LIVE: THE BLINDERS / STRANGE BONES – 03/02/2018

-DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER- It’s Saturday night in blustery Manchester and it’s time for something loud, aggressive yet infectious all the same. Tonight’s supper is a run in with Doncaster’s latest and probably best export (because let’s face it the football team isn’t anything to write home about) which comes in the shape of a psych/punk […]
-DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER- “Sorry we’re a couple minutes late. We were water skiing.” With that explanation out of the way, the tooth that’s all silver and shiny in the mouth of Deer Tick’s John McCauley might be a fortified one he uses to bite off his beer-bottle top before his exhaled breath propels it up […]

LIVE: DEER TICK – 01/02/2018

LIVE: WOLF PEOPLE – 27/01/2018

-DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER- Drawing their name from the Margaret Greaves children’s book Little Jacko and the Wolf People, Wolf People are a psychedelic quartet formed in 2005 in Bedfordshire. Tonight, they play Deaf Institute in Manchester. As the disco ball dangling above the crowd shoots amber and violet hues across the room, four unassuming thirty […]
-DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER- “I love L.A.” darks-out of frontwoman Arrow de Wilde’s mouth. Although restrained, the statement speaks to an unchained relationship with glamour and the grotesque that colours the 18-year-old’s presence, and when released, the words don’t simply fall, but are supercharged by an accompanying quarter-pint of blood that spills from Wilde’s lips and […]

LIVE: STARCRAWLER – 17/01/2018

LIVE: THE ORIELLES / BOY AZOOGA / ILAND TAIPAN – 08/12/2017

-DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER- It’s already bleak December, but we may have a new festival favourite to watch in 2018. Usually that’s a precipitous view; what, dear reader, can align for the soft whiff of cow fields and the clink of tinnies in a rucksack whilst winter is still nipping our bones? Well, personally, it’s the […]
-GORILLA, MANCHESTER- Alex Cameron’s gigs feel like novels. Without doubt one of the best lyricists and storytellers in music at the moment, you spend the time watching him and his band as well as watching his stories unfold in your mind’s eye. A sign of good writing is that you can see everything that is […]

LIVE: ALEX CAMERON – 06/12/2017

LIVE: DESTROYER – 04/12/2017

-DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER- Music isn’t a commodity. It’s a luxury that’s somehow been devalued to the point that a large proportion of the population just stream whatever they want for free and never give the artist a penny themselves. It’s bizarre and it makes me sad, but that’s where we are as a people. Tonight’s […]
– DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – She is buoyant, rolling her shoulders in a red cotton shirt. The stage is pouring with energy, the kind you rarely get – not mad, or athletic, but the feel of an afterglow dance at a house party, when everyone has left the living room and Fleetwood Mac has arrived […]

LIVE: TOPS – 18/11/2017

LIVE: BIG THIEF – 03/11/2017

-DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER- When Donald Trump’s twitter account was recently disabled and the leader of the free world found himself with nothing to do, I’d like to imagine he took the opportunity to have a few minutes, just for himself. That he sent his aides away, went into the Oval Office and closed the door, […]
Irish garage-rockers Otherkin have announced a new batch of pre-Christmas shows in England and Scotland. OTHERKIN 2017 UK TOUR DATES October Sun 22/10 Deaf Institute, Manchester Mon 23/10 Crofters Rights, Bristol Tue 24/10 Club Ifor Bach, Cardiff Wed 25/10 Face Bar, Reading Thur 26/10 Camden Assembly, London Sat 28/10 Forum Basement, Tunbridge Wells Sun 29/10 […]

OTHERKIN ANNOUNCE FRESH UK TOUR DATES IN DECEMBER