LIVE: SOUNDS FROM THE OTHER CITY – 02/05/2010

– VARIOUS VENUES, CHAPEL STREET, SALFORD – I’ve queued up and got my wristband so I’m off to my first port of call for this mammoth day of live music. It’s now around four o’clock and I’m sat upstairs in The Old Pint Pot. It’s pretty quiet with just a handful of people hanging around, […]
If songwriters first have to experience life before they are qualified to write about it then Jesca Hoop has already earned her credentials. Born and raised in Sonoma County – a rural area of California, 30 miles north of San Francisco – the young folk songstress is now an honorary Mancunian. The fact that she […]

INTERVIEW: JESCA HOOP

ALBUM: JESCA HOOP – HUNTING MY DRESS

Plucked from obscurity over in the US by Elbow, a band recently and famously plucked from the gallows by last gasp blaster The Seldom Seen Kid, Jesca Hoop has come to our shores backed by Britain’s newest favourite band. But it seems to me that she’s been plucked from somewhere far less familiar than the […]