The Victory Club

The Dyr Sister

Adelphi, Hull

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The Victory Club presents, 21 socially distanced events… The Victory Club # 1 – The Dyr Sister + Chubby Mam + Amy Scribble Advance tickets at the bottom of this page – £5 Limited Capacity Event. 36 tickets available. “Out of adversity comes opportunity”…

It’s great to welcome you back inside The Adelphi Club after being locked down for a year. Every band or artists starts somewhere and more often than not, in this part of the world, it’s here at The Adelphi Club. We’re the first rung on the music ladder!

We’ve put together 21 gigs giving bands an opportunity to take to the Adelphi stage in front of a socially distanced audience. Small gigs to a small crowd, small victories! This should be fun!

We’re calling it The Victory Club. That’s what our club was originally called. Built in the 1880’s it was named The Victory Club in 1923, almost 100 years ago, as an Ex-Serviceman’s Club for WWI veterans.

We hope you can join us to celebrate the New Wave of Hull musicians. Hear and There. Sounds from Everywhere!

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{Dyr is Old Norse for Deer}

The Dyr Sister's Fairy-tales for the Modern Gentleman is an ever-growing compendium of anti-ballads. An evolution into a small ensemble after a time as a solo entity was inevitable in order to more effectively transmit the surreal, subversive and sometimes provocative paintings of sound that respond to the vagaries of modern life.

Combining contemporary folk with post-hiphop and electronic music genres the Dyr Sisters songs are delivered with driving percussive beats via a backdrop of strings including Viola (Sally Currie), Harp (Stephanie Halsey) and Bass Guitar (Sarah Shiels) and layered with haunting and ethereal vocal harmonies. This is a devastatingly beautiful expression of what it means to be alive and kicking and still telling tales in these bleak times.

This project brings together an outstanding collection of musicians from Kingston-Upon-Hull and the surrounding areas.

Sally Currie is a multi-instrumentalist who has an extensive history writing and performing original music with bands and solo, despite being born partially deaf. As a solo artist she has performed her work all over the UK at venues and festivals sharing bills with acts like Lætitia Sadier, This is the Kit, Ruth Theodore, Thomas Truax and The Dead Rat Orchestra. She mainly manifests The Dyr Sister alongside her viola, her MPC 1000 and her unique and enchanting voice. In 2019 she was awarded an emergent music commission with Drake Music.

Sarah Shiels is a bassist who has toured the UK, Europe and the USA lending her basslines to bands such as Ming City Rockers, The Black Delta Movement and Rivers Johannsson and the Deemed Unrighteous. She also has written and performed her own psychedelic and folky blues music and published her debut collection of poetry in 2018. Rumour has it that Sarah has a voice which sounds like honey being poured over diamonds….

Stephanie Halsey graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music where she studied performance on the harp. She is now based in Hull as a freelance harpist regularly performing with orchestras, at weddings and events. Some career highlights include performing Debussy’s Danses Sacrée et Profane, being conducted by Sir Mark Elder and touring with Gary Numan as part of the Skaparis Orchestra. Stephanie has also recorded with artists such as The Broken Orchestra and Stuart McCallum. Stephanie is currently working towards a masters in music at the University of Hull, specialising in the electric harp.