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WWW.NEVOLUME.CO.UK OUR TOP 10 NORTH EAST BANDS/ARTISTS TO SEE IN 2018! WE’RE BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: LIFE OF VINYL! LISTENING! MIXING ART WITH MUSIC, VINYL IN STOCKTON! ISSUE #29 DEC/JAN 17/18 WE SPEAK TO HAPPY MONDAYS! POST-MORTEM OF LIAM GALLAGHER’S TOON GIG! FOLLOW NE VOLUME ON SOCIAL NEWCASTLE/GATESHEAD WINTER FESTIVAL! ECHOLINES‘ NEW ALBUM! MEDIA BOXING DAY BIG ONE AT THE STUDIO, HARTLEPOOL! PICK UP OUR FREE NORTH EAST MUSIC/CULTURE MAGAZINE! LET’S GET EVEN LOUDER NORTH EAST VOLUME!!!!! NEWS! FEATURES! WELCOME! Thank you so much for picking up PG.5 Gig Preview: PG.25 Business Spotlight: Life of Vinyl! Town Hall Live #2 NE Volume magazine - the magazine at Hartlepool Town Hall! PG.26 Mixing Art and Music at Riverside produced by local music and culture fans, Lounge, Stockton! for local music and culture fans. PG.6 Gig Preview: It’s that time of year again! The Christmas 999 at The Georgian Theatre! PG.27 X-mas Box Festival, Darlington! markets are in full swing, the mulled PG.30 Top 10 North East Artists wine is going down rather nicely, we’re PG.7 Gig Previews: to See in 2018! in the festive spirit... and my designer OniX Music’s December Highlights! has plonked a Santa hat on me, again. December is also a time where we’re PG.10 Gig Preview: INTERVIEWS! spoilt for choice when it comes to Chronic Change at Think Tank? cultural and musical events, but we’ve Underground! PG.32 Cara Dillon! ram-packed this bumper edition so you won’t miss out. In this edition, I pick the Gig Preview: PG.33 Happy Mondays! PG.11 top 10 bands/artists that I truly believe Hutton Rudby Village Hall’s Red Fang! Highlights! PG.36 you should see live this year; we provide PG.37 The Twang! you with our honest opinion of Wolf PG.12 Gig Preview: Alice at the 02 Academy; we keep you Pete Fij at The Sitting Room! PG.38 Nathalie Stern! up-to-date with what’s happening in the region in December and January Cape Cub! PG.43 including: Town Hall Live #2 in Hartlepool, CULTURE CORNER! The Filthy Tongues at the Westgarth and Event: GIG REVIEWS! Vinyl at Riverside Lounge in Stockton; PG.16 in our culture section we preview the Newcastle/Gateshead Winter Sløtface at KU Bar, Stockton! Festival! PG.48 NewcastleGateshead Winter Festival, PG.49 Liam Gallagher in Newcastle! and so much more. Just to remind you, if PG.17 Comedy: you’ll be running an event or bringing any Bill Bailey at Newcastle City Hall! PG.51 Wolf Alice at 02 Academy! new material out in December/January/ PG.20 Art: February then please email our team at Kalpana’s Warriors at Bamburgh ALBUM/EP/SINGLE REVIEWS! [email protected] and we’ll do all House, Newcastle! we possibly can to include a review/news Echolines, Miss Danby & The piece in our February edition which will Event: PG.54 PG.23 What, Parallax Skies, Stephen J. be released on Friday 2nd February.And Ghost Dances at Theatre Royal! Mordue. Bob Douglass & The from everybody here at NE Volume, we Frequency, Be Quiet Shout Loud! wish you a very Merry Christmas and a ARTIST SPOTLIGHT! Happy New Year. PG.56- DEC 2017 / JAN 2018 GIG LISTINGS! PG.24 Phase! Lee Allcock - Editor - NE Volume 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. NE VOLUME NEWS GIG PREVIEW: TOWN HALL USE NE VOLUME LIVE #2 TO PROMOTE YOUR EVENTS/BAND/LOCAL BUSINESS! PLAZA + PARA ALTA + MAX BIANCO + MORE AT Promote your events, band and your local HARTLEPOOL TOWN HALL business to more than 16,000 music and culture fans in the North East! Written by Thomas Anderson This magazine, with a readership of 16,000+, is a fantastic CONTACT Following on from the success of their tool for local gig and event promoters, bands and North first event in September, Hartlepool East businesses to market themselves to local audiences. Town Hall will be hosting their second NE Volume is a North East magazine delivered FREE to ‘Town Hall Live’ on Friday 22nd a range of communities in the North East - covering Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool, Darlington, Redcar, December, featuring a selection of Newcastle, Sunderland, and many more. Our next issue GIG PREVIEW: popular home-grown artists including will be out on Friday 2nd February so get in touch now EDITOR: LEE ALLCOCK Plaza, Para Alta, Max Bianco and to get involved! Gra4ce. Opening up the event will be LISTINGS: EMILY HOOK psychedelic and dream-pop singer- FORTIES TO songwriter, Gra4ce - a fantastic and fresh We produce adverts in eighth, quarter, CREATIVE: TOM BROWN half, full page and double page spreads. - artist from Hartlepool that brings dark If you would like a full NE Volume techno influences (think Aphex Twin) advertising pack sent out, please contact Contact information NOUGHTIES into the bright world of dream-pop. [email protected] or call us on 01642 Email: [email protected] | Phone: 01642 237348 The next act on the line up is Max 237348. FEAT. BARRY HYDE www.nevolume.co.uk/contact Bianco, a member of the inventors of AT JUMPIN’ JACKS, industrial folk and proud Hartlepudians, Our trained journalists can write your copy while our The Jar Family. He will be performing professional designers can help to put your adverts his solo work which, although slightly together. So whatever your requirements are, we are NEWCASTLE different from his work with The Jar here to help! Magazine designed by Tom Brown Graphic Design. For quotes on Design and Consultancy services contact Tom Brown at: Barry Hyde, frontman of the critically- Family, still has that distinct industrial [email protected] | www.tbgraphics.co.uk acclaimed Sunderland-born indie band, The folk vibe that we’ve all grown to love. Futureheads, is due to play a special date The act up before the headliners will be on Tuesday 5th December at the iconic none-other than local indie band, Para and intimate Jumpin’ Jacks (above the Dog Alta, whose latest release ‘Home to NE Volume is a proud supporter of and Parrot) in central Newcastle. You’ has hit over 100k listens on Spotify Unlike his other North East tour dates a year since Barry’s debut solo release, in a short space of time. Headliners, LET'S GET SOCIAL! (now sold out), this show won’t be your ‘Malody’, a melancholic and calmer step Plaza, are a gritty and grungy math- ordinary solo acoustic gig. On the night, back from his work with The Futureheads rock group from Hartlepool that have Barry will be headlining an event that will that saw the artist gain notoriety in the risen to prominence in the North East include six up-and-coming songwriters music world in the noughties. Although his recently; regularly selling out shows who will play the audience through the new material is often the forefront of his across the region as they showcase decades, starting from the suave 1940s solo shows, that’s not to say there won’t their mind-bending psychedelic set of to the new indie-wave of the 2000s, with be a few Futureheads’ classics thrown complex guitar riffs and melancholy Barry of cause covering the latter. in there for good measure. With much melodies to an enthusiastic audience. Ellie Sunderland will be covering the 40s, more entertainment to be announced, This is the second Town Hall Live in the Durham finger-picking hero Connor it’s definitely going to be an unforgettable quarterly event series, with plans already Thomas will be taking care of the 70s, and night. It’s also advised to get your tickets as underway for number three following Heavy Jets frontman Rhys Breen will be soon as possible as the event is heading for the success of their first show. In terms covering the 90s. a sell-out. So head down to Jumpin’ Jacks, of the venue, it’s a fantastic bespoke live FOLLOW US TO KEEP UP-TO-DATE WITH THE NORTH EAST ‘MvC Live Sessions and Signed Memorabilia Auctions fund In terms of Barry’s set, it’s rumoured Newcastle for a night filled with nostalgia. entertainment venue in the heart of state of the art cancer equipment/initiatives into the NHS that he has something a little different in Tickets, priced at £5.00 in advance, are Hartlepool with an impressive capacity MUSIC AND CULTURE SCENES! WWW.NEVOLUME.CO.UK and vital awareness campaigns’ store for gig-goers, as well as obviously available from seetickets.com. Tickets on of 400. Tickets for this one are priced Published monthly by NE Volume. Printed by JAK HQ Limited (www.jakinc.uk) playing some of his usual fan favourites the door, if there are any left, will be priced at just £5.00 and can be purchased at www.musicvcancer.com Unit 4 Station Road, Chester-le-Street, DH3 3DY. [email protected] and solo work. The show comes just over at £7.00. hartlepooltownhalltheatre.com. For more information please contact [email protected] @musicvcancer | /musicvcancer 4 5 NE VOLUME NEWS NE VOLUME NEWS GIG PREVIEW: GIG PREVIEWS: 999 ONIX MUSIC’S + SUPPORT AT THE DECEMBER GEORGIAN THEATRE, STOCKTON HIGHLIGHTS Written by Rebecca Schott Written by Kyrie Morris Photography by Howy White This coming January, celebrate the New Year with classic punk rockers, The North East is home to some of 999, as they take to the stage of The the most talented and awe-inspiring Georgian Theatre in Stockton as artists, but people often forget the part of a string of gigs across the UK, important role that music promoters Germany, and Poland.