Posts by Month: February 2014

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Review: St Vincent : Live Review

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Her arrival on stage sets the tone for the night. Tightly choreographed, visually arresting, entirely odd, and utterly thrilling. St. Vincent, aka Annie Erin Clark, dances. Not in the traditional boogie robots sense, nor even in the Thom Yorke religious rapture sense. St. Vincent dances like a ballerinaRead on

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Elle Mary Photo By Joseph Brotherton

Video: Elle Mary ‘Happiness’

Drawn to the communicative and bonding qualities of ‘folk’ but explorative beyond its stylistic connotations; enough of a pack member to want a band yet also keen to imbue a sense of solitude through her music, Elle Mary is an artist who operates best when balancing conflicting instincts. It’s what … Read on

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Gig: Tonight Matthew…The Stripey Stripes

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Tonight Matthew is a monthly night of star spangled live music as we invite some of our favourite Manchester bands to walk through the smoke and perform as a chosen musical hero(s).

It’s basically like Stars In Their Eyes for rockin’ Manchester bands. Matty Kelly might come down.

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Gig: Midlake

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An antiphon is a call-and-response style of singing, from Gregorian chants to sea shanties. In the case of Denton, Texas’ favourite sons Midlake, it’s the perfect title for a bold response to a new phase in the band’s illustrious career, with a re-jigged line-up and a newly honed sound … Read on

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Gig: Dumb + Those Rotten Thieves

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As 2013 got under way four childhood friends were given a wake-up call by the spotlight on the music scene in their native Birmingham and decided to build on their formative years of gigging and songwriting and take their music seriously to form Dumb.

“The whole limelight on Birmingham … Read on

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Gig: Fat White Family + Phobophobes + The Bell Peppers

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Fat White Family feel subversive or transgressive even before you move beyond their name, although what exactly there is left to subvert in this twerking, dope-on-daytime-TV day and age we’re not sure. “Fat” suggests they’re siding with society’s marginalised, any skin-colour referent in a band’s monicker always seems like … Read on

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Gig: Jenny Wilson

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DEMAND THE IMPOSSIBLE!
BY JENNY WILSON

“Be realistic, demand the impossible!” was a graffiti painted by the 1968′s student radicals over a Paris wall during the uprisings.

I love this beautiful and noisy expression. It makes totally sense – what else can one do when you’re a citizen in … Read on