music: Not Sensitive
film: Sins of Authority

Soundtrack is by the innovative club musician Moby: “Richard Melville Hall”

His nickname “Moby” was given to him by his parents because of an ancestral connection to the Moby Dick author Herman Melville being his great-great granduncle.

It’s ironic that we have been given permission to use one of Moby’s music tracks over clips
and archive footage of St. Andrew’s Dock were in 1955 Warner Bros. Studios chose the dock
to be the home for fitting out of the “Hispaniola” the ship which had been used in the film “Treasure Island”. When it left fully refurbished it had been turned into a whaling ship with many new fittings and renamed the “Pequod” and went on to carry Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab in the 1956 film Moby Dick. The fit out was a fine testimony to all the trades associated St. Andrew’s Dock Hull.

Moby was one of the most controversial figures in techno music, alternately praised for bringing a face to the notoriously anonymous electronic genre, as well as being scorned by hordes of techno artists and fans for diluting and trivializing the form. In either case, Moby was one of the most important dance music figures of the early ’90s, helping bring the music to a mainstream audience both in England and in America.

Moby fused rapid disco beats with heavy distorted guitars, punk rhythms, and detailed productions that drew equally from pop, dance, and movie soundtracks like an updated version of the “James Bond Theme” used for the Bond film “Tomorrow Never Dies”.

Thanks to Moby and the Moby Gratis team for allowing us to use this sound track.

Hull Daily Mail Feature

In brief
City design company InterTech’s new website shows how Hull could look in the future, including the transformation of the former St Andrew’s Dock.

BY ANGUS YOUNG

A Hull design company has launched a new website aimed at showing how the city could look in the future.
Using 3-D computer animated videos, photographs and text , the site includes an imagined view of a transformed St. Andrew’s Dock complete with visitor attractions, new facilities and restored historic features and puts forward its own proposal for a permanent memorial to the city’s lost trawlermen at the dock.
The site also pitches the idea of having a new tidal clock being constructed at the entrance to the city’s Marina.

Earlier this week the Mail revealed how Hull West and Hessle MP Alan Johnson had called on public regeneration bodies to consider buying the derelict part of the former dock. Its current owners are in administration.

Andrew Fenton, a director at design and marketing consultancy Inter Tech, Amsterdam Road, Sutton Fields, said the intention behind the website was to raise the debate about the quality of urban design both in Hull and beyond.

“Urban design is the process of shaping the space in which we live,” he explained.
“How urban design fits into the professional world is an area of continuing debate and is one of the main reasons behind developing this website,” he said.

Mr Fenton said he was also spurred into action by his own frustrations over the apparent lack of progress on the ground at historic sites in Hull such as St. Andrew’s Dock.

“I come from a fishing family and have always had an interest in what was going to happen at the dock.
“Our idea for the heritage dock concept shows how it could look if it was restored to its original water-filled condition. “It is clear to us that simply installing yet another retail park would be a completely wasted opportunity here. “Of course, retail stores can and do create jobs and can yield good returns in business rates but at what cost in this case.?”

The site includes interactive features were visitors can submit their own opinions on each hypothetical concept schemes.

Mr Fenton said the wider remit of hullnow.co.uk was to question current thinking on urban design and offer constructive criticism on key issues, such as the application of business rates, city centre nightlife development and neighbourhood planning.

On each issue, the site highlights examples – both good and bad – in Hull.
“We need to find more exciting ways of applying changes to our local communities. We need to engage younger people into the process. We need to keep people informed of all the major decisions. Maybe then our urban communities would take more pride in their surroundings.” he added.

A spectacular start to the 2009 round the world clipper race by the world-renowned RAF display team, the Red Arrows was watched by over 100 thousand people at the Hull Mariner. The aerobatic team gave a display of precision flying, the Hawk jets flying just two metres apart over the River Humber.

On the ground the Band of the Royal Marines played as the home team, Hull & Humber, left Hull Marina to join the rest of the fleet on the river. It
was an emotional experience for the crew, their families and friends who had come to support them on their challenge of a lifetime.

And the Red Arrows produced yet another breath taking performance demonstrating the professionalism of the RAF. And with the team being based at Scampton in Lincolnshire did not have to far to travel to put on this fantastic display.

Red Arrows