Genre is often hard to define these days, but Hartlepool newcomers PLAZA have pinned themselves and debut single ‘Totem’ as “post-indie”. I like it, for many the term ‘indie’ is now synonymous with generic guitar music, hipsters and dickheads on…
Ozric Tentacles are one of those bands that exist in an uncanny mythical space. The name alone carries a certain weight but very few people know or understand them; much like quantum theory, Nicholas Cage’s career or the European Union….
Rating: He has supported The Clash and Blur, worked with Massive Attack, Damo Suzuki, Liam and Noel Gallagher and their former rival Damon Albarn. Now, he has finally released his own material – Jeff Wootton, with his debut album The…
Manchester’s Soup Kitchen is – as someone quite accurately described it on Saturday – “pretentiously scruffy”. It’s the kind of place where they can charge over £4 for a drink but can’t afford to screw locks back onto the toilet…
Manchester’s Night and Day Café has seen the budding of now, incredibly successful bands. From the likes of the early Charlatans, Kasabian and Arctic Monkeys – will the Hull based band, Fronteers, follow in their footsteps? With support from upcoming…
“Alternative” is a pretty broad-spanning term, whether you’re talking about fashion, art or a genre of music. Genres are designed to specify categories so as to more easily discuss and understand music, but these days it’s really not that simple….
FLIIIS may have only been around for just over a month, but it seems a month is all you need to get it going – other bands are obviously just slacking. Certainly proving their dedication, the start of 2016 has…
Following the success of four sold out shows last week, Gigslutz ‘One To Watch in 2016’ Kiran Leonard has now shared a new video to his stupendous latest single ‘Pink Fruit’. Usually a sixteen minute blissful cacophony of sound, ‘Pink…
FLESH launch a mix of their fellow Mancunians – Happy Mondays, Stone Roses and Oasis – in their attention grabbing tracks. Seeing FLESH perform in their home city itself, the band has even introduced their own version of Bez – fashioning an…
It’s a homecoming show for Manchester’s main girl Shura tonight. Born in London but raised Northern by her Russian/English parents, Aleksandra Denton has been making and producing her own music since life as a teenager. After years of collaborations and…