– SOUND CONTROL, MANCHESTER – Walking from the centre of town Sound Control feels like an expedition tonight. It’s that time of year when pretty much the whole of Manchester feel that getting wrecked on a school night is acceptable ‘cos its Christmas’. I dodge several drunken parties this evening, swigging lager and chanting latter […]
– THE ROADHOUSE, MANCHESTER – Andrew ‘Falco’ Falkous is an angry man. The Future of the Left singer is not only responsible for some of the best straight up rock music this country has produced in the last decade, but also a misanthropic outpouring that could make Charlie Brooker blush. Tonight the welsh band hit […]
– THE RUBY LOUNGE, MANCHESTER – Intense, heavy rock can often be a po-faced affair with little room for humour or playfulness, so what better way to obliterate any lingering post-Christmas blues than a couple of hours in the company of Kong and Future Of The Left, two bands who are fully capable of creating […]
GIG GUIDE
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SINGLE REVIEW - ALKALINE TRIO: OBLIVION
ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 18 JULY 2025
ALBUM REVIEW - BUSH: I BEAT LONELINESS
ALBUM REVIEW - AMY MACDONALD: IS THIS WHAT YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR?
ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 11 JULY 2025
LIVE REVIEW - PRESS CLUB: YES PINK ROOM - 09/07/2025
ALBUM REVIEW - GINA BIRCH: TROUBLE
SINGLE REVIEW - HOTEL MERCY: LUCKY
ALBUM REVIEW - GREET DEATH: DIE IN LOVE
ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 4 JULY 2025
