LIVE: DUKE GARWOOD – 12/02/2017

– DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – It’s been a while since the Deaf Institute, with its adapted original features and perfect gig ambience, committed cultural harakiri and was eclipsed by the apparently more original-feature-featuring, more perfectly ambient and notably larger Albert Hall. Once the hottest alt gig venue in town, the good old Deafy could no […]
– DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – When you decide you like a band, you listen to their music and decide, “I like that”. You don’t need their influences listed and what they’ve done previously to decide if you like them. However if that was all I had to go on without listening to Boxed In, I […]

LIVE: BOXED IN – 09/02/2017

SHE DREW THE GUN ANNOUNCE UPCOMING ALBUM AND UK TOUR DETAILS

She Drew The Gun have announced details of their album Memories Of Another Future and their upcoming UK tour. To be released Friday March 17th 2017 on Skeleton Key Records and produced by James Skelly (The Coral), Memories Of Another Future contains the singles ‘Poem’, ‘Pit Pony’ and ‘Since You Were Not Mine’. A new […]
– DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – Vaults’ rise to fame is one that epitomises today’s musical landscape. The electronic trio first pricked the ears of listeners when they uploaded ‘Cry No More’ to Soundcloud. The viral hit soon amassed 100,000 plays in just one week and they were soon fielding calls to appear on the soundtrack […]

LIVE: VAULTS – 06/02/2017

LIVE: STAY FRESH FEST 2 – 28/01/2017

– DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – For a lot of people, the new year takes a few weeks to get properly started. But with the cobwebs cleared and the post-Christmas diets given up on, Trof and The Skinny have joined heads to get the 2017 live music year up and running for good. Following on from […]
– DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – It’s Monday night and the Deaf Institute is heaving. In fact, the audience must be double the one that came to see Cass McCombs’ last Deaf Institute show. ‘Mangy Love’, Cass’ most recent record, is a large reason for this swell in the audience. His most concise record to date, […]

LIVE: CASS McCOMBS – 23/01/2017

NOW CLOSED – TICKET GIVEAWAY: PAIR OF TICKETS (AND A MEAL) FOR STAY FRESH FEST II

September 2016 saw the first Stay Fresh Fest take over two floors of one of Manchester’s favourite venues The Deaf Institute. The all-dayer which hosted eight emerging acts from around the North West was such a success that Stay Fresh Fest II is ready to roll again on the 28th of January. This time round […]
– THE DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – It’s always a nice feeling when a project that you’ve been following for a good few years finally makes it to your city. I was entranced by the debut EP from HalfNoise back in 2012, thanks to both the silky smooth vocals of its leader Zac Farro, and the […]

LIVE: HALFNOISE – 11/01/2017

LIVE: CATE LE BON – 14/12/2016

– THE DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – Known as being one of Cate Le Bon’s favourite venues, tonight she returns for the second night in a row to a packed Deaf Institute. “I wish I could play Manchester every night”. Her latest album ‘Crab Day’ somehow managed to upstage her superb 2013 album, ‘Mug Museum’, and so […]
After the success of our first two floor live band party back in September with the likes of Cowtown, Peaness, and Pink Kink rocking the place, we couldn’t wait to throw another one. On 28th January, that’s exactly what we’ll be doing, bigger and better than ever, to well and truly make a stamp on […]

STAY FRESH FEST RETURNS