DRENGE ANNOUNCE THREE NEW UK DATES

Drenge have announced three new dates, including a show at The Deaf Institute in January. The two piece, comprised of brothers Eoin and Rory Loveless, will play gigs in Leeds, Manchester and London. They released their debut album Bloodsports to critical acclaim in August last year, on Infectious Music. The band also came to prominence […]
Peace have announced two more Manchester dates as part of their upcoming UK tour. The Birmingham four-piece will hit the road, in January, February and March to launch their second album, Happy People. The new album, which will be released on February 9, follows last year’s debut In Love. The new gigs at The Deaf […]

PEACE ANNOUNCE MORE MANCHESTER DATES ON UK TOUR

LIVE: TURBOWOLF – 02/12/2014

– THE DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – A couple of years back some big music industry cheese declared rock music dead. This year they declared it undead. Now, although the first statement was utterly ludicrous, I must admit that 2014 has been the year of the Riff! There’s been an influx of great rock bands across […]
– THE DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – The Wytches are one of the hottest properties in the country with a dark, ominous sound as occultish as their name would suggest. They mix surf guitar and a grungy psych rock, breaking out the Ouija board and channelling the furious, restless spirit of a brutally murdered Dick Dale […]

LIVE: THE WYTCHES – 28/11/2014

LIVE: CHRISTOPHER OWENS – 17/11/2014

– THE DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER –  Oh my. I’ve been waiting to see Christopher Owens in some form or other for about 5 years. I missed his band Girls when they passed through both London and Manchester at various points, and when they went and broke up and I thought I might never get to […]
Canadian indie rockers Alvvays have announced a new tour for next year and previewed their new single. As part of the tour, the five-piece will play at Manchester’s Deaf Institute on January 21. The group’s new single, Next of Kin, is taken from their well received self titled debut album released earlier this year via Transgressive […]

ALVVAYS ANNOUNCE NEW TOUR AND PREVIEW NEW SINGLE

LIVE: ADULT JAZZ – 12/11/2014

– THE DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – Adult Jazz have made one of the best debut albums of the year in ‘Gist Is’ (if not one of the best albums of the year full stop) and despite it being somewhat overlooked compared to terrible British bands like Alt-J this year, the Deaf Institute is pretty busy […]
– THE DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – Although I didn’t feel as though it was the strongest of lists, this years Mercury Music Prize certainly switched me on to records by artists I had previously overlooked. One of these records was Everybody Down, the superb debut album from writer, poet, rapper Kate Tempest. Kate has been […]

LIVE: KATE TEMPEST – 09/11/2014

LIVE: MARK MORRISS – 12/10/2014

– THE DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – It was Christmas day of 1996 when I first heard the distinctive vocals of Mark Morriss. I had just received my first CD player and the only CD I had to play on it was Now 35. One of that compilation’s highlights was The Bluetones’s ‘Marblehead Johnson’. Some 18 […]
– THE DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER- Going from gig to gig around Britain with a guitar and a suitcase, a young Paul Simon once sat on a Cheshire railway station platform and wrote a lonely song about missing a home far, far away. Tonight, almost 50 years later, two other great American troubadours are in north-west […]

LIVE: GRANT-LEE PHILLIPS & HOWE GELB – 10/10/2014