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Jonathan Rados Jonathan WWW.NEVOLUME.CO.UK DON’T BE AFRAID TO TALK ABOUT IT... MUSICIANS & MENTAL HEALTH WE’RE LISTENING! WE REVIEW THE SKAPONES’ DEBUT ORIGINAL ALBUM! LAST TRAIN HOME IN DARLINGTON! ISSUE #37 SEPT 2018 HARTLEPOOL STEAMPUNK FESTIVAL! ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: TWIST HELIX! FOLLOW NE VOLUME WE SPEAK TO INDIE LEGENDS, THE KOOKS! FESTIVAL OF THRIFT IN REDCAR! ON SOCIAL MEDIA BEZ (HAPPY MONDAYS) AT THE LONGLANDS CLUB! BATTLE OF STOCKTON CAMPAIGN! PICK UP OUR FREE NORTH EAST MUSIC/CULTURE MAGAZINE! TO NE VOLUME MAGAZINE WELCOME ISSUE #37! 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. Now we’re moving into autumn it NEWS means the festival season is now over – or does it? The PG.5 Bez at Longlands Club, Middlesbrough! festival season seems to last pretty much all year round PG.10 Last Train Home, Darlington! these days - and we’re not complaining. You’ll find at least three mentions of festivals CULTURE coming up in the next two months so keep your eyes peeled. Anyhow, so here’s what to look out for this month. In this PG.14 Middlesbrough Art Weekender! edition, we delve into the world of music and depression; we provide you with our honest opinion of Hardwick Live in PG.15 Festival of Thrift, Redcar! Sedgefield; we keep you up-to-date with what’s happening in the region this month including: Bez (Happy Mondays) SPOTLIGHTS at the Longlands Club in Middlesbrough, Battle of Stockton Commemorative Event at The Georgian Theatre in Stockton PG.22 Artist Spotlight: Twist Helix! and Fireball’s Hottest Bands at the 02 Academy in Newcastle, in our culture section we preview Thrift Festival in Redcar and PG.23 Business Spotlight: The Gypsy Rover! Middlesbrough Art Weekender, and so much more.Just to remind you, if you’ll be running an event or bringing any new FEATURES material out in September/October/November then please email our team at [email protected] and we’ll do all we PG.26 Hartlepool Steampunk Festival! possibly can to include a review/news piece in our October edition which will be released on Friday 28th September. PG.28 Anxiety and Depression in Music! And thank you for supporting the North East’s fantastic music and culture scenes – we wouldn’t be here without you. INTERVIEWS PG.33 The Kooks! EDITOR’S PICK: PG.6 PG.39 Tom Clarke! Parkin Photography GIG REVIEWS PG.46 Iron Maiden at Metro Radio Arena! PG.47 Hardwick Live 2018! ALBUM / EP / SINGLE REVIEWS PG.50 The Skapones’ Debut Original Album! PG.51 Rojor’s ‘Blood & Bones’ EP! BATTLE OF STOCKTON SEPTEMBER LISTINGS PG.52-54 Lee Allcock - Editor, NE Volume. ISSUE #38 OUT ON FRIDAY 28TH SEPTEMBER Venue box office opening hours: Mon-Sat 12pm-4pm (Thurs 12pm-6pm) • Ticket Prices Subject to Booking Fees ticketweb.co.uk • seetickets.com • gigantic.com • ticketmaster.co.uk 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 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. GIG PREVIEW GIG PREVIEW 1 YOU CAN USE NE VOLUME TO PROMOTE YOUR OWN BUSINESS OR GIG! Promote your events, band and your local business to more than 25,000 music and culture fans in the North East with our help! REDCAR BLUES’ 10TH ANNIVERSARY AT THE CITIZEN CLUB, NE Volume is a North East magazine delivered FREE to a range of communities in the North East - covering Middlesbrough, REDCAR Stockton, Hartlepool, Darlington, Redcar, Newcastle, Sunderland, and many more. The Tees Delta may not have quite the same ring to it as the Mississippi Delta, but Redcar R&B Club has been providing the We produce adverts covering various sizes. If you would like an area with fine live blues for ten solid years now. To celebrate their NE Volume advertising pack sent out via email or post, please anniversary, Andy Fairweather Low (a founder member of 1960s use the contact details below. British pop band Amen Corne) & The Low Riders are playing the club’s big birthday bash, with the King Biscuit Boys also along for support. The blues club is run as a non-profit organisation by its dedicated Our trained Journalists can write your copy while our dedicated volunteers and has gone from strength to strength over the last Graphic Designer can help to put your adverts together. So ten years - and everybody associated with the organisation should whatever your requirements are, we are here to help! be extremely proud of their achievements. Andy Fairweather Low & The Low Riders plus King Biscuit Boys play Redcar Citizen Club BEZ (DJ SET) on Saturday 8th September. For tickets, please contact blues club volunteer Geoffrey Taylor directly on 07956812706.REBECCA PRICE + ARLO + THE BAGGY MONDAYS AT LONGLANDS CLUB, MIDDLESBROUGH Visit: redcarblues.com. | Email: [email protected]. Manchester’s renowned maraca-shaking party animal, FOR REGULAR UPDATES FOLLOW NE VOLUME ON SOCIAL Bez, is heading to Teesside this month for a night of classic Madchester carnage. Longlands Club, in association with EVENT PREVIEW ourselves at NE Volume Magazine, will play host to the MEDIA OR VISIT OUR WEBSITE: NEVOLUME.CO.UK legendary Happy Mondays dancer as he takes to the turntables to spin some classic indie tunes from the city that birthed Oasis, The Smiths, The Stone Roses and of course, The Happy Mondays – to name but a few. Bez won’t be going it alone behind the decks either as he’s bringing along his son Arlo for the madness; Arlo will be pumping some of the best Hacienda and Madchester classics through the speakers to really get the party started, taking Middlesbrough back to NE VOLUME TEAM CONTACT 1980s Manchester for one night only. It goes without saying that Bez will be the lead orchestrator of the party. With a mic Email: [email protected] in one hand and a maraca in the other, the iconic Mancunian Editor : Lee Allcock will be making sure the Longlands Club goes well and truly Listings: Emily Hook Phone: 01642 237348 AN EVENING WITH mad for it – dya know what I mean? In a recent interview Website: nevolume.co.uk with our editor, Lee Allcock, Bez revealed how he first ended Creative: Tom Brown up on stage with his soon to be legendary pair of maracas. Writers: Sam Dobinson, Rebecca Price, Stephen Jude, Johnathan MARK STANWAY (MAGNUM) He said: “I wasn’t really supposed to go on stage, but due to Ramsay, Nathan Douthwaite, Samantha Hall, Chloe Waterhouse, Aaron ‘psychedelic’ reasons Shaun couldn’t make it onto the stage Bowman, Rachel Byrom, Nicole Wood, Paul Broadhead, Damian Robinson, AT ARC, STOCKTON alone, so I dived on stage with him and the maracas were just Adam Hutchinson, Steve White, Adam Barnsley and Joseph James. the only things available at the time to grab hold of – so it Mark Stanway, a former member of UK melodic rock band Magnum, was just purely coincidence.” And what a happy coincidence it will be revealing an entire lifetime’s worth of experience within the turned out to be as Bez himself is now an icon in his own right music business during a unique September evening. The Stockton in British music. Support for the nights comes from The Baggy Arts Centre (otherwise known as ARC) extends a warm invitation Mondays, a band that doesn’t restrict itself to a single band out to the public to join Mark as he reminisces about his career – a but encompasses an entire era. They’ll be playing the best NE VOLUME career that has spanned over 40 years as a touring and recording tunes from the Madchester and Britpop days to warm your IS A PROUD musician. Although remembered for his lengthy association with cockles up. So, on Friday 21st September step on into the Magnum, Mark has also played with legendary artists such as Robert Longlands Club’s wonderwalls for a night that will open your Magazine designed by Printed by JAK HQ Limited SUPPORTER OF Plant (Led Zeppelin), Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy), Roy Wood (Wizard/ eyes and move your feet with a true Madchester icon. Tom Brown Graphic Design. www.jakinc.uk Move/ELO) and M3 Classic Whitesnake, to name but a few. The Tickets, priced at £10.00 in advance, are available from event will feature a slide and video show featuring material from skiddle.com, by contacting the NE Volume team at Contact Unit 4 Station Road, ‘MvC Live Sessions and signed memorabilia auctions fund state Mark’s archive, a Q&A session, a keyboard demo and a memorabilia [email protected], or by contacting The Longlands Club email: [email protected] Chester-le-Street, DH3 3DY. of the art cancer equipment and intiatives into the NHS and vital raffle. This event will take place on Friday 14th September at ARC, directly on 01642 272006. JOHNATHAN RAMSAY website: tbgraphics.co.uk [email protected] awareness campaigns’ www.musicvcancer.com Stockton with doors opening at 20:00.STEPHEN JUDE Tickets: £14.00 | Visit: arconline.co.uk. Tickets: £10.00 Adv, £13.00 OTD | Visit: skiddle.com. 4 \\ NE VOLUME MAGAZINE 1. Des Willie NEWS // NE VOLUME MAGAZINE // 5 GIG PREVIEW GIG PREVIEW 2 FESTIVAL PREVIEW GIG PREVIEW 3 CHUCK PROPHET WAGJAMMER + STEPHANIE FINCH WITH JESSE MALIN DUO ALBUM LAUNCH AT THE EXCHANGE, AT GOSFORTH CIVIC THEATRE, NEWCASTLE NORTH SHIELDS Californian alt-rock hero Chuck Prophet has recently announced Local folk-rock outfit Wagjammer is set to release their debut studio his first European duo tour with wife and musical partner, album entitled ‘The Signs’ early this month - and they are doing so Stephanie Finch.