Susanne Sundfør – Manchester Deaf Institute
Consider the deep-seated intrigues and impossible candour of Susanne Sundfør‘s Ten Love Songs. Brace yourself for yet another draught of its dark romanticism. For Ten [...]
Live
The Staves – Manchester Albert Hall
“We’re going to play a song now by a band we love and we hope you do, too. This is a song called ‘Feel’ and it’s by Bombay Bicycle Club.” [...]
A Carefully Planned Festival #5 – Manchester
That unsettling, but hardly surprising, meme from earlier in the year, where removing all non-female acts (to be precise – any act simply not containing a female [...]
Desperate Journalist – Manchester Sound Control
Why do we even do this? More than ever, a million and one outlets race to tell you they were there, spluttering their love or their indignant rage. Toss a coin. It was [...]
Hartheim – Manchester Deaf Institute
This is going to hurt. There are five people on stage. This is the first time this group of five people has ever played together in public. If you wandered in unaware of this [...]
Sleaford Mods – Carlisle Brickyard
What do you know of Carlisle? Football, maybe? Jimmy Glass. A penalty away from getting Brendan Rodgers his P45. It’s in the north – the real north, not Harrogate. If [...]
The Sisters of Mercy – Glasgow ABC, 7th July 2014
The queue is pleasingly young. With their stack boots, piercings and Fall-Out Boy shirts, the torch of goth is safely in the hands of a new generation. My mistake; [...]
Courtney Love – Glasgow, 15th May 2014
I don’t know if it’s a particularly Glaswegian phenomenon, but spend some time on Argyll or Buchanan Street and you’ll become familiar with the odd breed [...]
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