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WWW.NEVOLUME.CO.UK NEW STOCKTON VENUE PREPARES TO OPEN STOCKTON INTERNATIONAL RIVERSIDE FESTIVAL RETURNS! WE INTERVIEW ELIOT SMITH DANCE COMPANY! SONIC ARTS WEEK IN MIDDLESBROUGH! PAUL-RONNEY ANGEL AT THE WESTGARTH! DURHAM BRASS FESTIVAL! SQUARMS AT THE ENGINE ROOM! THE GLOBE SUMMER FESTIVAL! LAMPLIGHT FESTIVAL SUNDERLAND! WE'RE LISTENING! | ISSUE #67 | JULY 2021 | FOLLOW NE VOLUME ON SOCIAL MEDIA PICK UP OUR FREE NORTH EAST MUSIC/CULTURE MAGAZINE! TO NE VOLUME MAGAZINE AQUAMMXX VELVASAN AQUA SINGLE IS FOR LIFE AND NOT JUST XMAS ISSUE #67! ... WELCOME Thank you so much for picking up NE Volume magazine - the magazine produced by local music and culture fans, for CONTENTS local music and culture fans. 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NE Volume is a North East magazine delivered FREE to a range of communities in the North East - covering SWINE TAX Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool, Darlington, Redcar, + WERMS AT BASE CAMP, MIDDLESBROUGH Newcastle, Sunderland, and many more. We produce adverts covering various sizes. If you would Forward-thinking creative spot, Base Camp, will host two like an NE Volume advertising pack sent out via email or THE GLOBE IN inspiring local bands in the form of Swine Tax and Werms on post, please use the contact details below. Saturday 10th July. Werms will be playing on home territory, the duo in the stripped-down bass and drums tradition flexing their USP: “Ten songs. Ten minutes”. Newcastle’s Swine Tax, of Our trained Journalists can write your copy while our the UK’s post-punk sound de jour, are defined by their sonic dedicated Graphic Designer can help to put your adverts NEWCASTLE’S power, sharp, playful lyricism, white knuckle thrills and national together. So whatever your requirements are, we are here exposure in both media and as a touring attraction, fuelled by to help! an eclectic and artistically considerable string of singles. This SUMMER FESTIVAL will be another exciting date as live acts nationwide restart their engines. This is a free entry event. MICHAEL JOHNSON As things very slowly crawl back to a pace resembling something like normality, we’ve had the much-needed For further information, head to Facebook.com/basecampboro pleasure of some live music returning. However, in recent weeks it has dawned that a second summer festival schedule FOR REGULAR UPDATES FOLLOW NE VOLUME ON SOCIAL is set to largely fall casualty to the pandemic, due to the sheer uncertainty of the situation rendering it impossible for the major festivals to proceed in 2021. We hope this will be the NEWS MEDIA OR VISIT OUR WEBSITE: NEVOLUME.CO.UK last summer without unadulterated festivals; while live music, in general, is also yet to return to its full power, festivals are a distinct delight. Those keeping the flag flying this summer represent a piecemeal arrangement compared to usual but are utterly welcome. Into this void steps The Globe, Newcastle’s Summer Festival. The three-day event, from July 23rd to NE VOLUME TEAM CONTACT 25th will, naturally, take place at The Globe in Newcastle and, as the name betrays, is centring itself at the heart of this Editor : Lee Allcock summer’s local music happenings. Combining the venue’s Listings: Adam Allcock Email: [email protected] now established penchant for combining live performance and excellent livestream (which can be viewed at any time Creative: Tom Brown Phone: 07594 486 754 for the subsequent week after the show) as a mark of the Writers: Michael Johnson, Georgina Website: nevolume.co.uk grassroots adaptation and innovation of the last 18 months, the extravaganza blends a highly eclectic array of folk genres Shine, Lauren Gosling, with a strong regional focus on the North East and Scotland. Wayne Madden, Mark Davies, Like many businesses in all walks of life in the post-Covid Adam Kennedy and Damian E D Q environment, the festival finds The Globe shortening their supply lines. With this much gold to be mined in collaboration THE DEAD REBEL CLUB Robinson. with the local scene’s performers and promoters, the approach is logical in the current challenging climate. Across AT THE EMPIRE, MIDDLESBROUGH the schedule, there will be highly-prized folk from Martin and Eliza Carthy, poetry and comedy from the city’s Born Lippy, feisty and musically diverse soul and rock from Holy Moly The Dead Rebel Club, which will feature shows from the hottest & The Crackers, classical from Bradley Creswick and guests, live touring bands invading the main stage, will open its doors Indian classical from sitarist Jasdeep Singh Degun and tabla on Friday 25th June. While The Empire has featured live music player Harkiret Bahra, and jazz from Edinburgh’s Tenement in its main auditorium for many years, hosting a litany of acts NE VOLUME Jazz Band, alongside much, much more, and all giving a clear including The Arctic Monkeys, Mark Ronson, Tinie Tempah and impression of the distinct flavours brought together for the The Coral, to name but a few, this will be the first time in nearly IS A PROUD festival. 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MICHAEL JOHNSON website: tbgraphics.co.uk [email protected] awareness campaigns’ www.musicvcancer.com For further information, head to facebook.com/DeadRebelClub Visit: theglobenewcastle.bar 4 \\ NE VOLUME MAGAZINE NEWS // NE VOLUME MAGAZINE // 5 NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS THE SHAKIN' NIGHTMARES CAITIE ORIGINAL LIVE + WARD + JEN DIXON AT THE HALT, REDCAR UNVEILS DEBUT SINGLE, ‘LIVE IT UP’ The Halt in Redcar are preparing to showcase a string of MUSIC NIGHTS original artists over the course of this month, with the owners North East music scene newbie, Caitie, is here to banish the firmly believing in the talent on offer across the region. lockdown pandemic blues by bringing the sounds of summer STEVE PILGRIM Headliners for this one, The Shakin’ nightmares, infuse dark, to your ears with her debut single, ‘Live It Up’. The 20-year- sinister sounds interjected with classic rock ‘n’ roll to produce old artist has always used music as an escape and now she’s AT THE GREEN ROOM, STOCKTON TO RETURN TO a high-octane output that will have you dancing like a 1950’s creating a musical escape for others.