A.R. KANE HEADLINE FIRST NON-FESTIVAL SHOW IN OVER 20 YEARS

Just ahead of their two performances at this year’s Primavera Sound Festival in June, legendary dream pop outfit A.R. Kane have announced they will be playing Manchester’s Soup Kitchen on Monday, May 23 (openers to be announced). If you hadn’t heard, A.R. Kane reformed for this year’s touring season, which will see dates in the […]
The original Manchester Record Store Day all-dayer is here again at Soup Kitchen on Saturday 16th April from 4pm-10pm. Tickets are £4 on the door The Soup Kitchen, 31-33 Spear St, Manchester M1 1DF Hot Vestry – Signed to Tim Burgess’ O Genesis Recordings, the Macclesfield group deal in dark, glinting post-punk and have appearances […]

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LIVE: SUNFLOWER BEAN – 16/02/2016

 – SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER – “Keep the music going for a second?” asks Julia Cumming of the sound man, as the rest of the Brooklyn hailing trio, seemingly consisting of a young Frank Zappa and Bob Dylan circa 1967, race to the stage of Manchester’s Soup Kitchen to perform an impromptu half-cover of Parquet Courts’ […]
– SOUP KITCHEN,  MANCHESTER – Before the gig I repeat to myself ‘Sex Swing, Sex Swing, Sex Swing’ but what the frack does it mean, ‘Sex Swing’? Sounds good though, the sex, the swing. Anyway, I don’t remember if because I was looking for the band online or if I had had a brief epiphany […]

LIVE: SEX SWING / GROVES / BREAKING COLTS – 05/12/2015

LIVE: DISAPPEARS – 24/11/2015

– SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER – There’s a crazy amount of great gigs to choose from in Manchester this month. Just tonight, there are two other bands that I would’ve also liked to have seen, but my fondness for Disappears’ 2012 album Pre-Language was enough to lure me to the Soup Kitchen basement. Amongst the various forms of […]
– SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER – Kagoule only played the Soup Kitchen a month ago as part of Carefully Planned festival and were the highlight of the entire weekend. This will come as no surprise to anyone who’s heard their recent album Urth, considering it’s probably the best debut album of the year. They kick off […]

LIVE: KAGOULE – 20/11/2015

Jenny Hval

LIVE: JENNY HVAL – 08/11/2015

 – SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER – When you walk into a Jenny Hval show, you know it’s going to be weird. Last time she graced a stage in Manchester, there were pouting girls, live iPad visuals and some fun karaoke competitions. So, tonight when she walks on stage in a yoga outfit clutching a half deflated […]
– SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER – After weeks of telling people to check out Sundara Karma for them to look at me blankly and ask if that’s some sort of thai restaurant, it’s nice to see that the Berkshire-based indie rockers are finally in the spotlight. Supporting the likes of Circa Waves and the Wombats has […]

LIVE: SUNDARA KARMA – 24/10/2015

LIVE: CHASTITY BELT – 21/10/2015

– SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER – There’s a real buzz around Seattle’s Chastity Belt, following the release earlier this year of their superb second album Time To Go Home. The female four-piece’s confident, carefree and fun-loving attitude translates well through their music, reminding me somewhat of Warpaint, in their approach. The basement is pretty much full […]
– THE SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER – Promoters Strange Days are known for bringing a wide variety of international guitar musicians to Manchester, ranging from solo acoustic folk, to manic garage rock. Tonight, our headliners are Spanish fun-loving surf garage 3-piece, The Parrots. They’ve recently released a split 7″ of covers on Burger Records with Hinds, who […]

LIVE: THE PARROTS – 10/10/2015