ROOTS MANUVA ANNOUNCES ‘SWITCHING SIDES’ EP FOR RECORD STORE DAY

Roots Manuva celebrates Record Store Day with a vinyl packed with the kind of combination of “bass and verb” which has made him one of the UK’s essential musical artists. Off the back of the  Bleeds album, Manuva has cooked up three brand new tracks to go alongside ‘Crying’ and ‘One Thing’ from that collection. All 5 […]
This year’s festival from North Wales has announced Hot Chip, Bastille and Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds as headliners this year. The festival has commissioned No.6 composer-in-residence Joe Duddell to work with the world-class Manchester Camerata chamber orchestra on an exclusive David Bowie Reimagined performance. Joe and Manchester Camerata’s last collaboration was providing the strings for New Order’s incredible new album Music:Complete. Their exclusive No.6 performance will feature arrangements of […]

FESTIVAL NO. 6 ANNOUNCES HEADLINERS FOR 2016

2015 END OF YEAR – MAX PILLEY

ALBUMS Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly The album that the modern world has been waiting for. The major records to have captured the public consciousness in recent years have been either self-important ego riots (hello Kanye) or tepid retro-pop (Adele, Taylor Swift). Kendrick is interested in being heard by as many as possible, […]
The Metropolis Birthday All-nighter on 4th November 2011 pulls in all the punches with Sub Focus, and Roots Manuva topping the bill. Also heading up the night will be the side-project from Pendulum’s Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen, Knife Party. Opening hours for this night are extended to 6am leaving plenty of time to pack […]

NEWS: SUB FOCUS, KNIFE PARTY AND ROOTS MANUVA AT WAREHOUSE PROJECT

SINGLE: Roots Manuva meets Wrongtom – Jah Warriors

I listened to this record once and thought it was absolutely terrible. Now normally, that’s OK because I can listen to crap over-and-over and rip it to pieces. The whole review process is done in a day or two and I can relax. ‘Jah Warriors’ was so bad that I had to hide for a week […]
Through a haze of alcohol, and some other things that perhaps I should not mention, I had for sometime been trying to work out where my Mad Ferret Festival level three security wrist band would let me go. I hadn’t at this point tried to push too hard the limits of my freedom. Was level […]

INTERVIEW: ROOTS MANUVA