Featured Image: Sarah Oglesby<\/em><\/p>\n With the number of festivals springing up across the UK growing every year, Humber Street Sesh has achieved the remarkable with a monopoly on the first weekend of August for music fans in East Yorkshire. What started as a one-off celebration of Hull\u2019s music scene has grown into a 14-stage affair covering both sides of Hull Marina, giving a platform for local music that few other cities can boast of. Last year saw the festival grow from the traditional Saturday Sesh to include a Friday evening slot as well, acting as a celebration of past headliners and Hull music legends. In 2019, the aim for Friday night was to open the festival up to bands on the national touring circuit, well-seasoned on the ins and outs of how to play to a festival audience, and give the weekend a slightly bigger feel whilst retaining the sharp focus on local and unsigned musicians.<\/p>\n Friday evening\u2019s first band, Autosuggestion, kicked off on the Big Top stage (although without an actual Big Top tent which had got flooded somewhere else the weekend before). Post-punk is a genre that Hull has become somewhat known for in recent years, and Autosuggestion showed that the city\u2019s output is still going strong. Sure, the post-punk clich\u00e9s were there: outfits best suited to an eighties TV salesman and a singer doing his best uncomfortable squirm in tribute to Ian Curtis, but Autosuggestion put together a set of solid post-punk that exhibited a knack for songwriting. Given that the band has only debuted in the last year, they\u2019re certainly ones to catch soon as a rise to the top of Hull\u2019s music pile seems likely. Following on the Big Top was Low Hummer. Risen from the ashes of local legends La B\u00eate Blooms, their half hour set gave the sizable audience no reason to mourn what came before as they powered through a collection of almost entirely unreleased material. They take the La B\u00eate Blooms sound but infuse it with something fresh, a bit LCD Soundsystem, or maybe something like a hint of Team Picture for a slightly more Yorkshire reference. Hopefully the rest of the year will bring about a single release or two as the group begin to rev up.<\/p>\n