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JUST CLICK ON THE QUICK LINK (ON THE RIGHT) ENTITLED “VIEW ACTUAL MAGAZINE”…. AND IT WILL TAKE YOU TO OUR NEW FLASH MAG PROGRAMME, ON WHICH YOU CAN BROWSE THROUGH THE ACTUAL MAGAZINE BY TURNING THE PAGES. YOU CAN ZOOM IN ON ANY ARTICLE, INFORMATION OR ADVERTISING. GREAT INNIT! ROCKNESS FESTIVAL WAS A SIGHT FOR SORE EYES! The view when I arrived was a sight to remember…now i know why Fat Boy Slim agreed to come and play the wee festival years back. As you arrive at base camp the view was amazing, you were on a raised area overlooking the Loch and the entire arena. Our camping area was clean, and we even had a shower (with a door!) and a flushable loo! The entire set up of the festival was slick, proffessional and comfortable, with a funky edge. Being set on the bank of the world famous Lochness is genius! Inside the arena, there were plenty of places to eat/drink and take a load off your feet. There also seemed to be lots of cover….to deal with Scotland’s fickle spring weather! My only concern was the amount of Dance music spewing from every bar and tent. Im happy the organiser seems to presume they know the taste of the audience, but i heard many grumbles, even the happy hardcore gang was dying for a bit of The Kooks! As for the atmosphere everyone was friendly, especially the staff - Rockness officially have the nicest security staff! They always had a smile and most of them remembered your face from the day before (which is rare!) Fellow campers were friendly and up-for-it (you scotts can drink!)! On my first morning i woke to see a 94 year old man climbing out the back of of a van with a glass of wiskey, a few hours later he trotted into the arena on his own (never to be seen again may i add) With this in mind id reccommend the festival to all young and old. Thanks Rockness, Im leaving with excellent memories. Top Bands: Leftfield, The Strokes and 2manyDJ’s (werd up)! Crap Bands: Ian brown…oh dear Kimmyx PS the fireworks on the last night were amazing!
Both night have found this in the shape of Code on Park Street! “We believe the people behind CODE are the right people to work with and it’s in a good location plus with what’s already been spent on the venue such as the New Seating Area, Pool Table, Plasma TV’s and stage”commented Sesh head honcho Mark page “With future plans on the table we also believe CODE can offer The Grapevine stability, help with promotion, free taxis, great drinks offers, and a safe and happy club environment for our little midweek mash up” The Grapevine will now run every Tuesday night from the 29th September at Code from 11-3am and Yo-Yo every Saturday from the 10th October 10.30pm-3am.
Tickets available from Tickets available from Chinese Laundry, Beasleys for around £6. www.myspace.com/mumfordandsons
See you all there!  Tower Nightclub: Underwhelming? Hi Folks! Do you not what I hate? Take a guess. Well yeah, quite a few things really. Bad Hair days, screaming kids and microwave meals with plastic covers that never quite want to peel off in one go. That last one’s probably the worst actually. Seriously though, my top hate has to be staying in. Those meals in supermarkets encouraging us all to stay in our homes, displays of DVD’s for “Lads” or “Girls” nights in, bargain priced booze aimed at encouraging us to stay in and pass out in a puke covered coma. Hate them all. Don’t get me wrong there’s nothing wrong with a good night in but with the way that some companies are pushing it you’d think that the outside world was some kind of derelict radioactive toxic wasteland (the other half has been playing Fallout 3 non stop, it rubs of on you) or that every one of our fellow men are going to shiv us for our last two quid and pocket lint. It just seems that more and more things in modern life are aimed squarely at making us one more removed for one another and quite firmly, at home. “But it’s a recession!” I hear you cry. Fuck it, fuck the recession. Sick and tired of hearing about it thank you very much, it can go and fuck off. I’m sorry, but from the little economics I actually understand the best way to get out of one is to get out there and spend a little, so where better then a gig or club night? We should all get out there. So are is there anywhere worth going too? Weeeeeeellll, yes and no. True, there is some shit going on around the city from clubs and promoters who seems to think spending the bare minimum on their venues, when punters are looking for more bang for their buck, is a good idea. Putting on tired old night in drab old venues with surly untrained staff and expensive undersized drinks. You know who you are! As for the rest, there’s some amazing stuff going on in Hull, but you wouldn’t know it at first glance. Hullvibe is sparse, The mail has the bare minimum and I wouldn’t want to warrant a guess at the number of half arsed or “under construction” web sites about (The Adelphi and The Tower being main offenders, more on them later). It just seems there is a general sense of apathy (see Nick! I can do themes too! Apathy! pfft!) in peoples promotion of events. Even with the Tenfoot city listings you get an overwhelming sense of bands and promoters being too lazy to send in their information even though it costs them nothing more then a quick e-mail! I’m constantly chasing people who despite being “the faces” of their bussiness, might as well be on the dark side of the friggin moon! Everyone had high hopes for The New Tower but apart from Kings of Lyon every so often and so under advertised club nights, this amazing mid sized venue, that Hull could badly do with to attract out of town bands is totally under whelming! Ditto for the Adelphi, I hate to criticise such a legendary musical venue as the gigs and standard of band is PHENOMENAL but the promotion is appalling! Considering that there are so many people would help, or are trying to help Mr Jackson seems hell bent on pursuing a self fulfilling prophecy of the place closing down. An updated website, current answer phone messages, tenfoot city listings. Nah sod ‘em, tiny handrawn flyers are clearly the way to go. No one is making an effort. Apart from the Welly who have been doing some seriously hardcore promoting and got 800 people at Shuffle, there new saturday night feel good social, for their efforts! Hell I almost had a heart attack when I saw them kicking it old school and actually stood around handing people flyers! (well done to Matt Edible and Topgun for flyering, although they should probably seriously think about investing in a sensible winter coat very soon,brrr, poor mites!) Come on guys! Lets get it all together, listings, poster, flyers websites and show everyone what this city has really got to offer and finally get rid of all the smug twats bemoaning the lack of “there’s nowt to do in ‘ull”.
HULL INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE AND OPEN-ACCESS WEBSITE.
“Voices from the street and the sound of the Suburbs!”
Welcome to Tenfootcity. The alternative name for the city of Hull, East Yorkshire, England. Tenfootcity is also the name of our physical street magazine as well as this on-line sister magazine. It’s an independent magazine by the people, for the people and with the people of this City and the wider area, all in a language and style we can identify with. The reason this magazine was devised and launched is because we decided we wanted to reflect (independently of any mainstream media) what we consider, to be exciting times for Hull and East Yorkshire. This City is fast becoming more socially and culturally significant than it ever has been (as recently exmplified by the HULL FREEDOM FESTIVAL) and we, as a true street magazine, want to highlight and encourage that transformation. We are Hull and we’re proud of it!
(Now Click on our “About” tab to find out more about us, our street magazine and this open-access website……)  Alison Angus Alison Angus “The idea of people taking what they want from what we have as a band, keeps us from feeling like we’re one of those bands trying to deliver a specific message, we like leaving ourselves open to interpretation” As a small market town Beverly is known for a few things, but one of the first ones to spring to mind probably isn’t the creation of progressive and experimental soundscapes. Jonathan Birch and Josh Meredith are the two halfs on Alison Angus who make exactly this type of changelling and exciting music with a combination of guitars, drums and keyboards. Many people thought they had heard the last of this progressive duo when they anounced their split at a final gig at the Lamp late last year “At one point, we began to believe we’d done all we could as two people and wanted to expand with a bigger sound. At first adding new members would have been like bigamy to us but we believed new members would open doors to more possibilities so we started up another band called “Fenrir’s Ocean” and put Alison Angus on hold to see what would happen” explain Josh and Birch about the duo’s Hiatus “Even bigamy has its advantages. However, the band faced a lot of difficulties before it even started with the both of us struggling to even get all the members in the same room, let alone start the writing process, which in itself was highly frustrating without the tight chemistry in the air we were both used to as a collective unit. We both decided to eventually call it a day and carry on how we’d always been most comfortable” Considering their ill fated band project “Fenrir’s Oceon” is named after a monsterous wolf from Norse mythogology destined to remain chained to a rock until doomsday, appropriate considering it’s eventuall demise, you wouldn’t be wrong in thinking that songs about women, money and wearing the same jeans for two months are a little thin on the ground. The pairs music is a dark and brooding of marriage of Leeds outfit iLiKETRAiN’s “It’s like a crazy jigsaw of our emotions and ideas, we just turned up to some improv sessions and laid pieces down until we got the bigger picture” adds Birch “We turn up to gigs and hang up the paintings”
“That bloody Jesus character has nicked my bird!” Jesus Stole My Girlfriend are one of the latest collections of precocious musical talent to fall off the “Hull conveyor-belt of potential for the future” and into the steaming cauldron of the live music scene. Jason was so impressed with their energy and enthusiasm, they now make it onto the pages of Tenfootcity….. “We are Jesus Stole My Girlfriend. We Live in a strange circus. We don’t write about love. We are two girls and Two boys. We invite you to dance in the robot show.” Introducing the electro-tinged, Talking-Heads influenced self-confessed Indie-Abba act, “Jesus Stole My Girlfriend”, two girls and two boys making strummy, yummy, uplifting, stripped-back Mouldy Peaches-flavoured Indie from the middle of H-town! So, how did you all get started making music together? What are the main inspirations behind your music? What are your plans for the future or are you simply just seeing where it goes? I think your songs are great, which are you most proud of and why? This obviously has to be asked. What was the inspiration behind the name? We all hear about the, shall we say, “competitive attitudes” going on in the Hull Scene. Have the other current bands been helpful and supportive towards you? Jesus Stole My Girlfriend telling musical stories somewhere near you soon. Watch out for their upcoming gigs. myspace.com/jesusstolemygirlfriend  City Ghosts Following the City Ghosts reunion gig at the Lamp tonight lets take a look back at the band back in the day. City Ghosts “There’s no point making music unless every second is truthful and done with your heart and soul” Greg The two vocalists of City Ghosts have always placed the emphasis on the band as a whole, quickly putting down any emphasis when people describe them as the centre of the band. It must be strange as lately as Greg (who you might know from such bands as Mike Ward All Stars and Freaks Union) and sister Hester Ullyart (who you might know from such plays as Accrington Pals and March 15) find themselves very much the centre of attention as they come to a crossroads with the band as they prepare to play their final few gigs together as the current incarnation of City Ghosts alongside Lee Websdale and Nat Lawson before moving away to the bright lights of London. Where they hope to hook up with the bands electric violinist Will. “I think it will be a stage two kind of thing,” says Greg “A brand new lease of life for the band.” In terms of front men and women, Hull has got a lot going for it. Baggot, Sara Sanchez, Simon from Fonda 500 all of who have the larger then life stage persona and dramatics to get the crowd worked up, so does studying drama help with this? “”I think it really does help if you’re comfortable on stage, we’ve both done plays for Hull truck and to have confidence so you don’t just turn into a bag or nerves,” comments Hester “To have that energy and give it your all so when you come of that stage you feel like you need to sit down in a dark room for a few minutes to cool down. You’ve got to get as much as what you’re feeling across as you can or there’s just no point.” In their music the pair sound amazing together, intertwining their very different voices and complimenting each other so naturally it’s interesting to discover that the band came about in much the same natural manner “The whole process was very organic,” Hester explains “Greg had a lot of music written from when he was in other bands so we started practising it and suddenly we were a gigging band!” Amongst the harmonies and the urgent guitar noise lies a dark edge to the City Ghosts sound conjuring up images of spirits and ghosts from the past. Is it possible they represent the spirits of those who have died in the city? ”In a way yes. We’re just another generation, and there’s going to be another generation living after us living there moment who’ll forget about us. It is important to remember our background and all those people who have died the things that make you you” answers Hester with Greg agreeing, “It’s sometimes easy to think you’re the centre of the world, but so much will come after you too. We used to romanticise the past a little bit but now the music is more about looking up and building something new.” |
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