LIVE: MARISSA NADLER – 08/12/2016

– NIGHT & DAY CAFE, MANCHESTER – The smothering pill of harpist Mary Lattimore’s semi-improvised, semi-digital dialogue dissolves in the pool of Manchester’s Night & Day Café – forming clouds of glittering movement and swallowing, memory-landscape. As Lattimore’s moon-music pushes and pulls, red velvet swims up behind the audience – leading a band of cowboy-coloured […]
– NIGHT & DAY CAFE, MANCHESTER – Before I talk of my disappointment with Doomsquad, hailing from Canada, I firstly want to give a quick mention about support act The Six. If these were supporting anyone else, I’d probably hit the bar and wait for them to fuck off stage before shuffling back into the […]

LIVE: DOOMSQUAD – 25/05/2016

LIVE: MANCHESTER PSYCH FEST IV – 14/05/2016

– NIGHT & DAY CAFE/AATMA, MANCHESTER – Sunny Saturday afternoon in Manchester (yes!) and it’s so tempting to leave everything behind and have a healthy sunbath. Duty calls however and when I get to Aatma, it feels like joining a vampires’ meeting. A nice crowd dances to the temperamental Psyblings. Sweet young insanity comes in […]
– NIGHT & DAY CAFE, MANCHESTER – “Are they all girls?” asks a girl next to me, clearly shocked by the four women standing before us. Ironically it is this sort of cloaked sexism that the band take aim at with their lo-fi, stagnant guitar music. Their guitarist does not shave her armpits, they hail […]

LIVE: CHASTITY BELT – 12/05/2016

NEW ACTS ADDED TO MANCHESTER PSYCH FEST

NOVELLA, THE WATCHMAKERS, SECRET FIX, COWTOWN added to Psychedelic celebration  Phobophobes, Enemies Eyes, Psyblings, Lavender also join the multi-venue festival. SATURDAY MAY 14TH 2016   London female trio Novella make the trip North for Manchester’s 4th Psych fest along with fellow Londoners Phobophobes. Secret Fix (featuring members of Temples) also make the trip, whilst Leeds noise makers Cowtown bring their […]
– NIGHT & DAY CAFÉ, MANCHESTER – Tonight at Night and Day Café is introduced to us by Nev Cottee, he is calming and soothing with notes that are reminiscent of being at the beach, relaxing with the lapping of the ocean. Though between his deep voice and his music, it seems apt to query […]

LIVE: JEFF WOOTTON – 23/03/2016

PLAYING WITH SOUND LABEL LAUNCH

The latest and most exciting record label to emerge form the Northwest – PLAYING WITH SOUND – are delighted to announce themselves to the public with a launch night at Manchester’s immortal indie hub: Night & Day. On Friday 26th February, the budding indie label will be celebrating their recent formation  and introducing you to the sounds […]
With his UK tour starting this week, Sweet Baboo (aka Stephen Black) has shared the new video for ‘Blowing Up My Mind‘, taken from the forthcoming Dennis EP. Black says of the song, “Blowing Up My Mind is a northern soul classic. It was originally recorded by The Exciters. We recorded it as a B-side to Got To Hang On To You (we namecheck The Exciters and […]

SWEET BABOO SHARES ‘BLOWING UP MY MIND’ VIDEO

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WHYTE HORSES REVEAL NEW TRACK ‘LA COULEUR ORIGINELLE’

Manchester based Whyte Horses have unveiled ‘La Couleur Originelle’. It is the second single to be taken from their upcoming debut release Pop or Not which is landing in Spring 2016. Recalling the wonder of wistful kids theme tune ‘White Horses’, producer Dom Thomas and friends began working on a set of songs that would channel […]
– NIGHT & DAY CAFE, MANCHESTER – Tonight at one of the most hotly contested Manchester music venues, we are set for a night of industrial music with just a hint of a psychedelic twist. The scene is set by Manchester’s own industrial post-hardcore offering, Werk, who managed to rattle every bottle behind the bar and […]

LIVE: THE SOFT MOON – 20/10/2015