LIVE: SERAFINA STEER / PADDY STEER – 16/01/2013

– THE CASTLE HOTEL, MANCHESTER – We arrive a bit late to a full Castle and, lingering by the door, we hear music but can’t figure out where it’s coming from. The crowd seems to be collectively looking towards the floor to the left, and as we shuffle around trying to find a view-hole, Steve […]
– THE CASTLE HOTEL, MANCHESTER – So it’s fair to say that I’m pretty excited ahead of tonight’s events! Not only is today the day that the first albums of the 2013 have been released but I’m also at my first gig of the year at one of my favourite venues in Manchester for an […]

LIVE: DUTCH UNCLES – 14/01/2013

LIVE: 15TH CAREFULLY PLANNED ALL-DAYER – 12/01/2013

– THE CASTLE HOTEL, MANCHESTER – After a quiet few weeks for gig goers, the Manchester based live music promoters Carefully Planned helped wreck our New Years resolutions of a sober January by hosting the 15th CP All Dayer at Oldham Street institution, The Castle Hotel. I’m eager to see what the day has in […]
VENUE NAME:  THE CASTLE HOTEL ADDRESS: 66 OLDHAM STREET MANCHESTER M41LE CONTACT TELEPHONE NUMBER:01612379485 CONTACT EMAIL ADDRESS: [email protected] WEBSITE/FACEBOOK/TWITTER: http://thecastlehotel.info/  http://www.facebook.com/castlehotelmanchester http://twitter.com/thecastlehotel ESTABLISHED/HISTORY: Est 1776. Under current management since 2009. Venue opened Oct 2010 CAPACITY: 70 Standing PEAK TIMES OF THE YEAR: October – May BEERS AVAILABLE: 10 Cask Handpulls (9 Ale & 1 Cider), World […]

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LIVE: THOMAS TRUAX / SONGS FOR WALTER / SILVER – 28/09/2012

– THE CASTLE HOTEL, MANCHESTER – I’m not really sure what support would be fitting for a Thomas Truax gig when I think about it, but for some reason I am quite surprised to see this shy, sad seeming girl with purple hair and a red top playing some sort of ultra reverb guitar with […]
Sub Pop are delighted to announce that Australian quartet Husky are returning to the UK for a series of dates this month. This is a great opportunity to catch the band live following the release of their debut album ‘Forever So’. You can watch a stunning rendition of the album’s opening track “Tidal Wave” in […]

NEWS: HUSKY – LIVE VIDEO + DOWNLOAD ‘TIDAL WAVE’ + TOUR DATES

NEWS: SISSY & THE BLISTERS – HEAR TWO TRACKS FROM THE FORTHCOMING ALBUM

Sissy & The Blisters have unleashed an energetic live performance of ‘Do It Alone’, filmed as part of a Youth Hymns Session. The track, alongside their forthcoming single ‘Killing Time’, is taken from Sissy & The Blister’s debut album, set for release early 2013. Sissy & The Blisters had a sensational year in 2011. The lead […]
To celebrate the release of their second long player ‘Fountayne Mountain’ (released May 28th), Cloud Sounds brings The See See to The Castle Hotel, Manchester on Saturday, June 9th. London-based psychedelic pop band The See See are Richard Olson, Pete Greenwood, Kevin Peyok, Paulie Cobra, Phil Anderson and Ben Swank. They originally hail from as […]

NEWS: THE SEE SEE – MANCHESTER LIVE DATE DETAILS + HEAR ‘FIX ME UP’

NEWS: SPRING OFFENSIVE – SELF RELEASED SINGLE + LIVE DATES

Following their triumphant European tour last October and the success of their sold-out single ‘A Stutter and a Start’, Oxford’s SPRING OFFENSIVE now return to the limelight with their brand new anthem of dissatisfaction, ‘Worry Fill My Heart’. Vocalist Lucas Whitworth explains, “It’s a reaction to that feeling of impotence when confronted with a difficult […]
– THE CASTLE HOTEL, MANCHESTER – I normally like to go into gigs ‘blind’, so to speak, to have no preconceptions, but as I planned to review this one I thought I ought to do some research.  My research brought up some mellow, yet lively sounding songs sung in English that suggested they were written with […]

LIVE: THE RUMOUR SAID FIRE – 13/03/2012