C DUNCAN DROPS LATEST SINGLE B-SIDE ‘NOTHING AT ALL’… LISTEN HERE

Delving into more expansive and experimental territories, Glasgow’s prodigious talent C Duncan released his second album The Midnight Sun last October to critical acclaim. Blending electronic elements and sweeping synth sounds with his signature layered vocals and dreamy instrumentation, the follow up to his Mercury Prize nominated debut Architect won huge praise from the likes of The Guardian, […]
– BAND ON THE WALL, MANCHESTER – Moon Duo obviously realise that their time is now. Their plans for 2017 are to release two halves of a grand, conceptual project: Occult Architecture, Vols. 1 and 2, with each volume representing one half of the Taoist principle of Yin and Yang. Such is the dominance of […]

LIVE: MOON DUO – 16/03/2017

MOON DUO SHARE THEIR NEW VIDEO AND ALBUM DETAILS, AMIDST PREPARATION FOR THIS MONTH’S UK SHOWS

Following the widely praised Volume 1 of Moon Duo’s two part psychedelic opus, Occult Architecture, Sanae Yamada & Ripley Johnson announce the release of Volume 2 for Friday 5th May 2017 on Sacred Bones. The announcement comes with a new track & video entitled ‘Lost In Light’ below, giving a glimpse into the shimmering world […]
– BAND ON THE WALL, MANCHESTER – How To Dress Well, aka Tom Krell, has come a long way. From the ‘mysterious’ bedroom R&B genius of his thrilling, lo-fi debut Love Remains six years ago, to his almost bombastic, shiny, pop-indebted album from earlier this year Care, he’s evolved and changed into something resembling a […]

LIVE: HOW TO DRESS WELL – 24/11/2016

LIVE: SLOW CLUB – 28/10/2016

– BAND ON THE WALL, MANCHESTER – The dulcet tones of the Bard of Salford, John Cooper Clarke, drift over Band on the Wall’s PA as we wait for the arrival of Slow Club. They stride onto stage and start, appropriately enough, with ‘Come On Poet’, the brooding centrepiece of this year’s album One Day […]
– BAND ON THE WALL, MANCHESTER – I’m not letting the first-world trauma of an apparent loss of 36GB of music in a file-transfer debacle half an hour ago diminish my anticipation as I make the trip over to Band on the Wall to see Spring King. Live music’s where it’s at anyway, I tell […]

LIVE: SPRING KING (ALBUM LAUNCH) – 10/06/2016

LIVE: LEE ‘SCRATCH’ PERRY – 15/03/2016

 – BAND ON THE WALL, MANCHESTER –  “Sometimes I pretend to be normal but it gets boring so I go back to being me”. The statement sums up the legendary Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry’s vital philosophy. He’ll be 80 years old the day after tomorrow, but as he has never stopped having fun, he’s not old […]
Next week Wild Nothing, a.k.a the now LA-based musician Jake Tatum, will release Life of Pause, his third studio album and much anticipated follow up to 2012’s Nocturne, on Captured Tracks (US) / Bella Union (UK). Wild Nothing will embark on a world tour that takes him across North America in April and May and […]

WILD NOTHING ANNOUNCES UK TOUR

LIVE: HORSEBEACH – 17/12/2015

– BAND ON THE WALL, MANCHESTER – What a difference a year makes. Or in this case two years. I remember seeing Manchester based quartet Horsebeach in 2013 play to a small crowd in Chorlton opening up for my band at the time and I remember thinking that there was definite promise in their jangly […]
– BAND ON THE WALL, MANCHESTER – Releasing an album on the 11th December and touring it before it’s even out, doesn’t sound like a move learnt from the PR textbook. But judging by tonight’s crowd, such things don’t appear to matter if your Jenny Lee Lindberg of Warpaint fame. If you don’t know, she’s […]

LIVE: JENNYLEE – 08/12/2015