MANCHESTER FOUR-PIECE HOT SHORTS REMINISCE ON ‘SUMMER OF 2012’

Manchester four-piece Hot Shorts want you to cast your minds back to a distant time, a more hopeful time: the London Olympics were in full swing; Frank Ocean had just released Channel Orange; you donated to take down Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony. That’s right, it’s the ‘Summer of 2012’, and Hot Shorts are taking you […]
Manchester’s Sprinters share the video for their brand new track ‘Young As Me’ taken from their newly released self titled debut LP out on vinyl & digital platforms via Icecapades. ‘Young As Me’ serves as the second offering from their debut album in which they give a taste to their rich guitar sounds. The hazy […]

NEW VIDEO FOR ‘YOUNG AS ME’ FROM MANCHESTER’S SPRINTERS

LISTEN TO SPRINTERS NEW SINGLE ‘FIGURE IT OUT HERE WITH SELF-TITLED DEBUT ALBUM OUT MAY

Manchester’s Sprinters share ‘Figure It Out’ taken from their upcoming self titled debut LP due Friday 5th May 2017 on vinyl & digital platforms via Icecapades (Slowcoaches, Sex Hands, Joey Fourr etc.). ‘Figure It Out’ is the first taste from their debut album in which they deliver a golden pop-tinged track that boasts potent, softly […]
The latest offering from Manchester label Icecapades, who also have 7″s from the likes of Slowcoaches and Sex Hands, is by none other than London art punk quartet Vertical Slump (members of DIY cornerstones Shopping, Gloss Rejection, Omi Palone, and Circuit Breaker). Recorded back in Feb by Mark Jasper at Sound Savers, Ruined Value is a […]

EP Review: Vertical Slump – Ruined Value

NEWS: SLOWCOACHES – LISTEN TO ‘THINKERS’ OUT TODAY!

DIY thrashers Slowcoaches return with a new four-track EP, THINKERS, released today 2nd December 2013 via Manchester-based micro label Icecapades (Sex Hands, Irma Vep, Feel Right). The EP follows on from their Tye Die Tapes’ release, We’re So Heavy back in May 2012, which sold out within a week. Along with a fistful of new […]
Bringing together two of Manchester’s most promising and invigorating breakout bands of recent times, the latest offering from our Manchester based micro-label, Icecapades, crams 12 minutes of classic, hook-laden pop precision onto both sides of this 45rpm 7”. Side A is taken up by Sex Hands, three childhood best friends from North Wales, and one […]

NEWS: SEX HANDS / DAILY LIFE – SPLIT 7″ ON ICECAPADES