Best of Hull

The right answer is the Gargoyles, by the way.

Beautiful South. End of.

Dom stop fucking about.

Not even alphabetical....jeezus

Spiders - although Woody is from Driffield, but that's near enough to Hull.

I don't even know any of these!

Not even the Spiders from Mars? You'd dig Milkfloat, Jon.

Spiders

One of these bands featured yr Hull correspondent. (Clue: not the Housemartins)

Fla Brazillia

Dammit I knew there was loads I was forgetting

Zen Drinking?

The Beautiful South

Re. Fila Brazilia: "Risky Wank" is the best song title ever.

Herman gets it in one

Drinking gave it away :)

:(

When did they exist?

early 90s

We just made music for ourselves, and nobody else like it so that was a bonus.

ouch the memories

nobody mention K********, please.

do mention Fonda 500 though

lolololol forgot Kingmaker. They were from Willerby anyway.

Spiders

otm

if off-topic

Wish i could forget ever hearing Kingmaker

Summerbee! no bias there obviously...

I'll second Dan's call on Fonda 500. Really transcendent live shows, much better than the records. (Dat OT did you go to Leeds yesterday? any good?)

Of those on the list, Gargoyles were good, Spiders don't count and I probably listen to Salako the most. Going for them.

I was thinking more of Spiders the place

I didn't know The Gargoyles(?) were a Hull band! and er, no I didn't go :(

surely the "From Mars" might have been a giveaway :-) although it often seems like that on a Friday Night...

saying that not been to Spids for years. do you still need to be a) a member, or b) a 13-year-old goth?

The Housemartins. Even though they claimed there were three bands that were better.

No Fonda 500 or Edible 5ft Smiths?

:(

Coum Transmissions!!!!!

It'd be cool if the HM's came fourth in this poll, true.

So, Noodle, you're taking a strict line on EBTG then? Bloody students!

http://www.sandmanmagazine.co.uk/oldsite/hull/features/013/clauberg.html

Where are Dead Fingers Talk?

Oh I threw this together off the top of my hungover head hence no EbtG but sadder still I should've got a sneaky Genesis P. on here. Also there was some dude in the 70s who went to America and wrote a couple of very famous pop/disco bangers whose name escapes me?

Geir Hongro

If I'd known about these dudes

http://beehive.thisishull.co.uk/default.asp?WCI=DisplayImage&ImgID=21067

they'd've been in. Nice of them to stand in front of my workplace.

That reminds me to mention When You Find The Girl Of Your Dreams In The Arms Of Some Scotsmen From Hull, by Barry Wom.

Geir Hongro

Wrong thread. ;)

Eh??????
buttons for the following missing :

Fila Brazillia
The Luddites
Pink Noise
The Holy Orders
Surf Butchers
Fonda 500
Baby Mammoth
The Fucking Sorry Loves - a Hull erm, 'supergroup' who are anything but really

I'll doff my flat cap to yer Milkfloat, Gargoyles and The Red Guitars, but voted for Hub as they quite clearly influenced the Red Hot Chili Peppers and all that horrid ilk.

Aren't the Paddingtons great?

Oh and where's Wreckless Eric?

Ok not from Hull but wrote his 'hit' on that famous bench on Cott Road

Who were the three mid-80s Hull bands who were supposed to be better than The Houstmartins?

And was Roland Gift in one of them?

Michael Chapman
Philip Goodhand-Tait
Mick Ronson (and his band Ronno and the pre-Spiders FM band Rats who had an album called The Rise And Fall Of Bernie Gripplestone And The Rats From Hull)

Also Robert Palmer was in a band in Hull called Mandrake before he joined The Alan Bown Set (who are brilliant and get a lot of spins at my place, btw).

Aren't the Paddingtons great?

Okay can safely discount anything else this bloke has to say.

Oh god this thread is gonna be schmindie-bait forever, isn' it?

Also there was some dude in the 70s who went to America and wrote a couple of very famous pop/disco bangers whose name escapes me?

Are you thinking of Rod Temperton of Heatwave and Michael Jackson fame? He was from Cleethorpes - the other side of the Humber.

Yeah, did he play on Off the Wall? I'm sure that must be him.

Best of Lincolnshire!

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/larkinbown460.jpg

[Aren't the Paddingtons great?

Okay can safely discount anything else this bloke has to say.]

You listed the dull, tuneless fuckers in your so called 'best of Hull'

http://www.peterice.com/TVTimes_Emu.jpg

I vote Milkfloat BTW.

more notable missings

The Watersons
Joe Longthorne(!)
Age of Jets
Bitmap
Santas Bugger Boys
Rocky Nest

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/1679/tiggernewwyf9.jpg

http://beehive.thisishull.co.uk/default.asp?WCI=DisplayImage&ImgID=21155

Is the strange looking man above a bus driver? I like his flat cap. It looks like he's been cleaning toilets and has his work severely cut out in that department
Sadly though, I bet he can't pull a decent pint

That's Matt Monro, Jr., Son of the Singing Bus Driver.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

The New Adelphi: the best, or at least most idiosyncratic, little venue in the country. I'd be surprised if there was a band on this thread that didn't play there regularly? ( yeah yeah excepting scarlet .. whatever)

man in flat cap and bus is Paul Jackson, adelphi owner and semi-mythological Hull legend. but you knew that anyway.

I'm pretty sure I saw Scarlet at the Adelphi.

pig destroyer

If The Housemartins and The Beautiful South count, why doesn't Fatboy Slim?

I'M TIRED OF BEING CASTIGATED FOR FUCKING THIS UP

(Actually both of them had Hull born/resident members which Fatboy strictly ain't/wasn't)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Why were The Spiders From Mars in this poll? Is Mars in Hull?

Yes. Mars is the alternative name for Cleveland Street ;)

Who voted the Paddingtons? come on, own up.

Never forget Jacko leaving the Adelphi one night (with Yozzer) in his three wheeler. He was on a quest to save 200 stranded indies who were waiting patiently, tugging at their long sleeved cardies, for the lost on route Sultans of Ping. Jacko went on a mission to escort them into base.

'Where's me Bumper (heading)' Sorry.

I would have voted for that guy - Jacko.

It's not just all the famous Hull bands that have played in his, erm, lounge is it?

no there's been a pretty stellar line-up over the years. not bad for such an innocuous end terrace in the Forgotten City (TM).

Favourite Adelphi gig: Pavement ('99 I think?)

Worst gig ( by a touring band ) probably Camera Obscura - who I like on record, but Traceyanne pissed and moaned about the venue all the way through the show. It was just rude and embarrassing.

My fave non-Hull gig was probly either Melt-Banana, Lightning Bolt or Kitchens of Distinction.

i missed Melt-Banana and Lightning Bolt, but everyone who was there said both were unbelievably good ( & loud)

The Beautiful South beat the Housemartins? That makes no sense to me at all.

#2345

#6789

why the random counting?

p.d. Heaton: Beaten by himself!

xpost

Catalogue number for ongoing list of things that make no sense to Alex.

ah yes. context is a fine thing...

gratuitous bump. gotta stay ahead of bristol!

Noodle/Thomas

Lightning Bolt best recent band to me apart from the one I mention at the end. Oooh the suspense!!! - but they don't allow me out much these days - it was probably three or four years ago? Missed Melt Banana too

Soul Asylum
God Machine
Naked Raygun
Grifters

Two notable hoots were The manics and radiohead. Missed Oasis.Oh Dear

If you missed the Wrens, you missed the best band ever at the Adelphi. Don't tell me- you saw them and were stood tutting at the bar?

The New Jersey band? Didn't know they played there. Probably wouldn't have gone out of my way to see them, I like the stuff I've heard okay but not really my thing. I don't get out that often these days either. Well, not as far down the road as De Grey Street.

As a live band they were something else. Old Cunts well past giving a shit about what's hot.Kindred spirits.Listen to Meadowlands in sequence and it's pretty great.

Lightning Bolt were pretty good aye, but Melt-Banana were ...*stunned* x better still. Loved Diane Cluck last year, Kevin Blechdom was hilariously great in front of like 15 people (not for everyone 'spose). Pavement were good, better than first time I saw them in Manchester. Nothing else really comes to mind right now but there must be others (memory isn't too hot generally...)

Never saw Radiohead, mam wouldn't let me sister come with me & decided not to bother. Cheers ma!