LIVE: THE HOTELIER – 23/01/2017

– GORILLA, MANCHESTER – I’m pretty overjoyed that The Hotelier is my first gig of 2017, even on a Monday night (seriously, Monday night gigs should be banned…). The start of 2017 has been tainted by the swearing in of that monster in America, and even the heart swelling scenes of the millions joining in […]
– GORILLA, MANCHESTER – Before us is an outfit of matching suits, and in the air a requisite bass riff with some dandy horns. The back wall of Gorilla is newly decked out, so says my plus one. It’s a nearly all-white family providing the instrumentals – The Expressions – with a DJ occasionally poking […]

LIVE: LEE FIELDS & THE EXPRESSIONS – 13/01/2017

THE LEMON TWIGS ANNOUNCE 2017 TOUR DATES

Having just finished their first European tour, The Lemon Twigs of Long Island are set to return to the continent in the Spring for another round of live dates. The brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario will be joined onstage by live band members Megan Zeankowski (bass) and Danny Ayala (keyboards). Tickets for all shows (excluding London) go on sale […]
– GULLIVERS, MANCHESTER – The last time I saw Jordan Lee, aka Mutual Benefit, was a couple of years back at the Deaf Institute, where he was coming off the back of his much lauded and much loved debut Love’s Crushing Diamond, and it was wonderful. Lee was timid and shy, but his gloriously understated […]

LIVE: MUTUAL BENEFIT – 22/11/2016

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