Posts by Month: July 2012

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Gig: Now Then Folk & Blues #3: Family Wolves, The Bourbon Words, Pocket Hercules

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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News: Base Ventura Premiere ’1:52′ Video

 

Manchester’s psychedelic naughty boys have just released the video for forth-coming EP track ’1:52′ on The 405.

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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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Review: Metric – Interview and Review

 

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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Review: Plank!: Animalism – Review

 

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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