– FRIDAY – Last year’s festival wristbands cleverly had ‘I am not a number’ written on them, a nod to The Prisoner, the sixties cult sci-fi show filmed at Portmeirion. This gave you a bubbling anticipation of what lay beyond. But this year’s wristbands are different, gone is the ‘I am not a number’, and […]
Dutch Uncles have unveiled a new video for their single ‘Nometo’. For the distinctly Gilliam-esque film, which recalls the golden age of MTV video, the band turned to long term collaborators Dr. Me who have been responsible for the band’s striking artwork to date. ‘Nometo’ is one of the more orchestral tracks from recent album Out […]
Dutch Uncles have been announced as support for Everything Everything’s UK tour in October. The two Manchester bands have been long time friends and supporters and both released albums to widespread acclaim on the same day back in January. To celebrate this coming together Dutch Uncles have remixed Everything Everything’s previous single ‘Duet’. EVERYTHING EVERYTHING […]
Dutch Uncles keep on to the break of dawn. However, they were a wee bit tired once dawn broke, so they missed the trip to the aquarium, where coincidentally their latest video, for Bellio, was being filmed. To coincide with the fishy fun, they have an 8 track leviathan of a digital EP featuring Bellio, […]
– THE CASTLE HOTEL, MANCHESTER – So it’s fair to say that I’m pretty excited ahead of tonight’s events! Not only is today the day that the first albums of the 2013 have been released but I’m also at my first gig of the year at one of my favourite venues in Manchester for an […]
Three albums into their career, Manchester’s Dutch Uncles, a group who pitched their tents firmly in pop’s leftfield with their eponymous first album before releasing Memphis Industries debut Cadenza in 2011, have made another huge step forward with their forthcoming album ‘Out Of Touch In The Wild’. The album is due for release on 7th […]
Dutch Uncles have announced the release, via Memphis Industries, of their new album ‘Out of Touch in the Wild’ on 14th January 2013 and new single ‘Fester’ on 12th November. Isn’t it great to see a young band growing the old fashioned way? Three albums into their career, Manchester’s Dutch Uncles, a group who pitched […]
– VARIOUS VENUES, CHAPEL STREET, SALFORD – I’ve queued up and got my wristband so I’m off to my first port of call for this mammoth day of live music. It’s now around four o’clock and I’m sat upstairs in The Old Pint Pot. It’s pretty quiet with just a handful of people hanging around, […]