LIVE: SHE KEEPS BEES – 13/11/2014

– GULLIVERS, MANCHESTER – Shamefully, this is only my first gig at Gullivers. The 1st floor room above a pub offers kitsch decor, with heavy gold curtains surrounding the low stage. The walls and ceiling are deep red, with small chandeliers hanging from bosses, giving the room a vampiric quality. Shuffling to the front is essential […]
Welsh singer-songwriter Sweet Baboo has unveiled a track from his new album, ahead of a UK tour which stops off in Manchester on December 11. Sweet Baboo, aka Stephen Black, is set to release his album next year, but has shared Home to mark his co-headline tour with The Pictish Trail, which starts on November […]

SWEET BABOO RELEASES TRACK FROM NEW ALBUM AHEAD OF CO-HEADLINE TOUR

TWO-DAY FESTIVAL HITS NORTHERN QUARTER THIS WEEKEND

The fourth A Carefully Planned Festival, which includes more than 120 bands playing seven venues, will hit the Northern Quarter this Saturday and Sunday. The eclectic festival, which has previously attracted the likes of Alt-J, Everything Everything and Peace, will be held in The Castle, Cord, Gullivers, Kraak, Mint Lounge, Soup Kitchen, and the Whiskey Jar. This […]
Twisted Reel, the Northern Quarter’s regular film night, is screening ‘Dig!’ Compiled from seven years of footage, Ondi Timoner’s ‘Dig!’ contrasts the developing careers and love-hate relationship of the bands ‘The Dandy Warhols’ and ‘The Brian Jonestown Massacre’ and the bands’ respective front men Courtney Taylor-Taylor and Anton Newcombe. Dig! Is a study in delusion, […]

TWISTED REEL TO SCREEN DIG! A FILM ABOUT THE DANDY WARHOLS AND THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE

NEWS: SCOTT WALKER 30 CENTURY MAN FILM SCREENING

From 1960s pop icon to 21st century avant-garde musician, Scott Walker’s musical metamorphosis and increasingly uncompromising attitude to his work makes him revered by many in the business yet largely ignored by the public…30 Century Man charts this enigmatic figures life and music and explores the darkness that imbues both… As part of the Manchester […]
Here’s a bit of a low-down on some of this Saturday’s RSD action in Manchester. INSTORE AT PICCADILLY RECORDS DJ sets: 12pm-1pm: Ben Ward (Sways Records) 1pm-2pm: Eccentronic Research Council ft. Maxine Peake 2pm-3pm: Nev Cottee 3pm-4pm: The Emperor Machine 4pm-5pm: Smoke Fairies Exclusive live performance: 5.30pm-6.00pm: Smoke Fairies COMMON AND PICCADILLY RECORDS PRESENTS THE 3RD ANNUAL […]

RECORD STORE (SHOP) DAY: WHAT’S ON WHERE

LIVE: JOHNNY FOREIGNER – 16/03/14

– GULLIVERS, MANCHESTER – Gullivers is fast becoming one of my favourite Manchester venues. With its chandelier-esque light fixings, deep red walls and mustard coloured drapes, it feels like I’m in a David Lynch movie every time I go in. Today, it plays host to an all-dayer presented by Manchester based lo-fi label Cheesus Crust […]
– GULLIVERS, MANCHESTER – The best and most interesting bands demonstrate free, just will like the rest of us,  and make their decisions according to their own vision, for good or ill.  Relying on formula is clearly not on the agenda of for Ill, who are already on stage as I arrive at Gullivers.  First […]

LIVE: TRASH KIT / SEX HANDS / ILL – 26/02/2014

NEWS: TWISTED REEL TO SCREEN ‘A BAND CALLED DEATH’

Ahead of its official UK release, Twisted Reel has managed to arrange a special intimate screening of the critically acclaimed documentary ‘A Band Called Death’ at Gullivers on Friday the 7th of March. Before Punk … before Bad Brains, the Sex Pistols or even the Ramones, there was a band called Death. Punk before punk […]
Jonny Booth, Manchester Licensee- The Castle Hotel | Business Partner- Gulliver’s, The Eagle & The Parlour | Guitarist- Biederbeck | Top dude & Busy bloke The Wave: In the true spirit of “if you can’t get a job done, do it your fucking self’; the tale of how a bunch of band mates grew tired […]

THE WAVE: JONNY BOOTH (The Castle Hotel/Gullivers/The Eagle)