Kindred Spirit - The Story of a 1980's Hull Fanzine

Lady Jane were a four piece rock band from Hull . Members were Stu Forester, Shaun Walby, Dicky Rich and Tony Thresh. We caught up with Lady Jane after they played a gig in the autumn of 1983 at the now demolished New York hotel in Hull . It was a great gig and they were really rockin’. By way of a follow up I found that Lady Jane released a three track EP called “The Sheer Power of Rock” which was recorded at Fairview Studios in 1983. The A side was “ For You Tonight ” and on the B side was “ Out for the Count ” and “ Whiskey and Leather ”. The video for Out for the Count features some rare photos of the band performing a gig at Peppermint Park in Hull in 1983.  I also found a reference to Lady Jane's EP on the New Wave of British Heavy Metal website  and the Encyclopedia Metallum websites. I wonder what happened to them beyond the EP? Here's what was published in Kindred Spirit... It’s usually very difficult to describe a new band without either annoying eve

Thank you for taking the time to stop by and take a look at this site. My name is Jill Webb and back in the early 80s I decided to put together my own fanzine, which I named Kindred Spirit. Just over a year ago whilst I was having one of my wanders down memory lane online I stumbled across a site called Hull Music Archive . The site has been put together to tie in with Hull being the City of Culture in 2017 and it is a gold mine of information. And it was whilst I was digging my way through this little treasure trove that I was both surprised and pleased when I found a reference to Kindred Spirit. This got me thinking that perhaps I too  should contribute something  in my own small way to the whole City of Culture thing ... hence the reason for this website. The idea of  creating my own fanzine started germinating  back in the summer of 1983. The original aim behind it was to provide an outlet for budding poets like I considered myself to be at that time (debatable!!) I rem