An intimate, raw document of profound personal change, ‘Debris’, the debut single by Keeley Forsyth, starts looking to piece together what’s left behind. Lyrically it captures a tumultuous time for Forsyth, with minimal piano and string arrangements by pianist/composer Matthew Bourne placing that elemental voice front and centre. Born and raised in Oldham, Keeley Forsyth […]
Multi-award winning Festival No.6 (7th-10th September 2017) has today announced the headliners for this year’s festival – The Flaming Lips, Mogwai, and Bloc Party. Topping the bill is a band that needs no introduction – The Flaming Lips. Following critical acclaim for their 14th studio album, Oczy Mlody, the psychedelic adventurers will be treating the […]
Everything Everything, Badly Drawn Boy and Gaz Coombes are the latest acts to be added to the line up for this year’s Festival No.6. James Bay, Catfish and the Bottlemen and Jane Weaver are also part of the latest additions to the line up of the festival, which takes place from September 3 to 6. […]
Eccentronic Research Council have released an EP featuring a collaboration with Fat White Family ahead of the release of their fourth album in May. The Sheffield based duo, Dean Honer and Adrian Flanagan, have today released an EP of tracks by fictional band The Moonlandingz, and the EP’s lead track, Sweet Saturn Mine, is accompanied […]
Today, PINS unveil a brand new double video for the new versions of ‘Shoot You’ and ‘Eleventh Hour’. Notably, the video opens with acclaimed actress Maxine Peake reading an original poem written by PINS vocalist Faith Holgate. Peake’s distinctive northern voice perfectly complements Sing J Lee’s (PINS’ long-time collaborator, who has also made films for […]
Cherry Ghost has also unveiled a charming black and white video to the album’s first single ‘Clear Skies Ever Closer’. The video is the directorial debut of Maxine Peake and stars both herself and Shaun Evans, star of ‘Endeavour’, as (possibly) estranged lovers wistfully contemplating their relationship. Maxine Peake on the making of the video: […]
The new album from the ERC takes us on another musical journey, following on from 2012′s 1612 Underture, Magpie Billy & the Egg that Yolked (A Study of the Northern Ape in Love) explores the complex behaviour patterns, communication calls, mating rituals, bad habits and eccentricities of two highly individual male Apes living in the […]
Noise of Art kicks off its year long celebration of 100 years of electronic music with a stellar line up featuring the debut London show of the Eccentronic Research Council – featuring Maxine Peake – and stellar DJ line up. Marking a century since Luigi Russolo published his ‘Manifesto for An Art of Noises’ the […]
Two successful fundraisers in 2012, one in Manchester and one in London, have lead towards an affordable solution to erecting the Frank Sidebottom Statue in Timperley and the target sum is now within grasp. With a final push to raise the last couple of thousand pounds, friends, family and fans alike are joining forces to […]
After a sleep of sorts it’s a new day and the weather is holding out again as it did yesterday. First things first and it’s time for breakfast then time for me to see what all this Portmeirion Village fuss is all about. From where we are camped it’s maybe a three or four minute […]
GIG GUIDE
Between September 2011 and March 2020 we provided a handpicked gig guide every month without fail. It's painful for us that there are currently no gigs to recommend. We hope gigs will return soon to bring you new recommendations, but if you want to reminisce you can still see nine years worth of old gig guides.
