Thanks to Tom Robinson (the legend)  

Thanks Tom Robinson (2 4 6 8 Motorway) for picking the Ree-Vahs! track No One Naas Us Anymore to add to his weekly blog playlist.

You can hear the whole list here

https://soundcloud.com/tomrobinson/sets/gems20131214

Great feedback on the tunes..... 

We've had some great feeback on the three tunes on the website from Brian Clough presenter of radio's Brian Clough's American Connection.http://americanconnection.euvue.co.uk/

Brian emailed us and said:  I've taken a listen to the three songs and think they absolutely ace...great vocals and musicianship complimented by great lyrics capturing a great traditional/new north east atmosphere. Really good production and I love the driving beat 

Thanks Brian. 

 

Three tunes on the website and counting  

Happy to say that we've got three tunes on the website thanks to the miracle of modern recording and a lot of help from JT at Mirage Studios in Marske by the Sea. The one which is getting us stomping at the moment is called "I belive in thee and me" which is a canny little ditty about star crossed love and all that polava.

If you like it then join our mailing list and I'll send you the MP3. 




How we got where we are........ 

 North-east England has been a major centre of migration in modern periods: between 1880 and 1920, the region was a major centre of migration from Scotland and Ireland. We estimate that as many as 37 per cent of the 1911 population of the north-east was foreign-born, or the children of migrants.

Migrants joined a changing region. In the last decades of the nineteenth century, people travelled to the north-east in search of high wages. It was a centre for mining and shipbuilding, iron, steel and chemicals. The region was host to some of the country's best paid engineers: only in London were wages higher. After 1945, the north-east still regarded itself as a bastion of industry. There were still more than 20,000 shipbuilding and engineering workers living in Newcastle. As late as 1951, the north-east produced one sixth of the world's merchant shipping fleet. Yet in the twenty years alone between the 1971 census and the 1991 census, the number of industrial jobs in Tyne and Wear County fell from 320,000 to 146,000, a decline of more than half. Male full-time employment fell from 305,000 to 200,000