Isolation Blues #3
Welcome to the latest edition of 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 ne... Read More...
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 // Damo Suzuki @ The White Hotel // 19.05.17
Words by Wes Foster
I’ve never really been able to get into Can, where do you even begin with their work and output? But I’ve always had an enormous amount of respect for their place within music, and what t... Read More...
Sound Check // Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation Take Their Sonic Kaleidoscope To Stage
It's easy for the term 'psychedelia' to get washed away in a sea of reverb and tape echo, but in the case of Stockholm's Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation, their colourful, modern brand of it has helped them quickl... Read More...
Event News // Desmadrados Soldados De Ventura Set Date For 4LP Launch Gig
Not shy of recording and releasing extravagant concept albums on a prolific schedule, the Manchester psychedelian supergroup Desmadrados Soldados De Ventura's latest effort has squeezed onto a mere four sides o... Read More...
Review // Opened Minds And Ears At Jodrell Bank For Bluedot Festival 2016
It's not often you'll see Brian Eno projecting psychedelic scenes onto a 250-foot diameter telescope, snooker loopy prog/IDM DJ Steve Davis filling and then emptying a large inflatable igloo, and Charlotte Chur... Read More...
Weekly Preview // Music, Film, Comedy And BBQs // 18.07-24.07
If you didn't take your chance to prise open the rusty old barby this weekend, then there might be a day or two this week to catch the rays while posing with your tongs in front of burning flesh. Speaking of wh... Read More...
Weekly Preview // Music, Slam Champs, Comedy, Film & Festivals // 11.07-17.07
We're deep into festival territory now, but you can still see your favourite musicians in concrete jungles as well as the fields, as Manchester's lure for summer events takes hold. In theatre, Greater Mancheste... Read More...
Weekly Preview // 04.07-10.07
The various summer sporting tournaments are hotting up and reaching the business end of their programmes, so this week is the final countdown, as Europe once sang. It's an appropriate song in other ways, of cou... Read More...
Competition // Win Tickets To Velvet Badger Festival
Themed as 'future funk' and sporting a cosmic coalition of intergalactic sound sculptors, the second installation of Velvet Badger lands after a successful scouting mission in 2014.
Back then, the festival w... Read More...
Weekly Preview // 20.06-26.06
It's Glasto week, hence the heavens have heaved open. Yes, you heard it here first, we can blame the Eavises for the meteorological state of affairs. But for us mere mortals unblessed by their ticketing system,... 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...
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...
Weekly Preview // 23.05-29.05
The Great Manchester Run saw an excellent turnout yesterday, with the Cookie Monster, Teletubbies and various comic book superheroes all represented. With half the city either still panting or experiencing ache... 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...
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...
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...
Weekly Preview // 04.04-10.04
In a particularly high-brow move, we're introducing our latest weekly Manchester music and events preview by wading into the latest barely beliebable fashion faux pas by pop music's second-favourite Justin. Are... Read More...
Review // Cosmosis Festival 2016
Words by Anastasia Connor // Photos by Wes Foster
“Hello, we are The Jesus and Mary Chain,” announces Jim Reid in a dry, deadpan manner, stepping to the front of a vast main stage in Victoria Warehouse. Did ... Read More...
News // Second Adam Buxton Bowie Show Date Added
Tickets for Adam Buxton's David Bowie BUG special on Monday 18th April have long since left the building, but there's now a chance to secure your seat at the second helping.
In a canny twist of fate, the sec... Read More...