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WWW.NEVOLUME.CO.UK STEREOPHONICS TO HEADLINE THIS IS TOMORROW FESTIVAL 2019 WRITE FESTIVAL, SOUTH SHIELDS! WE’RE WOMEN ARE MINT AT COBALT STUDIOS! LISTENING! ISSUE #44 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: SMOOTH & TURRELL! MAY 2019 WE SPEAK WITH THE BLINDERS! FOLLOW NE VOLUME WE REVIEW THE SHAKIN’ NIGHTMARES IN MIDDLESBROUGH! SUICIDE IN MUSIC ON SOCIAL MEDIA WE REVIEW MICHAEL GALLAGHER’S NEW EP! VINYL: LONG PLAY IN STOCKTON! PICK UP OUR FREE NORTH EAST MUSIC/CULTURE MAGAZINE! TO NE VOLUME MAGAZINE WELCOME ISSUE #44! Thank you so much for picking up NE Volume magazine - the magazine produced by local music CONTENTS and culture fans, for local music and culture fans. Those eagle-eyed NEWS readers among you may notice that there’s PG.5 Songs From Northern Britain! a piece of artwork in this edition announcing PG.10 Consett Festival 2019! the line-up for our 4th anniversary gig. Haven’t CULTURE spotted it yet? Take another look. We’re here to support local artists which is why we’ve put together an all North East line- PG.12 Write Festival, South Shields! up. Anyhow, so here’s what to look out for this month. In this edition, I speak with Stereophonics as they prepare to play This PG.15 Sunderland Shorts Film Festival! is Tomorrow in Newcastle; Tobias Halford provides you with his honest opinion of The Shakin’ Nightmares at Hey Base Camp in SPOTLIGHTS Middlesbrough; we keep you up-to-date with what’s happening in the region this month including Women are Mint at Cobalt PG.22 Artist Spotlight: Smoove & Turrell! Studios in Newcastle, The Membranes at Westgarth Social Club in Middlesbrough and Consett Festival; in our culture section PG.23 Business Spotlight: Parmo Photography! we preview Write Festival in South Shields, and so much more. Just to remind you, if you’ll be running an event or bringing any FEATURES new material out in May/June then please email our team at [email protected] and we’ll do all we possibly can to include PG.28 This is Tomorrow Festival! a review/news piece in our June edition which will be released on Friday 31st May. And thank you for supporting the North PG.30 Suicide in Music East’s fantastic music and culture scenes – we wouldn’t be here without you. INTERVIEWS PG.39 Travis Shaw! EDITOR’S PICK: PG.9 PG.45 Stereophonics! GIG REVIEWS PG.47 Drenge at Northumbria Institute! PG.49 Head of Light Entertainment in Stockton! ALBUM / EP / SINGLE REVIEWS PG.50 User Dreams – User Dreams EP! PG. 9 - WOMEN ARE MINT! PG.51 Lost State Of Dan – Darkest Night Single! MAY 2019 GIG LISTINGS PG.52-55 Lee Allcock - Editor, NE Volume. ISSUE #45 OUT ON FRIDAY 31ST MAY! 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SOCIAL ROOM NE Volume is a North East magazine delivered FREE to a range + SUPPORT AT KU BAR, STOCKTON of communities in the North East - covering Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool, Darlington, Redcar, Newcastle, Sunderland, Renowned Stockton venue, Ku Bar, will host a night of up- and many more. and-coming talent on Saturday 11th May in an event set up to support North East artists. In association with This Feeling, the We produce adverts covering various sizes. If you would like an night will feature headline act Social Room from Sunderland NE Volume advertising pack sent out via email or post, please with support from Hartlepool’s Michael Gallagher, Newcastle’s use the contact details below. Cova Castle and Teesside’s The Balcony. Speaking about the SONGS FROM NORTHERN gig, Social Room said: “We can’t wait to get back and play Ku Our trained Journalists can write your copy while our dedicated Bar in Stockton. We’ve played the area a few times as it’s well know in the North East for having one of the best live music BRITAIN Graphic Designer can help to put your adverts together. So scenes.” The night will also be Michael Gallagher’s first time whatever your requirements are, we are here to help! playing Ku Bar. The singer-songwriter added: “I’m really looking AT THE GEORGIAN THEATRE, STOCKTON forward to the gig as I have yet to play Ku Bar but have been to a lot of brilliant gigs there to see the likes of Tom Clarke, Vistas & INHEAVEN.” JACON SLOAN Songs From Northern Britain (SFNB) will return to Stockton-on- Tees’ Georgian Theatre for a fourth edition on Saturday 18th May. Tickets: £5.50 (+ Booking Fee) | Visit: seetickets.com Sharing its name with the Teenage Fanclub record, it has become a highly anticipated event across the region and this edition will see FOR REGULAR UPDATES FOLLOW NE VOLUME ON SOCIAL critically acclaimed indie outfit The Snuts headline. The Snuts have drawn comparisons to indie-rock icons Arctic Monkeys and Kings of Leon via tracks such as ‘Manhattan Project’ - and their efforts MEDIA OR VISIT OUR WEBSITE: NEVOLUME.CO.UK GIG PREVIEW 1 haven’t been in vain. A slot at this year’s Reading and Leeds Festival is confirmed for August, but don’t expect the West Lothian quartet to be lacking in effort at smaller, more intimate shows such as SFNB. Closer to Stockton-on-Tees, though, slacker-pop newbies Mt. Misery and indie rockers The Balcony from Hartlepool will join the lineup. Para Alta, who originate from the coastal town, will also be NE VOLUME TEAM CONTACT there - even though they have since relocated to London. Fellow Hartlepudlian, Charlotte Grayson, will be performing at SFNB after being recognised by BBC Introducing’s Bob Fischer. She joins this Editor : Lee Allcock year’s event alongside Lost State of Dan. Also representing the Listings: Adam Allcock Email: [email protected] North East are Durham’s fuzz-pop band The Yada Yada Yadas, Phone: 07594 486 754 Newcastle’s RoninClan, Stockton/Leeds’ math-rock/dream-pop Creative: Tom Brown hybrid Uncle Buzzard, Middlesbrough’s Shakk and Redcar’s rock ’n’ Website: nevolume.co.uk Writers: Laura Freyaldenhoven, Callum Thornhill, Sam rollers, The Shakin’ Nightmares.Leeds punks, Venus, will bring their Dobinson, Katherine Shanks, Charlie Richardson, Jake Carr- BAND OF HOLY JOY angst to SFNB following a headline performance at Hartlepool’s Smith, Jacob Sloan, Tobias Halford, Daniel Metcalfe, Stephen sixth installment of Town Hall Live. Latest single, ‘Deranged’, is laden Jude, Adam Urwin, Damian Robinson, Johnathan Ramsay, AT STAR & SHADOW CINEMA, NEWCASTLE with electro-rock - and there’s plenty more where that came from Samantha Hall, Paul Kemp, Wayne Madden and Rosie Murphy on the live stage. Using their platform to highlight the importance of feminism alongside their Riot Grrrl aesthetic, it is easy to see why On Saturday 18th May, Band of Holy Joy return to the region they’ve gone from strength to strength over the past year, playing to play a benefit gig for Pop! Not Hate at Star & Shadow in headline shows across the country as well as various festivals slots. Newcastle. Pop! Not Hate is a celebration of love and solidarity Completing the stellar lineup are Glaswegians Carla J Easton whose where they will be joined by Helen McCookerybook, Oldfield synth-pop symphonies are delicately spellbinding, and Wojtek the Youth Club and Hector Gannet. The six-piece incorporate Bear - an indie-pop four-piece brimming with upbeat tones. Other NE VOLUME drums, bass, guitar, visuals and a sixties organ into their songs, bands joining SFNB from north-of-the-border are Paisley art-pop which makes for a unique concert experience. On stage, the four-piece The Vegan Leather and Edinburgh electro-pop collective, IS A PROUD band tells passionate tales and fills the room with light. Band Lakyoto. The talent at this year’s event is rife. Whether you’re using Magazine designed by Printed by JAK HQ Limited of Holy Joy’s sound is hard to describe but they take influence SFNB as a chance to find new music or you’re heading down to Tom Brown Graphic Design. www.jakhq.om SUPPORTER OF from artists like The Subway Sect, The Jefferson Airplane and see an act you’ve seen plenty of times, it is sure to be another Mary J Blige. If you like crooked style and sentient smiles, if you successful edition. This edition of Songs From Northern Britain will Contact The Sweet Factory, 4 Station Road, ‘MvC Live Sessions and signed memorabilia auctions fund state see the beautiful in the ugly or the happy in the sad and just be compered by BBC 6 Music’s Vic Galloway. CALLUM THORNHILL email: [email protected] Chester-le-Street, DH3 3DY. of the art cancer equipment and intiatives into the NHS and vital love a band intent on playing a great yet strange and different website: tbgraphics.co.uk [email protected] awareness campaigns’ www.musicvcancer.com kind of song, this is the gig for you.