Quenched Music catch up with the people behind presenting at KOKO on Saturday 10th November w/ SEBASTIAN, UNICORN KID LIVE, SURKIN, GIRL UNIT, HAEZER, HACKMAN, TRUMPDISCO & THE C90S++ We caught up  with James Barker, one of the people behind the night from Playground. Hi James this sounds like a great line up by the way how did you get all these acts together [...]

Since its madder days, the Manchester music scene appears to have lost much of its buzz with London and Birmingham seemingly leading the way with a brief early naughties emergence in the North of the country. Stalagmites from Salford are bringing the scene back to where it should be with a post Oasis style that [...]

Manchester Academy. Don’t you just, hate it?  Don’t get me wrong, as multifaceted venues come, Manchester Academy beats the rest hands down. Catering to an array of music and events with a venue to suit any occasion, it’s the chameleon of the live gig and Student’s Union world. And that’s what annoys me. Having attended [...]

The night was one of the most popular on the Warehouse Christmas calender and sold out weeks before the event. The artists were a varied bunch, from new big-hitters TNGHT and Disclosure to older reliant figureheads Caribou and Four Tet. The boiler room was broadcasting live from the event and to any house follower, surely it could [...]

I got to Band on the Wall and had a look round the room. There were a few people sitting at tables in front of the stage. Chatter of conversation was audible over a low droning ambience. Luke Murray and Simon Webbon were playing tracks on turntables. All sorts from cold ambient, gurgling acidic techno [...]

Sometime, around now, we start discussing talent that will embrace the circuit for next year. There’s already been a bubbling array of talent surfacing to grab the bait of gongs and thongs. I’m starting with MAYER. A cool Mancunian who quite simply, will be a hot tip for music scene 13. Keeping it cool, here’s my ten minutes with Manchester’s newest kid [...]

Hot Chip is hardly a band full of rebellious characters, most of the members are now fully fledged family men. They recently swapped their family homes for a recording studio, when they continued their everlasting success with the making of In Our Heads. But now they have swapped their family homes for a tour bus and [...]

The Start is purposeful pop rather than accidental, Alex writes ‘songs to make people jump around and enjoy life,’ he sings without reservation which means that even if pop is not your genre of choice, this EP might just sway you. The title track feels like a warm summer night at a festival, which cheers [...]

Mother Nature’s Candy is as sweet as its title, a little too sweet at times but overall a lovely little pop EP. Mother Nature’s Candy sticks to a methodical formula of a vocal harmony intro followed by acoustic guitar with a gentle pop beat on the drums and power out with a simple riff, at [...]

Dan Le Sac (Daniel Stephens) is better known for his musical collaborations with friend and fellow hip-hop and electronic beats sidekick, Scroobius Pip. The pair have become a nailed force since linking arms in 2006 after previously being solo artists. Now, six years down the line, Dan Le Sac has released his debut album, Space Between The Words. An album that took him by surprise after [...]