-THE BRIDGEWATER HALL, MANCHESTER- The sirens blare. A voice comes through the speakers. This is one way to start a show. Now just for the lights to go out and they walk on stage. Or not… The sirens keep going while occasionally being interrupted by the concerning “This is an emergency, please evacuate the building.” […]
RELAXER follows the Mercury Prize winning debut, An Awesome Wave and 2014’s #1 album This is All Yours. 2017 brings the notoriously tricky third album. Not that it has much to live up to… In my own experience, alt-J are incredibly good at dividing opinion. People either love or hate their quirky, awkward sound. I’ve […]
alt-J have recently released the video for ‘In Cold Blood’. It is the second track to be taken from their forthcoming third album, Relaxer, due for release by Infectious Music on Friday 2nd June 2017. The video was shot in Hareskoven Forest near Copenhagen by the Danish film maker and photographer Casper Balslev and features […]
alt-J – one of the most successful British bands of the millennium – have just released their new single ‘In Cold Blood’, available to stream, download and as an instant grat now via Infectious Music. “We started writing ‘In Cold Blood’ in our Leeds days and finished it last year in London,” say the band. […]
Following an inaugural event last summer packed with incredible performances from across the musical spectrum, spectacular scientific happenings and a mind-expanding programme of arts and culture, bluedot with Ovo Energy have revealed the first wave of its musical line-up including all three headliners; Orbital, Pixies, and ALT-J. Taking place 7th, 8th, and 9th July 2017 […]
Thom Sonny Green‘s debut solo project, High Anxiety, was released on Friday via his own label Sudden Records (in conjunction with Infectious) in the UK and Canvasback in the US. The album is a far cry from his work as alt-J‘s drummer, experimenting with the more cerebral side of electronic production in the vein of Clams Casino, Arca, […]
– MANCHESTER CENTRAL, MANCHESTER – Alt-J & Manchester Central – a duo that is definitely up there on the matches made in heaven list, alongside peanut butter & banana or Courtney Love & Kurt Cobain. Festival speakers hang from each side of the stage and an impressive catenary curved roof spans over the wave of […]
The fourth A Carefully Planned Festival, which includes more than 120 bands playing seven venues, will hit the Northern Quarter this Saturday and Sunday. The eclectic festival, which has previously attracted the likes of Alt-J, Everything Everything and Peace, will be held in The Castle, Cord, Gullivers, Kraak, Mint Lounge, Soup Kitchen, and the Whiskey Jar. This […]
‘Every Other Freckle’ follows the album’s first single ‘Hunger Of The Pine’, which topped the Spotify Viral Chart and Hypemachine Artist Chart for a full week upon its release. An album track ‘Left Hand Free’ was also made available last month to download/stream as an instant grat to those who pre-ordered the new album. The band’s highly […]
alt-J will release their second album ‘This Is All Yours’ in September which is coincided by a full UK tour including two dates at Manchester O2 Apollo. ‘This Is All Yours’ is the highly anticipated follow-up to their million-selling Mercury Prize-winning debut record, An Awesome Wave. It’s available to pre-order in the UK immediately; the […]
GIG GUIDE
Between September 2011 and March 2020 we provided a handpicked gig guide every month without fail. It's painful for us that there are currently no gigs to recommend. We hope gigs will return soon to bring you new recommendations, but if you want to reminisce you can still see nine years worth of old gig guides.
