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WWW.NEVOLUME.CO.UK To Headline NE Volume Magazine Live 2017! The Rifles at Sage Two! Post-Mortem of Into Teesside Festival 2017! Stockton Calling 2017! Artist Spotlight: Head of WE’RE LISTENING! Light Entertainment! ISSUE #22 We Speak to The Cribs as they MAY 2017 head to the 02 Academy! FOLLOW NE VOLUME ON SOCIAL Review of Figmennt’s latest EP! MEDIA And much, much more! PICK UP OUR FREE NORTH EAST MUSIC/CULTURE MAGAZINE! LET’S GET EVEN LOUDER NORTH EAST VOLUME!!!!! NEWS! INTERVIEWS! WELCOME! Thank you so much for picking up PG.5 Gig Preview: PG.28 Frankie & The Heartstrings! Dodgy (Nigel Clark) at NE Volume magazine - the magazine MusicLounge! PG.30 Paul Rodgers! produced by local music and culture fans, for local music and culture fans. So, as PG.31 The Cribs! PG.6 Gig Preview: you may well know it’s coming up to our Toyah at the Longlands! PG.34 Heather Story! second anniversary and we’re celebrating PG.35 The Blockheads! by not just putting on one gig (Cape PG.7 Gig Preview: Cub + Samantha Durnan + Joe Ramsey The Yada Yada Yadas at Voodoo Café! PG.38 The Wonder Stuff! at the Westgarth, Middlesbrough on PG.39 Maxïmo Park! Friday 12th May), but as you can see by PG.10 Gig Preview: the front cover we’ve just arranged our Carl Stacey Project at Trillians! biggest gig to-date! Oh, and we’ll also be running a music networking event each Gig Preview: GIG REVIEWS! PG.11 month, starting on Saturday 27th May The Rifles at Sage Two! PG.44 Toni Sidgwick at the Musiclounge in Stockton from at Head of Steam, Norton! 5:00pm, and it’s FREE. Anyhow, moving ARTIST SPOTLIGHT! on, in this month’s edition we chat to Artist Spotlight: PG.45 Wolf People The Cribs as they prepare to play the PG.14 Head of Light Entertainment! at Georgian Theatre, Stockton! 02 Academy, Newcastle; we provide you with our honest opinion of Stockton PG.46 Ian McCulloch Calling; we keep you up-to-date with CULTURE CORNER! at Sage, Gateshead! what’s happening in the region this month including: Nigel Clark (Dodgy) at the Comedy: Musiclounge in Stockton, Natives at the PG.16 The Suggestibles at The Stand PG.47 Stockton Calling 2017! 02 Academy in Newcastle and The Rifles Comedy Club! at the Sage in Gateshead; Teesside band Head of Light Entertainment are put in PG.18 Stage: ALBUM/EP/SINGLE REVIEWS! the spotlight, and so much more. Just to Another England at ARC! remind you, if you’ll be running a gig or PG.50 Figmennt, Chronic, Shamu, The Band for Disease Control and bringing any new material out in May/ FEATURES! Prevention, The Voluntears, June/July then please email our team at [email protected] and we’ll do all Into Teesside Festival 2017! Thesis Lives. PG.22 we possibly can to include a review/news PG.23 NE Volume Magazine Live 2017! piece in our June edition which will be PG.56 - MAY GIG LISTINGS! released on Friday 26th May. PG.24 Consett Festival 2017! Lee Allcock PG.25 Evolution Emerging 2017! Editor - NE Volume Magazine Venue box office opening hours: Mon-Sat 12pm-4pm (Thurs 12pm-6pm) • Ticket Prices Subject to Booking Fees All rights reserved. No part of this publication can be reproduced in whole or part without permission from the publishers. The opinions expressed in NE Volume belong to the ticketweb.co.uk • seetickets.com • gigantic.com • ticketmaster.co.uk individual writers and do not necessarily reflect the views of NE Volume or its staff. NE Volume welcomes ideas and contrbutions but can assume no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. NE Volume holds no responsiblilty to incorrect content supplied in adverts. NE VOLUME NEWS GIG PREVIEW: DODGY USE NE VOLUME (NIGEL CLARK) TO PROMOTE YOUR GIGS AND/OR YOUR BUSINESS! + SUPPORT AT MUSICLOUNGE, Promote your gigs and your business to more STOCKTON than 16,000 music fans in the North East! Written by John Robson This magazine, with a readership of 16,000+, is a fantastic The first time it hit me I was no longer tool for local gig promoters and businesses to market CONTACT a “young” man was in 1997. It was the themselves to local audiences. NE Volume is a North East 20th anniversary of Star Wars. “No magazine delivered FREE to a range of communities in the way!” I thought. I remember queuing North East - covering Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool, up outside the ABC to see that! Darlington, Redcar, Newcastle, Sunderland, and many more. The fact that I could clearly bring to Our next issue will be out on Friday 26th May so get in GIG PREVIEW: mind something that happened two touch now to get involved! EDITOR: LEE ALLCOCK whole decades before was as clear an SUB-EDITOR: DAMIAN ROBINSON announcement of impending middle age as there could be. Well, it’s happened Our prices start from £65.00! We produce LISTINGS: EMILY HOOK again, but in a more satisfying way. In adverts in eighth, quarter, half, full page and BELLA 1996 one of the (then) new bands double page spreads. If you would like a full CREATIVE: TOM BROWN whose songs my band were covering NE Volume advertising pack sent out, please - was Dodgy. Their catchy-as-hell ditty contact [email protected] Contact information GAFFNEY ‘Good Enough’ was a big favourite in or call us on 01642 237348. the set. Last week, my iPod found this Email: [email protected] | Phone: 01642 237348 AT ARC, STOCKTON song while on shuffle and I realised Our trained journalists can write your copy while our www.nevolume.co.uk/contact I hadn’t heard much of Dodgy lately. professional designers can help to put your adverts together. Written by Katie Hall I assumed they’d had a few years off So whatever your requirements are, we are here to help! between albums. They had indeed. I Magazine designed by Tom Brown Graphic Design. Bella Gaffney is taking over the For quotes on Design and Consultancy services contact Tom Brown at: just hadn’t reckoned on it being that [email protected] | www.tbgraphics.co.uk ARC’s intimate Studio this month as many. Anyone born on the day ‘Good part of their brand new Studio Folk Enough’ was released would be leaving programme. One of the rising stars of University now. Talk about losing track the UK’s wonderful home-nurtured Award at Celtic Connections in 2016, of time! national folk scene, Bella has quite a NE Volume is a proud supporter of she has confirmed that her career, The good news is that Dodgy are series of impressive performances which simply began with a performance back! Nigel Clark (Dodgy) is playing LET'S GET SOCIAL! and a great deal of respect behind of John Martyn’s ‘May You Never’, is one at Stockton’s Musiclounge on Friday her, as well as close ties to Bradford’s to watch. 5th May. So if (like me) you have happy incredible Topic Folk. Of course hailing With a second album in the works, she memories of 1996 and want to hear from West Yorkshire, an area steeped is sure to blend her tried and tested some of the stand-out songs from an in the rich history of folk and acoustic material with some of her own brand age when your phone was still called talent, Bella’s family were deeply new work, which is sure to be as a “mobile”, then get yourself along to involved in Topic Folk - an iconic part of sensational as its forerunners. She has the gig. the UK’s folk music scene. also earned a place on stage at many Also playing are The Citadels - Bella herself is most defined by her folk festivals, as well as being selected purveyors of 60s influenced heavy mod; song writing skills, with lyrics influenced to support Altan at Saltaire Live, and Head of Light Entertainment - self- by a diverse range of songwriters Mark Radcliffe and the Foes at Otley styled “weird little indie pop band” and and poets. 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