Manchester
News: 808 State announce huge hometown show at Manchester O2 Ritz
808 STATE will return for a LIVE hometown show at Manchester’s O2 Ritz this Winter, which is sure to be the best pre-Christmas party of the year. Following their phenomenal appearance at Manchester Academy in December 2018 and a mesmeric live set at Bluedot Festival and at the Warehouse Project last year, the Acid House …
Album Review: Bethlehem Casuals – The Tragedy Of Street Dog
You’ve got to love Bethlehem Casuals, haven’t you? The new album from the Manchester septet – The Tragedy of Street Dog, sees a concept record – a road to discovering where all the music in Manchester has gone. But wait concept fans, thats not all. It’s from the perspective of a street dog. As not, …
Track: Metro Trinity – Die Young EP
Short lived Manchester band Metro Trinity only Released this EP, back in 1987 on their own Cafeteria label, and a split with the Inspiral Carpets via Dave Haslam’s Debris fanzine. Their parts however, moved onto more illustrious paths, with Jon Male later of Soul Family Sensation and Republica, and Jez Williams and Andy Williams of …
Track: Gogo Penguin – Kora
Taken from their forthcoming self-titled album, out on June 5th via legendary Jazz label Blue Note, Manchester’s Mercury Prize winning trio Gogo Penguin have released a new track, ‘Kora’, named after the remarkable African Stringed instrument. Chris illingworth from the band, explains: ”People often ask us where we get our inspiration from when writing new music. …
Say Psych: Track: Blanketman – Taking You With Me
Blanketman are a new band who sweat and toil in a city called Manchester. Over the last year or two the band have been spearheading a burgeoning scene locally and have gigged extensively throughout the town performing their original brand of restless-legged post-punk, served with a sharper, more sardonic pop edge than many of their more po-faced peers. So sharp in …
See: VALA – Say you want it (that way)
Manchester indie quartet VALA have released the follow up to recent singles Want Your Love and Summer Air with a new track, Say you want It (that way). Of the track, the band say “We recorded the track entirely ourselves in various kitchens, spare rooms and living rooms and it was mixed in that kitchen …
See: Bethlehem Casuals release new video for The Oke
Oddball is a word that follows Manchesters psychedelic jazz-pop collective around, and with the release of a new video to accompany their recent single The Oke, the band are doing very little to dispel it. It’s this sumptiously orchestrated chamber pop/jazz at its outset, chiming percussion accompanying the saxophone and cello lines. At once though …
Say Psych: EP Review: Purple Heart Parade – Desolation Angel
Manchester’s Purple Heart Parade recently released their third EP Desolation Angel through premiere post-rock ambassadors Club AC30. Following from last years lauded Lonestar EP, Desolation Angel takes the bands expansive and textured sound to new heights. Once again, the band recorded at Perry Vale Studios with Pat Collier (The Jesus and Mary Chain, X-Ray Spex) …
Track: Julia Bardo – I Wanna Feel Love
Shifting somewhere between Blondie, Gloria Gaynor and PJ Harvey is no mean feat, but the new single from Mancunian Julia Bardo manages to span genres in a seamless and thoroughly enjoyable manner. Bardo was born in Italy but moved to Manchester. Name-checked as an influence too is the legendary Lucio Battisti. Her Italian roots come …
Say Psych: Track: Hey Bulldog – Death & Greed
Manchester’s garage rockers Hey Bulldog have this week announced new single ‘Death And Greed’ set for release on 4th October via Doing it to Death Records & Sister 9 Recordings. To coincide with the release, they are playing at Astral Elevator’s The Psych Rising at Manchester’s Night People on 5 October. The grunge laden, riff-based …