LIVE: BLUEDOT FESTIVAL 2018 – SATURDAY

-JODRELL BANK OBSERVATORY, CHESHIRE- [The second of three parts of our Bluedot Festival 2018 review, one for each day. Come back over the next 24hrs for our coverage of Sunday’s festivities.] The morning is hotter than the fear of parasitic death. Sorry, but that’s the frame of thought I’m in after listening to Mark Taylor. […]
Bluedot Festival: Official | Facebook | Twitter “Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us.” The words of the great cosmologist Carl Sagan, the spiritual godfather of Bluedot Festival, the annual celebration of music, science, arts, culture and exploration that this month returns for its third instalment. For the first time the […]

BLUEDOT FESTIVAL RETURNS FOR ITS THIRD YEAR, TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE

LIVE: HOOKWORMS – 10/03/2018

-THE WHITE HOTEL, SALFORD- Hookworms have made the best album of 2018. It’s a provocative statement, especially at the start of March, but right now I believe it to be true. Great albums often come with a backstory, their own built-in folklore, something that can be easily distilled into a short conversation that the record’s […]
The advent of using synths in Indie Rock is nothing new, its popularity seemed to rise in conjunction with skinny jeans and I often wonder if there’s a correlation between the amount of bands like Everything Everything and Friendly Fires who howl their lyrics and the ‘close crotch’ of tight jeans. With that in mind, […]

ALBUM: HOOKWORMS- MICROSHIFT

HOOKWORMS RETURN TO HEADLINE AND CURATE ‘THE LOST WEEKEND’ IN MARCH 2018 WITH CONTAINER, COWTOWN, AND MORE

Grey Lantern present HOOKWORMS – THE LOST WEEKEND II Hookworms headline both days, with a different supporting line-up each day curated by the band: CONTAINER – HAPPY MEALS DRAHLA – COWTOWN – VIRGINIA WING RICHARD FORMBY – RATTLE The White Hotel, Salford Friday 9th and Saturday 10th March 2018 Doors 7:30pm Tickets £12 (EXCL FEES) […]
Hookworms, are to release Microshift, their third album due on Friday 2nd February 2018. With the announcement of Microshift, the band share new track, ‘Negative Space’. Along with new music, Hookworms will return to the live circuit with dates in both 2017 and in 2018. Microshift tracklisting: Negative Space Static Resistance Ullswater The Soft Season […]

HOOKWORMS ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM ‘MICROSHIFT’ ALONGSIDE UK TOUR DATES PLUS LISTEN TO ‘NEGATIVE SPACE’ NOW

ALBUM HOPES FOR 2017

Recent history tells us that if it’s a year ending in the number seven we’re in for some good music. In 1997 there was Radiohead’s OK Computer, Daft Punk’s debut and Blur’s self-titled album. 2007 only followed suit with releases such as Sound of Silver by LCD Soundsystem, In Rainbows by a returning to form […]
– PAVILION THEATRE, MANCHESTER – Loud doesn’t really cut it. According to Twitter someone in the crowd clocked Hookworms playing at 124.8 decibels tonight, which Google describes as “tinnitus inducing, ringing in the ears, permanent hearing loss”. It’s an absolute fucking blast. Hookworms play as part of the Manchester International Festival at the Pavilion Theatre […]

LIVE: HOOKWORMS/CARLA DAL FORNO – 02/07/2017

MANCHESTER INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL LIVE AT THE PAVILION THEATRE LINE-UP HERE

Manchester International Festival (MIF) is the world’s first festival of original, new work and special events, staged every two years in Manchester, UK. MIF this year takes place from 29th June to 16th July 2017 at venues all over the city. For MIF’s Live at the Pavilion Theatre at Festival Square, Salford’s foremost festival Sounds […]
Menace Beach have made their debut album available ahead of its release on Monday. The Leeds based band are streaming their debut album Ratworld via Hype Machine, before its release on Memphis Industries. The band was formed after the breakup of Derby band Komakino, whose vocalist Ryan Needham now shares vocal duties with Liza Violet […]

MENACE BEACH SHARE DEBUT ALBUM BEFORE RELEASE