INTERVIEW – THE K’S

“People have been waiting for it for so long… it’s hopefully gonna explode.” There’s an animated anticipation to Ryan Breslin, lead guitarist and founding member of The K’s, as he sketches his hopes for the band’s upcoming debut album and accompanying UK tour. Frenzied fans, frenetic festival sets and a fateful night out – Breslin […]
There is something inspirational about the room with a view. Numerous songs over the years have been written with the writer looking wistfully through a window.  It helps if that view is one of the most beautiful in the world. If it has associations with fondly remembered family members that’s all the better. It is […]

INTERVIEW – COLIN MCINTYRE (MULL HISTORICAL SOCIETY) DISCUSSES HIS ALBUM COLLABORATING WITH AUTHORS INCLUDING NICK HORNBY, IAN RANKIN & JACQUELINE WILSON

INTERVIEW: KRAMER – SHIMMY-DISC MAESTRO ON DANIEL JOHNSTON & THE JOY OF PRODUCTION & COLLABORATION

Mr. Mark Kramer – known simply as Kramer – is a New York producer, musician and artist. He has worked with many groups and voices in alternative genres such as Galaxie 500, Daniel Johnston, Butthole Surfers and Jad Fair. Kramer has also worked with the world-famous magicians Penn & Teller would you believe. With such […]
Wreckless Eric has been one of the UK’s best songwriters for over forty years, with his wry, witty observations on everyday life, matched with a melodic charm, which has seen him storming the charts in the late 70s, and releasing nineteen albums over the last few decades. His latest release, the brilliantly nostalgic ‘Leisureland’ sees […]

INTERVIEW: WRECKLESS ERIC – LEGENDARY SONGWRITER RETURNS TO MANCHESTER PLAYING GULLIVERS 2ND NOVEMBER 2023

INTERVIEW: AUTOGRAMM – MEET THE NEW WAVE, POWER POP BAND INSPIRED BY PUNK AS WELL AS 80’S SYNTH SOUNDS. FEATURING MEMBERS OF DESTROYER, AND BLACK MOUNTAIN

Scattered across Vancouver, Seattle, and Chicago, Autogramm are purveyors of a new wave electronica sound which manages to meld the best bits of 80s power pop with a harder punked up edge. They may have drawn inspiration from the likes of Gary Numan, The Cars, Bowie and Prince yet Autogramm’s third album ‘Music That Humans […]
Manchester’s Jim Noir and Leonore Wheatley have joined forces as Co-Pilot, creating a debut album bursting with intriguing electronica. It manages to combine synth riffs with disco, funk and pop for an album which is mesmersingly enjoyable. From their studio in ‘the least gentrified area of Manchester’ they tell us about their love of disco, […]

INTERVIEW: CO-PILOT (JIM NOIR AND LEONORE WHEATLEY)

FEATURE: WHO ARE YA? – MANCHESTER’S INDIE ALT-POP QUARTET – SOUTH BY ZERO – FACE THE SILENT RADIO SPOTLIGHT

Taking their cues from the likes of Sam Fender and Fleetwood Mac amongst others, indie-pop four piece South By Zero have been steadily gaining a following in Manchester and beyond, thanks to a stunning debut EP and recently released single ‘Open Arms’. The band play The Deaf Institute Lodge on 7th October 2023. Who are […]
Ahead of a stellar Deaf Institute show on 28 July, Silent Radio caught up with one of the most talked about bands of 2023, London’s The Last Dinner Party. The five-piece are exceptionally unusual in that they have built their fledgling reputation based largely on their live reputation. Halfway through their second year of hype, […]

INTERVIEW: THE LAST DINNER PARTY

FEATURE: JIM – LUSH HARMONIES, FOLK, AND SUBTLE ELECTRONICA COMBINE FOR NEW ALBUM ‘LOVE MAKES MAGIC’ FROM JIM BARON, MEMBER OF MANCHESTER’S CRAZY P

Manchester’s dance innovators Crazy P, have been shaking dancefloors all across the globe for two decades, so it’s some surprise to find out that Crazy P’s Jim Baron has released an album of delicate acoustic guitar tunes, ‘Love Makes Magic’, recalling Crosby, Still, Nash and Young, and fusing a hazy summer folk sound with subtle […]
“Whenever people ask where are you from? I say Manchester”, says Brian ‘BC Camplight’ Christinzio, as we sit in a bar in Chorlton in the late afternoon sunshine discussing his love of his adopted hometown, and the upheavals which have led to his astounding new album ‘The Last Rotation Of Earth’. It’s been a long […]

INTERVIEW: BC CAMPLIGHT – WE CHAT ABOUT THE STUNNING NEW ALBUM ‘LAST ROTATION OF EARTH’, AND HOW HIS MUSIC SPRINGS FROM SO MUCH MORE THAN THE PREDICTABLE TRIUMPH OVER ADVERSITY TAG.