MANCHESTER PSYCH FEST THIS SEPTEMBER – GIRL BAND TO HEADLINE – LINE-UP HERE

One of the most thrilling live bands on the psych scene, Girl Band, headline Manchester Psych Fest on Saturday 2nd September 2017. Spread across three leading Northern Quarter venues – Band on the Wall, Night & Day Café, and Soup Kitchen, this year sees the largest Manchester Psych Fest yet, with a line-up boasting Girl […]
Leeds band Menace Beach “Holidays Are Heavy.” Listen to the song, and watch its accompanying video, on YouTube below: Ryan from the band: “I love the winter cos I like wearing scarves and chucking snowballs at buses. This song is about the fact that even if you can’t buy presents and stuff for people, you […]
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MENACE BEACH SHARE ‘HOLIDAYS ARE HEAVY’

Fruit Bomb

INTERVIEW: FRUIT BOMB

Last night, Fruit Bomb, Fallowfield’s very own Garage Pop band, were picked by The Skinny to play alongside Menace Beach, Weirds and False Advertising. This is just part of the recent acclaim the band has started to receive – they have just streamed their first single ‘Goin Home’ on the NME. This hype might well […]
All of this for just £3 (with no booking fee at Dice.fm), and you’ll be able to pick up a copy of The Skinny Student Handbook. Then you get to see Leeds’ grunge band MENACE BEACH on the same day new EP ‘Super Transporterreum’ is launched. Then there’s fellow Leeds outfit Weirds, a band whose […]

TROF & THE SKINNY PRESENT: MENACE BEACH,WEIRDS,FALSE ADVERTISING & FRUIT BOMB

LIVE: THE KVB / PINS / MENACE BEACH – 28/08/2015

– SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER – So, its just gone 7pm on this Friday night and I’m stuck in work. I have that Friday feeling though so all is good! I get a text from my mate to say that the first of three bands that I’m due to go and see after work, are on […]
– VARIOUS VENUES, MANCHESTER – It’s just turned half 6 and already the evening is off to a bad start. I’m at The Roadhouse, the first stop on a long night of festivities for Dot To Dot Festival, and I’m reluctantly paying £4.50 for a pint. To make matters worse, before I can even take […]

LIVE: DOT TO DOT 2015 – 22/05/2015

LIVE: THE CRIBS – 25/02/2015

– THE RITZ, MANCHESTER – When I look back on my teen years and the bands I use to adore, it makes me sad to think that those bands are now defunct or still clinging on to fame by releasing the same records. The Cribs are one of the few bands from this period who […]
– THE CASTLE HOTEL, MANCHESTER – Menace Beach have the unconstrained fervour of a rock ‘n’ roll band that encounter newfound adulation in every sweaty pub venue in every town they roll into. Tonight marks exactly a week since their excellent debut album Ratworld was unleashed upon the world, and as given away when frontman […]

LIVE: MENACE BEACH – 26/01/2015

MENACE BEACH SHARE DEBUT ALBUM BEFORE RELEASE

Menace Beach have made their debut album available ahead of its release on Monday. The Leeds based band are streaming their debut album Ratworld via Hype Machine, before its release on Memphis Industries. The band was formed after the breakup of Derby band Komakino, whose vocalist Ryan Needham now shares vocal duties with Liza Violet […]
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 […]

MENACE BEACH ANNOUNCE DEBUT ALBUM AND FIRST UK TOUR