ROYAL BLOOD UNVEIL NEW VIDEO AND ANNOUNCE NEW TOUR
Royal Blood have announced a new UK tour after their previous dates sold out in minutes. The Brighton two-piece have also unveiled a new video for their next single Ten Tonne Skeleton, which will be released on December 1 and is taken from their self-titled album, which reached number one in the UK. Their gig at the Ritz in Manchester on November 2 sold out within minutes, and the nearest date for Manchester based fans on their new tour will be at Blackpool’s Empress Ballroom,... Read More
MANCHESTER FOUR-PIECE PINS UNVEIL NEW VIDEO
Manchester four-piece PINS have unveiled a new video to accompany their cover of The Belles’ 1966 single Come Back. The girl group originally released the song as part of the Come Back EP for Cassette Day, which also featured two other covers of 1960’s Girls in the Garage band tracks. The surreal video, which was directed by Amy Watson, features the group taping an appearance on a Top of the Pops style TV show. It comes as PINS continue to work on their eagerly anticipated... Read More
PIXIES ANNOUNCE 25TH ANNIVERSARY DOOLITTLE REISSUE
Pixies: Black Francis, Kim Deal, Joey Santiago, David Lovering Pixies will release an expanded version of their classic album Doolittle to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Pixies: Doolittle 25 is a three-disc collection featuring 50 tracks including demos, B-sides and Peel sessions. More than half of the tracks included have not been commercially released before. The album, which was originally recorded in 1989 with producer Gil Norton, features some of the band’s biggest... Read More
LIVE: MARK MORRISS – 12/10/2014
Mark Morriss – THE DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – It was Christmas day of 1996 when I first heard the distinctive vocals of Mark Morriss. I had just received my first CD player and the only CD I had to play on it was Now 35. One of that compilation’s highlights was The Bluetones’s ‘Marblehead Johnson’. Some 18 years later I’m still a fan of both the song and the songwriter. Since the split of The Bluetones in 2011, Mark Morriss has been... Read More
LONDON FOUR-PIECE PALACE ANNOUNCE FREE MANCHESTER SHOW
Alt-blues group Palace will play a free show at Fallow Cafe, in Fallowfield, on Saturday, October 25, to promote the release of their debut EP ‘Lost in the Night’. The band, who recently supported Jamie T, is comprised of Leo Wyndham (vocal, guitar), Rupert Turner (guitar), Will Dorey (bass) and Matt Hodges (drums). Their brand of blues-influenced pop has been compared to Foals, early Kings Of Leon and the blues of Peter Green. The EP, which includes current single ‘Bitter’,... Read More
TWO-DAY FESTIVAL HITS NORTHERN QUARTER THIS WEEKEND
The festival poster The fourth A Carefully Planned Festival, which includes more than 120 bands playing seven venues, will hit the Northern Quarter this Saturday and Sunday. The eclectic festival, which has previously attracted the likes of Alt-J, Everything Everything and Peace, will be held in The Castle, Cord, Gullivers, Kraak, Mint Lounge, Soup Kitchen, and the Whiskey Jar. This year’s line-up includes Post War Glamour Girls, Tellison and Remember Remember, to name... Read More
Album Review: Kindness – Otherness
I had the pleasure of watching Kindness perform at the Berlin Festival last month and was impressed by his mixture of modern day soul and outright smoothness. The combination of decent tunes, a fantastic wardrobe and one of the tightest backup bands going around, made him my favourite musical discovery of the festival. This lasting impression had me wondering whether Kindness could capture that atmosphere on their new record ‘Otherness’ which hits shelves and turntables alike... Read More
LIVE: GRANT-LEE PHILLIPS & HOWE GELB – 10/10/2014
Howe Gelb & Grant-Lee Phillips – THE DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER- Going from gig to gig around Britain with a guitar and a suitcase, a young Paul Simon once sat on a Cheshire railway station platform and wrote a lonely song about missing a home far, far away. Tonight, almost 50 years later, two other great American troubadours are in north-west England, and, like Simon, are travelling light and by train. What differs, though, is that Howe Gelb and Grant-Lee Phillips are... Read More
AUTOBAHN GIVE AWAY FREE DOWNLOAD OF ‘NEW AGE’
To mark their forthcoming tour with Eagulls, and to bridge a gap between their last EP and debut album, AUTOBAHN have recorded their own version of ‘New Age’ by Blitz and made it available as a free download. “We wanted to record something to bridge the gap between our last release on Tough Love Records and the album we are recording in January. This song grabs you by the balls, makes you forget about life’s problems and kicks out against those who don’t care. The... Read More
THE FALL ‘IT’S NOT REPETITION, IT’S DISCIPLINE’
Twisted Reel have announced the Manchester premier screening of a brand new unofficial documentary about Mark E Smith and The Fall. Featuring extensive exclusive interviews with Mark E Smith and John Peel as well as many many more including Thurston Moore, John Cooper Clarke, Henry Rollins, Stephen Malkmus, Grant Showbiz, Dee Dee Ramone. A tribute to The Fall’s unique working methods and relentless refusal to be anything but themselves. This film explores the narrative methods... Read More
