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Steve Rudd has been writing for thisisUll.com for some time and has proved himself to be one of our most talented writers. Steve's contributions are listed below.. Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4, Page 5, Page 6, Page 7, Page 8, Page 9, Page 10, Page 11.

Album Reviews - Filth Wizard - Spread The Filth (8-track album) By Steve Rudd

With this barnstorming, trailblazing release, Adam Towse isn't so much dishing dirt as flinging it. Indeed, Spread The Filth, as the title suggests, isn't for the fainthearted; it's down and dirty by default, and all the better for it. A bolder debut release couldn't have been conceived by the Bridlington-based band, a Metal band fronted by Torso Horse ringleader Read more...

Music Reviews - Saturday 19th July 08 - Party in the Park at North End Park, Driffield By Steve Rudd
	Fast-rising sextet Divine Sinn have already managed to amass a loyal fanbase in the past six months since their debut gig at The Winston Churchill. They are now on the verge of releasing their second highly-anticipated album, The Seven Deadly Sinns, proving just how determined they are as an outfit to make a name for themselves. Kicking up a storm in the wake of Parkmoor Read more...

Single Reviews - Hayley Hutchinson - Independently Blue (album/ R N R Music) By Steve Rudd
	This 12-track, 43-minute album is packed with some of the most beautiful and heart-breaking songs that I've heard in years, and singer-songwriter Hayley - now living and working from her base in York after a childhood brought up in Scotland - is only in her early twenties. Listening to these astonishing tunes, all of which Read more...

Reviews, Books - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time By Mark Haddon Reviewed by Steve Rudd
	I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don't like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish. This strangely endearing novel is one of the most originally-styled that Read more...

Fiction - Kat Out of the Bag Chapter One By Steve Rudd
	Above all else it was ignorance and arrogance that helped me pack my bags. The ignorance and arrogance of myself, that was, and everyone else. I was only interested in people and past-times that furthered humanity. And what was wrong with that? Read more...

Fiction - Kat Out of the Bag Chapter Seven By Steve Rudd
	Time spent away from the daily grind forces you to assess where, in life, you have been - and where you would like to go. Back in England, perversely, I had always wanted to return here to Nepal, but now I was back here, I wanted Read more...

Fiction - Kat Out of the Bag Chapter Six By Steve Rudd
	Support for any given country's government can be a funny thing, but never hilarious. The Maoist rebels in Nepal, in an ideal world, would have the government of the landlocked country instantaneously overthrown. Read more...

Fiction - Kat Out of the Bag Chapter Five By Steve Rudd
	Sitting down for dinner in Syabru, with neither friends nor family for thousands of miles around, I resigned myself to the fact that I was on my own. Yet it's surprising how conversations can take off with complete strangers, as I began Read more...

Fiction - Kat Out of the Bag Chapter Four By Steve Rudd
	Kathmandu is both toxic and intoxicating. As soon as you get there you want to leave, to escape the evil wrath of smog that clogs the arteries and stifles all sense of being. Like most cities in the Third World, Read more...

Fiction - Kat Out of the Bag Chapter Three By Steve Rudd
	The first time I saw her she was working the streets, and working them well. I was sat, as I recall, in a cafe situated in the tourist-overrun Thamel area of the city.. a cafe that could have been anywhere in the world. Read more...

Fiction - Kat Out of the Bag Chapter Two By Steve Rudd
	What's a man to do in Kathmandu? Pretty much anything he wants is the steadfast answer. Sick of dull caravan-anchored holidays in Britain that plagued my ill-charmed childhood, adventure called and I responded. Still, I would be Read more...

People - An Interview with The Alps By Steve Rudd
	London band The Alps have been receiving rave reviews over the past couple of years for their CD releases and live performances. Having recently unleashed their eagerly anticipated debut album, Something I Might Regret, the band is working harder than ever, with a string of dates in Spain and the shooting of their latest music video keeping the four lads tremendously busy. Read more...

Music Reviews - Saturday 12th July 08 - Moonbeams Summer Gathering at Little Kelk By Steve Rudd
	Who would have thought that a star-studded music festival in a tiny Wolds village could rival the exhilarating splendour of festivals of Glastonbury's ilk? Very few, I'm sure. But then how many people would really believe that an annual music festival of any sort has taken place in Little Kelk for the past four years? Even fewer, I'm positive. Read more...

Music Reviews - Tuesday 15th July 08 - Chris Helme at Hull Lamp By Steve Rudd
	Alighting in Hull as part of a glorious string of intimate UK tour dates in support of his recently released solo offering Ashes, York troubadour Chris Helme had the sizeable Hull crowd in fits of ecstasy due to the strength of his voice and the intensity of the emotions conveyed both through his music and lyrics. Only a few days previously he had wowed the gathered masses at a private mini-festival Read more...

Places to Visit - The London, Bath and Bristol Chronicles By Steve Rudd
	I knew I should have taken the train. Being stuck behind a combine harvester is never fun in a car. In a coach, it's murder. The battalion of towering power-line supports that stoically marched across the dead level Lincolnshire landscape didn't help. From their indifferent vantage point, they simply taunted. 'Technology is overtaking everything,' said the woman in front, Read more...

People - An Interview with Chris Helme By Steve Rudd
	Former member of acclaimed Indie band The Seahorses, in which he penned and performed tunes with John Squire, Chris Helme has never been one to shy away from the limelight. However, since The Seahorses disbanded, Chris has been hard at work pursuing other musical avenues, not least by means of York-based band The Yards. Read more...

Music Reviews - Thursday 26th June 08 - Divine Sinn at Winston Churchills, Driffield By Steve Rudd Photographs by Matt Rudd
	Back playing in their hometown just a few days after their first gig in Leeds, Divine Sinn managed to attract the Metal-loving masses in their droves, despite the biblical deluge pounding the streets outside. Mixing and matching material from both their debut album, Redemption, and their forthcoming follow-up, The Seven Deadly Sinns, they energetically roared through Read more...

People - An Interview With Karl Bushby By Steve Rudd
	Men come no more intrepid than adventurer Karl Bushby, formerly of Hull. In 1998, feeling like undertaking the mother of all challenges, he set out from Punta Arenas, Chile, with the intention of literally walking around the world: all the way home. Thus, he walked north through South America, Central America and North America, completing the American leg of his epic walk in Fairbanks, Alaska. Read more...

Music Reviews - Friday 20th June 08 - Oli Brown Band at The London Bar, Driffield By Steve Rudd
	Whoever came up with the idea of putting a band on at The London Bar deserves a pat on the back. It was certainly inspired. Moreover, whoever decided to allow Oli Brown and his band to play deserves to be bought free drinks for an entire evening. Indeed, Oli Brown & Band put on an incredible show in what has to be Driffield's narrowest pub. Read more...

Album Reviews - Satellite State Debut EP Reviewed by Steve Rudd

Producing soaring anthems for the masses, southerners Satellite State should be able to sun themselves silly on the strength of this four-track wonder: their debut EP. Anchored by undeniable commercial zeal and appeal, all four tracks are beautiful, not least opening tune Plans in which Gary Nicks on vocals allows his voice to take flight. Ciaran Stephens on Read more...

Reviews, Theatre - Tuesday 3rd June 08 - Dolly at Hull New Theatre By Steve Rudd
	A Rockman Music production, this grand old celebration of the glamourous life and times of Country legend Dolly Parton pulls out all the stops to entertain. Even on the opening night of its debut UK tour, the show drew a huge crowd of Dolly fans who were in the mood for singing and clapping along to all her best-known hits. Read more...

Album Reviews - Heartbroken by Abbie Lammas Reviewed by Steve Rudd
	A prodigiously talented singer-songwriter, Hornsea's Abbie Lammas might only be fifteen, but she's cranking out songs that are mightily mature for her age. Heartbroken is her debut album, and it's an eight-song-strong affair that perfectly shows off Abbie's talents. For the most part, the songs feature just her and her trusted acoustic guitar, though there are a couple of notable exceptions. Read more...

People - An Interview with Charlie Heather of The Levellers By Steve Rudd
	The Levellers have dominated the Folk-Punk scene for the past twenty years, having had scores of hit singles and albums. Often voted as one of the best live bands in the UK, they've wowed venues and festival audiences all around the world with their brand of politically-charged music. On the brink of performing a huge number of dates at various summer festivals, The Levellers are also on the verge of Read more...

Music Reviews - Friday 16th May 08 - Moonbeams Acoustic Evening at The Old Town Hall, Driffield By Steve Rudd
	A lot of people might not realize as much, but Driffield is fast becoming THE place to play host to a hotbed of musical talent from near and far, and it's all thanks to the impassioned enthusiasm and organizational capabilities of Kelk's Leila Slater. Leila adores live music so much that she's been putting on Acoustic nights at The Bell Hotel Read more...

Articles - The Burning Question: Can a Tribute Act Be Better Than The Real Thing? By Steve Rudd

	In a word: yes. A tribute act most definitely can be better than the real thing. Should anybody hanker after proof, then I recommend catching a show by Steve Steinman, an extraordinary singer/ performer from the Newark area who has been wowing crowds the world over for the best part of the past twenty years. At the moment Steve is dividing his attention between two Read more...

People - An Interview with Adam Towse of Filth Wizard By Steve Rudd
	Fans of Torso Horse might have been wondering why it's been so quiet on their metallic front in recent months. Well, rest assured - they haven't split up; they've simply been taking a break. In the meantime, band ringleader Adam Towse has been busy writing material for a new project: Filth Wizard. Unleashing auto-erotic fury in a similar manner Read more...

Album Reviews - Hayley Hutchinson - Love Songs For The Enemy Reviewed by Steve Rudd
	When she's not playing in The Sorry Kisses, York's Hayley is making sweet music of her own, and this - her second album - will bring fans up to speed with the fruits of her latest spell of songwriting. A glorious ten-track affair, Love Songs For The Enemy is a sublime record in every respect, opening tune All I Have incorporating banjo and harmonica Read more...

People - An Interview with Leila Slater (Mastermind behind Moonbeams Acoustic Nights in Driffield By Steve Rudd
	Fed up with having to travel out of town to indulge in her passion for live music, Leila Slater boldly took it upon herself to start organizing and promoting her own nights of live music in Driffield. Taking the form of intimate Acoustic nights, her Moonbeams events have so far attracted a whole host of marvelous musicians and singers from near and far. Read more...

Reviews, Theatre - Wednesday 19th March 08 - The Bat Trilogy at Hull New Theatre By Steve Rudd Photos by Matt Rudd
	Back in black and ready to rock the venue from the rafters to its foundations, Steve Steinman vaulted into an epic rendition of Life is A Lemon without delay, the incredible power of his vocal delivery reaching the row furthest from the stage with ease. I should know: that's where I was sat, yet the sights and sounds even from back there were to be savoured. Having mimicked Meatloaf for almost twenty years now, Steve Steinman's Read more...

People - An Interview with Phluid By Steve Rudd
	Leeds-based band Phluid have been whipping fans of Glamtastic Punk-Rock into a frenzy for the past ten years and then some. Not only have they proved to be one of the most exhilarating live bands in the UK, they have also released some stunning CDs, most notably their Cynical Smile album that was absolutely jam-packed with glorious anthems. Read more...

Music Reviews - 14th March 07 Moonbeams Acoustic Night At The Old Town Hall By Steve Rudd
	Consistently featuring a wealth of talent, Leila Slater's acoustic Moonbeams events at The Bell are becoming bigger and better affairs every time. So much so that this, the third night of its kind, was relocated from The Maple Room into The Old Town Hall in order to accommodate the crowd. First act of the evening was Jasper & Smirt, a couple of local lads Read more...

Album Reviews - Single Reviews - One Small Step by Satellite State Reviewed by Steve Rudd
	Zipping out of Guildford with their hearts on their sleeves and a bounce in their step, this quintet deserves to hit the big-time on the strength of this three-track single. One Small Step is moodily melodic from the off, an epic indie-pop-rock anthem for the masses. The good news is that Satellite State already have fans in the form of Steve Lamacq Read more...

Album Reviews - Edwina Hayes - Pour Me a Drink By Steve Rudd
	A marked departure from her debut album, Edwina's follow-up to Out On My Own sees her presenting a far more intimate collection of songs. For the most part it's just her and her acoustic guitar. Save for appearances from Carissa Broadwater and guitarist Jake McKeague, guest musicians this time around are few and far between, yet Pour Me A Drink Read more...

Music Reviews - Saturday 1st March 08 - Edwina Hayes at Driffield Folk Club By Steve Rudd
	It's not every day you get to see a world-class singer-songwriter perform in Driffield. Similarly, it's rare for the singer-songwriter in question to actually live in town. But then Edwina Hayes, despite her profile and enviable acquaintances in the music industry, is thoroughly modest and down-to-earth. She doesn't seem the type of Read more...

People - Interview with Christopher Manson By Steve Rudd
	Lights! Camera!! Action!!! Christopher Manson, a photographer from Driffield, has in recent years had work published in a plethora of high-profile magazines and newspapers such as The Observer On Sunday, Time Out and Hello. Having lived and worked in Dubai and Toronto since graduating from university, he is currently back in the East Riding, Read more...

Music Reviews - Thursday 14th February 08 - Divine Sinn at Winston Churchills, Driffield By Steve Rudd Photos by Matt Rudd
	It's been a long time since Metal fans in Driffield have had a band to call their own. Too long, in fact. So, thank the devil for new quartet Divine Sinn. Not to be confused with Swedish rockers Divine Sin, Driffield's Divine Sinn have been practicing hard for the past seven months in anticipation of performing live, with this being their first Read more...