MENACE BEACH ANNOUNCE DEBUT ALBUM AND FIRST UK TOUR

Leeds based Menace Beach will release their debut album, Ratworld, on January 19. The band, who originally formed in 2012, have also announced their first UK tour, which will include a date at The Castle on January 26. The record will be released through Memphis Industries, and the band have shared new song Blue Eye […]
– GORILLA, MANCHESTER – Possibly the best band currently signed to Sub Pop, although that might depend on your preference for angular, heavy, noisy, punk rock or Fleet Foxes. Pissed Jeans seem able to create sonic landscapes, themes and soundtracks to the irritations of life and the minutiae of the daily grind. They create an […]

LIVE: PISSED JEANS – 14/08/2014

NEWS: HOOKWORMS ANNOUNCE ISLINGTON MILL WEEKENDER

Besides the annual Sounds From The Other City weekender festival taking place at Islington Mill every year, the independent cultural hob that is Islington Mill has now had another array of acts added for a full weekend this May. Two of Manchester’s most prominent underground promoters, Grey Lantern and wotgodforgot, have teamed up to present […]
Following a hugely successful 2013 which featured Django Django, Bonobo, Local Natives and more, Beacons Festival returns for 2014 over the weekend of 7th August to 10th August. Beacons Festival is pleased to reveal the first acts for 2014. New York opulent disco / astral funk duo Darkside, ethereal and intimate yet mountain-range massive sounding […]

NEWS: BEACONS FESTIVAL – FIRST ACTS ANNOUNCED

LIVE: HOOKWORMS – 05/04/2013

– SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER – According to the bastion of truth that is Wikipedia, a hookworm is ‘a parasitic nematode that lives in the small intestine of its host, which may be a mammal such as a dog, cat, or human’. A parasite, something that sucks the life out of whatever unfortunate host it happens […]
– THE DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – There are times when it can take until the morning after for all the dust to settle on an evening’s events before you fully recognise how much you enjoyed a gig or not. Some of the times, it can be incredibly useful to mull it over, and writing a […]

LIVE: TY SEGALL – 08/11/2012

LIVE: PLANK! / HOOKWORMS – 27/07/2012

– SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER – It’s certainly the night for a mind-altering statement. At the very same time as one great Mancunian artist is subverting all expectations in front of a global audience, another group of them are tapping into the dark recesses of our imaginations on a far smaller scale. But whereas Danny Boyle […]
– THE DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – All the way from a basement in Wisconsin, the duo of Aaron Coyes and Indra Dunis finish their brief European tour in Manchester tonight, bringing their very young son Mikko along for the ride. Peaking Lights‘ homemade equipment, jumbled together from random bits of old electrical goods such as alarm […]
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LIVE: PEAKING LIGHTS – 10/12/2011