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SOUNDS FROM THE OTHER CITY – Salford Manchester 3rd May Sunday 2015

Posted: April 28, 2015 in FESTIVALS, MUSIC
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Grey Lantern are now veterans of Sounds From the Other City. Since their birth in 2010, they have made a name for themselves as a tour-de-force of a promotions team around Manchester, taking over many of Manchester’s finest venues in Soup Kitchen, Big Hands, Gullivers, Kraak and First Chop Brewing Arm.

The team are used to taking over interesting and out of the norm spaces and in 2015 alone they have brought the likes of Spectres, Hookworms, Vision Fortune and Hartheim (their debut headline show) to the city. Now the team turn their attentions to Sounds From the Other City, and their very special collaboration with Faux Discx at The Angel Centre, we caught up with main man Simon Catling to see what we can expect come May 3rd.

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Sounds From The Other City // Sunday May 3rd 2015  // 3pm-4am // Various Venues // Chapel St // Salford.

Sounds From the Other City festival (SFTOC) is a celebration of new music and performance, uniting the cream of the national and international scene with some of the city’s finest independent promoters, collectives and club nights. Happening regularly on the May Day Bank Holiday each year along the Chapel St corridor of the historic city of Salford 2015 sees us enter our 11th year.

This year, we welcome back some of our favourite independent promoters like Now Wave, Hey! Manchester, Grey Lantern and film/music collective Video Jam, as well as new faces such as comedy & music pioneers Sham Bodie, party specialists Good Afternoon and the infamous SWAYS records. We’re venturing into some previously unused spaces (railway arches & new retail space at Vimto Gardens), sticking with long-time favourites (First Chop, The Angel Centre and, of course, Islington Mill ) and calling back to Arms at the Salford and Kings!

You can head over to the line-up page, to sample the sights and sounds that are appearing this year but, more so than most festivals, the real star of the show is the fabled Sounds atmosphere. And thats made by you. So abandon any previous plans and get yourself down to Chapel St on the May Day Bank Holiday.

SPRING KING – ” They’re Coming After You “

Posted: April 12, 2015 in MUSIC
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Spring King – They’re Coming After You EP,  out? April 20th currently on tour as support with Courtney Barnett Manchester’s Spring King might feature a singing drummer but there’s nothing gimmicky about them. New EP ‘They’re Coming After You’ proves this with feral garage-rock excellence.

SPRING KING – ” The City ” and ” Mumma “

Posted: April 11, 2015 in MUSIC
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Tipped by Kieran Shudall,from Circa Waves: “Spring King are a four piece based in Manchester. They make cool garage rock and they’re among the best new live bands in the country currently supporting Courtney Barnett on tour. So much energy! It’s like four people screaming down the microphone at once. Check out their track ‘Mumma’.

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Their debut single, “Mumma”, oozes with energy, fuzz, memorable vocals and a killer chorus that gives promises of a packed, sweat-filled live performance. Not only is it danceable, but after one listen you can question January’s dreariness and attempt to push winter away and welcome the summer.

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The SLOW READERS CLUB – ” Don’t Mind “

Posted: March 26, 2015 in MUSIC
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The Slow Readers Club are a Manchester based Indie / Electro  band who’s output ranges from insanely catchy upbeat indie to  angry, introspective downbeat ballads.  The Slow Readers Club are a  four piece who specialise in dark and brooding indie electro. Their music has drawn comparisons with Interpol, The Killers and The National.

Their last three singles have enjoyed airplay on BBC 6 Music and XFM (featured twice as XFMs shock of the new) with the latest single Forever In Your Debt also featured in the top 5 singles of the week.

The Slow Readers Club have been getting rave reviews for their live shows, highlights in 2014 including a sold out show at Manchester’s Night and Day, Tramlines Festival, Party in the Pines and Blackthorn Festival (including support slots with ‘Catfish & The Bottlemen’, ‘The Struts’, ‘Reverend and the Makers’ and ‘The Sunshine Underground’ )

The SLOW READERS CLUB – ” The Singles “

Posted: March 13, 2015 in MUSIC
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The Slow Readers Club are a Manchester based four piece who specialise in dark and brooding indie electro. Their music has drawn comparisons with Interpol, The Killers and The National.
Their last three singles have enjoyed airplay on BBC 6 Music and XFM (featured twice as XFMs shock of the new) with the latest single Forever In Your Debt also featured in the top 5 singles of the week.
The Slow Readers Club have been getting rave reviews for their live shows, highlights in 2014 including a sold out show at Manchester’s Night and Day, Tramlines Festival, Party in the Pines and Blackthorn Festival (including support slots with ‘Catfish & The Bottlemen’, ‘The Struts’, ‘Reverend and the Makers’ and ‘The Sunshine Underground’ )

The Slow Readers Club http://www.theslowreadersclub.co.uk
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The BUZZCOCKS – ” Another Music In A Different Kitchen ” Released 10th March 1978

Posted: March 12, 2015 in MUSIC
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On this day March  10th in 1978 Manchester and UK punk band The Buzzcocks released their debut album, Recorded & mixed at Olympic Studios in London December 1977/January 1978 ‘ Another Music in a Different Kitchen‘, on United Artists Records.

The original UK vinyl is issued with a black cardboard inner sleeve, with color photo on front cover. Subsequent pressings substituted a black and white photo. The initial few thousand copies shipped in a matching silver-grey outer ‘PRODUCT‘ shopping bag. The album was originally conceived with the track “I Need” on side one; but after a test pressing was made, the group felt the song should appear on the second side. A mix-up occurred at the pressing plant, and, as a consequence, some early copies of the album contained no “I Need” at all.

A blue vinyl version was re-released around 1986. The corresponding CD was released in March 1994 on the same record label. An undated songbook was published (VR 8003 2) with sheet music from the album, band photos, brief biographical material, and discography which includes the band’s second release, UAG 30197 “Love Bites”. As such, it would have been released after 22nd September 1978 the release date of “Love Bites”. In keeping with other releases, the line “Agreed Images” appears on the back cover below the stocking number.

It featured the band’s second line-up, with Pete Shelley handling lead vocals following the departure of their original frontman, Howard Devoto; the album included the single “I Don’t Mind”, which would reach UK #55; to promo the LP, Virgin Record Stores in London, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester & Newcastle each released 500 helium-filled balloons containing coupons for a free copy . The term “perfect pop” is misused to hell, because it’s mostly applied to bands that never went near the charts; but Buzzcocks were pop, in that they consistently had top 20 singles. In Pete Shelley – angelic, sexually ambiguous, eyebrow-raised – they had one of the best songwriters of the time, and in Steve Diggle – loud, mod, a bit barky – they had his perfect foil, and a man also capable of great songwriting. The songs are all brilliant pop tunes in the classic style, but with lyrics whose doomed romanticism would put John Lennon to shame, and the kind of riffs that only a Stooges and T.Rex fan could write. From I Don’t Mind’s woozy declaration that “reality’s a dream” to Sixteen’s stentorian “And I hate modern music! Disco! Boogie! Pop!”, Another Music… was as melodic as pop has ever been and as honest and real as any plaid-faced grunge act.

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  • Bass Guitar – Steve Garvey
  • Drums, Vocals – John Maher
  • Guitar, Vocals – Pete Shelley, Steve Diggle
  • Producer – Martin Rushent

The SLOW READERS CLUB – ” I Saw A Ghost “

Posted: March 11, 2015 in MUSIC
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The Slow Readers Club are a Manchester based four piece who specialise in dark and brooding indie electro. Their music has drawn comparisons with Interpol, The Killers and The National.
Their last three singles have enjoyed airplay on BBC 6 Music and XFM (featured twice as XFMs shock of the new) with the latest single Forever In Your Debt also featured in the top 5 singles of the week.

The Slow Readers Club have been getting rave reviews for their live shows, highlights in 2014 including a sold out show at Manchester’s Night and Day, Tramlines Festival, Party in the Pines and Blackthorn Festival (including support slots with ‘Catfish & The Bottlemen’, ‘The Struts’, ‘Reverend and the Makers’ and ‘The Sunshine Underground’ )

COSMOSIS FESTIVAL of PSYCHEDELIA – Antwerp Gardens Manchester 14th March 2015

Posted: March 11, 2015 in MUSIC
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Cosmosis is a unique festival in Manchester featuring some of the best alternative and psychedelic rock and roll bands from all over the world over 3 stages. Following its successful debut in 2014, Manchester’s Cosmosis returns with an international line-up of alternative music and arts. The Cosmosis collective and their love of psychedelia, the mechanics of DIY festival organisation amd just look at the line-up what we should expect from Cosmosis #2.

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The Black Ryder
Dead Meadow (Official)
Singapore Sling
THE VACANT LOTS
Lorelle meets The Obsolete
The Oscillation
Radar Men from the Moon
Black Market Karma
Dead Rabbits
Delta Mainline
The Watchmakers
Saint Agnes
The Altered Hours
Brahma-Loka
Desert Mountain Tribe
Dead Horse One
Enemies Eyes
Moon

PINS – ” Too Little Too Late “

Posted: March 6, 2015 in MUSIC
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Manchester four-piece PINS have announced the release of their new album “Wild Nights” on 8th June through Bella Union Records . The first 7″ single from the album, “Too Little Too Late”, will precede it on 30th March. The perfect taster for the album,  it opens with a fearless drumbeat and heavy bassline before slowing into a sparse momentary instrumental. The track then reverts back to Faith Vern’s alluring vocal before finally stampeding heavily into a fuzzed up sound clash of guitars and drums. It is our favourite PINS track so far…watch the super slow motion video

PINS – ” House Of love ” Live

Posted: March 6, 2015 in MUSIC
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Pins play  the song “House of Love” live at the Eagle Inn, Salford on 27th February 2015 previewing their 2nd album due in June. The new Pins album. with the bands fearless drumbeat and bass sound, with Faith’s alluring vocal and finally the stunning clash of guitars and drums. Manchester-based PINS are a truly glorious mix of shoegaze, punk and post-punk, with singer and guitarist Faith Holgate at times veering towards Patti Smith and then back to Karen O. last year’s album Girls Like Us, certainly straddles between shoegaze and punk, they are  is wonderfully raw and visceral. Savages would struggle to out-do this band.

PINS look the part and you sense they’re certainly beginning to know this. Already on Bella Union, they’re tantalisingly close to breaking through, with the soon-to-begin tour alongside The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion a massive indication of this. No, it shouldn’t be long now. They’re a real privilege to see.

 

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