LIVE: LUKE ABBOTT – 30/11/2012
- KRAAK, MANCHESTER - Occupying Manchester’s rapiest looking venue tonight is Border Community signee Luke Abbott. After maneuvering through a dirty ginnel and up a set of grimy looking stairs, a battered wooden door opens up to a warm and relatively lush room filled with hulking rhythms pounded out by Manchester locals, Ghosting Season. With plenty of space in front of the stage, the minimal yet commandeering Techno tinged sounds are slow paced... Read More
Kraak
VENUE NAME: KRAAK ADDRESS: 11 Stevenson Sq Manchester M1 1DB CONTACT TELEPHONE NUMBER: 07855 939 129 CONTACT EMAIL ADDRESS: kraakspace@gmail.com WEBSITE: http://www.kraak.co/home/ FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/KraakManchester TWITTER: http://twitter.com/kraakspace ESTABLISHED/HISTORY: KRAAK is two multi-purpose and low-cost spaces for art, music, exhibitions and photography. CAPACITY: 150 PEAK TIMES OF THE YEAR: BEERS AVAILABLE: Brew dog, Goose... Read More
LIVE: EASTER – 22/06/2012
Photos: Peter Rea - KRAAK, MANCHESTER - This is my second night in succession at Kraak, the schedule here this month isn’t all that busy but quality seems guaranteed. Hey! Manchester have put together tonight’s lineup to celebrate the launch of Easter‘s debut album ‘Innocence Man’, which was released a few weeks ago through White Box recordings. Gladly, it’s already pretty busy in here and the sound is as loud... Read More
LIVE: GHXST – 21/06/2012
Photos: Peter Rea - KRAAK, MANCHESTER - One of my favourite scene’s in cinema history: Fight Club – Tyler and Co. walk through the bar down to the hidden, dark and dingy basement where grown men choose to punch each other for fun… Tom Waits ‘Goin’ Out West’ is on the jukebox. Entering Kraak when a rock band are playing, reminds me of this. Factory Acts are the first of two supports tonight, the projected imagery... Read More
LIVE: ODONIS ODONIS – 18/04/2012
- KRAAK GALLERY, MANCHESTER - I discovered Odonis Odonis by accident last autumn when a stray link unexpectedly took me to a download of their debut album (all above board). I thought I’d give it a go… 10 seconds into the title track ‘Hollandaze’, I was hooked. Shimmering, reverb laden guitar chords pulsed and cascaded like ‘Misirlou’, evoking scenes from Pulp Fiction – oozing cool. The gig begins in the... Read More
TICKET GIVE-AWAY: ODONIS ODONIS – DOWNLOAD ‘BUSTED UP’ SINGLE FREE + UK LIVE DATES
Taken from the debut album ‘Hollandaze’ – a grimy, gum-splattered ménage of surf-gaze, punk and lo-fi – ‘Busted Lip’ becomes the latest single from Odonis Odonis on 21st May. ‘Busted Lip’ was actually OO’s debut ultra-limited edition 7″ single on Canadian label We Are Busy Bodies prior to signing to FatCat last year. Originally a solo project for prolific songwriter/ bandleader Dean Tzenos, Odonis Odonis has in the... Read More
NEWS: ODONIS ODONIS – NEW SINGLE STREAMED IN FULL + FIRST UK TOUR DATES
Taken from the debut album ‘Hollandaze’ – a grimy, gum-splattered ménage of surf-gaze, punk and lo-fi – ‘Busted Lip’ becomes the latest single from Odonis Odonis on 21st May. ‘Busted Lip’ was actually OO’s debut ultra-limited edition 7″ single on Canadian label We Are Busy Bodies prior to signing to FatCat last year. Originally a solo project for prolific songwriter/ bandleader Dean Tzenos, Odonis Odonis has in the... Read More
NEWS: STILL CORNERS – DEBUT ALBUM DETAILS + TOUR DATES
Many bands lay claim to the adjective “cinematic.” But how many can claim a truly cinema-worthy moment as part of their inception? It was a dark and foggy night when Still Corners songwriter Greg Hughes first laid eyes on vocalist Tessa Murray. “It sounds stupid but it’s completely true,” he recounts. “I was on a train that was going to London Bridge. But for some reason it went to this other stop. And I got out, and this other person... Read More
