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

ALBUM: TY SEGALL AND WHITE FENCE – JOY

By the time you read this review, Ty Segall will have probably released two more albums, three EPs and four collaborations with others, such is his prolific output. His last collaboration with White Fence, aka Tim Presley, ‘Hair’ released in 2012 was one of his best , those heavy guitar riffs met with lighter acoustic […]
-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 […]

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

LIVE: STONEFIELD – 12/07/2018

-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 […]
-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 […]

LIVE: THE BREEDERS – 13/07/2018

ALBUM: BODEGA – ENDLESS SCROLL

They’re from Brooklyn, named after the term for a corner shop in NY, and play a frenetic stream of consciousness style racket – it’s easy to see why Parquet Courts’ guitarist, Austin Brown, has produced them, as they’re musically not a million miles away from his own band’s jagged guitar riffs and dry vocal style– […]
Bluedot Festival: Official | Facebook | Twitter “Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us.” The words of the great cosmologist Carl Sagan, the spiritual godfather of Bluedot Festival, the annual celebration of music, science, arts, culture and exploration that this month returns for its third instalment. For the first time the […]

BLUEDOT FESTIVAL RETURNS FOR ITS THIRD YEAR, TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE

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

-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 […]
-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 […]

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