Tag: manchester

Preview: Great Northern Ska Festival

We will be at the Great Northern Ska Festival this weekend, surrounded by all sides of one of the most immersive cultures the UK has ever produced: the Skinheads. Here’s why you should think about coming too, and everything you…

LIVE (Photos): Richard Ashcroft @ Castlefield Bowl, 30.06.17

Amidst a shoal of recent, less relevant reformings and regurgitations, a live comeback worth making is happening tonight at Manchester’s Castlefield Bowl. Welcome back Mad Richard! Ex-Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft takes to the stage with a swagger that bares his…

LCD Soundsystem announce Manchester residency

New Yorkers, LCD Soundsytem have announced a two-night residency in Manchester this September, with tickets going on sale tomorrow morning. Headlining the 2017 opening weekend of Manchester’s notorious clubbing rite-of-passage, The Warehouse Project, LCD Soundystem is set to return to the…

LIVE: Thundercat – Gorilla, Manchester 23.03.17

Stephen Bruner (aka Thundercat) is three albums into a spellbindingly creative solo career. He arrived in Manchester riding high on the goodwill that has met his new album, Drunk; a 23 track collage that melts jazz integrity into a fast-moving,…

PINS Announce New EP ‘Bad Thing’

PINS have announced their latest EP, Bad Thing, due to be released 24 March. Bad Thing is the latest EP from the Manchester five piece, and will have five tracks, including a cover of fellow Mancunian band Joy Division’s ‘Dead Soul’….

Introducing Interview: VIDA

VIDA played their first ever Manchester gig on Saturday (10.12.16). After the show, we congregated in a cluttered greenroom upstairs at Oldham Street’s Castle Hotel. Surrounded by instruments and empty stubbies we spoke to them about their big plans for…