So far stars confirmed are Mari Wilson, Hazel O'Connor and Gordon Giltrap.
Dates include the following:
Friday, April 23, 2010: Mari Wilson, famous for her beehive hairdo and songs such as Julie London's Cry Me A River plus Just What I Always Wanted.
Friday, March 26, 2010: Hazel O'Connor, famous for her peroxide blonde hair, hit movie Breaking Glass and semi-electro pop like Will You and Eighth Day.
Friday, May 21, 2010: Gordon Giltrap, famous for his terrific guitar playing, musical styles which cross multiple genres and 1970s hit album Perilous Journey and hit single Heartsong.
While we're talking about Kula Productions, apologies for a blunderette in a recent Gig Scene. It seems Gig Scene made a 'slight mistake' about Knaresborough promoters Kula Productions live swing show next year starring TV/radio broadcaster Micky Campbell with Holby City actor Mark Moraghan.
We said it was taking place at Frazer Theatre but, for once for a Kula presentation, it will be at Harrogate Theatre.
Please note, Kula's October 16 show with 70 singer Kiki Dee and Carmello Luggeri is already sold out.
Tickets costing £16 are also going fast for Neil Innes, a man who was in Monty Python, the Bonzo Dog Band and The Rutles and who appears at Frazer Theatre on November 6.
Tickets for all Kula shows are available from www.wegottickets.com/event/47441
Or buy them in person from Rock Steady Music shop on Regent Parade, Harrogate and Pear on High Street, Knaresborough.
PS This just in - now Kula have booked The Lark Rise Band featuring Ashley Hutchings. (More next week).


ONE of BASH Studios main men Jason Odle has got together with Harrogate musician Ade Payne to start a new series of acoustic nights in town called Harrogate HUSH.
Held every Wednesday night in 'The Club' at Rehab (the upstairs bar), the launch night starred Rod Birchall, Karl Culley, Mark Robinson and Justin Brandom. The idea is that these acoustic sessions should be intimate and for serious music lovers, creating a genuine platform for quality music.
Entry is free and the music starts at 8.30pm each week. Next Wednesday's acts include Charles Sellars and Mark Partner with more to be added.


THIRSK promoters In The Dock have announced that tickets have sold out for for the October 10 show by Fleet Foxes band member J Tillman - and that they've just launched a new website at the following address: www.inthedock.net
Tickets are still available for the remainder of In The Dock promoters' autumn programme.
Friday, November 6 – Double bill of Chris Helme and The Lost Brothers. Friday, December 11 – Danny Schmidt and Carrie Elkin.
For tickets for J Tillman costing £10, call 01845 595911 or in person from White Rose Books in Thirsk.


RIPLEYBlues has had to cancel their Ripley Town Hall show by Taste, legendary guitarist Rory Gallagher's old band but the good news is that one of the most popular acts ever to appear in ten years of RipleyBlues gigs, Guy Tortora, is to go ahead upstairs in the venue's Blues Room on October 24.
Tickets costing £8 members and £10 non-members are strictly limited to 60.
www.ripleyblues.com


OFF The Record is the title of what promises to be Harrogate's biggest all-day rock/punk/psychobilly gig.
To be held at The Manhattan Club on Saturday, October 10, there will be seven live bands plus DJs running from 1pm-11pm.
Appearing during a day which also sees the England football match shown live on the big screen, are the following:
Abrasive Wheels. PseudoNympho. Homebrew. 3CR. Assert. Scarlett Daggers. Henry and the Bleeders.
Food will be available all day and tickets priced £10 are on sale from the Manhattan Club.


LOCAL CD REVIEW
Tunji: MK Ultra (EP)
BARNSTORMING but brilliant, Tunji take the best elements of 70s prog rock on this EP and plunge them into a dystopian future - or is that the present?
It's easy to forget amid those old accusations of 'self-indulgence' that as well as things like time signature-hopping, elaborately-structured, show-off musicianship, the likes of Yes, ELP and even Genesis (check out their 1973 live album) also displayed National Grid levels of pure energy.
Ditto this impressive, no-holds barred, four-piece Harrogate-Leeds outfit who are due to play Harrogate's Dragongate Festival tomorrow (Saturday) around 4pm.
What is different and new about mssrs Tiff Miller (guitar/vocals), Chris Maysom (bass/vocals), Dave Dowson (keyboards) and Steve Campbell (drums), not to forget Dave Middleton on vocals, what they have in common with the new breed of prog rockers such as Mars Volta, is that their musical influences don't include such important old fogey 70s staples as r'nb, folk or jazz.
Tunji are children of the Rave and 'crusty' generation and, as such, their two dominant musical building blocks are ambient-dance and pure rock.
And, boy, does this EP rock. Not at the expense of hooks and melody, especially on the opening tracks Fires and De-Ja Vu, which have the punchy but slick vocal style of the Foo Fighters allied to a slight 1980s sheen.
They simply never get dull, not on the toughest, most snarling rock track Good Company. Not even on the 9min 30sec of the closing track, the epic instrumental Cos We Can (MK Ultra).
Awash in heavily-phased vocal narration about the treatment of prisoners, emergency sirens wailing in the psychedelic wind, it's hard to tell exactly what it's all about, though thoughts of Blade Runner or the CIA's secret drug-based, mind control programme from the 1950s (also called MK Ultra) rise and fall.
Perhaps, they're genuine US Government instructions for detainees at Guantanamo Bay? Perhaps Tunji are saying we're all trapped in a new Cold War?
Is that why their music sounds so urgent?
Graham Chalmers
www.myspace.com/tunjibuzzing


HARROGATE'S most popular rock night is back with one of its most popular annual events.
DJ Trev hosts the Back to School Party on Sunday, October 4 at the Viper Rooms with a welter of live bands, fancy dress outfits and top punk, metal and hard rock tunes from 9pm.
Appearing on stage will be prog metal newcomers Under Arches, party rockers Psuedonympho and Leeds-based hard core/rave outfit A Lot Like Eskimos.
Entry costs £4 before 11pm (£3 if in school uniform) or £5/£4 after 11pm.
n DMB's season of live shows in Ripon continues tomorrow, Saturday with another cracker in the shape of one of DJ Chris Moyles' favourite indie rock bands.
Hope & Social (formerly Four Day Hombre), who appeared at this year's Glastonbury Festival, will play the Golden Lion on Saturday, October 3 with support from singer-songwriter Gary Stewart - plus a late addition in the shape of promising young local band BraveFace, whose members all hail from Ripon Grammar School.
Such is Hope & Social's local popularity, that their debut album (think Arcade Fire meets Coldplay) sold 2,000 copies in one day on strength of word of mouth alone.
For further details on DMB shows, email dmb@dmblivemusic.co.uk or call 0176 605987 or 07739 720732.
www.dmblivemusic.co.uk


SINGER-songwriter Jason Feddy returns for two, special ticket-only shows at Harrogate's Blues Bar.
The ever-popular musician plays Sunday lunchtime on October 4 and Sunday evening on October 11.
Other acts coming up at Harrogate's only seven-days-a-week live music venue include Chantel McGregor on October 1, Crosscut Saw on October 2, Joshua Blue on October 6 and Knievel on October 8.


ELECTRO pop outfit Royalty Three bring their mix of 80s synth classics and original numbers to The Harlow Inn, Otley Road, Harrogate on Friday, October 2 from 8.45pm.
More news from website www.royalty3.co.uk


LOCAL rock band Pseudo Nympho who appeared at Dragongate Festival recently, play The Fenton in Leeds tomorrow, Saturday as a warm-up for their appearance at Harrogate's Bottom of the Bottle night on October 4.
They're also on the bill of Off The Record, the big Punk & Psychobilly All-Day show at The Manhattan Club shortly.


The Heroes bring New Wave/punk and modern hits to The Alexandra in Harrogate next Thursday, October 8.


THERE'S popular covers from 3 Men & A Blonde at Harlow Gata in Harrogate tomorrow night, Saturday.


THE live country music act at Knaresborough's Last Chance Saloon this weekend is Ryder and James who perform at Park Place Social Club tonight, Friday, October 2.


COVERS duo Sounds Like Us play live at The Market Tavern in Knaresborough on Sunday, October 4 at 3pm. You can also catch them at The Punchbowl Tavern in York on Friday, October 2 from 9pm.
THE Worlds End in Knaresborough has live music from The Travis Reilly Band on Friday, October 2.


THE Cheeky Monkeys bring cover versions from the 1950s onwards Mother Shipton's Inn in Knaresborough on Saturday, October 3 from 9pm.


THE Mitre in Knaresborough's weekly Sunday night acoustic sessions continue on Sunday, October 4 with a performance at 8.30pm by Acoustic Blue with Sharon Colgan and Paul Federenko who play mellow blues, soul and a bit of 60s.


THE Fox and Hounds pub in Langthorpe near Boroughbridge, which is shortly to launch Sunday evening music nights, presents live music from Dave Rochelle on Friday, October 3.


LIVE REVIEWS

Super Pop starring Pagan Wanderer Lu.

Pagan Wanderer Lu was playing at Milo as part of a new night called Super Pop which I'd never come across before.
Though it was hot in this small Leeds venue, it was also musically bold, visually stunning and a lot of fun - although it was certainly sweltering upstairs.
I've never been at a gig where the audience stood swaying most of the time in 3D glasses, the idea of organisers www.modernmusicreview.com and VJ Quadrod.
As this inventive, DIY one-man band played tracks from his new album, Fight My Battles For Me the VJ projected amazing, moving images which took on a whole new life of their own if you put on the spectacles given out on arrival.
Pagan Wanderer Lu's songs had no fixed point, moving from style to style rapidly, one second sounding like an early 60s girl group, the next a little bit of folktronica before settling for New Order.
Witty, clever and provocative, his songs were full of synths and bleeps from one of those old mini Casio MT-40 keyboards mixed with traditional electric guitar and juicy sampled beats.
Playing two short sets, the first was more experimental, the second showed Pagan Wanderer Lu was capable of writing more conventional songs.
Highlights included one called The Bridge of Sighs and a great guitar track called The Memorial Hall which closed the evening.
As members of the crowd swayed from side to side, still wearing those red and blue spectacles, Pagan Wanderer Lu took the song beyond its rock roots into Rave, the beats booming out for some time in a terrific mash-up with soundman Dave Procter.
I haven't seen an 'indie' act who could change from Badly Drawn Boy to MGMT so quickly and still have a decent tune.
He's definitely one to look out for and the organisers modernmusicreview.com deserve congratulations for putting on such an unusual and brilliant show.
Next time some electric fans though, please.
David Procter
www.myspace.com/paganwandererlu