LIVE: HUNDRED WATERS – 23/10/2017

-DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER- Hundred Waters are a hard band to pin down, genre wise. Made up of vocalist Nicole Miglis, electronics whizz Trayer Tyron and percussionist Zach Tetreault, they can twist from lo-fi electronic folk loveliness to full electro-pop banger to all consuming noise, sometimes within the same song, and often punctured by sections of […]
-DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER- As our charge towards the future shows no signs of slowing down, I expect more stories to begin this way, but as it is, tonight is the first time I’m going to see a band having been introduced to them by Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlist. Back then there were two EPs available, […]

LIVE: OTHERKIN / KASHMERE – 22/10/2017

JEN CLOHER IS FOREVER A ‘STRONG WOMAN’ IN HER NEW VIDEO – WITH FEBRUARY 2018 UK DATES TO SHOW FOR IT

Jen Cloher’s new video for single ‘Strong Woman’ was filmed just weeks ago in a London warehouse during a whirlwind sold-out tour of the UK and Europe. The video is the result of a back-to-basics approach – a two-camera crew captured Cloher and her band blitzing through one of the album’s highlights. The song itself […]
Protomartyr have just released their fourth album, Relatives In Descent, their debut for new label home Domino.  Prior to its release, the band share the third single off the album, and perhaps one of their most straight-forward and anthemic songs to date. ‘Don’t Go To Anacita’ takes place in a fictional town of singer Joe […]

PROTOMARTYR SHARE ‘DON’T GO TO ANACITA’ – LISTEN HERE

LIVE: THE MURLOCS – 20/09/2017

-DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER- For a harmonica-playing psych-enthusiast, Melbourne band The Murlocs were essentially a dream come true.  I immediately fell for Ambrose Kenny-Smith’s snarling vocals and classic bluesman swagger, and the garage guitars. They were also my introduction to the wonderful Flightless record label – an introduction that led me to King Gizzard and the […]
-DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER- Nadia Reid is one of a string of female folk artists, think Julie Byrne, Julia Jacklin, and Aldous Harding, that have broken through this year. The distinct silence that meets Nadia’s question of how many people were at her last Manchester concert in February just shows how quick her rise has been. […]

LIVE: NADIA REID – 31/08/2017

LIVE: COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS – 24/08/2017

-DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER- “Living on the road, my friend, was gonna keep you free and clean/But now you wear your skin like iron and your breath’s as hard as kerosene.” Townes Van Zandt – ‘Pancho and Lefty’ If Courtney Marie Andrews’ admiration of Van Zandt’s records goes back far enough, to when she was 16, […]
-DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER- The artwork adorning the Culture Abuse T-shirts and hoodies for sale at the merch table depicts harsh wire fences, but the San Francisco Bay Area five-piece is at heart a party band, and the price list placed alongside the merch states that booze and weed are accepted methods of payment. Second of […]

LIVE: CULTURE ABUSE – 23/08/2017

LIVE: ROB CROW’S GLOOMY PLACE / SWEET DEALS ON SURGERY / MINNA – 22/08/2017

-DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER- Something which has never happened in the history of live music is happening: a gig is running early. Yes, early. This means that we miss a couple of Minna‘s early offerings, but they make a tremendous racket. Information is non-existent on the presumably local trio, the drummer in a constant whirr while […]
-DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER- What’s going on here, then? It’s not even 8pm and the merch table is 4 deep with t-shirts and records flying from one side of the counter to the other at a sweatshop pace; this isn’t normal. Then again, neither are Sheer Mag. A quintet formed in upstate New York (in Purchase, […]

LIVE: SHEER MAG / TV CRIME – 23/07/2017