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Music HQ
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Music HQ is a Social Enterprise Company set up to help, promote and advise musicians in the Hull and East Riding region of the UK.

At the moment we promote acoustic gigs at 2 venues in Hull, the Tigers Lair Club & New Clarence Pub plus are providing a band stage at the Hull Mela on the 21st July and a live engineering services at the Springboard festival in Cottingham in August. Check out our myspace page for full details.

Contact name:
Darren
Screen name:
musichq
Member since:
Apr 04 2007
Active over 1 month ago
Website:
http://www.myspace.com/musichq

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Past Events

Transatlantic Tales & Silver Dogs with Music HQ

Friday 11th May is the date of a gig that should be in everyone's diary vaguely interested in quality music being performed in Hull, well known and popular local singer/songwriter Emma Rugg returns from her month long American 'Directions' tour to play her first hometown gig for Music HQ at the Tigers Lair Club on Anlaby Road near to Hull City Centre.

Emma Rugg is not an artist to sit and wait for other people to open doors, she goes right ahead and does it herself, financing her first CD Isolated Impression though six months busking on Hull's hard streets, taking up an offer to collaborate with New Yorker Henry Doss via contact made from hearing each others songs on the BBC Raw Talent radio show she is constantly pushing herself and her career forward. Now if this makes her sound like some manically focussed career musician it would be totally the wrong impression as Emma is one of the nicest artists Music HQ is lucky to work with and has appeared at many Acoustic Wednesday gigs as well filming several live performances there which can be seen on her myspace page http://www.myspace.com/emmarugg

Henry Doss her American songwriting and touring comrade is returning to the UK with her and also appearing at the gig and his musical story is just as interesting as Emma's if almost the total opposite. This short potted history is taken from his Myspace page "Doss retired early from a successful banking career with First Union and PNC Financial Services and picked up a guitar again after a nearly 30-year hiatus. His CD Floating Islands placed two songs on the national adult contemporary radio charts, including a #10 hit, “Lies,” which he and Emma will perform on the Directions 2007 tour"

This gig is Emma's first public performance after her return from America and Music HQ are pleased that Emma chose us to put the gig on for her.

But that is not all as Music HQ are very glad to be able to book a very special guest artist to support Emma & Henry in The Silver Doggs a progressive folk rock band from the North West of England which includes in their line up Mark Knight who has appeared with Massive Attack & The Devine Comedy and lead vocalist Becky Haslam who is the daughter of well know folk talent Ray Haslam.

This quote from the band's website sums up their material "Although we think that we have a highly original sound, Silver Dogs is basically a folk rock band, as we specialise in taking traditional songs and tunes from all parts of the British Isles as a base point for our stage and recorded material. However, as we have a huge diversity of experiences, backgrounds and influences in the band, the treatments and arrangements of the material can cover anything from acoustic folk to progressive rock, and beyond!"

After this gig Emma Rugg has several other UK dates including appearances at the Beverley Folk Festival in June and the Cottingham Springboard Music Festival in August, The Silver Dogs also have gigs all over the rest of the UK but this will be your only chance to catch them in Yorkshire this year so don't miss out on the Music HQ's gig of the month if not the year!

The date is Friday 11th May, entrance for the night will be £4 (Tigers Lair Members £2) and the doors will open at 8pm

More information about Music HQ and the artists appearing can be found at:

Music HQ - http://www.myspace.com/musichq
Emma Rugg - http://www.myspace.com/emmarugg
Henry Doss - http://www.myspace.com/henrydoss
Directions Tour 2007 - http://www.myspace.com/thetourpage
The Silver Dogs - http://www.silverdogs.co.uk/

Music HQ can be contacted via email to [email protected], via the web www.myspace.com/musichq or mobile 07748208679