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Member	Item		Review/Comment
nboldock 12th Mar 2017		Live Music Quel Dommage @ Dingwalls (1983)	I believe this was Quel Dommage's first gig.
nboldock 8th Mar 2017		Live Music Beverley Folk Festival 2006 @ Beverley Leisure Centre (2006)	There may have been a third act on (this was the final evening concert of the festival) but I can't remember now.
nboldock 5th Mar 2017		Live Music Cottingham Folk Festival 2017 @ Cottingham Civic Hall (2017)	Yes, it's that well known folk band... Scouting For Girls.
nboldock 5th Mar 2017		Live Music Cottingham Folk Festival 2017 @ Cottingham Civic Hall (2017)	Yes, I know... a "folk" festival with Sophie Ellis Bextor. Wait, it gets weirder than this...
nboldock 10th Feb 2017		Live Music Levellers @ Dalby Forest (2001)	I missed the support band completely because the beer tent was rammed, had virtually no staff, and I queued for about an hour just to get a couple of overpriced beers. It pissed it down all night. But the Levs were brilliant.
nboldock 23rd Jan 2017		Live Music Milkfloat @ The New Adelphi (1992)	Milkfloat's final gig, apparently. Shame.
nboldock 23rd Jan 2017		Live Music Joyce @ Blue Lamp (1993)	Mighty Biz is one of the many pseudonyms of Biz Beharrell. See also The Mighty Strike and others.
nboldock 23rd Jan 2017		Live Music One Eyed Jacks [Lincoln] @ The Level (1992)	I've assumed the headline band were a local band - it looks like the venue mainly hosted local bands. If anyone knows otherwise, please let me know!
nboldock 30th Dec 2016		Live Music New York Dolls @ Malcolm's Club (1972)	Hi Albert - where did you find out about this gig? I've not seen it mentioned before - just wondered where the information was from? Intriguing...
nboldock 19th Dec 2016		Live Music Holy Holy @ Hull City Hall (2017)	Part of the Hull 2017 UK City Of Culture programme. Second date added after the first sold out in around an hour. I have tickets for this one!
nboldock 19th Dec 2016		Live Music Holy Holy @ Hull City Hall (2017)	Part of the Hull 2017 UK City Of Culture programme. Sold it in around an hour - a second date the following day (also sold out) was added. Read my preview in Browse Magazine here.
nboldock 6th Dec 2016		Live Music Aynsley Lister @ Ropery Hall (2012)	Hi Kab - I've changed this to Ropery Hall (rather than The Ropewalk) - The Ropewalk is the name of the set of buildings housing Ropery Hall, the latter is the concert venue (The Ropewalk also contains arts spaces, a café, etc).
nboldock 5th Dec 2016		Live Music The Fall @ The New Adelphi (2000)	A notorious gig - the story of which is here (taken from the Adelphi website)... Not so hot gig – The Fall Nearly played: Tuesday 13 June 2000 “With no ceremony or intro tapes, the band are on & bashing away at ‘The Joke’. No Julia, just guitar, bass, drums. Nice clean, punchy sound (as it always is at the Adelphi) & a minute or so later MES is on, looking dapper in suit jacket, upright & sober-sounding. Standard gear-fiddling ensues but, worryingly, no ‘Good evening we are The Fall’ – first gig I’ve seen where he’s left it out. A reorganised ‘Strychnine’ follows, then ‘Antidotes’, ‘Perfect Day’ & ‘And Therein’, all sounding fine if unexceptional. Then the band start playing something I don’t recognise & MES buggers off to the dressing room. Band carry on for a minute or so, then shrug shoulders at each other & bugger off too. After a brief pause (a minute or so) they’re back on & it’s ‘Folding Money’ followed by immediate retreat to the dressing room. L-o-n-g pause this time. The house DJ puts a record on, then they’re back on for ‘Kill Your Sons’. Another hasty retreat & that’s yer lot. Audience hangs around for a while then gradually shuffles off.” (Pete Conkerton) “The Fall – let’s just say my average wank lasts longer than their last performance!” (Jon McArthur) “P: The Fall notoriously thrive on an image of unsubstantiated genius, largely due to their position within the Guardianesque gestalt of idiot post-sub-mainstream bohemian detritus, who feel that alternative culture is an exercise in sniffing out the gigs that make them who they want to be. In turn, they feed, like baby rats suckling on their mothers teats, on money. B: The money of the working stiff. P: So did you rate the gig? B: On a scale of one to ten, it was shit. P: A big bumhole. B: And for why? P: Because the gig collapsed in on itself into a big smelly quark that nobody could understand – bar the greatest minds of this planet. B: I think the thing that got my goat was the shelling out of ten of your English pounds for approximately eleven minutes of incidental quasi-twattishness. The band alone were borderline alright. It was the actions of that whatever-addled alterno-rock lizard preventing them from performing. I would have happily paid a tenner to watch that guy puke on his shoes for twenty minutes.” (Paul Banks and Bruce Hitchcock, Santa’s BuggerBoyz) “I was so disappointed – even though I know he’s prone to doing that kind of thing. There were a lot of hardened Fall fans in the Adelphi, so I thought he might have made the effort. They didn’t play ‘Mr Pharmacist’ – didn’t have to.” (Martin Deas) “Two songs and Mark E Smith fucked off and collapsed!!!” (Andrew, Yo-Yo) (To the tune of ‘My Favourite Things’, kinda…) “There are plentiful faces (plus Mark e Smith’s double), ‘Cos it’s lacking in attitudes that lead to trouble. The atmosphere’s friendly, conversation spills, Aided by triple and quadruple bills.” (Kenny Archibald, poet) “There were 2 nice lads from Grimsby who came to see the ‘legend’ and, because they were early, stopped by in the ‘Olde Blacke Boye’ for a pint. Upon leaving they noticed it was raining, and at the same time noticed a prostrate figure lying face down in a puddle. They should probably have left it, but being nice boys they investigated, and found one of the most talented fuckers on the planet, the very fucker they had come to see. A process of logic then set in, and it was decided that one would protect while the other brought the car. An incoherent, dysfunctional Blob was then bundled into the car for transit to the Adelphi and ‘The Show’. During the 7 minute journey he puked over the upholstery & pissed and shat his pants, a fact that was painfully obvious to all present at the Adelphi. The show itself was crap: lasting in total about 30 minutes, of which around 10 could be loosely described as ‘performance’ of a sort. Some of those present thought this was the greatest ‘Fall’ show (of up to 30) that they had ever seen. What did I think? Well, aside from feeling ripped off (I actually paid £1300 of the agreed £1500 because none of the crew had been paid for several nights), I feel strongly that one of the most talented fuckers on this planet is no longer capable of playing a real gig, in front of real people, and that future activities should be restricted to funded and curated Arts/Royal Festival Hall type shows where he can be himself and still be appreciated!” (Paul Jackson) Santa’s Buggerboyz’ Fall Benefit Gig Following The Fall debacle and the heavy losses sustained by the club, local heroes Santa’s BuggerBoyz stepped in to parody the gig that The Fall failed to present and raise big money in the process. Expectations were high, but they only raised about thirty quid in the end – but the good intention was there. The following review of this gig was found on an obscure Fall internet site: “Another Fal
nboldock 3rd Dec 2016		Live Music Ramones @ CBGB OMFUG (1974)	That is indeed surprising! Our first CBGB's entry... many more to come!
nboldock 22nd Nov 2016		Live Music Errol Brown @ Hull City Hall (1999)	Has there ever been a worse name for a tour...?
nboldock 22nd Nov 2016		Live Music New Model Army @ Tower Ballroom (1984)	NMA had already played at Spring Street Theatre about six weeks earlier - not sure why they were back in Hull so soon.
nboldock 21st Nov 2016		Live Music Emerald [Hull] @ Dingwalls (1983)	Hi Mike - great to see that comment (not so great to read sad news) especially as I run Hull Music Archive - we have a page on the website for Reanimator which Mike was a massive help in putting together. I don't know anything about Emerald though - drop me a PM with your email address, would be good to chat. Argus released a single which is worth a small fortune nowadays.
nboldock 21st Nov 2016		Live Music Oasis @ The New Adelphi (1994)	One of the Adelphi's legendary gigs - Oasis landed the day before the release of their debut single "Supersonic". Original venue flyers show Whiteout as support act, but they pulled out (don't know why) and were replaced by local britpoppers Soda.
nboldock 20th Nov 2016		Live Music Cold Dance @ Dingwalls (1983)	Wikipedia says that Jellyfish Kiss formed in 1985 so the support band here could be a different outfit...who knows?
nboldock 20th Nov 2016		Live Music Loudhailer Electric Company @ Kardomah 94 (2016)	Charity event in aid of the Stephen Hughes Foundation. Stephen was a young Hull born school teacher and footballer who died at the age of 23 of the heart condition giant cell myocarditis. The charity set up in his name raises funds for the British Heart Foundation, the Myocarditis Foundation and the Stephen Hughes Foundation Sports Award which helps primary school children participate in sport for social skills and self esteem purposes.
nboldock 17th Nov 2016		Live Music Over Kill @ Leeds University (2016)	Vader are a Polish death metal band. One Machine are a UK thrash outfit. Thrash legends Over Kill presumably need no introduction.
nboldock 8th Nov 2016		Live Music Mindgarden @ Room 1795 (1991)	Not sure if Mindgarden were headliners or who else was on the bill.
nboldock 26th Sep 2016		Live Music Michael Head @ Central Library (2016)	This was the final night of the four-day Lyricull season - this was the only one to feature live music, with a set by Michael Head (Shack / Pale Fountains) to close the festival. As the other three nights were spoken word/conversation events, I haven't listed them as they don't fit here. For information however, the guests on the other three nights were Jason Williamson (Sleaford Mods), Shaun Ryder and Viv Albertine.
nboldock 22nd Aug 2016		Live Music Melanie @ Fruit (2016)	This gig has just been cancelled "due to illness".
nboldock 10th Jul 2016		Live Music Dephot @ The New Adelphi (2016)	Line up now in order. Still recovering from this. A superb night - history was made!
nboldock 17th Jun 2016		Live Music Hanoi Rocks @ The Lyceum (1984)	Difford And Tilbrook supporting Hanoi Rocks?!
nboldock 17th Jun 2016		Live Music Rod Stewart @ KCOM Stadium (2016)	Advertised on the picture above as being at the KC Stadium, and this is technically correct but the stadium had been renamed the KCOM Stadium by this time (as sponsoring company Kingston Communications has itself rebranded and is now called KCOM).
nboldock 15th Jun 2016		Live Music Beverley Folk Festival 2006 @ Beverley Leisure Centre (2006)	The two bands/groups also performed together as well as separately. There may have been a third entry on the bill - I can't remember!
nboldock 10th Jun 2016		Live Music Dephot @ The New Adelphi (2016)	I'm co-promoting this gig - running order is not finalised, so I'll tweak it nearer the day. Most of the bands listed haven't played for 20+ years but have agreed to play 2-3 songs for this very special gig. "Where?" was a great local music magazine (based in Hull) which was founded in July 1991 and ran till 1994, edited/managed/created by local music guru Tim Joseph, and has never been bettered. Dephot feature Myles and John from Kingmaker and they will be playing 4 Kingmaker tracks. The Von Trapps will have guest drummer Hugh Whittaker (The Housemartins) playing with them - it's gonna be ace! Profits going to charity.
nboldock 25th May 2016		Live Music Sugar Hill Gang @ Fruit (2016)	Sold out, unsurprisingly!

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