TVAM ANNOUNCES NEW SINGLE ‘GAS & AIR’
TVAM – ‘Gas & Air’ Health for life. Every life. Every moment. Every day. Our pursuit: life’s potential. Healthy bodies. Healthy lives. Always caring. Always here. Gas and air for everyone. Hope is here, in the vapour. Healthy bodies. Healthy lives. TVAM is one man, Joe Oxley. Taking influence from a lifetime of repeats, reruns and reboots, he crafted his own low-budget, high-risk concept. A world in which broadcast becomes performance. TVAM sharpens... Read More
PSYCHIC ILLS SHARE NEW TRACK FT MAZZY STAR SINGER HOPE SANDOVAL
Psychic Ills announce their fifth album, Inner Journey Out for June 3rd release via Sacred Bones. They have also announced June European tour dates, including London & Manchester. Their first album since 2013, Inner Journey Out is the culmination of an odyssey of three years of writing, traversing the psych-rock landscape they’ve carved throughout their career and taking inspired pilgrimages into country, blues, gospel, and jazz. With the album announcement, they’ve shared... Read More
HOLY FEVER STREAM NEW TRACK ‘DURESS’
With their debut album release on the horizon, Holy Fever have unveiled another new track from the record in the form of ‘Duress’. Vocalist Todd Cooper explains the feeling behind the track – “The sense of urgency and aggression in “Duress” mimics the headspace we were in at the time we wrote it. We were toward the end of writing the record and simultaneously exhausted and filled with adrenaline as we started to see the finish line. Sam had this idea that the chorus... Read More
APRIL 2016
FREE GIG GUIDE ANDROID APP HERE We have trawled through the forthcoming gigs in and around Manchester so you don’t have to. We believe that if we are going to recommend a gig to you, then it should be exactly that, a recommendation. Our gig guide is handpicked and every act has been listened to before making it onto the list. It has been compiled by the ears of our editors and not by any promoters, band’s management or PR’s. If we’ve missed anything please feel free... Read More
LIVE: SUBMOTION ORCHESTRA – 24/03/2016
Submotion Orchestra – Colour Theory – GORILLA, MANCHESTER – Pinning Submotion Orchestra down to one sound is near impossible. The Leeds seven-piece cross over the worlds of dub, jazz, ambient, soul, and I’m sure many more, with ease somehow avoiding the perils of over-complication. They were originally pioneers of the dubstep sound, forming only to play a huge live dubstep gig after receiving funding from the Arts Council. And from that short-lived era they... Read More
LIVE: JEFF WOOTTON – 23/03/2016
Jeff Wootton – NIGHT & DAY CAFÉ, MANCHESTER – Tonight at Night and Day Café is introduced to us by Nev Cottee, he is calming and soothing with notes that are reminiscent of being at the beach, relaxing with the lapping of the ocean. Though between his deep voice and his music, it seems apt to query a juxtaposition that feels quite intriguing, drawing you in and keeping your attention focused throughout. With that in mind the addition of accompanying band members... Read More
The Silent Radio Show 26/03/2016
Easter Treat: Another show jam packed with acts selected from our hand-picked gig guide and also those hitting the Silent Radio headlines. Plus, as it was Easter we closed the show with some Easter based songs. There was also a bit of a Silent Radio studio stag do for SR’s Simon which was sneakily prepared by Vic. This is our weekly audible version of the North’s best independent music website, SilentRadio.co.uk. The Silent Radio Show – live every Saturday afternoon... Read More
FIELD MUSIC UNVEIL ‘DISAPPOINTED’ VIDEO
Field Music have unveiled a brand new video for “Disappointed,” their latest single and a mainstay of BBC Radio 6 Music’s A List in recent weeks. It was partly inspired the bullet time technique used in Ryoichiro Debuchi’s early 1980s films. “We filmed these bullet time sequences on a freezing January day in the sports hall of the Sans Street Youth and Community Centre (thanks to them!), which is in the East End of Sunderland,” says director... Read More
CATE LE BON UNVEILS VIDEO FOR ‘WONDERFUL’
With her much-anticipated fourth album Crab Day due for release 15th April on Turnstile, Cate Le Bon has unveiled a video to new single ‘Wonderful‘. Directed by regular collaborator Casey Raymond and shot in Berlin, the video features our heroine performing an idiosyncratic freeform dance-cum-exercise routine. Of the video Cate says: “Wonderful is an awkward love song accompanied by an equally awkward video. I threw up my lunch.”Cate le Bon Official | Facebook | Twitter Read More
SAM BEAM AND JESCA HOOP ANNOUNCE UK TOUR
Sam Beam (of Iron & Wine) and Jesca Hoop have announced details of their first ever UK and Ireland tour. The duo, who release their debut album Love Letter for Fire via Sub Pop on the 15th April, will play UK shows at the end of the summer, following on from their US tour starting in May. The full list of shows… Monday 29th August – Bangor, Marine Court Tuesday 30th August – Dublin, Olympia Theatre Wednesday 31st August – Manchester, The Royal Northern College... Read More