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Reviews, Theatre - Saturday 2nd February 08 - Steve Steinman's Bat Trilogy at The Futurist Theatre, Scarborough By Steve Rudd
	Pulling out all the stops to put on an electrifying show, Steve Steinman and his hard-rocking entourage pulled into Scarborough on what was a freezing cold night. Fortunately, fans of Steve and his Bat Trilogy tour showed up in their droves, crowding into The Futurist to witness one of the first shows of his new tour... and with some scandalously talented Read more...

People - Interview With Sid Stovold of Brassneck By Steve Rudd Brassneck photos by LMI Photography
	Sid Stovold, former guitarist for Indie-Pop-Punk heroes Inter, recently got together with a new band called Brassneck. Here, in an exclusive interview with Steve Rudd, he chats candidly about his time in Inter, and about more recent musical endeavours, as well as his frenzied involvement in the UK's underground fanzine scene... Read more...

People - An Interview with Sandi Thom By Steve Rudd
	Since releasing the chart-storming hit I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker, Sandi Thom's career has gone from strength to strength. Such a tune featured on her debut album, Smile... It Confuses People. Now, Sandi is on the verge of unleashing her follow-up LP, Pink and The Lily, a record she's set to promote with a lengthy UK tour. It just so happens that Sandi Read more...

Music Reviews - Tuesday 29th January 08 - Alison Moyet at York Grand Opera House By Steve Rudd
	Striding on in front of an eye-catching stage backdrop, Alison and her backing band immediately made themselves temporarily at home on the stage. And even sat up in the rafters of the fabulously preserved venue as I was, the sight down below was one to behold. It's not very often that Alison hits the road, making this date in York one to be savoured all the more. Read more...

People - Interview With Miles Cain By Steve Rudd
	Miles Cain, once a Hull resident, is a superb singer-songwriter who is now based in York. Back in April he unleashed yet another outstanding album - A Way Of Being Free' - and, fresh from his recent support slot with Lucy Kaplansky in York, here he chats exclusively to Steve Rudd about the state of the local music scene in general, what Read more...

Music Reviews - The Alarm at The Kazbah, Scarborough - Friday 6th February 04 By Steve Rudd
	Gigs do not, I repeat, DO NOT get any better than this. Ever. Even though The Alarm haven't actually stayed together as a band since their inception back when punk-rock gripped the UK in the late 70's, the charismatic singing-&-songwriting Mike Peters has been over-actively involved Read more...

Music Reviews - The Landau's - Sweet But True (single/ DAGALOST Records) By Steve Rudd
	Hull's something of a hotbed for cool indie-rock bands, and The Landau's - along with Still Life - are one of the freshest bands forging ahead within such a musical genre. An exclusively laddish quartet, this is the young band's first major release, and has been recorded at the city's famous Fairview Studios. The production qualities are fantastic, Read more...

People - An Interview with Kris Mole, Skint In Europe By Steve Rudd

	Intrepid travellers unite, and meet Kris Mole... metaphorically speaking! He's a globetrotting man on a mission, determined to visit the capital city of every EU country on a budget of... wait for it - NOTHING! And all in aid of charity, too! How, you might ask? Well, if you read this here interview that Kris took time out to conduct with Steve Rudd 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...

People - An Interview with Lucy Kaplansky By Steve Rudd
	New Yorker Lucy Kaplansky is a renowned Folk/ Country singer-songwriter who recently unleashed her latest album, Over The Hills. Born and raised in Chicago, Lucy moved to New York in her late teens, where she got involved with the Folk scene in Greenwich Village, going on to play with the likes of Suzanne Vega and Shawn Colvin. In 1994 she released her much-anticipated 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...

People - An Interview with Steve Steinman By Steve Rudd
	Steve Steinman is the mastermind behind the hugely successful shows Vampires Rock and The Bat Trilogy. After appearing on Stars In Their Eyes as Meatloaf, Steve threw himself into the world of entertainment without hesitation, and today he is one of the hardest-working performers in the UK, regularly touring his shows the length and breadth of the country. Read more...

People - An Interview with Jenny Siler By Steve Rudd
	For those people who love their novels to be fast-paced Thrillers that are packed to the rafters with drama aplenty, then the consistently captivating books of American writer Jenny Siler will be right up your gunshot-riddled alley. The best-selling author of titles such as Iced, Shot, Easy Money and, more recently, Flashback, Read more...

Reviews, Theatre - Saturday 13th October 07 - Vampires Rock at Hull New Theatre By Steve Rudd
	It's safe to say that Steve Steinman is one of the hardest-working singers and performers in the UK. No sooner did he finish his Bat Trilogy tour on the brink of summer, and he was getting back to grips with his other great show - Vampires Rock - in anticipation for the current Autumn tour that's sweeping up and down the country in style. 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...

Music News - Toby Jepson Blasts back on the 'Rock 'n' Roll Scene By Steve Rudd Photographs Courtesy and Copyright Les Linyard
	Building on his incredibly successful initial career as singer-songwriter with The Little Angels and more recently as special guest to THUNDER and subsequent headlining solo shows through 2006-2007, Toby and his band are back and heavier than before. Toby Jepson is a remarkable singer/songwriter, somewhere between Bruce Springsteen, 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...

People - Interview With Laurie Gough By Steve Rudd
	Laurie Gough is a Canadian travel writer and the author of Kite Strings Of The Southern Cross (published in Canada as Island Of the Human Heart). Her latest book is Kiss The Sunset Pig. Here she talks to Steve Rudd about her life and work. How are you doing? Pretty good, thanks! Do you prefer being 'home' or 'away'? When I'm home I often fantasize 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...

People - An Interview With Woody Woodmansey By Steve Rudd
	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. Read more...

People - An Interview With Woody Woodmansey By Steve Rudd
	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. Read more...

People - An Interview with Athlete By Steve Rudd
	Athlete first burst onto the scene with their Vehicles and Animals album, a stunning debut which they followed-up with Tourist. They recently released their third album, Beyond The Neighbourhood, and in promotion of such an album the Deptford boys have been hard at work touring the length and breadth of the UK for the aural pleasure of their fans. They even stopped by Hull University 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 - 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...

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...

Poetry - Taking Sides By Steve Rudd
	They're dead already; displaced Souls without soles, disgraced Bare feet, as cracked as the desiccated ground Raining blows on their toes Marching ever onward, in the heat of the night Passion features not - when 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...

Fiction - Another Brick In The Wall, Another Man In The Crowd By Steve Rudd
	'It doesn't look any different on this side,' the disembodied voice yelled over the void. 'I never said that it would look any different. But I bet it feels different,' ventured an old man's voice on the Eastern side of the wall. 'Not really,' the disembodied voice declared. 'At least not from where I'm standing.' To some people, the momentous fall of the Berlin Wall signified freedom 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...

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...

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...

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...

Places to Visit - The Three Peaks Of Yorkshire Challenge 10th June 2006 By Steve Rudd
	'Good morning gentlemen - rise and shine!' As I slowly came to my senses I couldn't help but glance at my watch. I'd been warned the previous night that we would be woken up at 4:15am sharp, and barely a second later. Unfortunately, that really was the case, and as exhausted as I was, there was a mammoth 25 mile walk ahead... It's a shame that I'd only managed 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 - 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 - The Leano - Steps To Leanoland (Colarj Records) Reviewed By Steve Rudd
	The Leano is a one-man rapping machine with a social conscience and a hugely original approach to music-making. He might hail from London, but he wrote and produced this stunning thirteen-track debut album up in Hull of all places. The city is even immortalised in the acoustic guitar-accompanied Ganjaholic, a tongue-in-cheek ditty which wryly Read more...

People - The Genius of Eric Bogosian By Steve Rudd
	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 Read more...

Reviews, Books - The Storm Watcher By Graham Joyce Reviewed by Steve Rudd
	Simultaneously an unusual and extraordinary story set in France, a multitude of winning elements ensure that The Storm Watcher is always an engrossing read, as sheer drama is played up against some chilling thrills and spills. The author in the award-winning Joyce grew up in Coventry, but over the years he has lived in various places, such as on 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...