All Points North: Women Set the Scene for Major Music Event As Part of Hull 2017

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20 November 2017

All points North: women set the scene for major music event as part of Hull 2017

Nadine Shah – Jane Weaver – Hannah Peel – Lone Taxidermist –

The Dyr Sister – Chambers - PINS

Some of the most exciting and innovative women making music in the UK today are coming together for a major music event being staged in Hull as one of the last big events of its City of Culture year.

Hosted by BBC 6 Music and Radio 3 presenter Elizabeth Alker, Substance Live: The Future of the North is a one-off event taking place at Hull City Hall on Saturday 9 December that will see the auditorium of Hull’s City Hall transformed into an indoor festival, with two stages and projections throughout, creating a non-stop assault on the senses from when the doors open through to the headline act.

Set to be one of the year's musical highlights, Substance Live includes Nadine Shah's politically charged post-punk; the psychedelic dream pop of Jane Weaver; Hannah Peel, performing her acclaimed Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia, which melds electronica and brass band, both important musical forms of the North; the cosmic performance art punk of Lone Taxidermist; the contemporary folk of Hull-based The Dyr Sister; Sister Doom duo based in Hull and Leeds Chambers; and PINS, formed in Manchester and firing out noisy, textured pop the band are at the vanguard of the New Wave of British guitar rock and roll.

Substance Live takes place on Saturday 9 December and runs from 5:30pm to 11pm. It is part of Substance, a mixed programme of events, art, installations and provocations taking place as part of Hull 2017 from 29 November to 10 December, celebrating this City of Culture year and exploring the culture, creativity and future of the North.

Tickets are on sale now priced at £10 and £12 and available from www.hull2017.co.uk/substancelive.

ENDS

For further information about Substance Live please contact

Kate Bouchier-Hayes at The Corner Shop PR

0131 202 6220

For general press information on Hull 2017 please contact

Ben McKnight 07718 100 793

LISTINGS

Hull City Hall

Queen Victoria Square, Hull HU1 3RQ

Saturday 9 December, 5:30pm-10:30pm

£10/£12

Tickets available at www.hull2017.co.uk/substancelive

NOTES TO EDITORS

Hull UK City of Culture 2017

Hull UK City of Culture 2017 is a 365 day programme of cultural events and creativity inspired by the city and told to the world. Hull secured the title of UK City of Culture 2017 in November 2013. It is only the second city to hold the title and the first in England. Divided into four seasons, this nationally significant event draws on the distinctive spirit of the city and the artists, writers, directors, musicians, revolutionaries and thinkers that have contributed to the development of art and ideas.

The Culture Company was set up to deliver the Hull 2017 programme and is an independent organisation with charitable status. It has raised £32 million, with over 70 partners supporting the project, including public bodies, trusts and foundations and local and national businesses. Key contributions are coming from: Host City – Hull City Council; Principal Partners - Arts Council England, BBC, Big Lottery Fund, East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Heritage Lottery Fund, KCOM, KWL, Spirit of 2012, Yorkshire Water and the University of Hull; Major Partners –Associated British Ports, Arco, BP, the British Council, British Film Institute, Green Port Hull, Hull Clinical Commissioning Group, MKM Building Supplies, P&O Ferries, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Sewell Group, Siemens, Smith & Nephew and Wykeland Group. The National Lottery has contributed more than £10m of this funding, making it the largest single funding body for Hull 2017.

For information go to www.hull2017.co.uk Follow us on Twitter @2017Hull Instagram @2017hull Facebook HullCityofCulture

Substance

Jason Bruges Studio's commission Where Do We Go From Here? kicks off more than 10 days of music, art installations, performance and provocations taking place at the start of December, under the title Substance, which celebrate this City of Culture year and the culture, creativity and the future of the North.

Substance also includes commissions from Marshmallow Laser Feast and Heinrich and Palmer; a major music event, Substance: Future of the North, featuring some of the UK's most exciting and pioneering musicians, including Jane Weaver, Nadine Shah, Hannah Peel and Lone Taxidermist; a brand new play from artist and cultural agitator Bill Drummond, who shares a double-bill with Pub Corner Poets; a specially curated film festival in association with Aesthetica Magazine; an and evening featuring writer, actor and comedian Reece Shearsmith.

A key event, Substance Future Forum, takes place on Thursday 7 December bringing together artists, creative industry figures, policymakers, business leaders, digital pioneers, commentators and future change-makers to debate the role that culture and creativity will play in the continuing transformation of the North, and how they are uniquely placed to respond to a range of issues from Brexit, to social cohesion, to health and well-being.

Substance follows in the footsteps of WOW – Women of the World, Neu Reekie's Where Are We Now? and the Freedom Talks, to get artists, thinkers, commentators and the general public talking and thinking about key issues of the day.