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Jodie Canwell Jodie WWW.NEVOLUME.CO.UK WOMEN IN MUSIC INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2019 WE’RE LISTENING! WE REVIEW THE VACCINES AT 02 ACADEMY! ELEVATOR FESTIVAL! ISSUE #42 MARCH 2019 THE NORTH EAST GUITAR SHOW! GHOST//SIGNALS AT LITTLE BUILDINGS! FOLLOW NE VOLUME THE URBAN VOODOO MACHINE IN HARTLEPOOL! WE REVIEW ECHOLINES’ LATEST RELEASE! ON SOCIAL MEDIA ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: TALK LIKE TIGERS! WE SPEAK WITH DRENGE! PICK UP OUR FREE NORTH EAST MUSIC/CULTURE MAGAZINE! TO NE VOLUME MAGAZINE WELCOME ISSUE #42! 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. The last few weeks have NEWS been rather hectic in the NE Volume office as I’m PG.6 Sham 69 at The Georgian Theatre! actually in the middle of moving house. But don’t PG.8 Julie Grant at Little Buildings! worry, I’m only moving to a little village called CULTURE Stillington in Stockton so NE Volume will, of course, continue to be released. 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PAUL CARRACK NE Volume is a North East magazine delivered FREE to a range AT MIDDLESBROUGH TOWN HALL of communities in the North East - covering Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool, Darlington, Redcar, Newcastle, Sunderland, Pop-soul pioneer, Paul Carrack, heads to the Middlesbrough and many more. Town Hall on Friday 22nd March as part of his hugely anticipated UK tour. The Sheffield-born songsmith has a rich We produce adverts covering various sizes. If you would like an history entrenched in soulful hits spanning across an impressive NE Volume advertising pack sent out via email or post, please 17 albums, with critics describing his latest record ‘These Days’ PUSSYCAT use the contact details below. as one of his most admirable works to date. Labelled by the BBC as ‘The Man With The Golden Voice’, Carrack boasts a rich musical career, with years passed seeing him lending his soulful AND THE DIRTY JOHNSONS Our trained Journalists can write your copy while our dedicated Graphic Designer can help to put your adverts together. So vocals and songwriting talents to such greats as Squeeze, Ace and the mighty Eric Clapton, to name a few. Since the millennial AT THE GLOBE, NEWCASTLE whatever your requirements are, we are here to help! launch of his own independent record label, ‘Carrack-UK’, Paul’s exemplary musicianship has gained him a loyal army of British glam rockers, Pussycat and The Dirty Johnsons, are fans, who flock in their thousands to catch him on one of his heading to The Globe in Newcastle this month to showcase many, illustrious live tours. KYRIE MORRIS their infectious brand of rock ‘n’ roll. The band has played numerous UK tours with the likes of The Damned, The Tickets: £34.50 | Visit: middlesbroughtownhall.co.uk Fuzztones, and Bow Wow Wow amongst many others and has reached great accolades, including achieving over 50K FOR REGULAR UPDATES FOLLOW NE VOLUME ON SOCIAL hits with their first video, ‘Trouble with the Devil’. Many have compared them to The Cramps, and although there are some elements within their powerful image and crowd interaction, MEDIA OR VISIT OUR WEBSITE: NEVOLUME.CO.UK GIG PREVIEW their music is exceedingly more harsh and aggressive. Puss Johnson (lead vocalist) is renowned for prowling through the audience, while band members ‘Filfy’Antzpounds on his thundering drums and ‘Dirty’ Jake’s fuzzed-out guitar rumbles in the background - the Basingstoke hailing trio create an incredible wall of sound. Their appearance is equally as striking NE VOLUME TEAM CONTACT as their incendiary music, as Puss dresses head to toe in punk- inspired feline fashion with her hair sculpted into cat ears and rocking her leopard print makeup and dominatrix-style PVC Editor : Lee Allcock catsuits. Their music is full of feminist elements, particularly Listings: Emily Hook Email: [email protected] in their latest album ‘Ain’t No Pussy’, featuring guest double- Phone: 07594 486 754 bassist Phil Bloomberg of The Polecats on a couple of tracks. Creative: Tom Brown The lyrics are certainly not subtle in their messages either, Website: nevolume.co.uk Writers: Kyrie Morris, Charlie Richardson, Janine Lewis, with hard-hitting songs like ‘Pretty Good for a Girl’ fighting Adam Gordon, Tobias Halford, Callum Thornhill, HUE & CRY out against men’s catcalling and other derogatory behaviours Tracy Daniel, William Brown, Rosie Murphy, Katherine Shanks, Stephanie displayed towards women, whilst their track, ‘One of the Boys’, Thompson, Stephen Jude, Meghan Ewart, Samantha Hall, Laura AT ARC, STOCKTON embraces her masculine side and shuns traditional feminine Freyaldenhoven, Wayne Madden, Damian Robinson, Sam Dobinson, traits. In their title track ‘Ain’t No Pussy’, Puss Johnson’s hell- Adam Barnsley and Rachel Byrom. unleashed vocals are hypnotic as she cries out resonating lyrics It’s 30 years since Hue and Cry followed their hugely successful studio ‘You don’t know me/And you don’t own me’ with an obvious albums ‘Seduced and Abandoned’ and ‘Remote’ with an amazing, disdain towards the judging eyes of society. Their debut studio and positively received live album, ‘Bitter Suite’. To celebrate and LP, ‘Exercise your Demons’, received great reviews, with Alex reminisce on Hue and Cry’s glory years, the band will be performing a McGowan artfully capturing the high-impact wild energy of stripped-back and intimate show at ARC, Stockton on Thursday 21st their live shows. Their songs emanate that raw, grungy sound NE VOLUME March. An ever-popular band with broad influences in pop, dance, like that of 70s punk bands, with a simple, dirty guitar sound jazz and R&B, brothers Pat and Greg Kane have gone from humble and frenzied drumming. ‘Foreign Body’ and ‘Surrender My IS A PROUD beginnings in Coatbridge, just outside Glasgow, to producing some Heart’ are full of Puss Johnson’s primal squealing and guttural Magazine designed by Printed by JAK HQ Limited memorable music that has really stood the test of time. Apart from rock ‘n’ roll howls. It’s loud and brash just the way punk rock Tom Brown Graphic Design. www.jakinc.uk SUPPORTER OF making you feel a bit old when people mention that it’s 30 years since should be. If high volume and speed are things you enjoy in an album was released, it certainly gives you the inspiration to dust your music, then this is a band you’ll want to see. Pussycat and Contact Unit 4 Station Road, ‘MvC Live Sessions and signed memorabilia auctions fund state off some old vinyl, listen to some classic tunes, and check out a great The Dirty Johnsons head to The Globe, Newcastle on Saturday email: [email protected] Chester-le-Street, DH3 3DY. of the art cancer equipment and intiatives into the NHS and vital live show. Hue and Cry head to ARC, Stockton on Thursday 21st 16th March. JANINE LEWIS website: tbgraphics.co.uk [email protected] awareness campaigns’ www.musicvcancer.com March.