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SUMMARY:Pavey Ark
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS :  Pavey Ark – Sun Nov 30th 2025 2pm-4pm – Wrecking Ball Arts Centre \n  \n\nPavey Ark release their new album ‘More Time\, More Speed’ on Friday 21st November. The band and are set to play an intimate album release show at the Wrecking Ball in Hull on Sunday 30th November (Matinee performance 2pm – 4pm)\n\nThe new album explores the theme of time and was mixed by Paul Butler\, frontman of English indie band The Bees. Now based in Los Angeles Paul has produced albums for Michael Kiwanuka\, Andrew Bird and Teskey Brothers. Pavey Ark also worked with composer and producer Adrian McNally (The Unthanks) who led the live string quartet studio session and co-produced and mixed three songs on the new album.\n\nPavey Ark’s debut album\, Close Your Eyes and Think of Nothing received excellent reviews from UNCUT\, Record Collector\, Folk Radio and BBC Radio 6 Music airplay. It was chosen by the BBC Radio as one of their picks for National Album Day in 2022. Known for their sublime live shows\, Pavey Ark have played SXSW Texas 2025\, the Glastonbury Acoustic Stage 2022 and closed Cambridge Folk Festival (Stage 3) in 2023 – huge achievements for an independent act. \n\nUNCUT Magazine\n\n\n“A striking debut”Folk Radio \n“Pavey Ark set themselves up as a simple folk band then pull the rug out from under your feet. \nA call to arms from a band that demands to be heard.””Amazing RadioCharlie Ashcroft – “Hull band Pavey Ark return on stupendous form”Frankie Francis – “Absolutely Wonderful
URL:https://wreckingballstore.co.uk/event/pavey-ark/
LOCATION:Wrecking Ball Arts Centre\, 15 Whitefriargate\, Hull\, HU1 2ER\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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SUMMARY:Saturday Soul Session All-Dayer
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS:  Saturday Soul Session All-Dayer Sat Nov 29th 2025 3pm-11pm – Wrecking Ball Arts Centre \n  \nOur second Soul Session All-dayer  Sat Nov 29th 2025  3pm-11pm \n 
URL:https://wreckingballstore.co.uk/event/saturday-soul-session-all-dayer/
LOCATION:Wrecking Ball Arts Centre\, 15 Whitefriargate\, Hull\, HU1 2ER\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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SUMMARY:BBC Introducing presents Wench / Sleuth Gang / Cherry Fuzz Club
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS:  BBC Introducing presents Wench / Sleuth Gang / Cherry Fuzz Club Thurs – Wrecking Ball Arts Centre\nBBC Introducing presents Wench / Sleuth Gang / Cherry Fuzz Club\n 
URL:https://wreckingballstore.co.uk/event/bbc-introducing-presents-wench-sleuth-gang-cherry-fuzz-club/
LOCATION:Wrecking Ball Arts Centre\, 15 Whitefriargate\, Hull\, HU1 2ER\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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SUMMARY:The Frank & Walters (acoustic duo show)
DESCRIPTION:  \nTICKETS ;  The Frank & Walters (acoustic duo show) Sat Nov 22nd 2025 8pm-10pm – Wrecking Ball Arts Centre \nSCREAMING TARTS PRESENTS… The Frank & Walters (acoustic duo show).Saturday November 22nd 2025. Wrecking Ball Arts Centre\, Hull.Paul Linehan is one of Ireland’s most talented and inspirationalsinger-songwriters. For nearly 30 years he has penned and performedhundreds of songs with The Frank and Walters which have captured thehearts and minds of generations.The band originally became world famous on the ’90s indie scene and haveproduced seven studio albums. Paul has lost none of his talent ormotivation to produce fantastically crafted and catchy indie songs andcontinues to write new material to this day.Recently the band captured a whole new audience when their ’90’s hitsingle “After All” featured on the cult comedy show ‘The YoungOffenders’ (the infamous ‘Billy Murphy’ bus hijack scene). And as wellas being able to recall stories of Radiohead and Suede supporting theFrank and Walters on early tours\, their recent single featured PeakyBlinders Cillian Murphy doing a voiceover on the track ‘Stages’.The band are taking to the road to share the hits and their favouritelong lost classics in all their acoustic glory. The lyrical and musicalgenius of Linehan’s song writing is laid bare in this intimate formatand the true magic of the songs\, coupled with Paul’s engagingpersonality shines through. \n 
URL:https://wreckingballstore.co.uk/event/the-frank-walters-acoustic-duo-show/
LOCATION:Wrecking Ball Arts Centre\, 15 Whitefriargate\, Hull\, HU1 2ER\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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SUMMARY:Soft Machine
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS:  Soft Machine – Thursday Nov 20th 2025 8pm-10pm – Wrecking Ball Arts Centre \n  \nSoft Machine : One of the greatest UK avant/jazz-rock bands of all time. \nTheir work\, from their earliest performances as a psychedelic band who were contemporaries of\, and shared stages with\, Syd Barrett’s Pink Floyd and the Jimi Hendrix Experience\, all the way to being one of Europe’s best known ‘fusion’ groups\, has influenced several generations of bands\, and continues to be name-checked by today’s hip experimentalists. \nWhilst the line-up of Soft Machine may have changed many times since the heady days of the late 1960’s\, the band’s spirit of musical adventure\, and the ease with which it freely avoids being pigeon holed and can move from powerful progressive jazz fusion to atmospheric psychedelia to free improvised jazz-rock to ambient loop music continues to make it both unique and totally contemporary.
URL:https://wreckingballstore.co.uk/event/soft-machine-2/
LOCATION:Wrecking Ball Arts Centre\, 15 Whitefriargate\, Hull\, HU1 2ER\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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SUMMARY:Curved Air
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS :  CURVED AIR – SAT NOV 15TH 2025 8PM-10PM – Wrecking Ball Arts Centre \nCurved Air is a unique band\, synthesizing an eclectic blend of musical styles into an instantly\nidentifiable sound. Curved Air’s hits include “It Happened Today”\, “Vivaldi”\, “Marie Antoinette” and\n“Backstreet Luv”. Curved Air founder member vocalist Sonja Kristina leads a skilled and talented new\nline-up\, bringing their unique music to an existing and new fanbase in the 21st Century.\nCurved Air’s concerts and festival appearances continue to thrill a steadily increasing mass of new\nand old fans worldwide. Their experimental blends of classical themes\, electronic sounds and\npop/rock energy and beautiful\, timeless songs are performed with fire and passion and tremendous\nmusicianship.\nConsidered (according to AllMusic) “one of the most dramatically accomplished of all the bands\nlumped into Britain’s late-’60s prog explosion”\, Curved Air is a pioneering British progressive rock\ngroup of musicians from mixed artistic backgrounds.\nThey are famed for their unforgettable live performances and ‘Art Rock’ music – the quasi classical\nimprints of Terry Riley hooked onto beautiful and demonic violin combined with electronic\nadventurous synths and interwoven with brilliant guitar wizardry mesmerisingly embroidered by the\nsubliminal and exotic presence of a unique lead singer Sonja Kristina. All these elements elevated\nthem from the underground Roundhouse scene to top the album charts in the early ’70s.\nOn 12th November 2012\, much to the excitement of their fans and press worldwide\, a Live CD/DVD\ntitled ‘Live Atmosphere’ was released – ‘Songs of revolution\, insanity\, loss\, desire and ghosts: a\nunique compilation of powerful Curved Air songs played by a vital contemporary Curved Air’. This\nwas followed by the release of “North Star”\, the band’s first album of new material in 36 years.\nTestimonials:\n“CURVED AIR\, with a real band attitude and a zest for life; this is a band you want to see live for the\nsheer artistry of how to deliver the musical goods.” (Lee Dorian\, Classic Rock)\n“All of the players impress – some stunning new instrumentalists who immerse the audience in a set\nof swirling\, whirling solos that emphasize moods and nuances and floating waves of sound that act\nas a counterpoint to Sonja’s dramatic sense of theatricality”. (Classic Rock Society Magazine)\n“Sonja Kristina prowls the front of the stage expertly playing off the energy of all the performers\nwith her. There’s no denying they remain formidable live!” (Prog Magazine)\n“While women in UK progressive rock were relatively few and far between its Sonja that wore the\ncrown. Well the undisputed queen of British Prog is on tour again and what a joy it is to see her and  Curved Air back in action. The whole group of assembled musicians are perfectly qualified to recreate the band’s uniqueness authentically. Catch them while you can”. (Classic Rock)
URL:https://wreckingballstore.co.uk/event/curved-air/
LOCATION:Wrecking Ball Arts Centre\, 15 Whitefriargate\, Hull\, HU1 2ER\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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SUMMARY:Martin Barre - An Evening with Book Talk / Q & A
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS :    Martin Barre An Evening with Talk / Q and A – Friday Nov 14th 2025 8pm – Wrecking Ball Arts Centre \n  \nMartin Barre renowned guitarist best known for his long-standing role (43 years) as lead guitarist in the iconic rock band Jethro Tull is coming to Hull! \n\nBarre’s extraordinary guitar skills and innovative techniques have made him a legendary figure in rock music. Martin will tell his story of his musical journey\, from his early days to achieving global success with Jethro Tull. \nJoin us to welcome Martin for an author talk and Q&A.  He’s also bringing along his guitar for an acoustic set to demonstrate some of your Tull favourites! The evening finishes with an opportunity to meet Martin\, get a signed copy of his new autobiography and perhaps a selfie with the man himself.
URL:https://wreckingballstore.co.uk/event/martin-barre-an-evening-with-book-talk-q-a/
LOCATION:Wrecking Ball Arts Centre\, 15 Whitefriargate\, Hull\, HU1 2ER\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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SUMMARY:Pygmy Twylyte - Frank Zappa Tribute
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS     NOV 9TH 2PM SHOW \nhttps://wreckingballmusic.myshopify.com/products/pygmy-twylyte-frank-zappa-tribute-sun-nov-9th-2025-2pm-4pm \nWEEKEND TICKETS (BOTH NOV 8TH 8PM/ NOV 9TH 2PM SHOWS ) \nhttps://wreckingballmusic.myshopify.com/products/pgymy-twylyte-frank-zappa-tribute-sat-nov-8th-8pm-sun-nov-9th-2pm-weekend-ticket \nSo prolific was Frank Zappa’s output\, that it is nearly impossible to present a representative sample of his work in just one concert. Over the course of his life\, and since his death in 1993\, over one hundred official Zappa albums have been released\, alongside countless bootlegs. These range from 60’s psychedelia with the Mothers of Invention\, Jazz and Rock material tinged with Zappa’s own inimitable spin\, through to orchestral compositions performed by the London Symphony Orchestra\, among others.\nNavigating the vast Zappa oeuvre then is no mean feat\, but Scotland’s Pygmy Twylyte have embraced the challenge with gusto. Since their inception in 2018\, the band have selected a core body of classic material\, complemented with a rotating offering of more obscure cuts\, and blasted this to delighted audiences across the UK.\nNotable highlights have seen the band perform multiple shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe\, along with shows featuring Ben Thomas\, former vocalist and multi-instrumentalist of Zappa Plays Zappa\, the worldwide touring outfit fronted by Frank’s son Dweezil.\nIn July 2024\, Pygmy Twylyte topped the Friday night bill at the prestigious Zappanale Festival\, alongside Saturday headliners Gong. Zapppanale is the worlds longest running and biggest annual festival celebrating the music of Frank Zappa\, now in its 33rd year\, held in Bad Doberan on the Baltic Coast\, Germany.\nWith guitars\, keyboards\, saxes and multiple vocalists at their disposal\, the band has a (stink)foot planted in the camp of several of Zappa’s most memorable touring line-ups. Head down to nod along to rock numbers\, lose count during jazzy interludes (after all\, it’s not dead – it just smells funny) and evade the infamous Frunobulax!
URL:https://wreckingballstore.co.uk/event/pygmy-twylyte-frank-zappa-tribute-2/
LOCATION:Wrecking Ball Arts Centre\, 15 Whitefriargate\, Hull\, HU1 2ER\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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SUMMARY:Pygmy Twylyte - Frank Zappa Tribute
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS (NOV 8TH SHOW)    Pygmy Twylyte – Frank Zappa Tribute Sat Nov 8th 2025 8pm-10pm – Wrecking Ball Arts Centre \nWEEKEND TICKETS (NOV 8TH AND NOV 9TH AFTERNOON SHOW) \nhttps://wreckingballmusic.myshopify.com/products/pgymy-twylyte-frank-zappa-tribute-sat-nov-8th-8pm-sun-nov-9th-2pm-weekend-ticket \n  \nSo prolific was Frank Zappa’s output\, that it is nearly impossible to present a representative sample of his work in just one concert. Over the course of his life\, and since his death in 1993\, over one hundred official Zappa albums have been released\, alongside countless bootlegs. These range from 60’s psychedelia with the Mothers of Invention\, Jazz and Rock material tinged with Zappa’s own inimitable spin\, through to orchestral compositions performed by the London Symphony Orchestra\, among others.\nNavigating the vast Zappa oeuvre then is no mean feat\, but Scotland’s Pygmy Twylyte have embraced the challenge with gusto. Since their inception in 2018\, the band have selected a core body of classic material\, complemented with a rotating offering of more obscure cuts\, and blasted this to delighted audiences across the UK.\nNotable highlights have seen the band perform multiple shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe\, along with shows featuring Ben Thomas\, former vocalist and multi-instrumentalist of Zappa Plays Zappa\, the worldwide touring outfit fronted by Frank’s son Dweezil.\nIn July 2024\, Pygmy Twylyte topped the Friday night bill at the prestigious Zappanale Festival\, alongside Saturday headliners Gong. Zapppanale is the worlds longest running and biggest annual festival celebrating the music of Frank Zappa\, now in its 33rd year\, held in Bad Doberan on the Baltic Coast\, Germany.\nWith guitars\, keyboards\, saxes and multiple vocalists at their disposal\, the band has a (stink)foot planted in the camp of several of Zappa’s most memorable touring line-ups. Head down to nod along to rock numbers\, lose count during jazzy interludes (after all\, it’s not dead – it just smells funny) and evade the infamous Frunobulax!
URL:https://wreckingballstore.co.uk/event/pygmy-twylyte-frank-zappa-tribute/
LOCATION:Wrecking Ball Arts Centre\, 15 Whitefriargate\, Hull\, HU1 2ER\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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SUMMARY:David Gedge
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS:  David Gedge – Friday Nov 7th 2025 8pm-10pm – Wrecking Ball Arts Centre \nA rare opportunity to see David Gedge of The Wedding Present playingtheir songs in an intimate setting!This show will feature David on acoustic guitar with Wedding Presentguitarist Rachael Wood on the electric\, and showcase a differentapproach to performing tracks from the band’s extensive catalogue.The Wedding Present were formed in Leeds in 1985 and has charted a totalof eighteen singles in the UK top 40\, including a historic run of twelvesingles – one for each month – in 1992\, which tied Elvis Presley’srecord for most top 40 hits in a single year.
URL:https://wreckingballstore.co.uk/event/david-gedge/
LOCATION:Wrecking Ball Arts Centre\, 15 Whitefriargate\, Hull\, HU1 2ER\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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SUMMARY:Purple - A Tribute to Deep Purple
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS :  Purple – A Tribute to Deep Purple Sat Nov 1st 2025 – Wrecking Ball Arts Centre \nPurple at back at Wrecking Ball in 2025 \nplaying 2hrs of Deep Purple classics such as Highway Star\, Perfect Strangers and many more.\nJoin us for this special concert.\nNot to be missed…
URL:https://wreckingballstore.co.uk/event/purple-a-tribute-to-deep-purple-3/
LOCATION:Wrecking Ball Arts Centre\, 15 Whitefriargate\, Hull\, HU1 2ER\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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SUMMARY:Heidi Talbot
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS :  Heidi Talbot – Tue Oct 21st 2025 7-30pm-10pm – Wrecking Ball Arts Centre\nHeidi Talbot celebrated 20 years as a professional singer in 2020 and released a compilation album featuring tracks from her last five solo albums.\nHer latest album ‘Sing it for a Lifetime’ was recorded during lockdown with some stellar musicians across several time zones. She has shared the stage and recorded with Mark Knopfler\, Graham Coxon (Blur)\, Idlewild\, King Creosote\, Tim O’ Brien and Jerry Douglas to name a few. Heidi has been nominated for folk singer of the year at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and the Irish Music Awards.\nHeidi was born in Ireland\, became a folk star in the USA as a member of the Irish American band Cherish the Ladies\, and now lives in Edinburgh\, Scotland. With a background like that\, it’s hardly surprising she should develop a style that switches easily between Celtic and Americana but subtlety is Talbot’s magic ingredient. From her gossamer voice to the delicate re-working of traditional and contemporary material that has earned her rave reviews for her records and live performances. The girl from Co. Kildare\, who spent several years in New York\, slips effortlessly between musical worlds but retains a personal modesty rooted in traditional folk.\nOver the past twenty years Heidi has performed all over North and South America\, the United Kingdom\, Ireland\, Europe\, Scandinavia\, Japan\, Australia and New Zealand.
URL:https://wreckingballstore.co.uk/event/heidi-talbot/
LOCATION:Wrecking Ball Arts Centre\, 15 Whitefriargate\, Hull\, HU1 2ER\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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SUMMARY:Roland Gift & The Blacks
DESCRIPTION:  \nTICKETS:    Roland Gift & The Blacks Wed Oct 15th 2025 8pm-10pm – Wrecking Ball Arts Centre \nAt one time picked by People Magazine as one of their 50 most beautiful people Roland Gift\ncame dramatically to attention with the release of the first Fine Young Cannibals album. His high\,\nsoaring voice was immediately recognisable\, his style being based both in classic soul singers and\nin modern techniques that provided him an edge. It was with the second FYC album four years\nlater\, however\, that the band began to break internationally\, with “She Drives Me Crazy” being\nheard everywhere\, in movies\, on television\, on the radio.\nGift spent the earlier part of his life in Birmingham then Hull. He entered music first as a\nsaxophonist with punk band Blue Kitchen\, moving on from there to the Acrylic Victims\, eventually\njoining Andy Cox and David Steel after the disintegration of The Beat sent them in search of a\nvocalist.\nRecently Gift has written 2 plays and a monologue for the BBC’s radio 4. The monologue\,\nSparkhill\, recalls the area of Birmingham Roland was born and grew up in. The plays Return to\nVegas and A Punks Progress are inspired by his coming of age in Hull.\nGift’s professional career has taken him from stage to screen and back again\, as his fans around\nthe world await the release of next project.
URL:https://wreckingballstore.co.uk/event/roland-gift-the-blacks-2/
LOCATION:Wrecking Ball Arts Centre\, 15 Whitefriargate\, Hull\, HU1 2ER\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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SUMMARY:David Ford
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS ;    David Ford at Wrecking Ball Arts Centre event tickets from TicketSource \nDavid Ford’s 2005 debut Album I Sincerely Apologise for All the Trouble I’ve Caused took the music world quite unawares. \nUnderstated but ambitious\, it is a collection of honest\, tender\, visceral moments recorded in a Sussex basement that would go on to receive worldwide acclaim and be declared one of the Albums of the Year by major publications on both sides of the Atlantic. \nTwenty years on\, Ford returns to the road to revisit the album that kicked open every door to the music industry and to tell the story of how\, one by one\, he carefully closed them all. \nFeaturing special guest performers as well as Ford’s renowned feats of multi-instrumentalism\, this celebration of I Sincerely Apologise for All the Trouble I’ve Caused is a rare chance to see the album performed in its entirety\, along with selected highlights from the illustrious David Ford songbook. \n“Unmissable” ★★★★★ The Guardian\n“One of Britain’s best.” ★★★★★ The Times\n“Puts everything into every word.” The LA Times\n“David Ford is the eternal thrill of a young man going way too far and pulling it off.” Word MagazineDavid Ford’s 2005 debut Album I Sincerely Apologise for All the Trouble I’ve Caused took the music world quite unawares. \nUnderstated but ambitious\, it is a collection of honest\, tender\, visceral moments recorded in a Sussex basement that would go on to receive worldwide acclaim and be declared one of the Albums of the Year by major publications on both sides of the Atlantic. \nTwenty years on\, Ford returns to the road to revisit the album that kicked open every door to the music industry and to tell the story of how\, one by one\, he carefully closed them all. \nFeaturing special guest performers as well as Ford’s renowned feats of multi-instrumentalism\, this celebration of I Sincerely Apologise for All the Trouble I’ve Caused is a rare chance to see the album performed in its entirety\, along with selected highlights from the illustrious David Ford songbook. \n“Unmissable” ★★★★★ The Guardian\n“One of Britain’s best.” ★★★★★ The Times\n“Puts everything into every word.” The LA Times\n“David Ford is the eternal thrill of a young man going way too far and pulling it off.” Word Magazine
URL:https://wreckingballstore.co.uk/event/david-ford/
LOCATION:Wrecking Ball Arts Centre\, 15 Whitefriargate\, Hull\, HU1 2ER\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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SUMMARY:Emma King
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS Emma King Sat Oct 11th 2025 8pm-10pm – Wrecking Ball Arts Centre \nEmma King’s remarkable journey has already taken her from Northern England to Tennessee\, touring Europe and receiving 5-star album reviews along the way. \n​From the grass roots of Hull\, East Yorkshire and learning from her parent’s love of Fleetwood Mac & Elvis\, Emma developed the deep\, soulful Americana timbre that has now become a trademark of her sound. What made it even more impressive (and still does!) is how such a huge sounding voice comes from such a petite frame… \n 300+ gigs later and while still a teenager\, Emma’s calling became apparent when she spotted American legends like Johnny Cash & Willie Nelson on late-night TV and soon declared her musical future to be America’s homes of Rock ‘n’ Roll: Nashville & Memphis. For Emma\, she knew that musical growth meant travel\, and started to look outside of the city that had primed her for what was to come. Next stop\, Brighton… \n When Emma turned 17 she won a scholarship to the Brighton Institute of Modern Music awarded by Carleen Anderson (Brand New Heavies\, and God-Daughter of James Brown).  \n it was here that Emma King and The Heartsets was formed\, featuring Emma and 4 young musicians from Brighton\, all busting out Country-tinged Americana. After multiple tours to Germany\, and inspired by Emma’s ambition and plans to tour America\, the band followed suit and together they began self-funded trips to Nashville\, TN. The group’s instant likeability (and British accents!) eventually hit upon a management & record label team in PLC Records that took on and settled the whole gang in a traditional ‘band house’ in Manchester\, Tennessee\, heralding the start of a new adventure. Emma and the band went on a 5 year adventure that deserves a biography of its own one day \nIn between 21-hour drives touring up and down the Midwest\, Emma recorded at Sun Studios \,Memphis (home of Elvis and Rock n Roll’s earliest recordings); became a welcomed regular at Nashville’s legendary Bluebird Café; made herself at home in all of Nashville major studios; was the subject of a recording documentary project at Curb College of Music\, Daytona Beach\, FL.; she represented the UK at Nashville’s CMA International Show\, appeared on radio stations such as the famous WSM Radio (home of the Opry); she even found time to write and record with multi-award winning producers and engineers including Chas Sandford (Steve Nicks\, Chicago\, Bette Midler)\, Milan Bogdan (KC & The Sunshine Band and Jake Niceley(Alison Krauss) and to support acts such as Exile\, Jo De Messina\, Deanna Carter\, Old Dominion\, Thompson Square\, Rhonda Vincent\, Brett Michaels – as well as Toploader\, Sophie Ellis Bextor\, Colin Blunstone and The Drifters (in the UK).  \n Eventually\, Emma and co-writer/producer Ritch Spence moved back to the UK to release 2016’s eponymous debut album. The record received national radio play (BBC Radio 2 & BBC London)\, was an HMV recommended release\, and was supported by Abbey Road Studios (where it was mastered)\, BASCA\, BPI\, and Blues Magazine where Emma shared a covermount with artists such as Joe Bonnamassa.  \n\nNew music in 2025!​
URL:https://wreckingballstore.co.uk/event/emma-king/
LOCATION:Wrecking Ball Arts Centre\, 15 Whitefriargate\, Hull\, HU1 2ER\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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SUMMARY:The Blow Monkeys
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS The Blow Monkeys – Thurs Oct 9th 2025 8pm-10pm – Wrecking Ball Arts Centre \nThe Blow Monkeys are unique with a career spanning over 40 years.  Always making new music\, always stretching\ntheir own musical boundaries.  With worldwide hits such as the classics ‘Digging Your Scene’ and ‘It Doesn’t Have\nTo Be This Way’\, they became household names but there was always so much more going on with these soulful\ntroubadours.\nTheir relentless desire to move forward\, to collaborate\, to be socially engaged and to have something to\ncontribute. Back in the 80’s they worked with people as varied as Curtis Mayfield\, Paul Weller\, Cheb Khaled and\neven Jamaican Toaster EEK-a-Mouse!  “No band since The Clash in their early 80’s heyday had attempted to act\nas a sounding board for such politically engaged\, eclectic music”\nDr Robert even took time out to release one of the UK’s first homegrown “house’”.records ‘Wait”’ his top 5 duet\nwith Chicago soul diva Kym Maselle.\nAnd so the journey continues.  Reformed in 2008 The Blow Monkeys have been incredibly productive releasing\nnine new albums and playing hundreds of concerts.\nAnd now in the Summer of 2024 comes a sparkling new album ‘Birdsong’ on Alan McGee’s ‘Creation Youth’\nlabel.\n“I had a chance meeting with Alan at Youth‘s studio up here in the mountains near Granada and he asked me to\nwrite and record a “brilliant Blow Monkey record“.  I knew what he meant.  The songs just poured out almost\nwithout effort which is always a good sign..  Its a very ‘up’ record … deliberately so.”  Says Robert.\n“They just recorded an album at Paul Wellers studio and it is as good as anything Dr Robert did back in the day.”\nSays McGee “What is unique about Blow Monkeys is bar the drummer are all original members.  Next year we\ntour in Australia then the UK and Europe and release the album we just recorded on Creation Youth.  I love this\nband!“\nThese Monkeys continue to evolve. From their beginnings on the underground club scene right through to their\nappearance  on the biggest selling soundtrack of all time “Dirty Dancing” (You Don’t Own Me) and beyond.  Long may\nthey swing.
URL:https://wreckingballstore.co.uk/event/the-blow-monkeys-2/
LOCATION:Wrecking Ball Arts Centre\, 15 Whitefriargate\, Hull\, HU1 2ER\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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SUMMARY:The Sensational Alex Harvey Experience
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS \nThe Sensational Alex Harvey Experience Sunday Oct 5th 2pm-4pm – Wrecking Ball Arts Centre \n\nBrilliant tribute to The Sensational Alex Harvey Band \nWEEKEND TICKET FOR BOTH SAT OCT 4TH 8PM AND SUNDAY OCT 5TH 2PM SHOWS: \nThe Sensational Alex Harvey Experience Sat Oct 4th (8pm) / Sun Oct 5th – Wrecking Ball Arts Centre
URL:https://wreckingballstore.co.uk/event/the-sensational-alex-harvey-experience-3/
LOCATION:Wrecking Ball Arts Centre\, 15 Whitefriargate\, Hull\, HU1 2ER\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251002T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251002T220000
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SUMMARY:Total Who Show 'The Best of The Who'
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS Total Who Show ‘The Best of The Who’ Thurs Oct 2nd 2025 – Wrecking Ball Arts Centre \nExperience the passion\, power and majesty of The Who – one of the world’s greatest rock bands – in an unforgettable two-hour show. \n\nJohnny Warman’s Magic Bus pay tribute to The Who in their own unique way\, capturing the band’s pure adrenaline rush and adding their individual flair to the songs. \n\nMAXIMUM ENTERTAINMENT! \nWon’t Get Fooled Again \nMy Generation \nThe Seeker \nCan’t Explain \nBaba O’Riley \nPinball Wizard \nWho Are You? \n5.15… and many more.
URL:https://wreckingballstore.co.uk/event/total-who-show-the-best-of-the-who/
LOCATION:Wrecking Ball Arts Centre\, 15 Whitefriargate\, Hull\, HU1 2ER\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250927T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250927T220000
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SUMMARY:John McKay’s Reactor
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS :    John McKay’s Reactor – Sat Sept 27th 2025 8pm-10pm – Wrecking Ball Arts Centre \n  \n\nThe Scream\, the debut album from Siouxsie & the Banshees\, was released\nlate enough in the punk era to bear some claim as the first post-punk\nalbum\, with only minor traces of ‘punk’ and enough hints of what had\ncome even earlier to feel utterly new.\n\n\nSiouxsie was clearly the focus of the band\, but the sonic dynamo was\nJohn McKay\, composer of most of the album’s music and hit singles\, such\nas Hong Kong Garden\, while simultaneously creating a wholly new guitar\nsound that was harsh and brittle\, yet melodically intoxicating\, best\narticulated by a confounded Steve Albini many years later\, “. . . only\nnow people are trying to copy it\, and even now nobody understands how\nthat guitar player got all that pointless noise to stick together as\nsongs”.\n\n\nMany of the most influential guitarists of the past four decades\ncredited John as a major influence\, including Geordie from Killing Joke\,\nJim Reid of The Jesus And Mary Chain\, U2’s The Edge\, Thurston Moore\,\nJohnny Marr\,and even the two guitarists who followed him into The\nBanshees – The Cure’s Robert Smith and Magazine’s John McGeoch.\n\n\nMcKay’s burgeoning status as the anti-guitar hero came to a sudden halt\nwhen he and Banshees drummer Kenny Morris – at artistic odds with\nSiouxsie\, bassist Steve Severin and manager Nils Stevenson – fled the\nband just after the start of a tour in support of the group’s second\nalbum\, Join Hands.\nIt became a major music paper scandal and eventually the subject of a\nBBC documentary\, with Siouxsie’s vitriol at the situation working its\nway into the lyrics of a later Banshees b-side\, ‘Drop Dead /\nCelebration’.\n\n\nAside from a solitary single on Marc Riley’s In Tape label some years\nlater\, McKay went silent.\n\n\nSo\, it is a revelation for many to learn that numerous excellent\nrecordings were made by McKay in the immediate years following his\nabrupt departure from The Banshees.\n\n\nUnheard by all but a very few\, featuring drummer Kenny Morris\, Mick\nAllen from Rema Rema\, Matthew Seligman of the Soft Boys\, longer-term\ncollaborator Graham Dowdall (Nico / Ludus) and John’s wife\, Linda… the\nlatter three of whom are now all sadly deceased.\n\n\nSixes And Sevens is an historic lost album bearing fair claim as the\nlost treasure of the post-punk era\, the album collects eleven compelling\nstudio tracks. A prelude to the great surprise of John’s return to live\nperformance\, with a fresh new band and a number of live shows in the\noffing. John McKay’s Reactor will feature the lad ‘imself on guitar\, Jen\nBrown (The Priscillas) on vocals\, Jola (Adam & The Ants\, The Priscillas)\non drums\, and Billy King on bass.
URL:https://wreckingballstore.co.uk/event/john-mckays-reactor/
LOCATION:Wrecking Ball Arts Centre\, 15 Whitefriargate\, Hull\, HU1 2ER\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250926T220000
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SUMMARY:Bleach / Buzzkill Joy / Cutty - BBC Music Introducing
DESCRIPTION:Tickets :\nBleach / Buzzkill Joy / Cutty – BBC Music Introducing Fri Sept 26th 7- – Wrecking Ball Arts Centre\n\n\nBleach / Buzzkill Joy / Cutty – BBC Music Introducing\n 
URL:https://wreckingballstore.co.uk/event/bleach-buzzkill-joy-cutty-bbc-music-introducing/
LOCATION:Wrecking Ball Arts Centre\, 15 Whitefriargate\, Hull\, HU1 2ER\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250919T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250919T220000
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SUMMARY:Letz Zep -  Led Zeppelin Tribute
DESCRIPTION:  \nTICKETS:  Letz Zep – Led Zeppelin Tribute Fri Sept 19th 2025 8pm-10pm \nhttps://wreckingballmusic.myshopify.com/products/letz-zep-led-zeppelin-tribute-fri-sept-19th-2025-8pm-10pm \nLetz Zep are now critically acclaimed as the leading tribute to the music of Led Zeppelin. And Baby they aint foolin. The band have been featured on BBC1\, BBC2\, ITV1 and reviewed in the Sunday Times by Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson. Even Robert Plant has seen the band perform\, ‘I walked in\, I saw me’ was his comment. Letz Zep received the ultimate accolade recently when they were invited to perform at the official launch party for the Led Zeppelin ‘Mothership’ CD\, in London. A not to be missed show.
URL:https://wreckingballstore.co.uk/event/letz-zep-led-zeppelin-tribute/
LOCATION:Wrecking Ball Arts Centre\, 15 Whitefriargate\, Hull\, HU1 2ER\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250830T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250830T233000
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SUMMARY:Saturday Soul Special
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS:\nSaturday Soul Special Sat Aug 30th 2pm – midnight – Wrecking Ball Arts Centre\n  \n\nSaturday Soul Special\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://wreckingballstore.co.uk/event/saturday-soul-special/
LOCATION:Wrecking Ball Arts Centre\, 15 Whitefriargate\, Hull\, HU1 2ER\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250816T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250816T223000
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SUMMARY:Moving Pictures - A Tribute To Rush
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS :  Moving Pictures – A Tribute To Rush Sat Aug 16th 2025 7-30pm-10-30pm – Wrecking Ball Arts Centre \n  \nMOVING PICTURES – RUSH TRIBUTE\n\n“If you missed seeing RUSH live\, MOVING PICTURES is as close as you’ll ever get to the real thing.” Moshville Times2025 is the 10th anniversary of Rush’s last ever tour – R40 – when they played a retrospective covering their entire back catalogue.Moving Pictures will bring you an almost identical retrospective set as part of their UK\, EU and Canadian tour in 2025.At the top of their game\, Moving Pictures shows have included –Lakeside Park in Canada for Neil Peart’s family;RUSHfest Scotland with Jonathan Dinklage and other members of the Clockwork Angels string ensemble;Headlining RUSHfest Brazil.Whether you’re a die-hard Rush fan or simply appreciate great live music\, don’t miss your chance to experience the magic of Moving Pictures in person. \n\nMovingPicturesUK.com
URL:https://wreckingballstore.co.uk/event/moving-pictures-a-tribute-to-rush/
LOCATION:Wrecking Ball Arts Centre\, 15 Whitefriargate\, Hull\, HU1 2ER\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250809T220000
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SUMMARY:James Walsh (Starsailor)
DESCRIPTION:  \nTICKETS :    James Walsh (Starsailor) Sat Aug 9th 2025 8pm-10pm – Wrecking Ball Arts Centre \n  \nJames Walsh recently made a welcome return with a new EP ‘Renewal’\, thefirst taste of new music following the release of his criticallyacclaimed album ‘Coming Good’ in January 2023.James first found success as the lead singer\, songwriter and guitaristwith multi platinum band Starsailor\, with whom he has sold over threemillion records\, and scored six top thirty albums.James has also carved out an impressive solo career releasing albumssuch as 2019’s ‘Tiger on the Bridge’\, 2021’s ‘Small Illusions’ and2014’s ‘Turning Point’. His latest solo offering was written over aperiod of several months between recording ‘Where the Wild Things Grow’\,the latest album from Starsailor.Catch him up close performing some of his solo material and Starsailorfavourites at Wrecking Ball Arts Centre this summer.
URL:https://wreckingballstore.co.uk/event/james-walsh-starsailor/
LOCATION:Wrecking Ball Arts Centre\, 15 Whitefriargate\, Hull\, HU1 2ER\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250807T220000
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SUMMARY:The Unravelling Wilburys
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS :  The Unravelling Wilburys – Thurs Aug 7th 2025 8pm-10pm – Wrecking Ball Arts Centre \nThe Unravelling Wilburys\nNow hear this y’all:\nLegend has it the original Wilbury brothers from Nashville\, Tennessee\, were plying their trade as\na good ol’ Country band one night in Tootsie’s Bar\, when who should walk in but George Harrison\nfrom The Beatles and his old pal JeD Lynne outta the ELO. After a few beers\, George and JeD\ndecided they loved the Wilbury boys and called up some of their friends\, inviting them\ndowntown to hear for themselves. Those friends turned out to be Roy Orbison\, that Tom Petty\nout of the Heartbreakers\, and Bobby Dylan himself.\nThe story goes that\, after the show\, the famous five wanted to hang out with the shy and retiring\nUnravelling Wilburys. They all got pretty drunk\, and it seemed like the Wilbury brothers had got\ntheir big break when Tom Petty allegedly said they should all work together.\nSix months went by and the Wilburys heard nothing. Then one day they was passing a record\nstore and heard one of their own songs playing on the hi- fi. “Who’s this playing our song?” they\nsaid to the guy behind the counter. “Why\, it’s a new supergroup\,” the guy replied. “They call\nthemselves The Traveling Wilburys.”\nYes folks\, it seems the Traveling Wilburys became a tribute band to our home-spun originals.\nWell\, a few years and more passed and finally the Unravelling Wilburys decided to ‘reclaim’\nthose songs\, putting together a set of all the hits and the best stuD Dylan\, Petty\, Orbison\, Lynne\nand Harrison could muster between ’em. Then they headed for the UK. The folks there ain’t got\nmuch of a clue about Country music and took to ’em straight away.\nPretty soon they was travelling all over the country\, from the Orkney Islands to the Isle of Wight;\nfrom Penzance to Perth; from Southwold to South Wales; packing out theatres along the way in\ntowns whose names they’d never heard of and couldn’t pronounce.\nThe show features the best of the Wilbury albums (“Handle with Care”; “The End of the Line”;\n“The Devil’s Been Busy”; “Tweeter & The Monkey Man” etc.) and some of their supposedly\nthievin’ counterparts’ numbers like “Only the Lonely”; Won’t Back Down”; “While my Guitar\nGently Weeps”; “Like a Rollin’ Stone” and “Mr. Blue Sky”. The act even contains the kind of\ncomedy only a band spending too many nights in Travelodge hotels could dream up.\nThe Unravelling Wilburys are now so popular they even got to be a question on that TV show\n“The Chase”. Now that’s fame…even if it ain’t fortune.\nSo- Ladies and Gentlemen\, turn oD your hearing aid\, put your Zimmer frame to one side and\nprepare for a musical journey with Walter\, Blind Melon\, Sticky Willy\, Thumper and the Reverend Honky Tonk Wilbury. It’s a journey you ain’t gonna forget in a hurry.
URL:https://wreckingballstore.co.uk/event/the-unravelling-wilburys-2/
LOCATION:Wrecking Ball Arts Centre\, 15 Whitefriargate\, Hull\, HU1 2ER\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250727T170000
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SUMMARY:Voodoo Room - A Night of Hendrix/Clapton/Cream
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS :  Voodoo Room – A Night of Hendrix/Clapton/Cream Sun July 27th 2025 8pm- – Wrecking Ball Arts Centre \n  \nVoodoo Room – \nA Night of Hendrix\, Clapton & Cream \nCelebrating the incredible music of Jimi Hendrix\, Eric Clapton & Cream – Voodoo Room are a stunning high energy ‘Power Trio’ featuring some of the U.K.’s finest musicians whose credits include: 
Steve Winwood\, Massive Attack\, Arthur Brown\, Fish\, Thunder\, Lulu etc. \n  \nNO WIGS\, NO PANTOMIME – JUST GREAT MUSIC PLAYED BY GREAT MUSICIANS! \n  \nVOODOO ROOM are an exciting Classic Power Trio\, paying tribute to the incredible music of Jimi Hendrix\, Eric Clapton & Cream. Featuring some of the U.K.’s finest musicians\, they perform a high energy\, world class show in total appreciation of these musical pioneers from the world of classic blues/rock!! \n  \n‘INCREDIBLE MUSICIANS! ’ – Neneh Cherry. \n‘ABSOLUTLEY INCREDIBLE ’ – Radio Caroline.
URL:https://wreckingballstore.co.uk/event/voodoo-room-a-night-of-hendrix-clapton-cream-2/
LOCATION:Wrecking Ball Arts Centre\, 15 Whitefriargate\, Hull\, HU1 2ER\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250710T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250710T220000
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SUMMARY:Heavy Pettin
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS:  Heavy Pettin Thurs July 10th 2025 8pm-10pm – Wrecking Ball Arts Centre \nWhen Heavy Pettin first burst out of Glasgow in 1981\, they were vibrant\, priapic\, anthemic and focused.\nAs they showed on a three-tarck demo\, and on the subsequent debut single for independent label Neat (‘Roll The Dice’ / ’Love Xs Love’)\, they were much much more than mere Def Leppard slaves.\nIn fact\, the Pettin had an international sound that owed something to AC/DC\, UFO\, Thin Lizzy and Foreigner\, but also had its own raging momentum.\nNot that the band found the road forward straightforward. But\, thanks to a work ethic that took them around the country\,\nplus a valuable session for Radio 1’s prestigious ‘Friday Rock Show’\,\nthe band eventually landed a crucial deal with the major Polydor Records.\nMoreover\, their 1983 debut album (‘Lettin’ Loose’) was co-produced by the creative Mack…together with Queen guitarist Brian May.\nNow\, that’s pedigree. \nAmazingly\, that album has survived more than 25 years of high-speed hi-tech developments intact. While other more celebrated records have dated badly\, “Lettin’ Loose” re-affirms the belief back then that the Pettin would plunge to big time stature. What went wrong at the time has little to do with band\, or lack of ambition/talent.\nIn America\, where they should have broken big\, long before Bon Jovi gave Love A Bad Name\, they were held back by the label’s insistence on an anaemic re-mix (as well as a title change to ‘Heavy Pettin’\, which caused more confusion than anything else). If the band’s essential\, vital British brio had been left as conceived in the first place\, who knows what might have been achieved. \nStill\, a slot on the bill for the 1983 Reading Festival\, the day that Black Sabbath infamously headlined when fronted by Ian Gillan\, did them no harm. And touring with both Kiss and Ozzy helped the quintet’s progress. \nTwo years later\, the Pettin return to the studio\, this time with producer Mark Dearnley (who’d worked with AC/DC and Krokus). The result? Pettin‘s second album: ‘Rock Ain’t Dead’\, which surprised many with a slicker yet conversely tougher approach. The lads really had progressed\, although ironically if things had gone to plan\, this would have been produced by Lance Quinn\, of Bon Jovi and Lita Ford fame. However\, just hours before the band were due to fly to Philadelphia\, to work with Quinn at his Warehouse Studios\, the decision was taken by PolyGram (to whom both Heavy Pettin and Bon Jovi were signed in the US) that\, instead\, he should start work immediately on what was to be Jovi’s second record\, ‘7800 Degrees Fahrenheit’. Perhaps then\, it should have been obvious that record company politics were to scupper Pettin. \nA third album\, ‘The Big Bang’\, was released by FM Revolver in 1989 – and still proved this lot were way ahead of so many others who were selling truckloads of ‘units’ and getting acclaim from the media.\nBut\, as the 1980s faded into memory\, so too did Heavy Pettin. \nHowever\, what has happened over the past two decades is that every so often\, people will dust down those Pettin recordings\, scratch their heads in confusion and wonder what went wrong.\nWell\, recriminations never help; they only serve to fuel frustrations.\nBut now the band are back:\nnot for nostalgic reasons;\nnot to re-capture a long past youth;\nnot to right past wrongs\,\nbut to make music. \nSo\, here we are\, not looking backwards to those years\, when this lot were ready to take on the world and toured with Motley Crue and Ratt. No\, this is about the 21st Century. Driven by a desire\, passion\, and a capacity simply to invoke the simple magic and rapport of what this band once stood for. \nSince stepping back out in 2017 the new line up fronted by frontman Stephen “Hamie” Hayman the band have been going about the business of reclaiming their reputation as a “tour de force” live.\n2018 saw them on tour in the UK with American legends Angel.\n2019 a headline set at HRH Hard Rock Hell followed by another headline appearance this time in Germany at the Headbangers Festival\, rounding off the year with another tour around the UK with Rock Goddess.\n2020 promised to be the best yet\, starting off with the amazing Monsters of Rock Cruise X followed by another headline festival appearance at the Brofest Festival in Newcastle.\nThen of course Covid happened !\nIn August 2022 after what felt like an eternity\, the band went out on a run of shows that would see them play in five different countries across Europe\, kicking off with a headline slot at the Legends of Rock Festival followed by a triumphant return to their hometown of Glasgow as “Special guests” to the legend that is Michael Schenker ! \nThe band have their eyes set firmly on 2023 – the 40th anniversary of the debut album “Lettin’ Loose”.\nTo mark the occasion a new remastered version of the Brian May produced original was slated for a March release followed by a run of shows. The plan is to record these shows for a 40th anniversary Live release later in the year. \nHigh on the agenda to round off 2023 is the release of a new album\, with material originating from the lockdown period through to date. \nWith a new management deal and solid line up in place the future looks bright. \nRock ain’t Dead !
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LOCATION:Wrecking Ball Arts Centre\, 15 Whitefriargate\, Hull\, HU1 2ER\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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SUMMARY:Kevin Armstrong - Absolute Beginner One Man Show
DESCRIPTION:  \nTICKETS :    Kevin Armstrong – Absolute Beginner One Man Show Sun June 15th 2025 7p – Wrecking Ball Arts Centre \nKevin began his musical life on Charlie Gillett’s Oval Records in 1981 with his own band Local Heroes SW9. \nAfter two albums\, his career began thriving as a writer\, producer\, bandleader and above all\, a bullet-proof guitarist. Most notably\, Kevin met David Bowie in late 1984\, and worked with him on various projects including putting together his band and performing at the legendary Live Aid show at Wembley in July 1985\, adding to the first Tin Machine lineup and co-writing songs including the title song for Bowie’s Outside 1 album. \nDavid Bowie introduced Kevin to Iggy Pop as guitarist on the the 1986 album Blah Blah Blah and Kevin became Iggy’s bandleader in 86/87. He put together Iggy’s touring band again from 2014 until 2019. \nHe has 4 decades of unique and wholly incomparable experience working with some of the biggest names in music \nKevin has worked with Morrissey\, Grace Jones\, Sinéad O’Connor\, Prefab Sprout\, Thomas Dolby\, Transvision Vamp Brian Eno\, Paul McCartney\, Sandie Shaw\, Gil Evans\, Alien Sex Fiend\, Keziah Jones and many many more. \n 
URL:https://wreckingballstore.co.uk/event/kevin-armstrong-absolute-beginner-one-man-show/
LOCATION:Wrecking Ball Arts Centre\, 15 Whitefriargate\, Hull\, HU1 2ER\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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SUMMARY:Guitar Heads
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS:  Guitar Heads Wed June 4th 2025 8pm-10pm – Wrecking Ball Arts Centre \n\nGuitar Heads is a new collaboration between 2 highly respected and talented British guitarists Jim Kirkpatrick and Paul Rose. Both of whom have extensive experience and knowledge\, built upon decades of touring and studio work with some of the best known names in the business.\n\n\nFeaturing long time Thunder bassist and drummer Harry James and Chris Childs. Making this band a serious force to be reckoned with.\n\n\nThe mission of the band is simple. To play shows made of some of the best loved guitar classics from the past seven decades. Thin Lizzy\, Jeff Beck\, Santana\, The Shadows\, Deep Purple\, AC-DC\, Peter Green/Fleetwood Mac\, Rory\, Eric Clapton\, Hendrix and more.\n\n  \n\nA no fuss\, good fun night out that we hope will bring a smile to the faces of lovers of great guitar playing and song writing alike.
URL:https://wreckingballstore.co.uk/event/guitar-heads-2/
LOCATION:Wrecking Ball Arts Centre\, 15 Whitefriargate\, Hull\, HU1 2ER\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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SUMMARY:Rachel Sage
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS :    Rachel Sage Sat May 31st 2025 8pm-10pm – Wrecking Ball Arts Centre \n  \n  \nSince founding her own label MPress Records two decades ago\, NYC-based folk-pop artist Rachael Sage has steadily released a slew of vibrant\, dynamic albums described by Goldmine Magazine as “mesmerizing…thoughtful\, pensive and flush with an emotional flourish\, all carefully and adeptly executed.” She has toured with an eclectic list of artists including Rufus Wainwright\, Ani DiFranco\, Beth Hart\, Howard Jones\, and Grammy® winners Shawn Colvin and Judy Collins – with whom she also recorded a critically-acclaimed duet of Neil Young’s “Helpless”. In addition to being a six-time Independent Music Award-winning musician and producer\, Sage is also a John Lennon Contest Grand Prize winner who has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe\, SXSW\, and toured globally from Japan to Berlin with her band\, The Sequins. Sage is also a visual artist and former ballet dancer who performed with the New York City Ballet. A self-described “cancer thriver”\, she is additionally a philanthropic advocate who has raised money for a wide range of causes\, including Foundation For Women’s Cancer\, WHY Hunger\, American Refugee Committee\, and National Network For Youth (NN4Y). Her 2020 album Character yielded the Billboard-charting single “Blue Sky Days”\, and her side-project Poetica\, an adventurous fusion of poetry with jazz\, classical and Americana musical elements in the vein of Leonard Cohen and Laurie Anderson debuted in October 2021. Rachael’s sparkling cover version of the Yazoo classic “Only You”\, from her full-length album The Other Side\, reached #32 on the Mediabase Top 40 radio chart. Her singles “Albatross (feat. Crys Matthews)” and “The Place Of Fun” are out now\, from her companion acoustic album Another Side which was released May 2024 on MPress/Universal/Virgin.
URL:https://wreckingballstore.co.uk/event/rachel-sage/
LOCATION:Wrecking Ball Arts Centre\, 15 Whitefriargate\, Hull\, HU1 2ER\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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