LIVE: RECORD STORE DAY LIVE – VULGARIANS / MUTABASE / STRANGE FRIENDS – 21/04/2018

-SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER- Record Store Day is a time for people to get together to celebrate their love of records, all the while supporting their local music stores. The Northern Quarter in Manchester is the hub where all the action takes place. As soon as I step off the bus in Shudehill I am met […]
-SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER- The Beauty Witch have brought something special to a drab Tuesday night in Manchester in the form of Minami Deutsch, who are Japan’s answer to all your krautrock needs. First up we have Girl Sweat, a one-man maniacal compilation of electronic noise and bizarre vocal sound. Having garnered a loyal local fan […]

LIVE: MINAMI DEUTSCH / GIRL SWEAT – 10/04/2018

LIVE: NO AGE – 31/03/2018

-SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER- This is the loudest gig I’ve been to in a long, long while. Sweet Jesus is it loud. Even through my earplugs (protect your hearing kids!) it’s loud, and that is pretty damn impressive. Nothing is ever going to top the My Bloody Valentine show I saw as the most ear destroying […]
-SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER- Two promotional entities, The Beauty Witch and Grey Lantern, have joined forces to bring California’s Carlton Melton to Soup Kitchen tonight for a hotly anticipated showing following the release of their latest album, Mind Minerals, which came out last week – the band’s first since 2015. The band Carlton Melton were formed […]

LIVE: CARLTON MELTON – 23/02/2018

LIVE: A. SAVAGE / JACK COOPER – 01/02/2018

-SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER- Arriving early, I dawdle at the unmanned merch stand. Jack Cooper’s debut solo record Sandgrown is for sale. The cover is black and white and carries the effect of a woodblock print. A drawing of a straight-faced Cooper with his eyes closed foregrounds the silhouettes of key Blackpool architecture, notably the tower. […]
-SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER- The modern psychedelic scene is known for its ingenuity, originality and prolificness, and with an abundance of bands like King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and Thee Oh Sees who produce fresh, hard hitting, tripped-out anthems that draw from the heyday of psychedelia whilst still managing to sound fresh and organic, it […]

LIVE: WAND / EAST SISTER – 26/01/2018

LIVE: EMMA RUTH RUNDLE / JAYE JAYLE – 15/12/2017

-SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER- Due to unforeseen circumstances on my way to the event, the first support act I get to see tonight is Jaye Jayle, comprising of Evan Patterson and backing band. They appear in the cavernous basement of the Soup Kitchen, illuminated only by soft orange light, emitted by two lonely bulbs, one flickering […]
Soup Kitchen and MIDI Artists present FRANCIS LUNG’S XMAS PARTY plus guests KEEP DANCING INC. + PAINTED NAILS Soup Kitchen, Manchester Monday 11th December 2017 Doors 7pm Tickets £6 Adv. (EXCL FEES) Following soirées with Blaenavon and more, Manchester pop troubadour Francis Lung returns with the latest installment of his annual Xmas Party, this time […]

IT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR… THE FRANCIS LUNG XMAS PARTY AT SOUP KITCHEN

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Soup Kitchen present KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS plus guests AND YET IT MOVES Soup Kitchen, Manchester Monday 4th December 2017 Doors 7pm Tickets £12.50 (EXCL FEES) Kid Congo Powers & The Pink Monkey Birds Facebook  

KID CONGO POWERS RETURNS TO MANCHESTER WITH THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS