VIDEO PREMIERE: WATCH MASS DATURA’S ‘FEEL ME HUMAN’

Mass Datura are in town today playing with Black Mountain and have kindly brought a gift for Silent Radio readers, their brand new video to Feel Me Human which can be viewed below. Last month the London 5 piece released their first single ‘Feel Me Human’, as a double-sided 7” including ‘Dream Thief’ on Side B. […]
– GORILLA, MANCHESTER – I’ve seen this band a couple of times before, but this is the first time I’ve seen Preoccupations. I won’t rake over old ground, but this band have been through the mill a little bit of late, having to change their name from Viet Cong when people started complaining, not only […]

LIVE: PREOCCUPATIONS – 06/11/2016

LIVE: WOODEN SHJIPS – 29/10/2016

– GORILLA, MANCHESTER – Marbled acid-fade projection paints the tin-foil armoured synth tower looming monolithic over Manchester’s Gorilla. ‘American Girl’ is playing, and ultra-fuchsia beams cross themselves in waves of vapour – fighting for air with the mixtape that is most-likely titled ‘1977-1992’. This is clearly an environment that’s been groomed by bearded galaxy-eater Ripley […]
With a unique band like The Lovely Eggs it can be hard to pin down exactly what it is that they could possibly enjoy listening to, so with their biggest headline date almost upon them Holly and David have kindly put together 10 tracks of acts they love and why. Tickets for their Manchester show […]

THE LOVELY EGGS: A PLAYLIST OF WHAT THEY LOVE AND WHY

CAR SEAT HEADREST ANNOUNCE LIVE DATES FOR 2017

He may have been slowly gathering steam over the past few years, but 2016 was the year that saw Car Seat Headrest cross over from hotly tipped indie newbie to critically acclaimed breakthrough. With the release of Teens of Denial, his first studio album proper for Matador, Will Toledo found himself winning plaudits left, right […]
– GORILLA, MANCHESTER – It dawned on me in about 2004 that several of my favourite bands and musicians were signed to the same label, Merge Records, so I decided to splash out on the then-recent 3-CD compilation Old Enough To Know Better: 15 Years of Merge Records. As a kid I’d been given a […]

LIVE: M. WARD – 01/09/2016

LIVE: BIG THIEF – 01/09/2016

– GORILLA, MANCHESTER – Whispers about Brooklyn’s Big Thief seem to have echoed across America; Npr music’s Bob Boilen, the man who saw 666 gigs last year, hailed them as a band ‘bound by big songs’ calling their album’ title track ‘Masterpiece’ “one of the best songs of the year”, while Pitchfork said songs on […]
BLOSSOMS WHITE LIES FENECH SOLER // THE PIGEON DETECTIVES // JONES // VAULTS // SHOCK MACHINE + MORE ADDED TO THE BILL Stockport’s finest number one selling band Blossoms along with the critically acclaimed White Lies have been announced as daytime headliners for Manchester’s new multi-venue festival Neighbourhood taking place on Saturday 8th October. This […]

FINAL WAVE OF ACTS ANNOUNCED FOR NEIGHBOURHOOD FESTIVAL

LIVE: PARQUET COURTS – 18/06/2016

– GORILLA, MANCHESTER –  When I first heard Light Up Gold, Parquet Courts’ second album, it’s half spoken half sung vocals and repetitive melodies immediately led me to draw comparisons to The Fall. New track ‘Outside’ has been likened to Pavement by many and a review described their album Human Performance as sounding not dissimilar […]
– GORILLA, MANCHESTER – One of the best Parklife Weekender Afterlife parties has to offer is being held at Gorilla, Manchester. A chic bar-come-gig venue, Gorilla has seen the best in most genres play, from Skream to Circa Waves. As I make my way up the stairs at Gorilla, absolutely shattered from a soaking day […]

PARKLIFE WEEKENDER AFTERLIFE: PREDITAH, P MONEY & BARELY LEGAL – 11/06/2016