Blanketman

BLANKETMAN’S DEBUT EP ‘NATIONAL TRUST’ TO BE RELEASED MARCH 19TH

Manchester based Blanketman have announced their debut EP ‘National Trust’ will be released on March 19th via [PIAS] Recordings. The EP has been produced by Luke Smith, whose previous credits include working with Foals and LIFE. The latest single from the upcoming release is ‘Leave The South’, speaking about that songthe band said: “The song […]
-YES (THE BASEMENT), MANCHESTER- Locomotion across these fair Isles carries risks varied in quantity; the expense of purse, untimely demise (Ringo Starr’s narration would be of little use here), disorientation (route discernment failure typically), contributing to the coffers of the faceless conglomerates, and in the case of this narrative impeding one’s travel with the unfortunate […]

LIVE: MOLD / STARLIGHT MAGIC HOUR / BLANKETMAN – 13/12/2019

LIVE: TINFOILS / CHUPA CABRA / PAGANS S.O.H. / BLANKETMAN – 07/03/2019

-THE PEER HAT, MANCHESTER- Blanketman Entering the all too familiar Peer Hat basement, I learn this evening has something memorable and exclusive for all spectators present; acting on instinct, I forsake my typical rule of live reviews (to the detriment of my cellular battery). Taking the front compartment in this limited edition anthology packaging, Blanketman […]
-SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER- Chew Magna The first to grace the Soup Kitchen ‘stage’ consists of a band whose central methodology involves making their guitarists clash against one another’s grain, stout basslines whose texture can’t quite pierce the evident sound mixing issues and drums (loose cymbals sink beats) that serve their purpose, perhaps content in their […]

LIVE: MOTHERS / BLANKETMAN / CHEW MAGNA – 22/02/2019

LIVE: PURPLE HEART PARADE / BLANKETMAN – 08/12/2018

-NIGHT PEOPLE, MANCHESTER- More often than not, when a band attempts to surgically graft differing influences together, the difficulty in pulling it off can present a scenario of grave inconsistency. Typically, the final product emerges as a badly rearranged skeletal entity, the kind of which would be best left in some remote, poorly lit cave […]