Well good evening Comrades! And how do I find you today? Did you have a Bluer Monday than New Order and Joy Division combined? I do hope not, for there are many reasons to be cheerful, even if you’re counting the seconds until payday! This weeks guide has a slightly Underdog feel to it, let me explain…one of my favourite small venues, Night and Day Cafe in Manchester, faces having it’s licence revoked due to a complaint from a precocious neighbour – not cool. So this week I seek to celebrate the smaller band, the smaller hero, the intimate venue, those who power through in the name of music. Support the orgasmic joy that is LIVE MUSIC!!!! And maybe click here to sign the petition…;)
Adam Green
If you look online, Adam Green comes across as the embodiment of bohemian hipster cool, all sepia photographs and understated-sexy girly counterpart in Binki Shapiro – an album that oozed like honey over the airwaves. He’s not all creamy duets – His voice and his music and voice have a gorgeous quirky melancholy (check the song Gallop for example) that prove deliciously listenable and super entertaining for the stage. He’s like a true beatnik for this generation, and watching him in the close confines of the Deaf Institute is gonna be sexy as.
Don your finest black skinnies and black eyes, and head over to the Deaf Institute, Manchester, on Thursday 23rd.
https://soundcloud.com/averagecabbage/adam-green-gallop
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Alt Track
Like your live music sounding sharp as an industrial saw? Cool, you’ll love Alt Track then. Punk and metal undertones layered with spoken word vocals, it’s the sound of the engaged disaffected. You know that street where if you drive down it you’ll come out the other end with no hubcaps? Yeah, sounds like that – but you know, dangerous is pretty sexy.
Release some attitude with Alt Track at the New Bradford Playhouse on 31st January.
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Stare
This is exactly what I’m talking about, New and Independent Music!! This is the first of the new label curated evenings, part of Notting Hill Live. The label is Hate Hate Hate Records, and they spend the evening showcasing three of their finest – trippy Theo Verney, indie Polterghost and spiky Kagoule. A truly diverse range of guitar based music, go West and let those guitars gently/violently weep into your ears.
Notting Hill, not just for Hugh Grant. Head over to the Arts Club on the 22nd.
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Girl Band
As recommended by fellow GigSlutter Mari in her Tracks of the Week, Girl Band happen to be a group of beard experimentalist from Dublin – oh massive yes! Check out her review then go give em some loving in Reading or London (btw, first entry for Reading, who knew Berkshire was so out there!).
Girl Band will be partying at the Oakford Social Club in Reading and the Old Blue Last in London this week 🙂
Kate Tittley
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