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The WATCHMAKERS – ” Before Questions Became “

Posted: March 1, 2015 in MUSIC
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Manchester Psychedelica Band The Watchmakers are playing at Cosmosis – Alternative Festival Of Psychedelic Music and Arts 2 weeks today on Saturday 14th March. From time to time, this is a band to recommend that deserves to be brought to your attention. No record labels, PR companies, bands or band’s management will ever have made these recommendations. It is simply one music fan putting their taste on the line in the hope of sharing good music.
The Watchmakers, a psych rock ‘n’ roll 4 piece with a penchant for good clobber – Rich Maitland on vox, Ian Maitland on drums, Adam Lewis on guitar & Andy Lewis on bass. from Salford, Manchester.

We’ve all been bashing out noise on instruments but as a band together its pretty new. We kicked off with things at a night with Clint Boon last November and its on an upwards spiral from there.
Are there any obvious influences in their music?
I suppose it depends on the extent of your musical knowledge as to what you’d call obvious. The first demo, Before Questions Became, I think you can hear traces of The Beatles, Chemical Brothers, Amorphous Androgynous, and the Stone Roses to name a few, but the band try and take on inspiration from across the board.They are not purveyors of the traditional ‘verse-chorus-verse-chorus’ type songs and I think that comes from inspiration with listening to unconventional bands like the Brian Jonestown Massacre, Spiritualized/Spacemen 3 and Can and David Axelrod.

WE WERE STRANGERS – ” Castaway ” and ” I Believe “

Posted: February 19, 2015 in MUSIC
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Manchester group We Were Strangers might be living up to the own past tense in their name. With an intensely atmospheric sound and a slowly developing fan base, even after only releasing two tracks on to the world, they’re earning the title of Ones to Watch.In the run up to releasing their debut EP ‘Before’ in March, they’ve been teasing tracks on their SoundCloud page, one of which is the beguiling ‘I Believe’.

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I Believe’ begins with a solitary piano line before expanding into an emotional magnum opus. Just before you thought the strings and haunting vocals were reaching a crescendo, though, they whip the rug from under your feet and end it all with a solitary, impactful vocal. Their powerfully emotional sound won’t be undiscovered for much longer.

 

DOT TO DOT One Day Festival – 22nd-24th May 2015

Posted: February 12, 2015 in FESTIVALS, MUSIC, NOTTINGHAM CITY VENUES
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The LUCID DREAM – ” Hits Me Like I’m Stoned “

Posted: February 3, 2015 in MUSIC
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The Lucid Dream and the song “Hits Me Like I’m Stoned” a band that has played every one of the Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia, a gorgeous event at the end of September. They are jangly psychedelia, in the style traditional psychedelia’ this track is taken from the previous album “Love In My Veins’ is a heady and glorious psychedelic nugget’ its full of Reverb drenched majesty.
‘The Lucid Dream stand out as bright as a lighthouse beam. Having toured with Sonic Boom recently you get the sense that the baton was being silently passed on.’

PINS – ” Album Promo “

Posted: February 2, 2015 in MUSIC
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Noir pop quartet PINS premiere a teaser video for their upcoming tour, hinting at a summer follow up their 2013 debut “Girls Like Us.”

Speaking about the new album (title to be revealed), singer/guitarist Faith Holgate said: “We recorded our second album under the desert sky in Joshua Tree at Rancho De La Luna, with Dave Catching on hand like some sort of guru guiding us, and we were able to make a record that we couldn’t be more proud of.

“We will be performing a live preview of the record in February and, of course, we have a few tricks up our sleeves to make the shows extra special.”

 

PINS – ” LuvU4Lyf “

Posted: January 25, 2015 in MUSIC
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Pins, already, and a lot of drama : Pins are exactly the sort of group the music papers would have been fighting over more than 20 years ago. Make that more than 25 years ago: they’re very C86, are Pins. They’re atypically Mancunian, that’s for sure. There are no forays into avant-funk or pop trance. If anything, if you heard them without knowing where they were from, you’d swear they were a band from Brooklyn , All Velvets drones with a sprinkle of Spectoresque shimmer, they recall Crystal Stilts and Vivian Girls et al,

This is highly referential/reverential stuff from four girls who have clearly done their research. They haven’t delved too deeply into history: the look (pure Warhol’s Factory meets late-70s CBGBs/Bowery) is as obvious as the sound, with the usual signifiers of cool. Pins are brand new with the usual farrago of fuzz, echo, sustain, reverb and delay, the girls’ voices come as though from a dream,They’re the most Brooklyn band ever to come from Manchester.

 

The SUNDOWNERS – ” Sundowners “

Posted: January 23, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Sundowners have the kudos of the patronage of The Coral, whose leader James Skelly is on the co-production duties . Keeping it in the family, he’s also the brother of guitarist Alfie and singer Fiona Skelly, who shares the vocal duties in the band with Niamh Rowe. The story isn’t about mentors they’re walking a similarly retro but much poppier path than their older brothers band.
“Wild As The Season” comes on like “The Age of Aquarius” by The 5th Dimension. Opening with a brooding splash of tambourine, bass and a squall of guitar chords that wouldn’t sound out of place on a Nuggets compilation, it then smacks you around the face with some mighty harmonies. If the sign of a great opening song is that you press repeat as soon as it’s finished and then do that again several times, then this ticks the box.

“Back To You” starts off like New Order and the vocal harmonies have a woozy claustrophobia about them, pitched deliberately low in the mix to match the swampy guitars.

Recent single “Into The Light” is the best thing here, a heady west coast breeze, revolving around a frenetic 12 string guitar riff and breathy melodies, it’s a marvellous blend of sounds like Fleetwood Mac and Love.
Upcoming single “If Wishes Were Horses” has a lovely Krautrock hook; and is a reminder that as wonderful as the paired vocals are, the rhythm section are marvellously unfussy, keeping the song anchored throughout. “Soul Responding” is a Northern Soul stomp, it has an intensity that the more ethereal moments, such as “Hummingbird” lack and shows that when they stick to what they do best, psychedelic pop they’re a mighty proposition.

Sundowners love of 60s stomp will undoubtedly see them rack up ardent admirers on this year’s festival circuit if their burgeoning live reputation is anything to go by – indeed the album itself was recorded live for the most part. The relentless beat group energy of the instrumentation blends wonderfully the laidback, insouciant cool of the vocal harmonies. It’s an unabashed paean to psychedelia, and at its best channels Jefferson Airplane,

SONIC BOOM SIX – ” Keep On Believing “

Posted: January 22, 2015 in MUSIC
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Sonic Boom Six are a five-piece band from Manchester, United Kingdom. Their eclectic sound combines different elements of several genres and has been described by Kerrang! as “taking ska, pop, grime,

 

HARTHEIM – ” Welcome “

Posted: January 17, 2015 in MUSIC
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As well as the classic indie sound, Manchester also has a heritage of wonderful but melancholic pop music, Joy Division being the obvious example. Whilst not treading quite the same territory as Ian Curtis, Hartheim make intense dark brooding nocturnal synth-pop. –

The WATCHMAKERS – ” Carpe Diem ” and ” To Be Part Of You “

Posted: January 17, 2015 in MUSIC
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Announcing their arrival back in winter/2012 with the tripped-out groove of ‘Before Questions Became’ The Watchmakers stand today as one of the leading groups within Manchester’s growing psych rock movement. More a shared love of classic psychedelia by a handful of groups than an industry endorsed ‘scene’. Its the bands releases such as 2013’s Waves, Illumination, and last summers excellent ‘Carpe Diem’ which has started to attract attention from both the press and music fans outside and beyond of the city.
They will be releasing a special limited edition mint green cassette tape on Blak Hand Records on Dec 1st.

Available is the EP “To Be Part Of You” which turned out as we haven’t played it live in a long time but Adam our guitarist did an unbelievable job in producing that and getting the sound he did onto that track
Listen to the lead track “To Be A Part Of You” here

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