– VICTORIA WAREHOUSE, MANCHESTER – What a difference a year makes. I had a fantastic time at Cosmosis 2015, despite feeling as though I was at an illegally organised psych fest in a crack den… in fact, maybe it was partly because it felt like an illegally organised psych fest in a crack den. The Victoria Warehouse […]
Twisted Reel, the Northern Quarter’s regular film night, is screening ‘Dig!’ Compiled from seven years of footage, Ondi Timoner’s ‘Dig!’ contrasts the developing careers and love-hate relationship of the bands ‘The Dandy Warhols’ and ‘The Brian Jonestown Massacre’ and the bands’ respective front men Courtney Taylor-Taylor and Anton Newcombe. Dig! Is a study in delusion, […]
– THE RITZ, MANCHESTER – Dangerous, unhinged and unpredictable are all words I would have at one time used to describe The Brian Jonestown Massacre. An opinion I had formed after hearing numerous fan’s accounts of the band’s on tour antics and more so after watching the 2004 documentary ‘Dig’, which until now was my […]
LIVE: MODERN NATURE – 17/09/2019
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LIVE: SASAMI - 04/09/2019
LIVE: MANCHESTER PSYCH FEST 2019
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V FEST 97 – LEEDS 2019: A LOOK AT FESTIVALS THEN AND NOW
ISOBEL CAMPBELL ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM WITH RELEASE OF LEAD SINGLE ‘ANT LIFE’
ALBUM REVIEW: PARSNIP - WHEN THE TREE BEARS FRUIT
SEPTEMBER 2019
MANCHESTER PSYCH FEST RETURNS THIS WEEKEND
LIVE: WHITE FENCE / ESYA / THE STARLIGHT MAGIC HOUR - 17/08/2019
LIVE: RUSSIAN CIRCLES - 13/08/2019
ALBUM REVIEW: THE MURDER CAPITAL - WHEN I HAVE FEARS
ALBUM REVIEW: SLEATER KINNEY – THE CENTER WON’T HOLD
ALBUM REVIEWS ROUND UP - THE REST OF THE BEST NEW RELEASES FROM THE LAST MONTH
ALBUM REVIEW: COMPILATION - OPTIMISM/REJECT (PUNK AND POST PUNK)
AUGUST 2019
EP REVIEW: JOHN MYRTLE - HERE'S JOHN MYRTLE
ALBUM REVIEW: JADE IMAGINE - BASIC LOVE
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