Silent Radio – 18th March 2017 – MCR Live Residents
A selection of the bands and acts hitting Manchester in the coming week, those making the silentradio.co.uk headlines and round up the week’s music news stories. The Silent Radio Show was born in March 2014 and is regularly found in the the top 40 Mixcloud charts. Known for its unbiased and anti-smug approach to music journalism, SilentRadio.co.uk champions emerging musicians, smaller venues and DIY promoters through their handpicked monthly gig guide, live reviews, interviews... Read More
RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM ‘BURIALS IN SEVERAL EARTHS’ THIS MAY
Burials In Several Earths is a brand new work by the legendary Radiophonic Workshop – the hugely influential early proponents of electronic music, and soundtrack architects behind classic British TV music including, Doctor Who, and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. This is the first new music by the Workshop to see a commercial release since 1985, and is set for release on Friday 19th May 2017 on the Workshop’s own imprint, Room 13. An evocative suite of synth... Read More
WATCH CABBAGE’S NEW VIDEO FOR ‘GIBRALTER APE’ HERE
Cabbage share their new video for their latest single ‘Gibraltar Ape’. The single impacts on Friday 24th March 2017. Recorded at Parr Street Studios in Liverpool and produced by James Skelly (of The Coral) and Richard Turvey, ‘Gibraltar Ape’ follows the Manchester band’s three four-track EP’s released in late 2016: ‘Uber Capitalist Death Trade EP’, ‘Necroflat In The Palace EP’, and ‘Terrorist Synthesiser EP’. A compilation of the three EPs –... Read More
LIVE: MOON DUO – 16/03/2017
Moon Duo – BAND ON THE WALL, MANCHESTER – Moon Duo obviously realise that their time is now. Their plans for 2017 are to release two halves of a grand, conceptual project: Occult Architecture, Vols. 1 and 2, with each volume representing one half of the Taoist principle of Yin and Yang. Such is the dominance of their whacked out, frazzled psych rock in underground music culture right now that a high-falutin’ idea like that doesn’t even seem that mad anymore. Volume... Read More
FRESH EP RELEASE FROM PSYCHEDELIC STOKERS PSYENCE OUT NOW
Limited Edition Cassette Blak Hand Records release their third cassette of the year with Psych/Rock Stoke boys: Psyence, and their fresh new 5 track ‘A New Dawn EP’. Only available on cassette, it’s limited to 40 hand numbered Black on Black tapes available from the Blak Hand Records Bandcamp store – purchase here. Stoke-on-Trent based PSYENCE formed in 2013 consist of Stephen Pye, Jamie Cartlidge, Jamie Bellingham, Ben Nixon, Joe Walsh. They’re an intense... Read More
THE GOLDEN LION – A CULTURAL HUB IN AN UNLIKELY PLACE
The Golden Lion – Todmorden Everyone knows how brilliant Manchester is for music, culture and arts, but take a train half-an-hour out of the city and there’s something bubbling under in an unlikely place. Todmorden is a town on the border between Lancashire and Yorkshire and in the last few years, a magical thing has been happening there. It’s an old working class market town that’s as northern as killing your brother’s kestrel, however, now has a small emerging... Read More
LIVE: DUTCH UNCLES – 15/03/2017
Dutch Uncles – THE DANCEHOUSE THEATRE, MANCHESTER – This year marks Dutch Uncles’ ninth as a band, which almost nestles them into the category of indie stalwarts, although they have the energy and enthusiasm of a teenage garage band just starting out and who don’t know any better. Singer Duncan Wallis’ charming and charismatic presence at centre stage is a settling and comforting energy. Comfort is the appropriate word for this evening; something that Wallis... Read More
AMBER ARCADES ANNOUNCE NEW EP ‘CANNONBALL’ & UK TOUR WITH GRANDADDY THIS MARCH/APRIL
Annelotte De Graaf of Amber Arcades Amber Arcades, the moniker of Dutch-born musician Annelotte De Graaf, will release a brand new five track EP entitled ‘Cannonball’ on Friday 2nd June 2017 via Heavenly Recordings. The EP was recorded at Strange Weather Studio in New York with producer Ben Greenberg whilst the band were on tour, and is the first new release since last year’s critically acclaimed debut album Fading Lines. About the EP Annelotte said: “I’m so happy... Read More
LIVE: LAURA MARLING / ETHAN JONES – 12/03/2017
Laura Marling – ALBERT HALL, MANCHESTER – Before the Albert Hall was one of Manchester’s best loved music venues it used to be a church, and for Laura Marling’s fourth stop on her Semper Femina tour this evening, you can feel that more than ever. Beneath the imposing stained glass church windows, which are allowing a flickering of the last light of the day through, Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ plays. Ferns fill the floor of the stage and there’s... Read More
SEU JORGE TO COVER DAVID BOWIE’S ‘THE LIFE AQUATIC’ AT THE ALBERT HALL WITH SCREENING
In commemoration of David Bowie’s recent passing, Seu Jorge will be performing a special tribute to him while recreating the set to the film ‘The Life Aquatic’ on stage, with screens crafted as boat sails that will be displaying images from the film. Seu Jorge, one of Brazil’s most talented contemporary singers, rose to international fame in the Wes Anderson film ‘The Life Aquatic’. In his acclaimed role as Pelé dos Santos, a singing sailor, Seu Jorge... Read More
