GRAHAM MASSEY & UMUT ÇAĞLAR ANNOUNCED AS SAMARBETA MUSIC RESIDENCY ARTISTS WITH FINAL NIGHT PERFORMANCE AT ISLINGTON MILL IN SEPTEMBER
Graham Massey & Umut Çağlar Samarbeta Music Residency have announced that Graham Massey & Umut Çağlar will the latest artists to take up residency at Islington Mill event space between Tuesday 22nd August – Friday 1st September 2017. During their 10 day residency in the Islington Mill event space, Graham Massey & Umut Çağlar will work together for only the second time ever. This follows their brief one day collaboration back in 2015 again at Islington... Read More
BLAK HAND RECORDS RELEASE PSYCHO COMEDY’S NEW DOUBLE A-SIDE SINGLE ‘THE HANGMAN / MICHIGAN STATE’
The Hangman by Psycho Comedy Liverpool-based five-piece Psycho Comedy who have recently released ‘The Hangman / Michigan State’ on Deltasonic are set to complement its digital release, with a limited edition, white cassette, limited to just 40 copies, released in collaboration with Blak Hand Records. ‘The Hangman’ grows from a rattling guitar and bass two-hander, handclaps punctuating the path towards the first of the song’s long corridors and dark rooms,... Read More
LIVE: FALSE ADVERTISING / PEAKS / GRACES / HAPPY ANIMAL – 04/08/2017
False Advertising -CASTLE HOTEL, MANCHESTER- No excuse is needed for Manchester’s best band to put on a show at a top venue like the Castle Hotel on a Friday night in early August. Friday nights that don’t have False Advertising gigs can only be described as a waste anyway. But on this occasion, there happens to be an extremely good reason. Mandy Cooper is a friend and fan of the band, and she is attempting to raise £60,000 to pay for life-saving surgery that is not available... Read More
HANNI EL KHATIB RELEASES NEW VIDEO FOR ‘PARALYZED’ & ANNOUNCES UK TOUR
Hanni El Khatib has shared a new video for his album track ‘Paralyzed’, taken from his recent LP Savage Times, which was originally released as 5 EPs. Hanni will also embark on a UK tour throughout this September/October. Speaking about the ‘Paralyzed’ video, Hanni said: “I had a dream or something occurred in my subconscious where I was performing with Michael Jackson. When I woke up in the morning, I kept thinking about how cool it would be to get Michael... Read More
Silent Radio – 5th August 2017 – MCR Live Residents
Your audio gig guide for Manchester. Even though the selection of gigs in the coming week is rather sparse the Silent Radio Show team have a wealth of new music and releases to bring you a mighty fine 2 hour show. Discover your new favourite with the SilentRadio.co.uk radio show – it’s the best place to do it. TRACK LISTING Holy Fuck – Xed Eyes / Everything Everything – Desire / Lambchop – NIV / Atlas Wynd – You’re On... Read More
LIVE: KATE NASH / SKATING POLLY – 04/08/2017
Kate Nash -THE RITZ, MANCHESTER- Ok. I’m just going to put it out there. I want to be best mates with Kate Nash. Seeing her live has only cemented this and I am now convinced we could be total #squadgoals. Heading along to The Ritz for her Made of Bricks 10th anniversary show on Friday night, I didn’t know whether I should expect the quirky, light-hearted, passive aggressive age of her first flourish on the music scene a decade ago, or the 50s honky tonk-inspired, slightly... Read More
ONLY ONE WEEK TO GO UNTIL COTTON CLOUDS FESTIVAL – LAST 200 TICKETS REMAINING
Due to overwhelming demand, less than 200 tickets now remain for the inaugural Cotton Clouds Festival – the all new one day festival, set amidst the vales and hills of the stunning Peak District National Park. Conjured up from the blue-sky thinking of organisers and local lads Max & Rick Lees along with fellow entrepreneur Luke Stanley, the Cotton Clouds trio invite you to join them for a day of idyllic escapism and entertainment. Taking place on Saturday 12th August... Read More
STARCRAWLER PRESENT ‘USED TO KNOW’ & ‘ANTS’ FROM NEW ROUGH TRADE SESSION – WATCH HERE
LA’s new teenage rockers and recent Rough Trade signing Starcrawler recently found time to record a Rough Trade Session. The first two tracks to be revealed from this are ‘Used To Know’ and the band’s debut single ‘Ants’. Of the day, Starcrawler’s frontwoman Arrow remembers: “It was pissing rain. We recorded these sessions, Henri lost his voice, we played a crazy show at this club, then ate at a weird American diner on the boardwalk.” Starcrawler... Read More
ALBUM: THE WAR ON DRUGS – A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING
“We as a band went from worrying about the record to worrying about the person,” speaks The War on Drugs bassist Dave Hartley of Adam Granduciel during the making of ‘Lost In The Dream’, the band’s critic-aligning breakthrough – birthed in the grip of a mountainous, sleep-fearing depression. However, sourcing its strength from obsessive insularity, the claustrophobia of ‘Lost In The Dream’ has finally fallen away leaving only traces – unabashed curiosity... Read More
JEN CLOHER SHARES THE VIDEO FOR NEW SINGLE ‘REGIONAL ECHO’ FROM HER SELF-TITLED LP RELEASED NEXT FRIDAY
With her forthcoming, self-titled LP set to be released next Friday 11th August 2017 on Milk! Records, Australian artist Jen Cloher shares her video for new single ‘Regional Echo’. Speaking of the song Cloher says: “I grew up in Adelaide, a town in South Australia with a population of one million. In summer you could feel the heat blowing in from the desert. There was a remote feeling of not quite being a country town, but not being large enough to be taken seriously as... Read More
