LIVE: JETPLANE LANDING / DOCTRINES – 04/09/2013

– SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER – Nine years. It’s been nine whole years since Jetplane Landing were last in town, nine whole years since they last toured at all, in fact. Time flies, times change, but with their ‘Don’t Try’ comeback album, Derry’s finest are proving to still be as vital as they ever were. Twelve […]
– SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER – The bunker beneath one of Manchester’s finest bars, Soup Kitchen, is the perfect place for Blondes and their brand of ecstatic, build, build and then build some more repetitive house (I think it’s mostly house, with about a million genres of dance music that all merge into each other, who […]

LIVE: BLONDES – 24/08/2013

NEWS: DUCKTAILS – ‘UNDER COVER’ VIDEO + TOUR

Ducktails are to release ‘Under Cover’ as the second single from their recent album, ‘The Flower Lane’, on 23rd September 2013. Directed by Charles Poekel, the plot for the video was written by Matt Mondanile and filmed in his home town of Ridgewood, New Jersey, USA, in an abandoned house that will soon be torn […]
Following his spring US tour, Ducktails is back to share a new video for The Flower Lane highlight, Under Cover.Directed by Charles Poekel, the video plot was written by Matt Mondanile and filmed in his home town of Ridgewood, New Jersey, USA, in an abandoned house that will be torn down very soon. Matt has filmed two other music videos […]

NEWS: DUCKTAILS – UK LIVE DATES + VIDEO

LIVE: BIPOLAR SUNSHINE – 21/6/2013

– SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER – It’s Friday and it’s the longest day of the year. The sun is shining and I’m descending into the depths of the Soup Kitchen, airless and dark, filled to the rafters by an animated hubbub of hot revellers. “Why would you want to do that?” I hear you ask. Well, we’re here for Bipolar Sunshine, a solo project fronted by a Mancunian, hailing from […]
– SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER –  Maybe it’s the three day recovery from Parklife Weekender, but inside I hardly feel top for tonight’s Fresh & Onlys gig, a band who have been on my list of who to see live for quite a while now…so I have to power through. And is it me or has […]

LIVE: THE FRESH & ONLYS – 12/6/2013

LIVE: JACCO GARDNER – 8/6/2013

– SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER – On a summers day such as this, psychedelic 60’s baroque pop is as good an idea as ordering a tall glass of iced lemonade. The Parklife festival is in full swing just north of here; Netherlanders Jacco Gardner’s stage, however, is in a basement in the centre of town. Patrons […]
Big Deal release a new single, ‘Dream Machines’, on 22 July and hit the road in support of their new album, ‘June Gloom’, which is out now. Two new tracks, ‘Teradactol’ and ‘In Your Car’ have already given listeners a glimpse of the Alice Costelloe and Kacey Underwood’s newly revved up and deliciously amplified sound ahead […]

NEWS: BIG DEAL – WIN TICKETS FOR SOUP KITCHEN SHOW + HEAR ‘DREAM MACHINES’

LIVE: MOUNT EERIE – 23/05/2013

 – SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER –  I’ve only relatively recently gotten into Mount Eerie, the moniker adopted by Phil Elverum after he stopped the incredible Microphones (seriously, if you never have, check out The Glow Pt 2 album…all sorts of amazing), so this show at the ever brilliant Soup Kitchen was my chance to see an […]
 – SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER –  I think we’re all starting to lose count of the number of bands like Charlie Boyer & The Voyeurs who have emerged in the last 2 or 3 years. You know the ones – bands in a perpetual haze of smoke, with brightly coloured imaginations and great swathes of static […]

LIVE: CHARLIE BOYER AND THE VOYEURS – 21/05/2013