BLOSSOMS ADD SECOND MANCHESTER DATE ON UK TOUR
Blossoms have added another Manchester date to their UK after their previously announced show sold out. The Stockport five-piece will now play a gig at Club Academy on Friday, May 29, the day after they have played their sell out show at Gorilla. The psych-pop group are currently on the road around the UK, having played Newcastle last night and readying themselves for a gig in York tomorrow. Their second single, Cut Me and I’ll Bleed, was released yesterday on Skeleton Key... Read More
CROCODILES SHARE NEW SINGLE AND ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM
Crocodiles have shared their new single Crybaby Demon, which is released today. The track is taken from the California band’s forthcoming fifth album Boys, which is set to be released on Zoo Music on May 11.The other side of the 7″ single features a cover of Hot Chocolate’s disco classic, U Sexy Thing. The band say the new album has been influenced by their time recording in Mexico City with producer Martin Thulin, creating a mix of salsa-punk. The band are... Read More
LIVE: JOHN SMITH 27/02/2015
John Smith photo by Francesca Nottola – ST. PHILIP’S CHURCH, SALFORD – St. Philip’s church in Salford, through vicar Andy Salmon, has been the location of various performances in the past few years. A 2011 M.E.N. interview with the vicar reveals that the programming has also included, interestingly, a regular ‘Goth, Metal, 80s and Punk club night’. Despite the conventional religious setting, the organisation behind these shows subverts any idea of church-related... Read More
DEMOB HAPPY SHARE NEW SINGLE AHEAD OF UK TOUR
Demob Happy have shared their latest single ahead of a UK tour which starts later this month. The Brighton based four piece will release Young & Numb on their own label, Milk Parlour Records, later this year.The latest single follows last year’s debut single Succubus, and the band will hit the road for a UK tour starting on March 29 in Bristol. Explaining the meaning of Young & Numb, frontman Matt Marcantonio said: “It’s my frustration about the fact that... Read More
SOAK PREMIERES NEW SINGLE TAKEN FROM DEBUT ALBUM
SOAK has shared a new video for Sea Creatures, a track taken from her forthcoming debut album. SOAK, which is the alias of 16-year-old singer songwriter Bridie Monds-Watson, will release her debut Before We Forgot How To Dream, on June 1, with Sea Creatures preceding it on March 16 through Rough Trade. The video featuring the hotly tipped teenager was filmed in the early hours of the morning at the Olympic Park in London.Bridie, from Derry in Northern Ireland, has been performing... Read More
29/03/2014 with Bad Grammar & the makers of Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story)
Guests on the show were Bad Grammar and Steve Sullivan & Dave Arnold (Director & Artistic Director of Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story) TRACK LISTING Francios & The Atlas Mountains – La Vérité / Temple Songs – Passed Caring / Cloud Boat – Carmine / Bad Grammar – Temper Temper / Bad Grammar – Stay Toned / Slaves – Where’s Your Car Debbie / Rhodes – Your Soul / La Luz – Call Me in the Day... Read More
LIVE: BAND OF SKULLS – 25/03/2014
– THE RITZ, MANCHESTER – In advance of new album Himalayan‘s release on 31st March, Band Of Skulls are the headline act tonight at the Ritz. As I arrive, support act Coves are already on stage playing their cover of Chris Isaak’s ‘Wicked Game’. The crowd seem quite underwhelmed by the few songs I witness and the set ends earlier than I was expecting. Around 45 minutes later Band Of Skulls take to the stage and open their set with ‘Asleep... Read More
GIG GUIDE – APRIL 2014
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. There are many other sites out here on the internet that have a gig guide, but how many of them can say they have actually listened to every single band/act they have listed? Well to be honest we don’t know the answer to that, but we’d guess not many, if any at all. Anyway,... Read More
LIVE: FRANZ FERDINAND: 22/03/2014
– ACADEMY 1, MANCHESTER – Franz Ferdinand released their self titled first album in 2004. That’s the same year as Rammstein’s Amerika and Snoop Dogg’s Drop It Like It’s Hot. Feeling old yet? Ten years later they’re headlining Manchester Academy, supported by the Eagulls, soaring into their new single ‘Bullet,’ a raucous sing-along performed with a higher dose of energy than a bucket full of Red Bull. Styled in black and white coordinated shirts,... Read More
NEWS: CHERRY GHOST – THIRD ALBUM ‘HERD RUNNERS’ + HEAR NEW TRACK ‘THE WORLD COULD TURN’
Cherry Ghost For the last couple of years Simon Aldred has been in a state of wilful musical schizophrenia. Since 2007, Bolton-born Aldred has – to all intents – been Cherry Ghost, a band known for perfecting a kind of widescreen North Western country soul. Yet the third Cherry Ghost album Herd Runners arrives after an extensive period in which Aldred’s own music has been pulled in multiple different directions. Firstly, as a songwriter-for-hire, Aldred has helped... Read More
