As live music begins to emerge from its enforced hiatus, a multi-venue festival in Bolton is hoping to help kick-start a return of the marvels we’ve all been missing so dearly. To find out more we caught up with one of the organisers of the event, Ivan Crompton. Right to Roam is a brand new […]
– GORILLA, MANCHESTER – It seems no coincidence that on one of the hottest days of the year to date, one of the hottest bands currently around hit Manchester. The Moonlandingz, a super band featuring members of Fat White Family, Slow Club and Eccentronic Research Council, have arrived fresh from the recent release of their […]
When Eccentronic Research Council announced they had signed to Trash Mouth Records for a collaboration with Fat White Family and Bafta-nominated Maxine Peake earlier this year, the lead track ‘Sweet Saturn Mine’ indicated a claustrophobic synth-rock stalker epic largely fronted by Fat White Family. What has been released is a spacier, more surreal narrative composition based […]
Eccentronic Research Council have released an EP featuring a collaboration with Fat White Family ahead of the release of their fourth album in May. The Sheffield based duo, Dean Honer and Adrian Flanagan, have today released an EP of tracks by fictional band The Moonlandingz, and the EP’s lead track, Sweet Saturn Mine, is accompanied […]
The new album from the ERC takes us on another musical journey, following on from 2012′s 1612 Underture, Magpie Billy & the Egg that Yolked (A Study of the Northern Ape in Love) explores the complex behaviour patterns, communication calls, mating rituals, bad habits and eccentricities of two highly individual male Apes living in the […]
Noise of Art kicks off its year long celebration of 100 years of electronic music with a stellar line up featuring the debut London show of the Eccentronic Research Council – featuring Maxine Peake – and stellar DJ line up. Marking a century since Luigi Russolo published his ‘Manifesto for An Art of Noises’ the […]
After a sleep of sorts it’s a new day and the weather is holding out again as it did yesterday. First things first and it’s time for breakfast then time for me to see what all this Portmeirion Village fuss is all about. From where we are camped it’s maybe a three or four minute […]
A new album featuring actress Maxine Peake (TV’s Shameless, Silk) to make the 400th anniversary of the Pendle Witch Trials. Exactly 400 years since the trials and execution of the 12 women now known as The Pendle Witches, on 20 August 1612 in Lancashire, England, a purpose assembled collective of artists, sound designers, experimental pop […]
Silent Radio’s Simon Zaccagni recommends Adrian Flanagan for your audible delectation and your possible bemusement on how a Salford born/Sheffield based man who only a few years ago broke both of his arms so badly that he was told he’d never play an instrument again can be so darn busy musically. ***** WHO ARE YA? “I am one half […]
Autobahn 666 is the Opening track from the Debut LP “1612 Underture” by THE ECCENTRONIC RESEARCH COUNCIL (FT Cult electronic outsider artists Adrian Flanagan & Dean Honer from Sheffield’s Chanteuse and the Crippled Claw/Kings Have Long Arms and I Monster/all Seeing I and the Actress/Lancashire’s very own Angel of the North, Miss Maxine Peake. The […]
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