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Roland Gift and Fine Young Cannibals
Roland Gift has been called many things, and one of those things is “the first black punk in Hull”. He was in a Hull ska band called…
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The Housemartins Hit The Big Time
It is Christmas 1986 and Caravan of Love reaches №1, only to be knocked off by the inestimable Reet Petite by Jackie Wilson. The Transit…
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Mick Ronson and David Bowie
We stay in the 1970s for a look at the career of another Hull musician, Mick Ronson. He’s not widely remembered outside East Yorkshire or…
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1970s Politics
The docks, Cod Wars, the Gaul
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The Housemartins Form
The Housemartins: burning bright but brief
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Intro
This is more than one story. This is partly a story about music for anyone who knows where Hull is. No, it’s not. Partly, possibly. It’s…
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The Venues: New Adelphi
Back in the day, the 1980s and 1990s, music needed a place to happen. Before the internet, Hull had music pubs. My brother and my friends…
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Straight Outta
The big surprise was Sade. I knew about the Housemartins and the Beautiful South because they released records when I was buying them. And…
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More on Choosing Software
However you choose a data platform, the most important thing is to have a process. Even if you run your own business and you’re making the…
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Phoebe Price: Postcard from LA
Phoebe Price is simply the best business brain, and most genuine person, I have met in the entertainment industry. Our paths crossed ten years ago in 2010.
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Lord Robert Baden-Powell of Gilwell, GCMG, GCVO
This autobiography begins with A Yachting Adventure. Having learned all I know about yachting from my dog, I found this gripping.
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Twentieth Century Verse
Poetry, to the rest of us. Every so often I’ll take a look at a book in the library that is not for sale. Sometimes it is not for sale…