LIVE: SOUNDS FROM THE OTHER CITY – 03/05/2015

– VARIOUS VENUES, SALFORD – With 13 stages and over 100 acts playing during 12 chaotic hours along Salford’s Chapel Street, each reveller is likely to have a very different experience on this bank holiday weekend. All music genre’s are covered, including dance, rock, classical… there’s comedy and art on display, a variety of food […]
When you talk about slackers, the glamorous, Americanised image is of beautiful surfer dudes smoking lots of weed and making lovely, reverb-heavy music about being sad. Best Coast, basically. The British equivalent isn’t nearly as cool. With a climate like ours, it’s nicer to sit in and watch telly all day and eat biscuits and […]

Album Review: Sex Hands – Pleh

NEWS: HOOKWORMS ANNOUNCE ISLINGTON MILL WEEKENDER

Besides the annual Sounds From The Other City weekender festival taking place at Islington Mill every year, the independent cultural hob that is Islington Mill has now had another array of acts added for a full weekend this May. Two of Manchester’s most prominent underground promoters, Grey Lantern and wotgodforgot, have teamed up to present […]
– GULLIVERS, MANCHESTER – The best and most interesting bands demonstrate free, just will like the rest of us,  and make their decisions according to their own vision, for good or ill.  Relying on formula is clearly not on the agenda of for Ill, who are already on stage as I arrive at Gullivers.  First […]

LIVE: TRASH KIT / SEX HANDS / ILL – 26/02/2014

LIVE: SEX HANDS / THOSE ROTTEN THIEVES / MISTOA POLTSA / FRUIT TONES – 06/02/2014

– NIGHT & DAY CAFE, MANCHESTER – My arrival at Night and Day cafe on a rainy Thursday night coincides with that of a group of lads, all clearly in good spirits, bearing guitars & snare drums wrapped in plastic bags to keep out of the rain.  Their good mood and familiar greetings to friends […]
Bringing together two of Manchester’s most promising and invigorating breakout bands of recent times, the latest offering from our Manchester based micro-label, Icecapades, crams 12 minutes of classic, hook-laden pop precision onto both sides of this 45rpm 7”. Side A is taken up by Sex Hands, three childhood best friends from North Wales, and one […]

NEWS: SEX HANDS / DAILY LIFE – SPLIT 7″ ON ICECAPADES