LIVE: THE INVISIBLE – 26/09/2016
The Invisible – SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER – The Manchester rain is unrelenting this Monday evening. It’s as if nature has given us an unusually long summer in order to reserve all its rain for the time new students move to the city, giving them a true taste of what they’re in for. In most cities, this would significant impact on attendance at tonight’s The Invisible concert, but a Manchester audience is embittered to these conditions and we turn out in our numbers. Dave... Read More
LIVE: LIVERPOOL PSYCH FEST – 23+24/09/2016
Official Liverpool Psych Fest Photography – CAMP AND FURNACE, LIVERPOOL – It’s 3pm on a schoolday and the walls are cracking, the ground is fracturing, and my brain is thudding against my skull – it must be the fifth edition of the Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia. Over 100 bands are assembling over two days across four stages in the city’s hipster creative enclave The Baltic Triangle, to share in their united love for the heavier, trippier,... Read More
OCTOBER 2016
REE GIG GUIDE ANDROID APP HEREWe 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
PAVO PAVO SHARE VIDEO FOR NEW TRACK ‘RAN RAN RUN’
Pavo Pavo is an experimental pop band from Brooklyn, NY. The band started writing together while studying music at Yale, and since then its members have worked closely with indie and classical heavywights such as Here We Go Magic, John Zorn, Dave Longstreth, Porches, Olga Bell, Lucius, Roomful of Teeth, and San Fermin. Hailed by Stereogum as “weightless pop music that sounds like it was beamed down from a glimmering utopian future” Pavo Pavo is Eliza Bagg on violin, synthesizers,... Read More
NEIGHBOURHOOD FESTIVAL – LIAM FRAY ANNOUNCED AS SPECIAL GUEST
SATURDAY 8TH OCTOBER – MANCHESTER CITY CENTRE VERY SPECIAL GUEST ANNOUNCED LIAM FRAY TICKETS ON SALE NOW www.neighbourhoodfestival.co.uk #NBHD16 Ahead of Manchester’s new multi-venue festival Neighbourhood taking place on Saturday 8th October, very special guest LIAM FRAY of the Courteeners will be joining line up for a unique solo set. Liam’s solo appearance is ahead of the release of Courteeners fifth album, Mapping the Rendezvous, on October 21st and a major UK tour. Over... Read More
KRAFTWERK BACK IN THE UK WITH MANCHESTER DATE
After their worldwide hugely successful 3-D concert tours, the Electro pioneers Kraftwerk return to the UK in June of 2017 for a special eleven-date run of their critically acclaimed live show. Bringing together music and performance art, Kraftwerk 3-D concerts are a true “Gesamtkunstwerk – a total work of art.” Tickets will go on sale Friday 30th September.UK LIVE DATES 2017 Tue 06 Jun 17 Oxford New Theatre – New date Wed 07 Jun 17 Brighton Centre – New date Tickets... Read More
The Silent Radio Show 24/09/2016 with Cowtown
Another instalment of The Silent Radio Show brings yet more great music from the acts playing Manchester this week and some new releases making the Silent Radio website. How could we not have asked the wonderful Leeds trio Cowtown to join us in the studio while they were in town. So we did just that. Even though Hilary, Dave and Nash were almost at the end of an extensive run of tour dates they were still as bright as the proverbial buttons. Over ten years together and still... Read More
EXCLUSIVE STREAM OF THE HORNBLOWER BROTHERS NEW EP
The Hornblower Brothers In March of 2010 Silent Radio editor Simon closed a gig review of The Hornblower Brothers with… “I’m now left counting the days to their next Manchester visit”, suffice to say, those days turned into years, and six and a half of them later, he’s still waiting. So who is this band that he’s been so keen to see back together? The Hornblower Brothers were formed back in 2008 by high school friends Nat and Al. They left their native Halifax, West... Read More
LIVE: GUADALUPE PLATA – 15/09/2016
Guadalupe Plata – THE CASTLE HOTEL, MANCHESTER –I’m surrounded by lots of exceptionally tall men. A mix of the Irish. And a spattering of Spanish. I wonder if the Spanish and Irish have a general population filled with extremely tall people. It’s making it extremely difficult to see, anything. I couldn’t particularly tell you then exactly what the bands look like, but from Northern Irish support, The Bonnevilles, to the Spanish contingent, Guadalupe Plata,... Read More
CUE NEW SINGLE FROM THE WAVE PICTURES
The Wave Pictures – Bamboo Diner in the Rain ‘Pool Hall’ is the new single by Silent Radio favourites (and two times guests on our radio show here & here) The Wave Pictures, taken from their forthcoming album Bamboo Diner in the Rain, due out on Moshi Moshi on 11 November. Following on from last year’s Billy Childish collaboration Great Big Flamingo Burning Moon and their recent acoustic record A Season in Hull, Bamboo Diner in the Rain sees The Wave Pictures... Read More