NEWS: 2022NQ AT CANAL FESTIVAL – SEP 7TH & 8TH
A free, outdoor mini music festival will take place at Brownsfield Mill on Port Street, in Manchester’s Piccadilly Basin on Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 September. The line-up includes DJ sets from XFM DJs Clint Boon and Gareth Brooks and performances from some of the city’s most talented unsigned bands along with a bar hosted by 2022NQ The music line-up is part of the 2013 Canal Festival organised by the Piccadilly Partnership in conjunction with CityCo, Manchester’s city... Read More
NEWS: LIVERPOOL PSYCH FESTIVAL – IN-STORE PERFORMANCES + CASSETTE MIX TAPE
With the unprecedented level of demand for tickets resulting in the PZYK 0001 7” record selling out, LIVERPOOL INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF PSYCHEDELIA announce the second release from their new imprint label PZYK – a mixtape cassette PZYK 0002 featuring artists from this year’s bill. The cassette will be released on Cassette Store Day on 7th September. In conjunction with the release and also on September 7th Liverpool Psych Fest will be holding three in-store performances... Read More
NEWS: PINS SHARE BRAND NEW SONG ‘LOST LOST LOST’ + TOUR
Manchester four-piece PINS have unveiled a brand new song from their Bella Union-released debut album Girls Like Us. A lithe two and a half minutes, the echoing monotones of ‘Lost Lost Lost’ induce chills like a PJ Harvey mantra. The song perfectly showcases the stark, analogue sound of the album, and the MP3 has been made available as a free download from the Bella Union Soundcloud.To say there’s excitement for Girls Like Us would be an understatement. Even before... Read More
NEWS: PALMA VIOLETS – UK TOUR DATES
Palma Violets complete their amazing year with a massive 14 date headline UK tour. Since the release their debut album 180’ back in February, the London four-piece have toured America, supported the likes of Alabama Shakes, Django Django and Savages, and appeared on Jools Holland and Late Night with Jimmy Kimmel. Plus they received accolades from being nominated for the BBC Sound of 2013 Poll to having lead single ‘Best Of Friends’ named NME’s Track Of The Year in 2012. Their... Read More
NEWS: CHIC’S ‘GOOD TIMES’ PERFORMED BY THE BRYTHONIAID MALE VOICE CHOIR FOR FESTIVAL NO.6
To celebrate this years oncoming performance from Chic ft Nile Rodgers, Festival No.6 have commissioned the Brythoniaid Male Voice Choir to record an incredible, unique version of ‘Good Times’ by Chic. Originally produced for their album ‘Risqué’, ‘Good Times’ reached #1 in the US and #5 in the UK charts and is one of the most sampled songs in the world to date. The 60 members of the Brythoniad Male Voice Choir, formed in 1964 in Blaenau Ffestiniog, squeezed in to... Read More
NEWS: BIG DEAL – UK TOUR + NEW SINGLE ‘SWAPPING SPIT’
Big Deal have filled a busy summer with the release of their acclaimed second album June Gloom. The band continue to conquer 2013 with the announcement of a headline tour in November, which follows the Norwich Sound & Vision festival and dates with Local Natives in October. To coincide with what will be an unmissable showcase of the band’s new revved up and amplified sound, Big Deal release new single ‘Swapping Spit’ on the 4November 2013 through Mute. LIVE DATES 12... Read More
LIVE: WIDOWSPEAK – 27/08/2013
Photo: Peter Rea – NIGHT AND DAY CAFE, MANCHESTER – There’s an American feel about this venue, and so Widowspeak should feel right at home. The support band come from Wigan but sound very Country indeed. The stage is set. It’s dark in here and I’m not wearing my glasses… but I can hear drumming and can’t see the drummer. Turn’s out, one of the trio has been replaced by a small box on the floor. A surprising and somewhat unwelcome... Read More
SEPTEMBER 2013
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: BLONDES – 24/08/2013
– SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER – The bunker beneath one of Manchester’s finest bars, Soup Kitchen, is the perfect place for Blondes and their brand of ecstatic, build, build and then build some more repetitive house (I think it’s mostly house, with about a million genres of dance music that all merge into each other, who can tell?!) It’s also the perfect time for them, unusually for a gig they don’t come on until 1am, but no headlining electronic... Read More
Album Review: Drenge – Drenge
When asked to think of Derbyshire, you may conjure up images of coal mines, the luxurious home of Jane Austen’s swoon-inducing Mr. Darcy and now angsty, two-man blues/rock duos who make The Black Keys sound dangerously close to irrelevant, plodding dad-rock. Indeed, Derbyshire’s latest export, Drenge – formed by the aptly named brothers Eion and Rory Loveless – capture within their eponymous debut album an energy so aggressively physical that upon even the first listen,... Read More
