SOUNDS FROM THE OTHER CITY ANNOUNCES FIRST WAVE OF ACTS FOR 2020 FESTIVAL

Sounds From The Other City is excited to announce the first wave of acts for its 2020 festival, which takes place in Salford on Saturday 2nd May. In what is set to be an all-timer of a line-up, Welsh music legend and former Super Furry Animal Gruff Rhys will be making his Sounds debut; festival […]
Manchester International Festival (MIF) is the world’s first festival of original, new work and special events, staged every two years in Manchester, UK. MIF this year takes place from 29th June to 16th July 2017 at venues all over the city. For MIF’s Live at the Pavilion Theatre at Festival Square, Salford’s foremost festival Sounds […]

MANCHESTER INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL LIVE AT THE PAVILION THEATRE LINE-UP HERE

HEAR DUTCH UNCLES NEW TRACK ‘OH YEAH’

Manchester’s idiosyncratic art-popologists and Silent Radio firm favourites Dutch Uncles return with Big Balloon, their new studio album, on 17th February via Memphis Industries. Today, the band shares one of the new album’s standout tracks Oh Yeah which features backing vocals from Stealing Sheep and Everything Everything. Frontman Duncan Wallis explains the positive sentiment behind […]
– THE DANCEHOUSE, MANCHESTER – Manchester band Whyte Horses who formed in 2014 are debuting their first album Pop Or Not in their hometown at the wonderful Dancehouse Theatre in the hub of the city centre. Having already been given the gong of Piccadilly Records 2016 album of the year, for the fans and newcomers […]

LIVE: WHYTE HORSES – 26/11/2016

2015 END OF YEAR – ANDY VINE

ALBUMS Blanck Mass: Dumb Flesh Alternately transcendental and crushing, Blanck Mass’ second album takes the abrasive ambience of his debut and marries them to stuttering glitch and punishing beats. Powerful, throbbing sound disorientates, blurring into high contrast synths and ravey stabs, walls of droning noise, exotic rhythms and twitchy samples. It’s aggressive, it’s blissed out, […]
Manchester five-piece PINS have announced new tour dates with support coming from Best Coast, Gang Of Four and Stealing Sheep.  This year has seen a packed out touring schedule for the band supporting the likes of Sleater-Kinney, Drenge and Wire, along with performing their own sold out headline shows. Alongside a final festival date of […]
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PINS ANNOUNCE NEW TOUR DATES

LIVE: STEALING SHEEP – 05/08/2015

– THE OAST HOUSE, MANCHESTER – You’d be forgiven for not realising that Stealing Sheep were playing at The Oast House in Spinningfields tonight. Yes, there’s a stage set up but that’s been there for a few weeks now without any obvious action. There are no posters, there’s been no promotion. Google is coming up […]
Stealing Sheep’s infectious nature is immediate when they walk in the Band of The Wall dressing room. At first, Lucy (drums) and Emily (guitar and pretty much everything else) arrive, before Rebecca (keys and most of the vocals) join us. Rebecca sits right next to me and eyes me cautiously, ‘You look like so many […]

INTERVIEW: STEALING SHEEP

LIVE: STEALING SHEEP – 24/04/2015

– BAND ON THE WALL, MANCHESTER – Band on The Wall has filled up nicely in the last few minutes as the anticipation for the first showing of Stealing Sheep’s well-received new album Not Real grows. Ironically, the Liverpool band open tonight’s set with what was potentially the most popular song off their debut album, […]
What’s in the water up on Merseyside? It’s as if there’s an endless source of almost psychedelic otherness running deep beneath the place. It’s there in the music of everyone from the La’s to Ladytron; an off-kilter wonder that sets the place and its art apart from the rest of the country. Stealing Sheep are […]

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