known and hugely respected outfit, and now it's time for the good people of the UK to Read more...

Album Reviews - Breaks Co-op - The Sound Inside (Parlophone) Reviewed By Steve Rudd
	This trio of musicians is a thoroughly exciting Anglo-New Zealand collective, and comprises one very famous DJ indeed - Mr. Zane Lowe. Back in 1997, Zane and pal Hamish Clark released Roofers, which showcased their sample-aided approach to making music. Now they are working with the vocalist from The Away Team, Andy Lovegrove and The Sound Read more...

Single Reviews - Sunday International - So Calm (Future Butterfly) Reviewed By Steve Rudd
	Should you be bored with the latest wave of rock 'n' roll bands that are currently dominating the airwaves, make a beeline for this hugely exciting band before the masses catch wind of them - for Sunday International sure can write some storming tunes. Their So Calm rock anthem, for starters, is a gloriously energetic tune that is fearlessly fuzzy, explosive and Read more...

Album Reviews - Under Attack by The Alarm (EMI) Reviewed By Steve Rudd
	As with every song on every past Alarm album, every single one is a trail-blazing anthem. Welshman Mike Peters is, always has been, and always will be the voice of The Alarm. And what a soul-powered voice he has got, as opening tune Superchannel takes up where the previous Alarm long-player - In The Poppyfields - left off. Here we Read more...

Single Reviews - D'Ya Feel Lucky? by The Fondas (Levelsound Records) Reviewed By Steve Rudd
	Swiped from their Dirty Kicks album, this storming anthem is one of the finest cuts from such a long-player, brimming with explosive energy, and locked and loaded with guitars naturally cranked to the max, resulting in a battering wall of sound off which the singer's voice-to-die-for valiantly bounces. D'ya Feel Lucky? is both inescapable Read more...

Album Reviews, Music Videos - Torso Horse - Every Dog Has Its Day Reviewed By Steve Rudd
	Calling all Torso Horse fans! Your favourite Goth-Metal maestros have recently reworked their classic Every Dog Has Its Day anthem, and shot a brand new promo video to boot, which - in a word - is stunning. The original version of this track was fantastic as it stood, but Adam and band have felt compelled to rework it a little, and have even added a short-but-sweet keyboard Read more...

Album Reviews - Torso Horse - No Going Back (2 Track Sampler/Wanted 4 Murder) By Steve Rudd
	No sooner are we in to 2006, and Torso Horse sound to be back on the scene with a fresh slab of prime meat in new song Eye On The Goal. Yet another heady anthem that is explosively dominated by the band's trademark Goth-swathed heavy-metal guitar riffage, pounding drums and blood-curdling bass-lines that bust out of nowhere, the swaggering leer Read more...

Single Reviews - Imperial Vipers - Promised Land (Eminence) Reviewed By Steve Rudd
	Here's another homegrown UK rock band with its heart pumping hard in the realm of Classic Rock music, with this Limited Edition single release being almost overwhelmed by the monolithic guitar riff that's the perfect foil for the supersize vocals of band frontman Ash Simmons. This single is available on 7" vinyl and from various download sites, taken as it is from their debut LP Read more...

Album Reviews - The Voltaires - Anti-Love EP (This Is Art) Reviewed By Steve Rudd
	Leeds lads The Voltaires sure know how to turn heads with their inspirational brand of indie-fuelled rock 'n' roll, with the three tunes that comprise this EP all being quirky, catchy and supremely cool in due course, right from the title track itself, Anti-Love, anchored by a rollicking riff, stand-out vocals and a classy chorus. Fronted by Gareth Williams Read more...

Album Reviews - Screaming Tarts 4 (17 track compilation) Reviewed By Steve Rudd
	The Screaming Tarts website has gone from strength to strength over the past few years. There's little wonder either, especially when a whole host of exclusive interviews, reviews and blogs are forever being published on there. To be fair, a once-a-week whirlwind tour around the site often makes for far more entertaining reading than the NME. Read more...

Album Reviews 3-D - Future Primitive Reviewed By Steve Rudd
	This extraordinary album release has been a profound family affair from start to finish, with former Spiders From Mars drummer Woody Woodmansey working with his two sons Nick and Danny to produce this amazing album that's full of exhilarating instrumentals, with a multitude of killer drum beats at their heart. It's a bold premise that has been executed Read more...

Music Reviews - Saturday 3rd March 07 - Edwina Hayes At Driffield Folk Club By Steve Rudd
	Only a few days previous she'd been supporting country star Nanci Griffith, yet Edwina Hayes was as down-to-earth as ever when she made a most welcome return to Driffield Folk Club on Saturday night. Mixing material from her debut album, Out On My Own, along with some fantastic cover songs, Edwina's enchanting charms immediately had the Folk Club Read more...

Album Reviews - Hodmeister - The Total Fabrication Of The Personification In The Nuance Of the Art Form (4 Track EP) Reviewed By Steve Rudd
	Now here's a Yorkshire-based talent to get genuinely excited about. Chris Hoddinott has been involved in the fine art of music-making for some years now, having shown off his guitar-playing prowess as a member of Beverley band 35 Stock. Since the band dissolved, Chris has moved up to Scarborough, where he's now producing a totally different style of music Read more...

Music Reviews - Friday 11th May 07 - Jesse Malin at Fibbers, York By Steve Rudd
	It might have been raining outside, the weather comprehensively showering a sense of profound doom and gloom upon the grand old city of York. Fortunately, inside the cosy confines of Fibbers, Jesse Malin fired out a ninety minute set of sheer joy, as the New York singer-songwriter extraordinaire returned to the venue for the third time in his career Read more...

Music Reviews - Sunday 16th December 07 - Lucy Kaplansky and Miles Cain at York NCEM By Steve Rudd
	York native Miles Cain opened proceedings with aplomb, drawing the humbly assembled crowd into his Folk-infused music with affable charm. His strong, superbly soulful voice perfectly complimented his lush acoustic guitar melodies, with the fantastic acoustics of the venue - a church, no less - Read more...

Music Reviews - Friday 9th November 07 - Mostly Autumn at York Grand Opera House By Steve Rudd
	Back playing in York for what lead guitarist Bryan presumed must have been the first time in some ten years, the eight-member-strong Prog-Rockers in Mostly Autumn ceremoniously brought the house down. One of the finest live bands in the land, Mostly Autumn are an incredible band that belts out truly epic songs, incorporating all manner Read more...

Music Reviews - Thursday 10th May 07 - The Meatloaf Trilogy With Steve Steinman At Hull New Theatre Reviewed By Steve Rudd
	It makes for a rare treat when a tribute act is almost as amazing as the real thing. In many respects, when Steve Steinman 'does' Meatloaf, the net effect is sometimes even better. A couple of years ago, Lancashire singer Steve toured with a show called The Meatloaf Story in which he sung a whole host of classic tracks as Read more...