LIVE: HOLLY HERNDON – 30/06/2017

– GORILLA, MANCHESTER- Manchester International Festival returns with one of its most eclectic and strongest bills since inception in 2007. The last event 2015 passed with barely a whimper but a new creative director has breathed much needed life into one of Manchester’s greatest cultural happenings. The esoteric Dark Matter series curated by Mary Anne […]
– GORILLA, MANCHESTER – Sadly gone are the days when bands would routinely have local poets or comedians come on stage as their opening acts – the idea of John Cooper Clarke or John Shuttleworth warming up a crowd before The Damned or A Certain Ratio is something that the kids will have to read […]

LIVE: SPOON / ADAM BUXTON – 27/06/2017

ALDOUS HARDING REVEALS ‘BLEND’ VIDEO & AUTUMN UK TOUR

Aldous Harding, has revealed a new video for the single ‘Blend’, plus details of her biggest UK and European tour yet. Full UK dates below. Taken from her latest album, Party, the visuals for ‘Blend’ were created by Charlotte Evans, the New Zealand film-maker also responsible for Harding’s previous videos for ‘Horizon’ and ‘Imagining My […]
Marika Hackman’s freshly released, raucous new album, I’m Not Your Man (AMF Records and Sub Pop (US)), is sure to erase any falsehood of Marika as some fey folkie. Marika 2:0 is uncompromising, uninhibited, and shamelessly free. I’m Not Your Man is not afraid to call out the big questions around femininity, sexual identity, millennial ennui, the pressures of living in […]

MARIKA HACKMAN ANNOUNCES NOVEMBER 2017 UK HEADLINE TOUR

NEIGHBOURHOOD FESTIVAL 2017 LINE-UP ANNOUNCED

Manchester’s multi-venue Neighbourhood Festival is back! Over 100 artists and bands from all around the world will be performing across Manchester’s best and most iconic music venues the south side of the city on Saturday 7th October 2017. Headlining the festival are acclaimed live favourites Peace, and Rat Boy, along with some of the country’s […]
Girlpool have released a video for ‘Powerplant’, the title track from the long-awaited follow-up to the band’s critically acclaimed debut. Video director, Philip Steiger says the “music video is a meta-narrative nightmare exploring the power dynamics and manipulation behind an insincere candidness.” GIRLPOOL SEPTEMBER 2017 UK TOUR DATES Wed 6th – Bristol – Thekla Thur […]

GIRLPOOL SHARE ‘POWERPLANT’ VIDEO WITH UK TOUR DATES THIS SEPTEMBER

LIVE: JAPANDROIDS – 04/05/2017

– GORILLA, MANCHESTER – Some bands find their earlier years to be their most challenging, striving for recognition with unspectacular debuts, later hitting the big time with a breakthrough album (Prince, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Sonic Youth, Blur etc.). Many more make an astounding debut, then sink without a trace after the dreaded second album […]
Recent Rough Trade signings This Is The Kit will release their new album Moonshine Freeze on Friday 7th July 2017. This Is The Kit’s new album and Rough Trade debut, Moonshine Freeze, produced by John Parish (PJ Harvey, M Ward, Perfume Genius), began in the immediate wake of its predecessor, Bashed Out, when days after coming off tour […]

NEW ALBUM ‘MOONSHINE FREEZE’ DETAILS FROM THIS IS THE KIT ALONGSIDE ITS ROUGH TRADE SESSIONS VIDEO

LIVE: CIGARETTES AFTER SEX – 18/04/2017

– GORILLA, MANCHESTER – White snow dresses Manchester’s Gorilla. What was at first a light flurry has quickly settled into a bed around Greg Gonzalez’s hushed weather. The Texan-native asks for someone he’s been waiting for to return to him, and with the words “stay with me,” Gonzalez expressionlessly falls for the big ‘she’ for […]
Since their whirlwind inception and meteoric rise, Sylvan Esso have never played a show that didn’t sell out, with the upcoming date at London’s Village Underground selling out in mere hours. Now, with their long awaited second album What Now release via Loma Vista Recordings, they have announced their first full UK tour since 2015. […]

SYLVAN ESSO ANNOUNCE NOVEMBER 2017 UK TOUR DATES