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Silent Radio – 4th March 17 – MCR Live Residents

A fine selection of the bands and acts hitting Manchester this week and making the Silent Radio headlines, including some reggae classics, blasts from past and the usual fun with Silent Vic, Simon, Adam & Max
This week's special guest is Duncan from Dutch Uncles - we cover such bases as football skills (or lack of), hot air balloons, therapy, blazers and dad prog rock.

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Silent Radio – 25th Feb 17 – MCR Live Residents

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 16 FEBRUARY 2024

Silent Radio surveys this week’s highly desirable new releases. William Doyle   Springs Eternal Art pop which across its 11 tracks hear from narrators teetering on the precipice of global disaster, heartbreak, addiction, indoctrination and mental illness, until they pass into the great unknown. Grandaddy         Blu Wav               The title is meant to be a literal mash-up […]
July begins with a hefty batch of releases. It is an especially busy week for bands with Pigeon in their name, although no sign of a Lieutenant Pigeon reissue. Anohni and the Johnsons My Back Was A Bridge To Cross For You Inspired by Marvin Gaye’s ‘What’s Going On’ tackling global and environmental concerns, the […]

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 7 JULY 2023

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Open AI – Music by Machines

Over the last ten years or so, I’ve written over 100 reviews for Silent Radio (woohoo!), but I feel increasingly out of touch with modern music (and reality) as I listen to a passable Frank Sinatra impersonation with full backing band singing “On Christmas day / a true unholy beast / went down to hell […]
It’s very rare that I start listening to something and immediately fall in love with it but that is exactly what happens when I get hold of Parsnip’s debut album ‘When the Tree Bears Fruit’ and hear the delightful opening track ‘Are You Taking Me For a Ride’. In the nicest possible way, it’s utterly […]

ALBUM REVIEW: PARSNIP – WHEN THE TREE BEARS FRUIT

REVIEW: LOGAN & MANLEY ‘ORPHEUS VIBRATIONS EP’

West Yorkshire is home to many winding valleys, roving hills and pretty market towns; a place where one might find a peaceful life. It has an unspoken force that invites a certain demographic of people, who gravitate to this serene part of the country. One such town, Hebden Bridge, is a testament to this energy. […]
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. Our gig guide is handpicked and every act has been listened to before making it onto the list. It has […]

FEBRUARY 2019

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POZI SHARE DEBUT SINGLE “KCTMO”

“KCTMO” is the debut single by new London post-punk three-piece Pozi, out now on PRAH Recordings.  Its accompanying video is an eerie dawn drive through the deserted streets of Chelsea and Kensington, the lifeless shell of Grenfell Tower occasionally looming forlornly into view above the white mansions. Its significance and symbolism requires no explanation. “May the residents rest […]
-CLUB ACADEMY, MANCHESTER- The lively shuffle dance rousing from the first track, ‘The Vowels Part 2′, sends a static current through the Academy. The energy and verve magnifies and emits from the crowd, hollering each phrase as an echo machine back to the stage. It is crazy that frontman Jonathon Yoni Wolf’s monotone delivery, distinctive […]

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