Known for the unlikely marrying of seafaring songs with punk anarchism, The Hillbilly Troupe have long been a crowd favourite. Joined on stage tonight by friends Street Urchin, the group proceed to marry renaissance refrains, mid-sixties psychedelic rock and hypnotic soundscapes, undercut with Shakespearean couplets. ‘I went out to pick some peas.’ Concrete Sonnet, an […]
It has been almost 30 years to the day since Sylvia Patterson, was in Hull with the Smash Hits office staff, to see The Housemartins – maybe at Welly Club, maybe at City Hall – she honestly can’t remember a thing from that visit. But as the Kardomah crowd find out tonight, her life as […]
A game of two halves could very well be applied to The Magnetic North event, at Polar Bear on Sunday night for Humber Mouth. Billed as a lead-in event for Substance, an exploration and celebration of culture and creativity in the north taking place during 2017, as part of the UK City of Culture programme, […]
‘Star Trek’ two words that will send half the room rushing for the air lock. There are those who look back fondly at the bold crew of the iconic Starship Enterprise, fantasising about being Captain James Tiberius Kirk, chasing scantily clad alien women, and having the odd dust up with scaly monsters. Marcus Berkmann author of […]
Both poets’ personalities shine through their words and delivery, Dean with his saucy seaside humour and twinkle, Andrew more deliberate and considered, every candid detail, carefully chosen and given space to resonate. Humber Mouth welcomes two published poets to the Kardomah stage, the first is Dean Wilson ‘Hull’s fourth best poet’. His short bursts of […]
‘In Syria, culture has become a critical line of defence against tyranny.’ This single statement brings together all the different reasons, for creating Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline. It’s a book now made infamous after a British Muslim woman was detained under Sec 7 of the Terrorism Act, for openly reading an […]
