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CATH & PHIL TYLER NE Volume is a North East magazine delivered FREE to a range of communities in the North East - covering Middlesbrough, AT ARC, STOCKTON Stockton, Hartlepool, Darlington, Redcar, Newcastle, Sunderland, and many more. Call yourself a fan of Anglo-American folk music? Then you certainly don’t want to miss out this month as Cath & Phil Tyler We produce adverts covering various sizes. If you would like an make their way to ARC, Stockton. She was a member of the band NE Volume advertising pack sent out via email or post, please Cordelia’s Dad in the 1990s when she lived in Massachusetts, use the contact details below. USA. He is from Newcastle and has played in various folk, rock and ceilidh bands for many years. Together, they are Cath and Phil Tyler and they have joined together through a mutual Our trained Journalists can write your copy while our dedicated adoration for traditional narrative songs. The sounds of their Graphic Designer can help to put your adverts together. So voices accompanying a harmonious harp and mountain banjo whatever your requirements are, we are here to help! indicate their presence, a presence that has been seen from London’s Royal Opera House to a dark and dank tower in the COURTNEY BARNETT older portions of Newcastle. The duo will perform at ARC, AT NORTHUMBRIA INSTITUTE Stockton on Saturday 17th November. STEPHEN JUDE Tickets: £8.50 | Visit: arconline.co.uk With a new album that is still ringing fresh in the ears of fans, the legendary left-handed musician Courtney Barnett is travelling from her stomping grounds in the land down under FOR REGULAR UPDATES FOLLOW NE VOLUME ON SOCIAL to play Newcastle’s Northumbria Institute this month. 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Clearly Barnett has been Editor : Lee Allcock having fun, letting her creative talents run wild much to the Listings: Emily Hook Phone: 01642 237348 delight of us common folk. And that’s what music is all about: Website: nevolume.co.uk collaboration and creative expeditions into the unknown to Creative: Tom Brown truly find the best music. Her latest album is testament to that. Writers: Tracy Daniel, Charlie Richardson, Stephen Jude, ESTRONS ‘Tell Me How You Feel’ (2018) does everything right. It fits in Samantha Hall, Adam Urwin, Sam Dobinson, Nathan Douthwaite, William around the forty minute mark – perfect play time for an album Brown, Phil Wilson, Aaron Bowman, Rebecca Schott, Callum Patterson, AT THINK TANK?, NEWCASTLE - and has that jangly psychedelic feel to it; like a dream where Damian Robinson, Rhiannon Banks and James Paterson you’ve eaten too much cheese and you see a cat driving an Cardiff alt-rock four-piece Estrons head to Newcastle’s Think ambulance down a road made of spaghetti…don’t ask. The four Tank? on Saturday 3rd November as part of their latest album singles released from the album, ‘Nameless Faceless’, ‘Need a tour in what’s certain to be a show not to be missed. The Little Time’, ‘City looks Pretty’ and ‘Sunday Roast’ all run along album, released on Friday 5th October, is titled ‘You Say I’m parallel lines with this kind of feeling. It’s certainly an enjoyable NE VOLUME Too Much, I Say You’re Not Enough’ and is the band’s debut listen, especially if you are road-tripping with friends. It’s not album after their formation back in 2013. Latest singles from often we get musicians from the far side of the world playing IS A PROUD the band include ‘Body’, ‘Lilac’ and ‘Cameras’, all three of which in Newcastle, and one good thing they all have in common is they are bloody good performers. There’s a real passion behind Magazine designed by Printed by JAK HQ Limited will be featured on the album, alongside seven other previously what they are doing, an art form all of its own. Barnett is no Tom Brown Graphic Design. www.jakinc.uk SUPPORTER OF unreleased titles. Recently returning from a headlining European run, this tour (kicking off on Friday 5th October at exception: she’s an exciting young woman who should be on everyone’s list of musicians to see. Courtney Barnett plays the Contact Unit 4 Station Road, ‘MvC Live Sessions and signed memorabilia auctions fund state London’s Rough Trade East), sees the band take stage in venues Northumbria Institute on Wednesday 21st November. email: [email protected] Chester-le-Street, DH3 3DY. of the art cancer equipment and intiatives into the NHS and vital up and down the country, including Manchester, Bristol, Leeds, ADAM URWIN website: tbgraphics.co.uk [email protected] awareness campaigns’ www.musicvcancer.com Cardiff and, of course, Newcastle.SAMANTHA HALL Tickets: £11.00 Advance + Booking Fee | Visit: seetickets.com Tickets: £25.20 + Booking Fee | Visit: seetickets.com 4 \\ NE VOLUME MAGAZINE 1. Simone J Rudolph NEWS // NE VOLUME MAGAZINE // 5 GIG PREVIEW GIG PREVIEW GIG PREVIEW GIG PREVIEW HINDS LUCERO AT RIVERSIDE, NEWCASTLE AT 02 ACADEMY, NEWCASTLE Described by NME as ‘Europe’s most exciting new band’, indie Memphis-based Lucero, the band that helped pave the way for what garage-pop/rock band, Hinds are set to make their way to is now called Americana, are playing a string of UK dates following the Riverside, Newcastle this month in a show that I certainly the release of their ninth studio album, ‘Among the Ghosts’.