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Yoho Ho(tel) - Where Santa stays in Hamburg?

Advantages: Something a bit different from your regular German city hotels
Disadvantages: Limited choice in the restaurant

Yoho is the abbreviation for the 'Youth Hotel' and it's located in Hamburg. I'll admit that when I was told to book it for a visit earlier this week, I did worry that it might be like a youth hostel. Perhaps before I checked out in the morning they would make me clean my room or wash the dishes. Fortunately neither was the case, and despite the strange name, I found a rather charming modern hotel located in a nice old historic building. The main criteria by which they justify the name is that they offer slightly lower prices for guests who are under 26. Sadly nothing I can benefit from any more. It's not - so far as I can tell - in any way linked with the Yo! Sushi brand so that may be a relief to some and a disappointment to others. My Visit I went to the hotel with two colleagues from our Bremen office and we arrived quite ...

koshkha 03.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Yoho, Hamburg

The Darkness in the light

Advantages: Vocals, guitars
Disadvantages: A few weaker links

**Introduction** In 2003 a Rock Band from Lowestoft released their debut album Permission to Land, It became one of the biggest selling albums of the year and catapulted The Darkness from obscurity to stardom. The band consisted of brothers Justin and Dan Hawkins, Frankie Poullain on Bass Guitar and Ed Graham on Drums. They were childhood friends and formed the band in 2000 with Justin Hawkins as lead singer. After playing in pubs and clubs around the country they built up a following and released their debut album three years later. In 2005 The band released their follow up One Way Ticket to Hell... and Back. Bassist Frankie Poullain left the band during recording for the second album and was replaced by Dan Hawkins Guitar Technician, Richie Edwards. The band have since split up after frontman Justin Hawkins was admitted to ...

jcneil 05.05.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Permission To Land [PA] - Darkness (The)

Crying For Help in a World Gone Mad

Advantages: Definitive Southern Californian punk rock, great metal influence.
Disadvantages: Far too short, and some songs lack originality.

the success of the rest of the song is really down to the band's own talents. As a fan of this type of metal I really enjoy its imprint on this album, though the later 'The Last Goodbye' is essentially an inferior version of the same thing, made acceptable by another catchy main riff and a return of pleasant backing vocals in the chorus. 'Living in Darkness' is the only other song to drag on by the end, as most are too energetic and too short to do so, and is the most diverse of the album, conveying depression about as well as can be expected from a punk song. Levesque's bass has a chance to shine in the introduction, quite fitting as he is the talented band member who wrote the song (along with 'Everything Turns Grey'), but the hand-clap-style percussion half-way through is something I could live without. The other prominent tracks are also ...

Frankingsteins 02.06.2008 · Read full review
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