LIVE: WILD CUB – 14/09/2014
Wild Cub – THE DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – Nashville’s Wild Cub come to the Deaf Institute this evening for one of only two gigs in the UK this month. Support for the show comes from VYKTORIA. The four members of VYKTORIA swagger out onto stage and get stuck straight in to their opening song. Their sound, laden with synth, conjures up thoughts of the late 1980s. If VYKTORIA had been around 25 years ago I’m sure their sound would have slotted nicely into... Read More
PINS: HEAR TITLE TRACK ‘COME BACK’ FROM LTD EDITION CASSETTE EP
Manchester all-female four-piece PINS first released material via cassette back in 2012 and will return, following on from their accredited 2013 debut album release ‘Girls Like Us’, with a limited edition cassette EP released through Bella Union, for Cassette Day on 27th September. Featuring three covers of 1960’s Girls in the Garage bands, PINS take each track and make it their own adding their unique dark pop, post punk, fuzzed up garage sound and alluringly abrasive chant-like... Read More
LIVE: DAN MICHAELSON & THE COASTGUARDS – 11/09/2014
Dan Michaelson – THE CASTLE HOTEL, MANCHESTER – Dan Michaelson has always struck me as endearingly old fashioned, in that he concerns himself with the craft of writing songs, and the subtlety of his songs on record demonstrate a becalmed, bleached and sparse beauty, where space and brevity become sumptuous and rich. In the live setting the nuances are magnified, and I realise the quality of the songs more, as the sparse essentials of each song are left shimmering and... Read More
LIVE: CATE LE BON – 12/09/2014
– GORILLA, MANCHESTER – I last saw Cate Le Bon in support of St. Vincent at The Deaf Institute almost 3 years ago. Since that superb set, where she stood on stage with just a small pink practice amp and a guitar for company, she has released her finest album to date – ‘Mug Museum’, and has also gathered a fine band to boot. It’s a very Welsh affair. Cate’s guitarist/keys player H.Hawkline steps up under the bright lights to showcases his... Read More
13/09/2014 with Karima Francis Playing Live
Guest on the show was Karima Francis, who played live for our very first Silent Session. Our radio show goes out live every Saturday 3-5 on Fab Radio International. TRACK LISTING DZ Deathrays – Black Rat / Mothertongue – Nautilis / SOHN – Fool / Luke Sital-Singh – Nothing Stays The Same / Karima Francis – Remember Me (live in the studio) / Karima Francis – Waves (live in the studio) / White Manna – Mirror Sky / Wild Cub... Read More
LIVE: GRUFF RHYS – 10/09/2014
Gruff Rhys – RNCM, MANCHESTER – American Interior is the name of the new album by former Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys. It is also the name of his new book, his new film and his new app – he has, in essence, made a multimedia art project. It details his quest to track down his ancestor John Evans, who in the 18th Century set out to America in search of a fabled, semi-mythic Welsh Prince known as Madog, who according to the legend established a Welsh... Read More
LIVE: GET CAPE, WEAR CAPE, FLY – 28/08/2014
Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly – THE NIGHT & DAY CAFÉ, MANCHESTER – I’m not even at Night & Day, and yet I somehow seem to have implicated myself in a drink with the cast of the kids’ TV show The 4 O’ Clock Club. The reasons are too convoluted to go into, but it gets even more twisted from there because I was once – and completely coincidentally – an extra on the show, playing an angry dad. And that’s even weirder because that is essentially... Read More
LIVE: THE GHOST OF A SABER TOOTH TIGER (GOASTT) – 08/09/2014
Photo’s: Peter Rea – THE RUBY LOUNGE, MANCHESTER – I guess being the son of one of the most iconic musicians of the 20th century and an internationally renowned avant-garde artist, brings with it a lot of expectation concerning your creative talents. Sean Lennon, whose godfather is Elton John – who appeared in Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker – who co-wrote a song with Lenny Kravitz that appeared on the album ‘Mama Said’ when he was... Read More
06/09/2014 with Blood Sport
Guest on the show was Alex Keegan of Blood Sport. Our radio show goes out live every Saturday 3-5 on Fab Radio International. TRACK LISTING The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger – Too Deep / Fat White Family – I Am Mark E Smith / Steven James Adams – Tears Of Happiness / Louis Barabbas And The Bedlam Six – I Want To Know More / Cate Le Bon – Duke / Elevant – Damage / Playlounge – Daisy Chain / Gruff Rhys – American Interior... Read More
LIVE: MARISSA NADLER – 03/09/2014
Marissa Nadler – SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER – I have to confess, there was a period where I fell out of love with Marissa Nadler. I was pretty obsessed with her 2009 album Little Hells which, in my eyes, is about as perfect as a singer songwriter album can possibly be. Then she released a couple of so-so albums over the next few years that lost my interest, not that they were necessarily bad albums, they just weren’t Little Hells, so I couldn’t get on with them... Read More
