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Hull has an extensive museum and visitor quarter which includes Wilberforce House, Hull and East Riding Museum, the Ferens Art Gallery, the Maritime Museum, Streetlife and Transport Museum, the Spurn Lightship, the Yorkshire Water Museum, the Arctic Corsair and the Deep, the world's only submarium. Worthy of mention is the Fish Trail, which takes you from the new town and around the Old Town, following a wide variety of sealife engraved in the pavement.
Hull is home to Hull Sinfonietta, the only large professional chamber ensemble in the Humber region, and the Hull Philharmonic Orchestra, one of the most accomplished amateur orchestras in the country. Also resident in the city is one of the UK's oldest independent youth orchestras - Hull Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, which was established in 1952.
The city is also the home of the Hull Choral Union, the Hull Bach Choir - which specialises in the performance of 17th and 18th century choral music, the Hull Male Voice Choir, the Dagger Lane Operatic Society - a Gilbert & Sullivan society, the Arterian Singers and the Kingston Singers.
The city has three main theatres. The larger is the Hull New Theatre, which opened in 1939. It features musicals, opera, ballet, drama, children's shows and pantomime. The Hull Truck Theatre is a smaller independent theatre established in 1971. It regularly features plays, notably those written by John Godber. The Hull Truck Theatre will have a new home in the St Stephen's development. The Northern Theatre Company is also based in the city.
Hull seems to be particularly attractive to poets - the Australian author Peter Porter has described it as "the most poetic city in the United Kingdom".
Philip Larkin, arguably the greatest English poet of the mid-20th century, wrote extensively in his poems about Hull. Among poems which contain descriptions of the area are "The Whitsun Weddings", "The Building" (about the Hull Royal Infirmary) and "Here". He also christened the city as "Coventry-by-the-Sea", as he saw many parallels between the two industrial cities.
Scottish-born Douglas Dunn's Terry Street, a portrait of working-class Hull life, is one the outstanding poetry collections of the 1970s. Dunn was an important mentor to younger Hull poets including Peter Didsbury, Sean O'Brien and others, many of whom appeared in the 1982 Bloodaxe anthology A Rumoured City. Current Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, lectured at the University of Hull between 1976 and 1980 and Roger McGough studied there. Among the younger poets associated with Hull are Maggie Hannan, David Wheatley and Caitriona O'Reilly.
Hull has a lively nightlife, attracting people from outlying areas as well as inhabitants of the city. Hull has the concentration of pubs and bars expected of any large city in contemporary Britain. Until recently at which point late 4-6am bars have taken over with many of the notable clubs shutting down including Heaven and Hell, Rhythm Room and Planet Earth. The drinking culture in this city tends to step towards late bars.
Some of the bars and clubs in the City include The Welly Club, Magma, Sharkeys, Pozition, Spiders, V-Bar, Zachariah Pearson, and The Sugarmill. There are lots of popular wine bars and pubs around Hull University and its student accommodation area, including The Haworth Arms and The Gardeners arms.
In the 1960s, Hull band Rats were spotted by David Bowie. They changed their name to 'The Spiders From Mars' and became a globally known sensation. Mick Ronson (guitar) was the best known of the band members and he later went on to record with Lou Reed and Bob Dylan. There is a Mick Ronson Memorial Stage in Queen's Gardens in Hull.
In the 1980s, Hull bands such as The Red Guitars, The Housemartins and Everything But the Girl found mainstream success. Paul Heaton, former member of The Housemartins who then went on to front The Beautiful South. Another former member of The Housemartins, Norman Cook, now performs as Fatboy Slim. In 1983 Hull born Paul Anthony Cook, Stuart Mathewman and Paul Spencer Denman formed the group Sade, in 1984 the singer Helen Adu signed to CBS and the group released the album Diamond Life. The album went Triple Platinum in the UK and is still the biggest selling album from a UK female singer to date. Also vocalist and actor Roland Gift (who formed the Fine Young Cannibals) grew up in Hull.
Current bands from Hull include The Paddingtons, who were signed by former Oasis mentor Alan McGee and have had two singles enter the UK's Top 30 and the music scene currently boasts well in excess of 250 unsigned bands. Ones to look out for include, CLEM, Turismo, Mr Beasley, The Favours, The Neat, The Johnsons, 59 Violets, The Talks, Fonda 500, Windum Earl, Last People On Earth, Popdog, The Ivy Sins, Ernest,Kill Surf City, Rocky Nest and many many more.
The Adelphi is locally known and regarded as the home of live music in the city and has achieved legendary status worldwide, having giving breaks to such bands as The Stone Roses, Radiohead, and Oasis in its 26 years.
Other local music venues remain popular including The Springhead which caters for cover bands and has been recognised nationally as a Live Music Pub of the Year.
Original Live Music Nights to take note of are The Sesh night at the popular Linnet & Lark on Princes Ave and The Sidekicks Lounge at The Lamp on Bev Rd. Both nights support local talent and both are free entry gigs which are well supported with over 200 people attending on a weekly basis. The Ringside on Beverley Road caters for the Punk and Emo crowd and the likes of The Wellington Pub and Tigers Lair host many a fine acoustic nights featuring more local talent.
Up 'n' Coming talent from across the UK is featured at The Welly club through its association with Club NME every Thursday and it sometimes plays host to some star names at its successful Indie Night Yo Yo.
The bigger National bands play either at Hull City Hall, KC Stadium, University Of Hull, or at the Hull Arena.
On the record label front, Pork Recordings started in Hull back in the mid 1990s and has released some fine workings of Fila Brazillia and Mr Beasley amongst others. The Sesh night has released four DIY compilations featuring the cream of Hull's live music scene and there are currently a few labels emerging in the city, including Purple Worm Records and Empire.
The city hosts the The Humber Mouth literature festival every year- the 2007 season features writers such as Will Self, Shami Chakrabarti, Joanne Harris, Raj Persaud, Mike Gayle, Jackie Kay, Jean 'Binta' Breeze, Robin Ince, Dan Rhodes, Steven Hall, Christopher Reid.
The annual Hull Jazz Festival takes place around the Marina area for a week at the beginning of August. This is followed, in early September, by the Sea Fever Festival, an International Sea Shanty Festival.
Early October sees the arrival of Hull Fair which is Europe's largest travelling funfair and takes place on land adjacent to the KC Stadium.
In 2007 the Hull Metalfest began in the Welly Club, it is the second largest UK Metal festival after the Download Festival. It featured Major Label bands hailing from America, Canada and Italy, as well as the UK.
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