Hull bids farewell to music 'legend' Jacko

The funeral of a leading figure of Hull's music scene has taken place.

Paul "Jacko" Jackson, who founded The New Adelphi Club, died in March aged 71.

His funeral cortege departed from the legendary music venue on De Grey Street and made its way to the city's Chanterlands Avenue Crematorium.

Hugh Whitaker, former drummer in the Housemartins, delivered a eulogy during the service and described the funeral as "fitting for the guy".

"What struck me today about the service and what I found very moving was the vast number of people down the years really," he said.

"Different generations who he sort of either helped to mentor, or kind of big-brothered, helped to steer them along and looked after them."

Fellow band member Paul Heaton described accompanying the hearse to the crematorium as "incredibly moving".

"There was people stood clapping and it was like a pop star had died, not a person who owned a pub," he said.

"People of every age were stopping and clapping. They knew it was him and they knew what was going on.

"The story had spread and the community stood up and watched him being taken away from us."

Jackson set up the club in 1984 in a terraced house and it went on to host hundreds of bands, including The Housemartins, Pulp and Oasis.

Sybil Bell, founder of Independent Venue Week, said Jackson had created "somewhere safe for people and to make sure Hull had a really amazing space for creativity, music, arts and culture".

She added: "I think what you got with Jacko was just a really authentic, kind, unjudgmental, passionate man."

Attila the Stockbroker first met Jackson when performing at the venue in 1985.

The poet and musician, said: "He spent his life doing something he loved. He didn't care if it was fashionable or trendy or what people thought of him. He did everything on his own terms."

He said: "I've done more than 4,000 gigs in 26 countries. The Adelphi and Jacko are my favourite venue and my favourite promoter in the world. We were kindred spirits."

He recalled how he would sleep on the "sticky old stage" at a venue he described as "legendary and unique".

"Paul ran that place, created it and did it the way he wanted. I loved him," he added.

"I saw him a couple of weeks before he went and he was conscious and articulate to the end. We said the most magnificent goodbye."

He also called for a lasting tribute to Jackson.

"He deserves to have a statue in the middle of Hull with his beer and his flat cap looking over his glasses. He was an absolute legend."

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