LIVE: THE LEMON TWIGS – 21/02/2019

-RITZ, MANCHESTER- Popular cultural habits have always loved making their return to our society, with things such as record players, musical influences and even some questionable fashion decisions which you’d think had been buried in the past, somehow making a revisit to the 21st century. Some of these things make their return with a great […]

-THE RITZ, MANCHESTER- Brooklyn’s Parquet Courts are an enigma; hard to pin down, hard to classify, hard to keep up with. Alongside their 5 studio albums (the debut which they only released on tape, obvs), the band have also produced another full length under the name Parkay Quarts with two band members absent, an experimental, […]

LIVE: PARQUET COURTS – 04/11/2018

LIVE: IDLES – 19/10/2018

-THE RITZ, MANCHESTER- Tickets for tonight’s gig are in high demand, I know this because in the morning I checked the event page on Facebook to see if the set times had been announced, but all I could find was an endless stream of people leaving posts asking for any spare tickets. Luckily for me […]

-THE RITZ, MANCHESTER- There may have been several different Breeders line ups over the years, but for many, the foursome that takes to the stage at a sold out Ritz is the definitive one – the four who recorded the iconic album Last Splash in 1993 and more recently the new album All Nerve. Kicking […]

LIVE: THE BREEDERS – 13/07/2018

LIVE: CABBAGE / PINS / THE BLINDERS / LADY BIRD / THE RHYTHM METHOD – 19/05/2018

-THE RITZ, MANCHESTER- Glamour at the Ritz is a night that would get any Manchester music fan frothing. Ten bands spread across two excellent live rooms – one massive, one small – over the course of 5 hours… paradise. Well, if your paradise consists of aggressive punk rock, high energy activity both on and off […]

-O2 RITZ, MANCHESTER- O2 Ritz is one of those places that takes on whichever band or artist is playing – the vibe is set by the music, the crowd and how excitable they are. So I’m a bit unsure what to expect from 90s Britpoppers The Bluetones on Thursday – a bit of an institution […]

LIVE: THE BLUETONES / JORDAN ALLEN / THE GALLERYS – 17/05/2018

LIVE: JUNGLE – 10/05/2018

-THE RITZ, MANCHESTER- “We did our first live show in Manchester,” beams Jungle’s Josh Lloyd-Watson mid-set, with evident pride. And tonight they’re back, bringing the urban beat to the urbane heart of Manchester, organic beats emerging from our concrete jungle. Together with childhood friend, school pal and one-time next-door neighbour Tom McFarland, the duo formed […]

-RITZ, MANCHESTER- Out of that mid noughties indie disco scene, there haven’t been many bands that have stood their ground and kept going in the same way that We Are Scientists have. Keith and Chris have just released their sixth long player Megaplex, which sees the band take a more electronically infused tone to their indie […]

LIVE: WE ARE SCIENTISTS – 09/05/2018

LIVE: YOUNG FATHERS – 23/03/2018

-THE RITZ, MANCHESTER- I know quite a few different people heading to the Young Fathers gig, and so catch up with a beer beforehand. One of the girls in our group is actually friends with the guys, and she sums up the band pretty well. She says that they started off really R&B, and then […]

-THE RITZ, MANCHESTER- I wasn’t sure I’d ever see this to be honest. Paul Draper, former lead singer of britpop heroes Mansun, on stage, not only armed with some solo material but also ready to deploy the entirety of Mansun’s debut album Attack of the Grey Lantern (AOTGL) for the first time after a it […]