LIVE: THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS – 10/07/2016

– CASTLEFIELD BOWL, MANCHESTER – Castlefield Bowl is erected temporarily for the summer season. A stage over the waterway, set in the amphitheatre in the shadow of the YMCA leisure centre.  The atmosphere is of a festival that you’ve been at for a couple of days. A much needed buzz and cheer of a warm […]
Joanna Gruesome release their first material since the departure of vocalist Alanna McArdle. Following a chance meeting in an occult bookshop, the band’s new line up features two amazing and inspiring women, Kate Stonestreet (formerly of queer punks Pennycress) on melodic vocals/shouting/screaming and Roxy Brennan (of Two White Cranes and Grubs) on melodic vocals/keyboard, joining […]

JOANNA GRUESOME SHARE NEW TRACK ‘PRETTY FUCKING SICK (OF IT ALL)’

PJ HARVEY ANNOUNCES UK TOUR

PJ Harvey will play 17 headline dates across Europe later this year, including a show in Manchester. Following the April release of her UK #1 album The Hope Six Demolition Project, PJ Harvey returned to the world stage last month for the first time in 4 years, starting a summer of festival shows with an acclaimed headline […]
Alexis Taylor appeared on Low Four – Manchester’s new online live music platform – performing a series of songs at Old Granada Studios. The show was live-streamed last week, but fans can now watch it back on the Low Four website and via YouTube. Notably, the Hot Chip vocalist covered a rare Prince song “Old […]

WATCH ALEXIS TAYLOR COVERING RARE PRINCE SONG

LIVE: LITTLE SCREAM – 01/07/2016

– GULLIVERS, MANCHESTER – It’s quiet tonight. There’s a slight lull. Whether Wales Euro 2016 related (they won). Pay day week related (another four more weeks to go). Weather related (typically British). Or Friday night ‘I’m in the mood to party’ related. Who knows. I know for sure people are missing out. Little Scream really […]
– THE DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – The world certainly seems to be on fire, as Ed Harcourt warns a lurking crowd. He and his band – with silent John J Presley guest starring, are warmly welcomed. There’s a misty atmosphere surrounding this track, ‘The World Is On Fire’, from his brand new album Furnaces, produced by […]

LIVE: ED HARCOURT – 29/06/2016

CIVIL CIVIC ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM ‘THE TEST’

CIVIL CIVIC have announced their second album, THE TEST, will be released on Gross Domestic Product on October 14th. Watch their video for THE HUNT below, where the duo raise questions on the current inequality crisis, the New World Order and capitalism in an historical context. “The poor are angry, the rich are empty and […]
– THE RUBY LOUNGE, MANCHESTER – It’s a suspiciously warm evening on the eve of the so-called ‘Independence Day’. The storm, in every single sense, is dangerously approaching. After a proper warm up courtesy of Proto Idiot and Nine Black Alps, Baby Lemonade comes full of love, with a very special guest star: Love’s original […]

LIVE: LOVE REVISITED – 23/06/2016

LIVE: TY SEGALL & THE MUGGERS – 23/06/2016

– THE RITZ, MANCHESTER – Ty Segall is a name that I’d heard a lot over the years but never investigated until recently. The incredibly prolific multi-instrumentalist released his eighth album in eight years at the start of the year and was the first time I had embraced the genius of this man. Emotional Mugger […]
– THE DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – Car Seat Headrest (let’s do CSH from now on for the sake of my fingers) are what one would call ‘quite prolific’. Starting off as the solo project of Will Toledo (apparently called CSH due to recording the vocals for his first album in the back seat of his […]

LIVE: CAR SEAT HEADREST – 22/06/2016