PINS

PINS ANNOUNCE NEW TOUR DATES

Manchester five-piece PINS have announced new tour dates with support coming from Best Coast, Gang Of Four and Stealing Sheep.  This year has seen a packed out touring schedule for the band supporting the likes of Sleater-Kinney, Drenge and Wire, along with performing their own sold out headline shows. Alongside a final festival date of […]
“‘Silly Me’ is about the long tunnel, the one that has no light. Another week spent walking up and down the street. The quiet tension of your living room with its shit sofa. The unconfirmed nature of ‘doing’ instead of ‘trying’. It’s that realisation that all you have to work with is your own failure, […]

SLEAFORD MODS RELEASE NEW VIDEO FOR ‘SILLY ME’

SLEAFORD MODS: INVISIBLE BRITAIN – MANCHESTER SCREENING

Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain isn’t just a documentary about the Nottingham duo, it’s also looks at the current state of the nation. The film makers took to the road to follow Sleaford Mods as they embarked on a tour that would take them to the smaller, ignored, less toured and boarded up parts of the […]
Battles can now reveal a video for album track ‘Dot Net’, the first part of a new Warp Arts film series for Channel 4’s Random Acts, comprised of collaborations between filmmakers and Warp artists. Dave Konopka from Battles discusses the collaboration: “Ben Jones and I went Massachusetts College of Art together in the 90s and […]

BATTLES RELEASE NEW VIDEO FOR ‘DOT NET’

RADKEY RELEASE NEW FACE-MELTING CLAYMATION VIDEO FOR ‘GLORE

It took ten weeks of seriously hard work from Blinkink to complete Radkey’s new two minute Claymation video for ‘Glore. Directed by Nicos Livesey for Channel 4’s revised Random Acts strand, the ‘Glore’ video that will be coming to our TV screens soon, is made up of a combination of influences from Celebrity Death Match, […]
IDLES announce new MEAT EP for self-release on October 30th. After taking a hiatus from the live circuit since the release of their debut EP, Welcome, the band aptly describe how they took the time out to perfect their writing process and, “bleed out a s**t tonne of songs that we’re truly proud of.” The […]

IDLES – BRISTOL POST-PUNKS RETURN WITH NEW EP ‘MEAT’

BEANS ON TOAST ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM & LIVE DATES

10 years into his career and now with seven albums under his belt, cult hero and all-round legend – BEANS ON TOAST will be embarking on a UK tour in support of new album ‘Rolling Up The Hill’ and will be calling into Manchester Gorilla on 18th November. Album track listing 1.The Mudhills Crew 2. […]
Ewan MacColl wrote The Young Birds in 1961 in memory of 34 South London schoolboys (including friends of his oldest son, Hamish) who were killed in a plane crash while on a school trip. Ewan is best known for his pivotal role in the British folk revival and his vast catalogue of songs including The First Time Ever I Saw Your […]

JOY OF LIVING: A TRIBUTE TO EWAN MACCOLL – LIVE IN MANCHESTER

SHOPPING SHARE NEW VIDEO FOR ‘STRAIGHT LINES’ & ANNOUNCE UK LIVE DATES

Last week, post-punkers Shopping released their second album, Why Wait, via FatCat Records (reviewed here). Now, they’re sharing a brand new video for their single “Straight Lines”, setting the stage for their first-ever tour of the U.S. and Canada. Watch the new video below: Formed in East London in 2012 by members Rachel Aggs (guitar), […]
Bristol noise rockers Spectres will play the Soup Kitchen, Manchester on Thursday November 19th.Tickets cost £7 and can be bought here Leeds post-punk provocateurs Post War Glamour Girls will play the support slot. Spectres were formed in Barnstaple, North Devon about four years ago, but after a few months of playing to people who wanted white […]

SPECTRES ANNOUNCE POST WAR GLAMOUR GIRLS FOR MANCHESTER SHOW