LIVE: WILLIAM BASINSKI / CROWW – 24/10/2018

-THE WHITE HOTEL, SALFORD- I enter to Croww, who I know to be on label Death of Rave and for his debut, Prosthetics, highly constituted of snippets from a Slipknot sample pack. His hood is down over his cap, the hoody reads Customer. We’ve arrived to the set underway, with samples that sound like they’re […]
-THE WHITE HOTEL, SALFORD- Hookworms have made the best album of 2018. It’s a provocative statement, especially at the start of March, but right now I believe it to be true. Great albums often come with a backstory, their own built-in folklore, something that can be easily distilled into a short conversation that the record’s […]

LIVE: HOOKWORMS – 10/03/2018

LIVE: MOON DUO – 01/02/2018

-THE WHITE HOTEL, SALFORD- Far from the Northern Quarter, the beating heart of Manchester’s thriving indie scene, lies a desolate industrial complex. Surrounded by scrap tips and disused lock up garages, in the arse end of Salford, stands the equally desolate looking White Hotel. However this desolate exterior hides a much darker secret inside… As […]
2017 has been a busy year for Moon Duo, releasing not one but two albums and touring the world from Mexico to South Africa, including their largest London headline show to date at a sold out Heaven. Now, as the year draws to a close, they have announced plans to return to the UK at […]

MOON DUO ANNOUNCE JAN/FEB 2018 TOUR OF UK & IRELAND

HOOKWORMS RETURN TO HEADLINE AND CURATE ‘THE LOST WEEKEND’ IN MARCH 2018 WITH CONTAINER, COWTOWN, AND MORE

Grey Lantern present HOOKWORMS – THE LOST WEEKEND II Hookworms headline both days, with a different supporting line-up each day curated by the band: CONTAINER – HAPPY MEALS DRAHLA – COWTOWN – VIRGINIA WING RICHARD FORMBY – RATTLE The White Hotel, Salford Friday 9th and Saturday 10th March 2018 Doors 7:30pm Tickets £12 (EXCL FEES) […]
Tim Hecker has announced new headline shows for the UK. With his shows in Leeds, Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh (October 1st-4th) taking place in total darkness, this will mark a departure for the electronic composer as he further explores sensory deprivation in live performance. Tickets for all dates are now on sale, head to his official […]

TIM HECKER ANNOUNCES LIVE UK TOUR EXPLORING SENSORY DEPRIVATION

LIVE: FACTORY FLOOR – 17/03/2017

– THE WHITE HOTEL, SALFORD – It’s midnight in the salubrious surroundings of The White Hotel (actually an industrial unit in North Manchester, with a trapdoor bar in the floor which is all kinds of amazing), and the packed room is watching people make their final tinkerings with the equipment on stage (actually there is […]