LIVE: STRANGE WAVES II (PARQUET COURTS, OMNI, BEACH FOSSILS, DEAD PRETTIES, ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER, ULTIMATE PAINTING) – 02/09/2017

-THE RITZ, MANCHESTER- Walking into any building to see Ultimate Painting tuning up, and knowing you’ve got five hours of great music ahead of you, is enough to get even the most dour Mancunian hack excited, and that was what we were in for on Saturday Night. Strange Waves II, a festival hosted at The […]
 – GULLIVERS, MANCHESTER – Swedish Death Candy for me stole the show. I’m sorry Yak, but their psychedelic musings were a lot more stimulating tonight than your visceral 2 minute “songs”. And Rory Wynne, I like that Heart Of Stone song you played at the end and your comment about how “amazing” we were as […]

LIVE: YAK / SWEDISH DEATH CANDY – 03/02/2016

LIVE: MIKAL CRONIN – 19/11/2015

 – SOUND CONTROL, MANCHESTER – An immediate shock greets everybody that enters Sound Control tonight. The venue, utilised less and less by touring bands as its years drift by, has cordoned off its natural upstairs setting, and instead has compressed the night’s events into its downstairs bar area. Like others, my instinct is that this […]