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A live showcase featuring some of Manchester’s finest original folk & blues music.
Family Wolves
The Bourbon Words
Pocket Hercules
This month we welcome back psychedelic bluesmen Family Wolves, kidnap Abattoir Blues favourites The Bourbon Words and introduce Pocket Hercules from further afield to sing his folky tales.
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Manchester’s psychedelic naughty boys have just released the video for forth-coming EP track ’1:52′ on The 405.
Watch the video HERE
Base Ventura are set to release their first EP on new Manchester cassette label, Twisted Tape Recordings. To celebrate the release and the official launch of the … Read on
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They make you woozily sway your arms and mourn your broken heart, and now The Louche are tugging even harder on our reverb soaked hearts with their fresh track, ‘Salt’.
Recorded at the SWAYS HQ by Martin Hurley and available for FREE DOWNLOAD, ‘Salt’ is accompanied by a … Read on
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A few hours before their first Manchester gig in years, I had the chance to meet with Emily Haines and James Shaw of Metric for a quick stroll down the canal behind HMV Ritz and a nice chat about their new album ‘Synthetica’ (out now).
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You know those BBC montages, the ones they put on at the end of the day’s coverage of Glastonbury or some other mud-drenched festival where students compound their debt with over-priced noodles and crappy beer? It will usually feature people bouncing up and down in slow motion as they … Read on
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My last experience of Sound Control was one of haze and magic… Tame Impala spun a show of genuine sonic delight last year with Sound Control providing the perfect setting for such Antipodean wonder. Tonights line up had a lot to live up to… But with the 8 piece bulk … Read on
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The album gets off to a slow yet melodic start with On Top. And sets the tone of Matthew P’s lyrics that always look on the bright side ‘you can be on top of everything’.
Long Straight Lines sets out the pop format of the album delivering a song … Read on
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The G R E A T W A V E S backstory isn’t important, not really. Travelling with a gypsy blues band, time spent in Amsterdam and Hamburg: it is enough that these experiences shape the music they produce without delving into the minutiae. It is enough that the … Read on
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If you believe what you read, and I do – from the Sunday Times to the National Enquirer, every word of it is cast-iron honest as far as I’m concerned – we’re living in the last days of music. Everything that will be invented and innovated has already happened, … Read on
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Back into the mists of time, well, 1989/1990 to be precise, the stereo of the sixth form common room of the Kingsway school was tuned into the test signal from an ex-pirate radio station soon to turn legit. KFM broadcast a wide variety of new … Read on
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