LIVE: LORELLE MEETS THE OBSOLETE – 29/09/2016
Lorelle Meets The Obsolete – NIGHT & DAY CAFE, MANCHESTER – It’s been some two and a half years since Manchester last had the pleasure of the company of Lorelle Meets the Obsolete, a Mexican psych shoegaze outfit, so their return with a new album and a mammoth string of live dates is most welcome. In the heart of Manchester’s Northern Quarter at Night & Day Café, we have a three band bill. Opening tonight are Demur, a Manchester trio originally known... Read More
LIVE: MODERAT – 28/09/2016
Moderat – THE ALBERT HALL, MANCHESTER – One thing is guaranteed when you go and see Moderat: they will bring it. Regardless of the setting, be it a festival, a club or a gig like tonight, they will not fuck about; they will put on a show and bring a sweaty, German techno basement to whatever environment they find themselves in. For the uninitiated, Moderat is made up of Apparat (his mum calls him Sascha Ring) and German techno titans Modeselektor (Genot Bronsert and... Read More
BLAK HAND RECORDS SHARE NEW TRACK + CASSETTE
Hide and Psych artwork by Victoria Sieczka Blak Hand Records are participating in their third Cassette Store Day with a brand new sizzlin’ release called Hide and Psych. Limited to 50 fire engine red tapes and featuring 13 tracks, the album gives some of the brightest and newest Blak Hand bands a chance to shine with their own hand picked covers of Sheryl Crow and 50 Cent to The Black Angels and The Castaways,. Hide and Psych introduces BHR fans from far and wide to brand spankin’... Read More
LIVE: LIVERPOOL PSYCH FEST (2nd opinion) – 23+24/09/2016
Artwork by Alex Wynne. All photo’s by Peter Rea – CAMP AND FURNACE, LIVERPOOL – Headliners Super Furry Animals and The Horrors merely scratch the surface of the psychedelic universe; there’s a wide range of sub-genre’s that cross-breed and intermingle, spawning a hugely diverse array of artists and musicians that unite under a common crusade, for escapism. From minimal electro, shoegaze, kitsch pop and the spiritual; to doom goth, Krautrock, punk rock and... Read More
SHE DREW THE GUN SET FOR UK TOUR SHOWDOWN
She Drew The Gun Following the release of She Drew The Gun’s debut LP Memories Of The Future, the band hit the road for their first UK headline tour. Spearheaded by politicised and provocative new single ‘Pit Pony’ – watch the video below. “The idea for the song first came about when I read about pit ponies that used to work in mines for their whole lives, in the dark, just working away without seeing the daylight. I just thought it was a good metaphor for how the... Read More
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
