LIVE: THE SCHIZOPHONICS / SKY VALLEY MISTRESS / RIVAL BONES / SHALLOW WATERS – 09/08/2018

-NIGHT PEOPLE, MANCHESTER- This Thursday, something a little raucous is going down at Manchester’s hottest new venue Night People, with an explosive line up compiled by Psymmetry Collective and Fuzz Thursday. Opening are Wigan based stoner rock trio Shallow Waters. The band, whose influences include political movements and social realism, let their lyrics reflect this […]

-JODRELL BANK OBSERVATORY, CHESHIRE- [The final of our three-part Bluedot Festival 2018 review, one for each day.] The press office is a dark-walled structure by an ice cream van. It is inauspicious; you peer into the café when you walk up the path, at the cups, buffet and cheap tables. Within it, however, I splutter […]

LIVE: BLUEDOT FESTIVAL 2018 – SUNDAY

LIVE: BLUEDOT FESTIVAL 2018 – SATURDAY

-JODRELL BANK OBSERVATORY, CHESHIRE- [The second of three parts of our Bluedot Festival 2018 review, one for each day. Come back over the next 24hrs for our coverage of Sunday’s festivities.] The morning is hotter than the fear of parasitic death. Sorry, but that’s the frame of thought I’m in after listening to Mark Taylor. […]

-JODRELL BANK OBSERVATORY, CHESHIRE- [The first of three parts of our Bluedot Festival 2018 review, one for each day. Come back over the next 48hrs for our coverage of Saturday and Sunday’s festivities.] “All things are artificial,” goes the famous saying of Thomas Browne, one of our country’s most acrobatic thinkers, “for nature is the […]

LIVE: BLUEDOT FESTIVAL 2018 – FRIDAY

LIVE: GEORGE CLINTON & PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC – 07/07/2018

-ACADEMY, MANCHESTER- “‘The Holy Mothership’ is a means of transportation that can take you through not only space, but time, and we’re still travelling,” speaks all-star sonic architect and Parliament-Funkadelic founder George Clinton on his alter-ego Dr. Funkenstein’s musical voyager that was used as a primary means of mass-deliverance to a world that was unable […]

-NIGHT AND DAY CAFE, MANCHESTER- Australia is no stranger to producing incredible musical talent as of late. The act of Findlay sisters, Amy, Hannah, Holly and Sarah is no exception. The band is also one of the latest products of the incomparable Melbourne-based label Flightless (home of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard). On their […]

LIVE: STONEFIELD – 12/07/2018

LIVE: THE BREEDERS – 13/07/2018

-THE RITZ, MANCHESTER- There may have been several different Breeders line ups over the years, but for many, the foursome that takes to the stage at a sold out Ritz is the definitive one – the four who recorded the iconic album Last Splash in 1993 and more recently the new album All Nerve. Kicking […]

-SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER- Tonight’s opening act are Afghan Sand Gang, a three piece from Mossley. The band comprises Paddy Neville on guitars and vocals, Matthew Burgess on synth and vocals, and Will Owen on bass. The tunes instantly bounding from the stage are a menagerie of psychedelic guitars; full of shimmering reverb, pulsing synths and […]

LIVE: L.A. WITCH / AFGHAN SAND GANG – 27/06/2018

LIVE: POSITIVE VIBRATION FESTIVAL – 08-09/06/2018

-BALTIC TRIANGLE, LIVERPOOL- This year’s Positive Vibration festival, located in the heart of one of Liverpool’s most vibrant music and arts areas, shows once again just how positively diverse and culturally adaptable the land of Scousers truly is. Featuring DJs and groups specialising in all things reggae – including adventures into dub, 2tone and ska […]

-DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER- It’s unusual for the lingering impression you are left with from a gig by a three-piece in a small music hall to be regarding the light and smoke settings. Entering the Deaf Institute tonight you are hit initially by the smell and then the choking intensity of synthetic smoke which makes it […]