Fight The Power Anybody?

The so called real music fans have managed to get Rage Against the Machine to the number one spot for this Christmas. Maybe this is a small poke in the eye to the manufactured soulless music that is usually at the top of the charts, but what about next weeks chart and the week after? […]
– NCP Car Park, Manchester. 13/12/2009 – The top floor of the NCP car park on Church Street in the Northern Quarter is not the city’s most glamorous location. This is why you exit the lift at the 11th floor to an unexpected sight, a large screen, rows of chairs and a number of strategically […]

The Church Street Drive-in

Rage Against The ‘Money Making’ Machine

‘Killing in the Name’ – or – “The Alternative Christmas [Number 1] Message” Now I’m not normally the sort of person who gives a crap about Xmas number one – although I do hate the bejeezus out of X-Factor (for many many reasons). However, the “RATM for Xmas number one” campaign has caught my eye […]
If songwriters first have to experience life before they are qualified to write about it then Jesca Hoop has already earned her credentials. Born and raised in Sonoma County – a rural area of California, 30 miles north of San Francisco – the young folk songstress is now an honorary Mancunian. The fact that she […]

INTERVIEW: JESCA HOOP

Stephen Morris and Friends

– MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY, MANCHESTER – Manchester. So much to answer for. Here’s two things for starters – kicking off the Industrial Revolution and redefining the music industry in the 1970s and 80s. Tonight’s event pulls those two disparate factors together by hosting, within the impressive setting of the Museum of Science and […]
Through a haze of alcohol, and some other things that perhaps I should not mention, I had for sometime been trying to work out where my Mad Ferret Festival level three security wrist band would let me go. I hadn’t at this point tried to push too hard the limits of my freedom. Was level […]

INTERVIEW: ROOTS MANUVA