LIVE: THE BLUETONES / JORDAN ALLEN / THE GALLERYS – 17/05/2018

-O2 RITZ, MANCHESTER- O2 Ritz is one of those places that takes on whichever band or artist is playing – the vibe is set by the music, the crowd and how excitable they are. So I’m a bit unsure what to expect from 90s Britpoppers The Bluetones on Thursday – a bit of an institution […]
– FRED’S ALE HOUSE, MANCHESTER – “You wanna keep your change down your socks on this road. And your notes up your…” Mark Morriss seems to have Stockport Road all worked out during his two-night residency at Levenshulme’s Fred’s Ale House. He should know the score by now, this being his third two-night stint at […]

LIVE: MARK MORRISS – 17/02/2017

ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN AND INSPIRAL CARPETS FOR INDIE ALL DAYER

Echo and the Bunnymen and the Inspiral Carpets are the headline acts for all day indie festival at Manchester Academy on Saturday. The Gigantic Indie All Dayer Vol.2 will run across Academy 1, 2 and Club Academy on Oxford Road, kicking off at 1.30pm and running right through until 11.30pm. The festival’s main stage in […]
– THE DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – It was Christmas day of 1996 when I first heard the distinctive vocals of Mark Morriss. I had just received my first CD player and the only CD I had to play on it was Now 35. One of that compilation’s highlights was The Bluetones’s ‘Marblehead Johnson’. Some 18 […]

LIVE: MARK MORRISS – 12/10/2014

Album Review: Mark Morriss – A Flash of Darkness

“To be honest, I didn’t know what I was going to do. So I threw a lot of irons into the fire”. Since the break-up of the Bluetones in 2011, a band with an enviable career span that largely managed to avoid the Britpop roll call of the 90s, front man Mark Morriss has been […]
– TIGER LOUNGE, MANCHESTER – Mark Morriss was the front man of Brit indie outfit The Bluetones (1993 – 2011 RIP) and most fondly remembered for making a duffle coat look well hot. Probably equally so, the band were responsible for some of the best loved songs that helped to shape one of the most […]

LIVE: MARK MORRISS – 30/11/2013