LIVE: ROB CROW’S GLOOMY PLACE / SWEET DEALS ON SURGERY / MINNA – 22/08/2017

-DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER- Something which has never happened in the history of live music is happening: a gig is running early. Yes, early. This means that we miss a couple of Minna‘s early offerings, but they make a tremendous racket. Information is non-existent on the presumably local trio, the drummer in a constant whirr while […]
-DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER- What’s going on here, then? It’s not even 8pm and the merch table is 4 deep with t-shirts and records flying from one side of the counter to the other at a sweatshop pace; this isn’t normal. Then again, neither are Sheer Mag. A quintet formed in upstate New York (in Purchase, […]

LIVE: SHEER MAG / TV CRIME – 23/07/2017

INTRODUCING: CULTURE ABUSE NEWLY SIGNED TO EPITAPH RECORDS – LISTEN TO NEW SINGLE ‘SO BUSTED’

Epitaph Records has welcomed San Francisco Bay Area-band Culture Abuse to the label. New single ‘So Busted’ has recently been shared – a rock and roll love song about “all the stuff you are told you need in life but when it all boils down, all you really want is to feel loved and cared […]
– DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – The Deaf Institute is one of my favourite venues, it has a great setup and I have arrived early to finally get the chance at taking a proper seat on the comfy rear bleachers. It is definitely worth it as from the back of the room I can see everything: […]

LIVE: JULIEN BAKER / LAUREN DENITIZIO – 06/06/2017

LIVE: MARIKA HACKMAN – 31/05/2017

– THE DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – Kicking off her set with new, and at this point unheard, album tacks ‘Good Intentions’ and ‘Eastbound Train’, Marika Hackman’s sounding noisier than you might expect. Once proclaimed as a folk heroine, it seems she’s dusted off a distortion pedal and run with it to the finish line – […]
Manchester’s multi-venue Neighbourhood Festival is back! Over 100 artists and bands from all around the world will be performing across Manchester’s best and most iconic music venues the south side of the city on Saturday 7th October 2017. Headlining the festival are acclaimed live favourites Peace, and Rat Boy, along with some of the country’s […]

NEIGHBOURHOOD FESTIVAL 2017 LINE-UP ANNOUNCED

LIVE: LUKE SITAL-SINGH – 22/05/2017

– THE DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – Monday evening after another warm day, and the room in Manchester’s Deaf Institute is getting warmer by the minute, it is also, packed. Everybody here is ready to enjoy another night of great music, and great talent, and share together the collective joy, from a shared musical experience. It’s […]
Sweden’s Francobollo today are announcing their much-anticipated debut album Long Live Life, along with the release of their single – ‘Worried Times’. Charlie Andrew (Alt-J, Marika Hackman, Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Sivu etc.) is at the production helm for the band’s debut album Long Live Life – set for release Friday 14th July 2017 via Square […]

SWEDEN’S FRANCOBOLLO SHARE NEW ALBUM DETAILS, NEW SINGLE, AND UK AUTUMN TOUR DATES

EX-EASTER ISLAND HEAD LARGE ELECTRIC ENSEMBLE LIVE AT DEAF INSTITUTE THIS JUNE

Ex-Easter Island Head (EEIH) will be performing at The Deaf Institute on Friday 23rd June 2017 as Ex-Easter Island Head Large Electric Ensemble. Back in February 2016, EEIH took up home at Islington Mill as part of a 10 day Samarbeta residency, working with an ensemble of hand-picked guitarists from a variety of musical backgrounds […]
– DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – Sweet baby Jesus, this is intense. As soon as Benjamin Power, one half of the sublime Fuck Buttons, presses the first pad on his desk of electronic toys, I feel like I’m being assaulted. I’ve been to some loud gigs (I managed 10mins of My Bloody Valentine’s infamous ‘holocaust section’ […]

LIVE: BLANCK MASS – 04/05/2017