Author Archives: Kate Tittley

About Kate Tittley

When not making cocktails for Manchester's finest, Le Titts is most likely to be found the other side of the bar in a cloud of smoke and wine musing loudly over her fantasy band line up, love of the album format and why nothing is better than The Stone Roses. And then spilling the wine...Loving the ride with GigSlutz.

ALBUM: PAWS ‘No Grace’

Rating: Nearly two years to the date I dragged my sorrily hungover body to Manchester’s Castle Hotel (or as I unaffectionately refer to it, that b*****d corridor with a bar), where I would watch three almost equally broken Glaswegians going…

LIVE: The Fall – o2 Ritz, Manchester 19.04.16

Having lived in Manchester for nearly three years, there are certain things that are inevitable, one of which is being called up to play bass in The Fall; Like a rock ‘n roll postcode lottery. Fearing that soon my time would…

ALBUM: The Coral ‘Distance Inbetween’

Rating: To listen to The Coral on a grey Sunday afternoon, layered with the gentle hammering of raindrops against the window, is really rather apt. There’s a glorious essence of manifestation in the music, a crescendo of crazy that reverberates…

ALBUM: Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation ‘Horse Dance’

Rating: From the opening waves and synthetic hums of Horse Dance, Josefin Öhrn’s delicate whisper slices gently through like a voice of reason in a chaotic mind. It’s no wonder she describes her journey to this as “drift[ing] into music,…

LIVE: Songhoy Blues – Manchester Gorilla 25.10.15

One of the most joyous things about working for GigSlutz is the ability to seamlessly genre hop in the style of Michael J Fox’s time travelling tekkers in Back To The Future. So when I read the description “African Blues”…

ALBUM: Keith Richards ‘Crosseyed Heart’

Rating: Rock ‘N Roll folklore deems it that at the moment, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards must be fighting. The reason being? Whenever they’re too pissed off to tour with each other they put out a solo album. So while…

Ones To Watch: Houdini Dax

Dear listener, meet Houdini Dax, set to be your new musical buddy for the foreseeable. You may recognise their twangy guitar jib anywhere from a Huw Stephens’ Maida Vale session to a BT Sport ad, or perhaps while out shopping…

ALBUM: The Fratellis ‘Eyes Wide, Tongue Tied’

Rating: Eyes Wide, Tongue Tied is the fourth album from The Fratellis.  And whoda thought the purveyors of one the most seminal student union anthems of the past decade would make it four albums?  Back in 2006 I purchased and…

LIVE: Secret Garden Party, 24th – 26th July 2015

There are many things in life I loathe, including: Camping and the outdoors. Being dirty. Groups of people off their nut trying to create a communal ‘experience’. Secret Garden Party had all these things, but I fucking loved it. The…