Having sustained my first ever moshpit injury at a Sonic Youth gig in the early 90’s at The Reading Festival, involving someone else’s Doc Marten boot, squelchy mud and my head, to seeing their last ever gig in Manchester, it’s fair to say Kim Gordon’s former band, Sonic Youth, have occupied a large portion of […]
– MARTIN HARRIS CENTRE, MANCHESTER – Go online, check out any Sonic Youth video from the 1990s with Kim Gordon in it and observe her. Any reasonable woman who was a teenager in the 1990s would want to be Kim Gordon. Everything about her was cool: cool band, cool music. We thought she did not […]
GIG GUIDE
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ALBUM REVIEW - LONG FLING: LONG FLING
ALBUM REVIEW - FLOCK OF DIMES: THE LIFE YOU SAVE
ALBUM REVIEW- GUITAR: WE'RE HEADED TO THE LAKE
GIG GUIDE - OCTOBER 2025
EP REVIEW - SPARKS: MADDER!
EP REVIEW - HOLYBONES: I GOT A GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP
ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 3 OCTOBER 2025
ALBUM REVIEW - THE ANTLERS: BLIGHT
LIVE REVIEW - SELF ESTEEM: MANCHESTER ACADEMY - 29/09/2025
ALBUM REVIEW - CATE LE BON: MICHELANGELO DYING
