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Karl Culley
Bundle of Nerves

Saturday 27th February 2010
The Adelphi Club
89 De Grey Street, Hull, HU5 2RU
Doors £3.00

Harrogate’s Karl Culley releases his new album this week and reviews and features have been secured in national magazines including Mojo Magazine, Maverick Magazine, Classic Rock Society and also a Heads Up interview with Acoustic Magazine. Karl is a regular on the UK live scene at reputable venues such as The Regal Room London, The Blues Bar Harrogate,  Hope and Anchor London to name but a few.   He performs at the above local venue this month with review places available upon request:

Karl Culley
Bundle of Nerves

Release Date: 1st  February 2010
Label: 3 Minutes of Madness
Available via Amazon, i-Tunes and all major sitesThe desolate beauty of the Isle Of Jura, Scotland provided the setting for the recording of Karls’ new album ‘Bundle Of Nerves’. 

Recorded over 20 days involving Karl travelling for 6 ½ hours by car and then taking 2 ferries to the island’s one and only recording studio.

This remote island also boasts one public house, it’s own distillery and a population of 200!

Karl was joined there by bassist, piano and Marimbula musician Simon Edwards (ex Fairground Attraction, Portishead and David Gray) and percussionist and producer Giles Perring. Between them they conjured up 11 varied tracks with tales of lust, regret, anger, love, death, onanism, dehumanisation and insanity…..

All aided by the wild wind and occasional wee drams of single malt whisky from the local distillery.

The resulting album is a delightful mixture of light and shade all underpinned by Karl Culley’s very unique and breathtaking visceral finger-style acoustic guitar playing, compelling tension coupled with the venerable spectral quality of his voice.

Karl is a published poet and his lyrics display a talent for imagery and a pre-occupation with otherness and that which is beyond our grasp. His background as the percussionist in a skiffle-noir band and a teenage mixer of drum and bass and trip-hop vinyl has informed his unique groovy percussive guitar style.

Karl’s recent singles both taken from this album, ‘Elephant Juice’ and ‘Bundle of Nerves’, received widespread national acclaim as well as radio support from amongst others BBC Radio’s Tom Robinson. He was also featured, with full interviews, in national press including Acoustic Magazine and Classic Rock Society.

‘Folk inspired with frenetic finger-plucking guitar makes Karl’s single hypnotic.’

Music News

‘Karl’s unique vocals and urgent finger-plucking guitar style come together to produce a charming yet intriguing track…..’thinking persons music’.’

Karl’s unique and hypnotic vocal range, the musical diversity encountered over the 11 tracks on Bundle of Nerves and the sheer enjoyment one gets out of his wonderful and evocative lyrics……a brilliant dramatic and theatrical album, which will keep even the most hardened music fans happy…this album makes my day better. Fact!”

4/5 All Gigs

‘An infectious listen…. that leaves you thirsting for more’

Indie London

 ‘The guitar playing is dynamic, similar to flamenco in some ways, classical in others’

 Sandman magazine

“Karl Culley’s music has a rugged windswept charm. His percussive guitar playing is almost like Celtic flamenco and endlessly intrigues.”

Peterborough Telegraph

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The next British Heart Foundation (BHF) Fundraising Campaign is in February 2010 - Red for Heart.  Below is a list of red-themed fundraising ideas.

February 2010 is National Heart Month and we will be asking people in the North and East Yorkshire communities to once again take a stand against the UK’s biggest killer - heart disease - by supporting the Red for Heart campaign. (To read the full article please click here)

Go RED for HEART In 2010

February 2010 is National Heart Month, and your chance to take a stand against heart disease, the UK’s biggest killer, by supporting the Red for Heart Campaign in your workplace, school, university, club or community - do anything you like as long as it is RED!

If you do just one of the activities listed here in February - you could improve or save lives of people living with heart disease in the UK. Do something to help, go Red today and raise some reddies to help fight heart disease!

Here’s an A-Z of Red Fundraising Ideas to help you out!

• Dress up, dress down, and dress red.  Support our National Wear Red day on Friday 26^th February 2010 with work colleagues/friends - get sponsored / make a donation to dress totally in red - simple but effective.

• Go Red Showtime!  Themed parties, 70s discos or fashion shows can be a real hoot and raise a lot of funds, why not turn one red for heart? Clothes, drinks, food, decorations included!

• Red Love Hearts.  Why not have a VALENTINE LURVE WALL at work, school or youth club donate a £1, write your love note in red, stick on the Lurve Wall!!

• Big Red Hair Do.  Get sponsored to go redhead for the day - dare to dye your hair red or try a red wig - or even a red hat.

• Paint the town red!  Have a night out with mates to celebrate Valentine’s Day but dress up and organise a collection to raise funds. Try a love theme like Romeo & Juliet or Cinderella & Prince Charming, Film Stars, High School Musical, Superheroes or just put on your posh red frocks and dapper suits with red ties. Charge a couple of quid to join in the fun.  Remember to get official BHF ID badges and collecting tins and official permission if collecting in a public place.

• Red Celebration donation.  Ask guests at your engagement/wedding or anniversary parties for donations to mend broken hearts, we can help with red donation envelopes.

• Reddy Steady Cook.  Why not get creative in the kitchen and bake some red cakes - get the food colouring out or just turn your cakes red by decorating them with red icing hearts - then sell them to friends and family.

• Red Kisses and Hearts.  Find an empty wall, cover with paper, slap on the bright red lippy, kiss the paper and write a message by it - £1 a go.

• Hearty Red Brekkie.  Hold a heart cookies and strawberry milkshake, or raspberry smoothie morning - any fruit will do - as long as it’s red. Great fun for playgroups, nurseries and early years!

• Red Valentines Love Quiz.  Ask romantic questions about love songs, romantic films, loved up celeb couples, etc. Everyone that takes part has to wear red of course!

• Hugathon.  Find as many people as possible, line them up and hug each other - get sponsored to hug people. Or why not pucker up and sell your luscious kisses. Remember your red lippy again!

• Red Tarts with Hearts.  Afternoon tea - invite your friends round, and enjoy tea and red strawberry jam tarts - or strawberries and cream. Charge for coming along, hold a raffle as well, hold it at work, at school, anywhere at all really.

• Red Friendship walk.  Organise a walk for all your single friends on Valentines Day - during the lunchtime or straight after work or college - charge them to join or to raise sponsorship and make sure they wear something red. You might end up with lots of wedding to go to!

• Seeing Red.  Maybe you play for a football team or other team sport? Whatever colour your usual strip is, why not don something red for heart and play a friendly to raise funds.

• Strictly Red Dancing!  Do you have dance lessons - or attend tea dances? Why not get together a Strictly Red dancing competition - could be a good social event to celebrate Valentine’s Day and raise funds.

• Red Tin Hearts.  Grab a collecting tin and organise a desk to desk collection in your office - ask us for red collecting tin and red stickers so every one gets a heart on Valentines Day.

• Simply Red - sticky & sweet.  Fill a jar with your favourite red sweets - throw a few love hearts in for good measure. Guess how many sweets are in the jar - pay per go.

• Red Hot Chilli Evening.  Why not invite your friends around for a chilli supper - or if you don’t like chilli - try cooking something else - just get your friends to supper and charge to attend.

• Red Balloon.  Sell a balloon tag; write a love message on it, I love u, In memory of, Friendship etc, attach to a red balloon and on Valentines Day release all the balloons into the sky.

• Lucky Red Lingerie.  Why not show off any slinky red pants gifts from Christmas or Valentines by getting sponsored to wear them over your jeans for a day…if Superman and Wonderwoman can do it why can’t you?

• Red Passion Parade.  Get everyone to bring in his or her worst or funniest lingerie or underwear, preferably red!  Create a ‘gallery of shame’ and match the pants to the person - pay to vote.

• Red Promises, promises.  Get everyone to get a red pen write down a promise on a heart-shaped piece of paper - put them in a jar and sell the promises! You keep the promises - we get the cash!

• Hot Pink Passion Puds.  Get your canteen to do make special Valentine puddings or deserts, or anything red - or pink? Using fresh and healthy ingredients? Contribution to our Appeal for every item sold.

• Red Letter Day for the Boss.  Get the bosses to make the tea, do the photocopying, work switchboard or work in the canteen during the lunchhour - sponsor them or charge them forfeits for any mistakes - or get the boss to organise a team-building Red Letter Day for the staff to fundraise for the appeal.

• Maybe baby.  Everyone bring in their funniest baby photo. Charge people £2 a go to guess who’s who. Person that gets most right wins but give 50% to our Appeal - perfect!

• Walk & Talk.  Bring healthy lunch to work - include a red apple - and walk a couple of blocks talking with your friends/colleagues - send us the money that would normally be spent sitting in the pub or café.

• Small but beautiful.  Turn the air red not blue! Small swear box on every desk and charge people for their bad language - you decide on how much a word!

For more information & ideas contact:

Lucy Watson on 01904 639308 / 07802 755708 or email watsonl@bhf.org.uk

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From Monday 14th July, Peter Bell’s new limited edition ‘HIS-STORY’ is available to purchase. The picture is a celebration of Hull City’s promotion to the Premier League.

The picture is available from Myton Gallery in Hull as a Giclee* limited edition print in three sizes:

• A4 £59 mounted / £79 framed

• A3 £115 mounted / £135 framed

• A3+ £129 mounted / £149 framed

All are presented on acid free double mounts.

Peter was inspired to paint the picture after seeing how the weekend unfolded, gripping Hull; 100,000 people lining the route, 50,000 people in Victoria Square. Throughout history artists have recorded events. He wanted to create a piece as a ‘Medley of the whole weekend’ (hence the Wembley arch in the distance as an echo of the final). How an artist can bring all the elements together legitimately in a painting, where a photograph cannot.

*Giclee is the latest form of producing high-quality fine art prints, approved by the Fine-Art Trade Guild.  Using ink pigment which has a light-fast property guaranteed by the manufacturer well in excess of 50 years (they actually quote 75 under ideal conditions) printed onto high quality acid free fine art paper (in this case Hahnemuhle, a German company that has been in existence since 1584). Basically, it means that the picture doesn’t fade like lithographic prints do, and remains  accurate and vivid.

The vast majority of Limited Editions available from Myton Gallery are Giclee’s and if you would like any further information about Peter Bell’s picture, or any of the others available from the Gallery please give them a call on Hull 323743.

Myton Gallery is featured in Art Galleries and Dealers in Hull and Framing Services in Hull

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Kevin Greene Photography

Kevin has been a valuable asset during the busy consultation period for Building Schools for the Future. Kevin worked well from construction of the brief through to images being delivered - often under extremely tight deadlines! Kevin’s photography has ensured that the “Building Our Future” campaign is visually consistent and of an extremely high quality.

Kevin was quick to capture the style of the photography required and worked incredibly well with all age ranges of subjects, putting them at ease with his fantastic manner.

We are very happy with the quality and speed of Kevin’s work and would thoroughly recommend him to any business looking to improve their image. Best Regards.

Dave Prior-Jones
BSF Assistant Project Manager
Hull City Council

What you did for us was a wonderful job and what you did on the golf day the photos were really excellent!

Jason Hy - Golf Event Shipley

After knowing Kevin for several years it was again great to work with him. Kevin was able to clarify our thinking over the types of shots we required and did a great piece of work with groups of children and young people in various settings. He responded to our tight deadline and was flexible and accommodating in his approach. He was quickly able to put both adults and children and young people involved in the project at their ease and his particular strength in working with children and young people came to the fore. The work he produced was of a high standard and was exactly what we were after- it was innovative, bright and fun. I wouldn’t hesitate in recommending him to other colleagues and would employ Kevin again.

Michele Priest
Assistant Head of Service Commissioning and Contracts
Hull City Council
Children and Young People’s Services

We’ve been very happy with the work Kevin Greene has done for us over the past twelve months which has been of a consistently high standard and executed with the minimum of fuss (you can’t imagine what it’s like dealing with some press photographers!)  Kevin Greene’s work has been both creative and professional - my only concern is that of letting other people know about him!

Yorkshire Today Magazine.
Steve Fisher Editor BLM Group of magazines

The press officer for the EEF was most impressed with Kevin’s ability to work so well with people. It is very rare that we actually get people commenting on photographers and I therefore congratulate him on a job well done! We look forward to working with Kevin again & again.

Business Link magazine.

Kevin Greene has been undertaking photography for us since his business began in early 2007 - during this time we have been very impressed with his professional approach and the high quality of his work. His ability has proven itself over and over again and this has certainly helped keep our magazine ahead of our rivals.

Lincolnshire Today Magazine.

Dear Kevin

Your portrait work for my family produced high quality and personable results which were pleasing to all of us. The service level was high and attentive, not least as the exercise coincided with the arrival of your son. We would not hesitate to recommend you to others and found in particular that you handled the exercise with sensitivity as we had to gather our family together from all around the country. Kind Regards.

Roy Edwardson
Edwardson Associates
Paddock House
10 Middle Street South
Driffield
East Yorkshire

Hi Kevin,
 
I hope you’re well.
 
As a family we really enjoyed meeting you and appreciated your professional and personal approach.
 
Innovative ideas such as taking the photos outside with the family pets worked well and helped to create a relaxed and natural environment (which I view as the key to good photography).
 
We had a real laugh during the picture taking - I especially enjoyed Dad’s fetching look in the fisherman’s hat - Classic.

Overall you managed to capture some lovely (quite touching) moments, and Mum, Dad and I spent a great deal of time admiring the work you’d done.  Thank you.  Kind regards.

Melanie

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Kevin Greene Photography

If you are looking for a friendly, professional photographer to capture your wedding, civil partnership, business event, contact Kevin Greene Photography, of Hull, East Yorkshire.

Kevin Greene Photography provides individualised and personalised photographs which capture the essence of your day or event.  You can find more information about the fabulous work Kevin Greene produces, listed under Hull Photographers, Hull Commercial Photographers and Hull Wedding and Portrait Photographers.

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Goodmawe Bears

Goodmawe Bears is Hull & East Yorkshire’s only limited edition and classic Teddy Bear shop, with a huge range of Teddy Bears and Gollys on show.  Click here for more information.

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Inch Perfect Exclusive Lingerie

A fabulous and exclusive lingerie shop in Sutton, Hull opens it doors on Wednesday 11th June at 9 am.

The owners, Darren and Sharon Toker, welcome you to pop in and see for yourself the wonderful selection of lingerie they have on offer. 

Inch Perfect Exclusive Lingerie
86 Church Street
Sutton
Hull

Tel: 01482 707400

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Edwards and Pearce Ltd, based in Hull, is one of the largest Independent Professional Recruitment & Employment Agencies in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.

They have built their success and reputation on the consistent quality and customer service they provide.  For more information about the wide range of services they provide, please click here.

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Hullaballoon Balloon Specialists

Whatever occasion or event you are organising, whether personal or corporate, visit Hullaballoon on Beverley Road in Hull and be amazed by the enormous range of balloons and types of displays they provide.  For more information please click here.

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Inches Beauty Salon in Hull

***COMING SOON***

Exclusive, quality, designer lingerie boutique which will boast a totally unique range of lingerie exclusive to Inches Beauty Salon.

The beauty and nail rooms are being relocated to the first floor to make way for the new Lingerie Boutique which is due to open soon and featuring a complete range of fabulously femine designer lingerie - Exclusive to East Yorkshire!

Look out for further details of our opening event,

Business as usual during the alterations.

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