LIVE: PORTICO QUARTET – 27/10/2013
– GORILLA, MANCHESTER – In almost darkness at Gorilla is a stage covered in instruments and leads. You can’t see the floor through drum kits, synths, saxophones, keyboards, guitars, a double bass and a hang (swiss steel drum). And it is a quartet we’re here to see – Portico Quartet – not a 12 piece band. I’ve been describing them as electro-jazz but this doesn’t nearly cover it. They produce no sound I have ever heard before and will not describe... Read More
NEWS: THE AMAZING SNAKEHEADS – ANNOUNCE NME RADAR TOUR
Domino’s recent signings, The Amazing Snakeheads will be joining Cerebral Ballzy on the road across the UK this November as part of the NME Radar tour. The thirteen day tour will see them performing all over the UK.NME Radar Tour Dates 15th Nov – Cambridge Portland Arms 16th Nov – Coventry Kasbah 17th Nov – Liverpool East Village Arts Club 18th Nov – Sheffield Leadmill 19th Nov – Edinburgh Electric Circus 20th Nov – Manchester Deaf Institute 21st Nov – London... Read More
NEWS: AUTOBAHN – SELF-TITLED DEBUT EP + LISTEN TO ‘SEIZURE’
Leeds-based five-piece Autobahn announce themselves to the world with their unapologetically sinister and aggressive self-titled debut EP. Set for release on Tough Love on 4th November, it’s a record for, and of, the night. Autobahn conjure the dystopian nightmare world of 80s post-punk across three unrelenting tracks. Consider them Leeds’ very own Lost Boys, cloaked in feedback, showing their teeth. Despite forming in February 2013, and playing their first gig just months... Read More
NEWS: BRETON – VIDEO FOR ‘GOT WELL SOON’
Breton have released the video for their brand new track called ‘Got Well Soon’ and its a real pleasure for Silent Radio to preview it here:Lyrically the song is about inclusivity and its flipside. Peer pressure to fit in or go it alone – be in the gang or be rejected. This theme is reflected in the video, a short, disturbing film that was originally made for Breton’s show at the BFI in January this year as part of the British Short Film Festival. The song... Read More
NEWS: EAGULLS – COVER KILLING JOKE’S ‘REQUIEM’
Leeds punk rock quintet Eagulls have just released one of the most blistering singles of the year, in the form of ‘Nerve Endings’, and are now unveiling the B-side – a cover of post-punk heroes Killing Joke’s classic ‘Requiem’. Bursting at the seams with barely concealed bile and rage, ‘Requiem’ is a perfect match for Eagulls, and they turn this classic track into something darker and denser and no less resonant, whetting the appetite for... Read More
LIVE: GHOSTPOET – 19/10/2013
– THE DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – There are three types of gigs: those you wish you hadn’t been to; those that are exactly the same as listening to the album in your front room; and those that blast away your expectations. Ghostpoet at Deaf Institute most definitely falls into the latter category. Speaking of categories, Ghostpoet by his own admission refuses to be pigeon-holed. Yes he’s a hip-hop poet, is often described as an MC, and dabbles in grime. Yet his... Read More
NEWS: LOUIS BARABBAS AND THE BEDLAM SIX – LISTEN TO ‘WAITING FOR BAD NEWS’
Former mime-artist and street sweeper Louis Barabbas, frontman of the Bedlam Six, has played the villain for too long. And now he’s filled with regret. Or is it just his character? And yet Waiting For Bad News is a pause – a tender moment for reflection. And it’s the band’s best song yet: a pure emotional growl of love, longing and hope. While Waiting For Bad News is a musical progression for Louis Barabbas and the Bedlam Six, it’s an encouraging step for the “Louis... Read More
NOVEMBER 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
NEWS: PINS – NEW VIDEO FOR ‘GIRLS LIKE US’
PINS have unveiled a video for the title track of their hotly anticipated debut album Girls Like Us. Directed by Sing J. Lee, a filmmaker much in demand since his work on the Manchester four-piece’s early videos the video for ‘Girls Like Us’ perfectly captures the band’s girl gang mentality. To say there’s excitement for Girls Like Us would be an understatement. Even before the rousing reception to their oscillating, reverb-drenched EP LuvU4Lyf on Bella... Read More
LIVE: THE GROWLERS – 26/10/2013
– THE DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – On a dark October evening as Manchester slides into winter, who wouldn’t want to take one last chance to reflect in a Californian sunbeam before it’s too late? There’s a storm warning on the radio, the clocks turn back tonight, and yet all that fills the Deaf Institute air is talk of Orange County beaches and champagne, thanks to garage-surf-psych slackers The Growlers. Tourmates and fellow So-Cal freewheelers Tomorrow’s... Read More
