Isolation Blues #1
Welcome to our new regular feature 'Isolation Blues' whereby we post a playlist of some tracks we've been listening to in the last week that have helped to navigate through this strange new landscape. There are... Read More...
Review // Tired Lion @ Gullivers
Words by Beth Madden.
Tired Lion have travelled a long way to be here tonight - all the way from Perth, Australia in fact. I imagine that their stint in the UK has been worth it though, considering it includ... Read More...
Gig News // Ty Segall Brings The Muggers To Manchester
It's now just over a week until cult garage rock demigod Ty Segall will grace god's city with the fruits of his all-round musical prolificacy.
Urban deification aside, the ornate balconies of The Ritz will b... Read More...
Review // Gildings, Turf & Karen Turley @ Dulcimer
Words by Ged Camera
As the sun beams down over Chorlton on a Bank Holiday weekend, catching everyone by surprise, the long, narrow, darkened room upstairs at Dulcimer is packed. The reason for this avoidance... Read More...
Weekly Preview // 31.05-05.06
You might be aware that we recently launched this brand new website design, courtesy of the creative paws of Fris Design and OH Digital. As well as comprehensive listings neatly compiling all the shows you need... Read More...
Festival News // Dot To Dot Announces Stage Times
With under a week left on the countdown to the Northern Quarter music event of the year, Dot To Dot Festival's organisers have released the set times across all of its 20 Manchester stages.
Whether you like ... Read More...
Weekly Preview // 16.05-22.05
The Premier League season ended with a bang yesterday - a very controlled bang with few people watching and fans going home disappointed. This week's events preview blog invites all manner of suspect musical de... Read More...
Review // Sounds From The Other City 2016
Words and Photos by Ged Camera
For those people who get frustrated when they hear about a superb event that took place nearby but they missed it, you’d best prepare to feel frustrated. To avoid it next year,... Read More...
Review // Skaters @ Night & Day Cafe
Words and Photos by Wes Foster
With their latest EP, Skaters have cemented their post-punk orientated selves, heading more in the direction of the likes of ‘Nice Hat’ and ‘This Much I Care’ from the first re... Read More...
Festival News // Dot To Dot Announces More Bands
The annual tri-city triumph Dot to Dot has scouted yet more songsmiths for its rapidly approaching urban festival. Have a gander at the poster below to see who'll be joining Mystery Jets, Augustines and The Tem... Read More...
Weekly Preview // 09.05-15.05
It was David Attenborough's 90th on Sunday 8th, an indirect purveyor of music in its most natural form through birdsong, grasshopper choruses and uninhibited mating cries. If you unplug those earphones and list... Read More...
Preview // Dan Sartain @ Night & Day Cafe
Words by Wes Foster
Sartain is one of a rare few who can really write.
Take, for example, his overlooked album Dudesblood – a mix of rock, rockabilly and punk smatters the album like no other. The simplic... Read More...
Weekly Preview // 25.04-01.05
If there's a form of transport that's often pervaded lyrical content, it's aviation. From BB King's aviation history to the McCartneys' backing band, Wings; from the DJ known as Aeroplane to Lenny Kravitz's 'Fl... Read More...
Competition // Win Tickets To Sounds From The Other City 2016
When Sounds From The Other City first started up as a May bank holiday celebration of the area’s nascent musical talent, it was based around the four corner pubs where Chapel Street is dissected by Bloom Street... Read More...
Review // Mother @ Soup Kitchen
Words and Photos by Ged Camera
"The harder I work the easier it looks," is a quote loosely attributed to George Best, but if you ignore the fact that he was considered to be one of most naturally talented fo... Read More...
Weekly Preview // 18.04-24.04
If the music we feature on BagThing has a common space then it's a tendency to tread new aural territories. This chap's proclamation of the Free Republic of Liberland as a new nation state might fit in, albeit ... Read More...
News // ATP to bring Drive Like Jehu and John Carpenter to Manchester
This April sees the relocated Drive Like Jehu ATP Festival on our Greater Manchester doorstep.
The event had been scheduled for North Wales, but Pontins' loss is Manchester's gain. The venue change means pun... Read More...
Review // Wolf Alice @ Academy 1
Words by Kristofer Thomas
The best thing about a gig full of 16-year-olds is that I can easily see over everyone’s heads.
Less a concert and more a sea of poorly framed videos, Wolf Alice’s show tonight a... Read More...