LIVE: YOU ARE NOT ALONE FESTIVAL – 30/03/2019

-VARIOUS VENUES, MANCHESTER- YANA or You Are Not Alone Festival is a multi-venue event that makes its debut this year and has been organised on behalf of non-profit charity Manchester MIND. With the event selling out well in advance, it’s set to be a great day of live music. The first band I manage to […]
-NIGHT PEOPLE, MANCHESTER- More often than not, when a band attempts to surgically graft differing influences together, the difficulty in pulling it off can present a scenario of grave inconsistency. Typically, the final product emerges as a badly rearranged skeletal entity, the kind of which would be best left in some remote, poorly lit cave […]

LIVE: PURPLE HEART PARADE / BLANKETMAN – 08/12/2018

LIVE: THE LUCID DREAM 11/09/2015

– SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER – Tonight at Manchester’s Soup Kitchen, we are in for something special. Not only is it the last gig of the year for psych favourites The Lucid Dream, but we are being treated to an amalgamation act known only as The Boris Johnson Massacre. Taking to the dimly lit stage, The […]
Independent label Blak Hand Records are happy to announce the release of Purple Heart Parade’s new single ‘Drifter’ as an official part of International Cassette Store Day 2014. A-side ‘Drifter’ is a dreamy blend of cosmic guitar riffs quilted with lumbering shoe-gaze, offering vocals reminiscent of early psychedelia. B-side ‘Spirit World’ hits the active core of live psychedelic music, as […]

NEWS: PURPLE HEART PARADE RELEASE LIMITED EDITION CASSETTE

LIVE: THE GHOST OF A SABER TOOTH TIGER (GOASTT) – 08/09/2014

– THE RUBY LOUNGE, MANCHESTER – I guess being the son of one of the most iconic musicians of the 20th century and an internationally renowned avant-garde artist, brings with it a lot of expectation concerning your creative talents. Sean Lennon, whose godfather is Elton John – who appeared in Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker – who co-wrote […]