We need all your help guys. For four years, we’ve made no money in supporting new music. It’s not why we do it. We our living through our art and writing elsewhere. This is our passion. For four months we have been directing a major campaign for CALM, who work to prevent suicide, the single [...]

Massive launch gig at the Kraak Gallery; Revolutionary rapper, and BBC Radio 1 Fire in the Booth star Jun Tzu is set to perform in Manchester on 24th January. He will be joined by anticapitalist hip hop collective Broken Dialect, and local musicians Prose, Bamo and Shem. The event has been organised to celebrate the [...]

REBEKKA KARIJORD “WE BECOME OURSELVES” 29th October 2012 JANUARY 2013 TOUR DATES 16th January 2013 – The Borderline – London 17th January 2013 – The Ruby Lounge – Manchester 18th January 2013 – The Workman’s Club – Dublin 19th January 2013 – King Tut’s – Glasgow WE BECOME OURSELVES’s centerpiece is ‘Use My Body While [...]

There are a couple of things you need to know about brothers David and Neil Newport. Firstly, they come from Manchester. Secondly, they don’t play guitars. And, finally, they create commanding electronic arrangements from old school analogue synths. Or at least they do under the Shmoo guise, with critical comparisons already being drawn to an [...]

By playing gigs you’re seen and heard by your current fan base, but social media gives you the opportunity to continue the conversation with fans when you’re not at a gig. It also allows random people to hear your music, find out more about you as well as making it easy for your music and [...]

For a long time, I hadn’t heard of the charity, CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably). If I’m honest, I had a brief look, but beyond noting it had something to do with men and the horrible disease that is suicide, I didn’t know too much more. Then through our work at Quenched, we met Danny [...]

Over the last couple of years, we’ve been keeping an eye on Wythenshawe’s finest, Dirty North. This Sunday they’ll be stepping on stage to support Manchester legends The Stone Roses at Heaton Park. The biggest gig of the band’s young career will see them play live to many of the audience for the first time, [...]

Not many grime MCs can count Jack White as a fan, but then Random Impulse isn’t your ordinary grime MC. With an electric guitar slung over his shoulder and the support of a live band on stage, Jovel Walker’s brand of smart, fast-paced lyrics and rock guitar riffs have earned the rapper tours with the likes [...]

I’ve been to many one day festivals, but few live up to the hype unlike Dot to Dot whenever I’ve been there has been a cacophony of great music and everyone seems to leave their ego’s at home and Today Quenched are joined by Anton from Dot to Dot Festival, thank you for you time [...]

As part of our efforts here at Quenched, we have been deploying Danni Skerritt, under the guise of Dirty Freud, to several venues around our base of Manchester. putting on DJ Sets featuring many of the artists and bands we support and work with. It’s been amazing to get inquisitive people loving the noise and [...]