Post by stuhuggett on Sept 23, 2005 8:01:43 GMT 1
Friday, September 23, 2005
p89. Pub's celebrating with a pint or two!
The First In Last Out is well known in the Old Town and beyond for its high-quality beers, created on our very own doorstep. And the High Street pub is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its brewery with a beer festival from tonight to Sunday. A total of 12 or more real ales will be on sale, and Sunday will herald music from Blair Mackichan and Russell Field. Blair is a singer/songwriter who has had song writing success for such artists as Alex Parks, Will Young and many more, whilst Russell Field is known for his work with Steadman and Midge Ure.
[...]
And don't forget to check out our interview with Dizzy Tiger Music's Stu Huggett in this week's section. We'll be tapping into Stu's experience with a six-week series of releases by unheralded local talent from next week.
p90. Bedroom-based label captures unique Hastings.
The gig dates for artists on the Dizzy Tiger Music website clog together like wet bread, speckled with names hurled out with scattergun energy. And somewhere within this goulash of electronica, folk, country and heavy rock sits Stu Huggett.
The High Street based music fan is the founder of Dizzy Tiger, a small bedroom-based label locked into a symbiotic relationship with the town he grew up with. Whilst at Bexhill College in 1991, Stu started recording gigs by friends around the area with long-time friend Lee Huma, aka Rashamon. He's been in the trenches ever since, acting as a conduit between unique performers and their previously untapped public.
Stu said: "We've been doing odd labels since 1991. Lee and I had a band in college and we did the odd tape of that and various friends bands. By 1999 or so, we had started doing it a lot more regularly."
Dizzy Tiger was founded around four years ago, sometime after the demise of Coastline Records, Hastings' only underground tape label. Its output consists mainly of cassette and CD-R releases by obscure, underground and left-field artists from the town.
Stu said: "It all comes from being part of a community of musicians. It's an independent label in so far as I have a box of tapes and such in my bedroom, and send them off to people who want them. There's no management structure or bank account or anything."
His close links to Hastings musicians - some of whom have kept in contact after moving to more fashionable cousins such as Brighton and London - have allowed him to amass a fearsome and unique back catalogue of talent. Country-pop chancers Rumiko Jr - recently returned from a summer tour of Spain - submitted tracks for release whilst still performing as Donkey Kong Jr, as has Rashamon, now part of an electronic collective in Brighton.
Highly-rated rising rockers Regular John will be releasing their second EP with Dizzy Tiger. And several formidable talents have submitted tracks for the label's latest compilation CD, entitled Sun In Wintertime. Also featured are the lush acoustics of Tim Hoyte and Jonathan Martin, the wondrously curious jabberings of The Flesh Happening and the catchy rock of The Volunteers.
Michael Rivers, aka Axis Deer, who also appears on the CD, said: "Being on a compilation does tend to help you introduce yourself to other artists. Doing gigs with other artists is great, and it's important to have someone working in a medium which can provide that."
Stu has been involved in around 35 releases over the years, but says he has committed himself to five or six projects over the coming months. It's a testament to the burgeoning spring of talent emanating from venues such as The Smugglers, The Brass Monkey, Revolver on George Street and The Crypt's Unscene young bands night.
He said: "I'm enjoying it more now than I've done before. It's a lot healthier than it's been for a long time. When we first started, there wasn't really a lot going on. But there was a definite surge during the mid nineties. And now you really have to commit yourself to going out a lot if you want to see everything."
To contact Dizzy Tiger Music, log on to www.dizzytiger.faithweb.com or e-mail dizzytigerstu@yahoo.co.uk.
Sun In Wintertime.
CD review: Sun In Wintertime (Dizzy Tiger Music, 2005)
Spend enough time probing under the surface of the Hastings scene and you'll find many interesting things. Many of them are included on Sun in Wintertime, a collection of unsigned or obscure artists compiled by local indie label Dizzy Tiger Music. Others will probably just give you a nasty rash.
Sun in Wintertime is a melting pot ranging from epic rock to effervescent electronica, to the type of softly piercing vocals that will soothe your ills, to the rabid B-movie howl that will dislodge your appendages like a defective Mr Potato Head.
There's a range of artists here, from the arpeggiated sea-breeze of Battle act Flying Marrows, to the curious alien beeps of Minimal Impact. Bizarre Brighton creatures The Flesh Happening appear with the comparatively-restrained I Like Nuns, whilst the polished professionalism of Rashamon finds a home on the disc with Cheers to your Eyes.
Hastings is admirably represented, with Emma Darling;s effortlessly-engaging Found, and Jonathan Martin's lustrous Don't Let It Slip Away catching the ear. There's also space for a progressive symphony from Regular John, high-octane indie pop from class musical survivors The Crayons, and a slow lilting Floyd-esque number from Duncan Pierce.
And even the best signed compilation would struggle to match the CD's opening, a thrilling combo of acoustic colossus Tim Hoyte and virtuoso alt-rockers Volunteers.
Sun in Wintertime is available via Dizzy Tiger Music.
(All words: John Hill)
p93. Yorkshire lasses (slightly edited version of the following article:)
Rye and Battle Observer. Friday, September 23, 2005.
p87. We just love these Yorkshire lasses.
Saturday evening at the Memorial Hall in Battle proved a dream for appreciators of original song and mellow acoustics.
The first half of the show was the final gig of the Cherry Gardens tour which featured Tim Hoyte, Kokopelli & the Flying Marrows which culminated in an ensemble rendition of the Flying Marrows catchy sing-a-long "Reggae Sounds" enthusiastically sung by the large audience, which had travelled from all over the south east to catch a rare glimpse in these parts of the acclaimed Waking the Witch. A perfect appetiser for what was to come.
The four lasses from Yorkshire were introduced on stage and as the opening harmonies of the accapela number 'Always one like her' floated through the air the audience was caught in the harmonic splendour of their music.
We had stories of love, lost love and... no most were of lost love. Each member performed their own compositions in their own stle alnost creating four gigs in one. Too quickly their two-hour set drifted past in mellow loveliness of heart felt songs and bright banter. Special note to Bernie, at Warehouse Light and Sound, for providing the PA that highlighted the vocal flair of these four talented women.
Some came to see the secret that is Waking the Witch, some came to see the raw roots of the Flying Marrows, some came out of curiosity. None left early, none left disappointed.
(writer not known)
p89. Pub's celebrating with a pint or two!
The First In Last Out is well known in the Old Town and beyond for its high-quality beers, created on our very own doorstep. And the High Street pub is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its brewery with a beer festival from tonight to Sunday. A total of 12 or more real ales will be on sale, and Sunday will herald music from Blair Mackichan and Russell Field. Blair is a singer/songwriter who has had song writing success for such artists as Alex Parks, Will Young and many more, whilst Russell Field is known for his work with Steadman and Midge Ure.
[...]
And don't forget to check out our interview with Dizzy Tiger Music's Stu Huggett in this week's section. We'll be tapping into Stu's experience with a six-week series of releases by unheralded local talent from next week.
p90. Bedroom-based label captures unique Hastings.
The gig dates for artists on the Dizzy Tiger Music website clog together like wet bread, speckled with names hurled out with scattergun energy. And somewhere within this goulash of electronica, folk, country and heavy rock sits Stu Huggett.
The High Street based music fan is the founder of Dizzy Tiger, a small bedroom-based label locked into a symbiotic relationship with the town he grew up with. Whilst at Bexhill College in 1991, Stu started recording gigs by friends around the area with long-time friend Lee Huma, aka Rashamon. He's been in the trenches ever since, acting as a conduit between unique performers and their previously untapped public.
Stu said: "We've been doing odd labels since 1991. Lee and I had a band in college and we did the odd tape of that and various friends bands. By 1999 or so, we had started doing it a lot more regularly."
Dizzy Tiger was founded around four years ago, sometime after the demise of Coastline Records, Hastings' only underground tape label. Its output consists mainly of cassette and CD-R releases by obscure, underground and left-field artists from the town.
Stu said: "It all comes from being part of a community of musicians. It's an independent label in so far as I have a box of tapes and such in my bedroom, and send them off to people who want them. There's no management structure or bank account or anything."
His close links to Hastings musicians - some of whom have kept in contact after moving to more fashionable cousins such as Brighton and London - have allowed him to amass a fearsome and unique back catalogue of talent. Country-pop chancers Rumiko Jr - recently returned from a summer tour of Spain - submitted tracks for release whilst still performing as Donkey Kong Jr, as has Rashamon, now part of an electronic collective in Brighton.
Highly-rated rising rockers Regular John will be releasing their second EP with Dizzy Tiger. And several formidable talents have submitted tracks for the label's latest compilation CD, entitled Sun In Wintertime. Also featured are the lush acoustics of Tim Hoyte and Jonathan Martin, the wondrously curious jabberings of The Flesh Happening and the catchy rock of The Volunteers.
Michael Rivers, aka Axis Deer, who also appears on the CD, said: "Being on a compilation does tend to help you introduce yourself to other artists. Doing gigs with other artists is great, and it's important to have someone working in a medium which can provide that."
Stu has been involved in around 35 releases over the years, but says he has committed himself to five or six projects over the coming months. It's a testament to the burgeoning spring of talent emanating from venues such as The Smugglers, The Brass Monkey, Revolver on George Street and The Crypt's Unscene young bands night.
He said: "I'm enjoying it more now than I've done before. It's a lot healthier than it's been for a long time. When we first started, there wasn't really a lot going on. But there was a definite surge during the mid nineties. And now you really have to commit yourself to going out a lot if you want to see everything."
To contact Dizzy Tiger Music, log on to www.dizzytiger.faithweb.com or e-mail dizzytigerstu@yahoo.co.uk.
Sun In Wintertime.
CD review: Sun In Wintertime (Dizzy Tiger Music, 2005)
Spend enough time probing under the surface of the Hastings scene and you'll find many interesting things. Many of them are included on Sun in Wintertime, a collection of unsigned or obscure artists compiled by local indie label Dizzy Tiger Music. Others will probably just give you a nasty rash.
Sun in Wintertime is a melting pot ranging from epic rock to effervescent electronica, to the type of softly piercing vocals that will soothe your ills, to the rabid B-movie howl that will dislodge your appendages like a defective Mr Potato Head.
There's a range of artists here, from the arpeggiated sea-breeze of Battle act Flying Marrows, to the curious alien beeps of Minimal Impact. Bizarre Brighton creatures The Flesh Happening appear with the comparatively-restrained I Like Nuns, whilst the polished professionalism of Rashamon finds a home on the disc with Cheers to your Eyes.
Hastings is admirably represented, with Emma Darling;s effortlessly-engaging Found, and Jonathan Martin's lustrous Don't Let It Slip Away catching the ear. There's also space for a progressive symphony from Regular John, high-octane indie pop from class musical survivors The Crayons, and a slow lilting Floyd-esque number from Duncan Pierce.
And even the best signed compilation would struggle to match the CD's opening, a thrilling combo of acoustic colossus Tim Hoyte and virtuoso alt-rockers Volunteers.
Sun in Wintertime is available via Dizzy Tiger Music.
(All words: John Hill)
p93. Yorkshire lasses (slightly edited version of the following article:)
Rye and Battle Observer. Friday, September 23, 2005.
p87. We just love these Yorkshire lasses.
Saturday evening at the Memorial Hall in Battle proved a dream for appreciators of original song and mellow acoustics.
The first half of the show was the final gig of the Cherry Gardens tour which featured Tim Hoyte, Kokopelli & the Flying Marrows which culminated in an ensemble rendition of the Flying Marrows catchy sing-a-long "Reggae Sounds" enthusiastically sung by the large audience, which had travelled from all over the south east to catch a rare glimpse in these parts of the acclaimed Waking the Witch. A perfect appetiser for what was to come.
The four lasses from Yorkshire were introduced on stage and as the opening harmonies of the accapela number 'Always one like her' floated through the air the audience was caught in the harmonic splendour of their music.
We had stories of love, lost love and... no most were of lost love. Each member performed their own compositions in their own stle alnost creating four gigs in one. Too quickly their two-hour set drifted past in mellow loveliness of heart felt songs and bright banter. Special note to Bernie, at Warehouse Light and Sound, for providing the PA that highlighted the vocal flair of these four talented women.
Some came to see the secret that is Waking the Witch, some came to see the raw roots of the Flying Marrows, some came out of curiosity. None left early, none left disappointed.
(writer not known)
