Divide and Dissolve

LIVE: DIVIDE AND DISSOLVE – 14/11/2022

– The White Hotel, Manchester – The White Hotel’s very foundations are shaking. The metal shutter behind me is practically part of the show, vibrating and reverberating as doomy Australian post rockers Divide and Dissolve (D&D) absolutely destroy all notions of noise that I’ve ever experienced, taking the concept of ‘you can actually feel the […]
– The White Hotel, Manchester – New Orleans industrial disco punks Special Interest specialise in the intense, pushing their sound, political lyrics, and performances to the extreme in the grand tradition of punk bands. Singer Alli Logout leads the ensemble, their frequently angry, incendiary callout lyrics dealing in really showing you how shit the world […]
Special Interest

LIVE: SPECIAL INTEREST– 5/11/2022

LoneLady

LIVE: LONELADY – 07/04/2022

– The White Hotel, Manchester – I’ve somehow gotten this far without ever seeing LoneLady (aka Julie Campbell) live, and I’m not sure how this happened. I’ve been a fan since her superb second album ‘Hinterland’ from 2015, a brooding, funky, post-punk masterpiece that seemed to reflect the stark, post industrial wastelands still found in […]
-THE WHITE HOTEL, SALFORD- With the White Hotel largely full to capacity, it appears appropriate the Raincoats would perform their debut LP in its entirety 10 years after its 30th anniversary. If I abided by convention, I would proceed to ramble on about their supposed importance and point out the vague connections they have to […]

LIVE: THE RAINCOATS – 15/11/2019

LIVE: WHITE FENCE / ESYA / THE STARLIGHT MAGIC HOUR – 17/08/2019

-THE WHITE HOTEL, SALFORD- The idea of amassing a selection of bands a few clicks off normal appears to pay off as the White Hotel’s ‘performance room’ slowly starts to fill to capacity in time for the headliner/non-set closer White Fence. I had the suspicion that carting out a load of bands on a half […]
-THE WHITE HOTEL, SALFORD- I enter to Croww, who I know to be on label Death of Rave and for his debut, Prosthetics, highly constituted of snippets from a Slipknot sample pack. His hood is down over his cap, the hoody reads Customer. We’ve arrived to the set underway, with samples that sound like they’re […]

LIVE: WILLIAM BASINSKI / CROWW – 24/10/2018

LIVE: HOOKWORMS – 10/03/2018

-THE WHITE HOTEL, SALFORD- Hookworms have made the best album of 2018. It’s a provocative statement, especially at the start of March, but right now I believe it to be true. Great albums often come with a backstory, their own built-in folklore, something that can be easily distilled into a short conversation that the record’s […]
-THE WHITE HOTEL, SALFORD- Far from the Northern Quarter, the beating heart of Manchester’s thriving indie scene, lies a desolate industrial complex. Surrounded by scrap tips and disused lock up garages, in the arse end of Salford, stands the equally desolate looking White Hotel. However this desolate exterior hides a much darker secret inside… As […]

LIVE: MOON DUO – 01/02/2018

MOON DUO ANNOUNCE JAN/FEB 2018 TOUR OF UK & IRELAND

2017 has been a busy year for Moon Duo, releasing not one but two albums and touring the world from Mexico to South Africa, including their largest London headline show to date at a sold out Heaven. Now, as the year draws to a close, they have announced plans to return to the UK at […]
Grey Lantern present HOOKWORMS – THE LOST WEEKEND II Hookworms headline both days, with a different supporting line-up each day curated by the band: CONTAINER – HAPPY MEALS DRAHLA – COWTOWN – VIRGINIA WING RICHARD FORMBY – RATTLE The White Hotel, Salford Friday 9th and Saturday 10th March 2018 Doors 7:30pm Tickets £12 (EXCL FEES) […]

HOOKWORMS RETURN TO HEADLINE AND CURATE ‘THE LOST WEEKEND’ IN MARCH 2018 WITH CONTAINER, COWTOWN, AND MORE