– The White Hotel, Manchester – New Orleans industrial disco punks Special Interest specialise in the intense, pushing their sound, political lyrics, and performances to the extreme in the grand tradition of punk bands. Singer Alli Logout leads the ensemble, their frequently angry, incendiary callout lyrics dealing in really showing you how shit the world […]
– Yes Basement, Manchester – Humint: The opening act helps to congregate the room without windows with the post-punk-post-hardcore approach of being a mechanism that doesn’t quite work yet still works, the reverse stutter that is the drumming being the pedestal that makes this band the more rhythmically interesting of the 2 performers. Chordal descents […]
GIG GUIDE
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ALBUM REVIEW - DURUTTI COLUMN: RENASCENT
ALBUM REVIEW - LOATHE: A STRANGER TO YOU
ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 24 JULY 2026
ALBUM REVIEW - BLUE STATES: WHERE THE FADES MEET
LIVE REVIEW - NIA ARCHIVES: THE WHITE HOTEL - 17/07/2026
ALBUM REVIEW - SPEARMINT: CHASE ME
ALBUM REVIEW - NIA ARCHIVES: EMOTIONAL JUNGLIST
ALBUM REVIEW - GRACIE ABRAMS: DAUGHTER FROM HELL
ALBUM REVIEW - PROTEST THE HERO: WITHIN
ALBUM REVIEW - NAO YOSHIOKA: SELF
