LIVE: EELS – 15/09/19

– ALBERT HALL, MANCHESTER – “Don’t think twice ‘bout whatever keeps you itchin’. Ice water, flyswatter gonna get you through the day.” Lyrics I could not relate to anymore, after a summer of working in a pub in the middle of nowhere, getting bitten by insects daily. Flyswatter is the first of the band’s original […]

LIVE: MODERN NATURE – 17/09/2019

– YES BASEMENT, MANCHESTER – Modern Nature who take their name from the late film director Derek Jarman’s garden diaries arrive at Manchester’s Yes venue on the back of their recently released debut album ‘How to Live’. A flowing and at time meditative record which is destined to feature in many end of year critic […]

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LIVE: TANGERINECAT / SLOW KNIFE / FACTORY ACTS / TIN MOLE – 07/09/2019

-GULLIVERS, MANCHESTER- Tin Mole Experimental is a label difficult to define, but it appears Deco have rummaged the attic for a few of the more warped figurines you’d be wise to inspect before touching. Dominated by menacing bass lines, Tin Mole succumb to the irresistibility of synthesisers as they purge onward, almost as though a […]

LIVE: GLOVE / CHINA MOON / FURROWED BROW – 06/09/2019

-THE PEER HAT, MANCHESTER- Furrowed Brow With additional personnel and two months of gigging since their live debut, Furrowed Brow has (much to my predication) significantly gained in confidence and cohesion, akin to a unit of conscripts surviving the very skirmishes that would make or break their service. Having a more technically proficient guitarist (albeit […]

LIVE: SASAMI – 04/09/2019

-YES (THE BASEMENT), MANCHESTER- Sweet relief. The basement in Manchester’s finest establishment Yes is a safe haven tonight, a place to take refuge from the bonkers weather that has plagued this city on this early autumn day (and plagued the England cricket team all day across the city at Old Trafford), and a place to […]

V FEST 97 – LEEDS 2019: A LOOK AT FESTIVALS THEN AND NOW

ARCTIC MONKEYS – TRANQUILITY BASE HOTEL & CASINO – ONE YEAR ON

LIVE: MANCHESTER PSYCH FEST 2019

-VARIOUS VENUES, MANCHESTER- As the title shows, the event primarily caters towards a genre half a century in age, although that didn’t stop the promoters from cherry picking enough non-psych bands to give off the impression it was a name only title. I mean understandably you need a healthy balance of differing styles and realistically […]

LIVE: THE BETHS – 31/08/2019

-GORILLA, MANCHESTER- Gorilla is sold out for The Beths tonight. We arrive a little later than most and the crowd is already one pensive mass of energy and anticipation. Managing to find a corner at the top of the stairs, we have a clear view of the whole scene, the stage and audience. Jackpot. It […]

REVIEW: THE BOOK OF MORMON @ PALACE THEATRE, MANCHESTER

ISOBEL CAMPBELL ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM WITH RELEASE OF LEAD SINGLE ‘ANT LIFE’

ALDO RELEASE NEW SINGLE AND VIDEO ‘PAPERMAZE’

AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS RELEASE NEW VIDEO FOR SOME MUTTS (CAN’T BE MUZZLED)

SPEEDY WUNDERGROUND ANNOUNCE NEW 7″ SINGLE BY SINEAD O’BRIEN

LIVE: WHITE FENCE / ESYA / THE STARLIGHT MAGIC HOUR – 17/08/2019

-THE WHITE HOTEL, SALFORD- The idea of amassing a selection of bands a few clicks off normal appears to pay off as the White Hotel’s ‘performance room’ slowly starts to fill to capacity in time for the headliner/non-set closer White Fence. I had the suspicion that carting out a load of bands on a half […]

BRAND NEW TRACK FROM PLEASURE CRAFT ‘WORK IT OUT’ FEAT. MINGIJA

SURFBORT FEAT’ GIBBY HAYNES FROM THE BUTTHOLE SURFERS RELEASE ANIMATED VIDEO FOR ‘HI ANXIETY’

GOODSIDE RELEASE DEBUT SINGLE ‘I’VE BEEN FEELING SOMETHING LATELY’

THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE QUEEN NEW VIDEO: ‘THE TRUCE OF TWILIGHT’ DIRECTED BY PAUL SIMONON

LIVE: RUSSIAN CIRCLES – 13/08/2019

-GORILLA, MANCHESTER- I am currently excited about two American heavy rock bands who, before this month, haven’t released a single word in over a decade. But while Tool have just brought out their first new material since 2007, Chicago three-piece Russian Circles have gone on from the departure of their original bass player in that […]

ALBUM REVIEW: THE MURDER CAPITAL – WHEN I HAVE FEARS

As anyone who knows me will testify, I can waffle on about my love for Sonic Youth all day long, so any band that has elements of the much missed soaring guitar sounds and otherworldly eeriness about them, is always going to grab my ears, however I wasn’t expecting this… Sometimes bands come along and […]

HEAVY METAL: WHAT HAPPENED?

PONYTAILS RELEASE VIDEO TO NEW SONG ‘JUST YOURS’

COURTNEY BARNETT SHARES BRAND NEW SINGLE “EVERYBODY HERE HATES YOU”

YAK? YES!

SHITKID RELEASE TITLE TRACK FROM UPCOMING ALBUM [DETENTION]

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