Sounds In The City 2022 // Manchester
Manchester’s favourite musical mini-series returns to Castlefield Arena after an enforced absence due to Covid-19. This series of gigs is widely anticipated by North West music fans every year. The line up for previous years has featured the likes of New Order, Chic, Noel Gallagher, The Levellers, Arcade Fire and Rag N Bone Man to …
Lagwagon Mini UK Tour – UK Tour Off
Californian Skate Punks Lagwagon, were due to hit these shores on Sunday 26th June for a whistle stop 5 date UK tour, but sadly due to a problem with Joey’s throat all the dates have been pulled. As tickets are being automatically refunded from the point of purchase, it doesn’t look like they will be …
Public Image Ltd // O2 Ritz Manchester 6/6/2022
The 15-year-old me would never have believed that I’d be standing in the photo pit at O2 Ritz 45 years later, waiting for the scrawny, snarling youth I’d just seen perform as the lead singer of The Sex Pistols, amble on stage in his mid-60s, both of us still going!! But here we both are. …
Punk’s Lost Daughter// BEX releases debut single “Tiptoe”
Describing herself as, “A punk-rocker who wants the music to speak again” BEX is a young artist looking to reshape the rock industry through a lens of hard-hitting riffs, feminist lyrics and cutting-edge videos. Amongst this BEX balances out all the things that “suck,” such as: sexism, racism, fast fashion, judgementalism and heartbreak with pleasantly uplifting things like: riffs, self-expression, …
Scrambled Eggs//The Lovely Eggs Tour Comes To Manchester for The Queens Jubilee
The much delayed (a staggering seven times) and rescheduled tour, originally intended to promote the release in April 2020 of their ‘I Am Moron’ album. Now, they can finally return to the stage in full force, with a string of live shows set to take place in May/June 2022, ending at O2 Ritz Manchester on …
Regressive Left sign To Bad Vibrations//Debut EP out on 15th July
The much-tipped Regressive Left return today with news of their signing to new tastemaker label Bad Vibrations, born from the revered live promoters of the same name, and that their debut EP, “On The Wrong Side Of History”, is set for release on July 15th. PRE-ORDER HERE The Luton trio also share their first new material …
COLD WATER SWIMMERS//New Single Coming May 13th
“You hyperventilate, within seconds your heart begins to race, and your blood pressure spikes….”
Mike Tafoya Returns With New Music & Video
TAFOYA is the explosive new power trio fronted by legendary Chicago guitarist Mike Tafoya (formerly of TheBoyzz, TheB’zz, Raw Dogs, Tafoya’s Lost Boyzz). Considered one of the Midwest’s most accomplished musicians, guitarists, songwriters, and performers with a previous deal with Epic Records, Mike is back with his new combustible Rock n Roll band TAFOYA. They’ve announced their debut EP Freedom (out June 17th) and share the lead single “Shadows”, out April 22nd. Already …
Live Review: Ride – O2 Ritz, Manchester 28.04.2022
When Ride announced their return to the live arena in 2014, after nearly 20 years away, I don’t think anybody was prepared for just how good those shows would be. Indeed, the Albert Hall show in May 2015 was so awesome, that it precipitated me compiling a list of my Top 20 gigs of all …
Killing Joke // Albert Hall // Manchester
It’s great to see the original line-up from 1979 in all it’s power and glory. Despite numerous personnel changes over the years, this quartet have been reunited now for 14 years and sound as hypnotic as ever. With only 3 albums in that time, the last being Pylon in 2015, I was hoping that when …