Saturday Night. Tele? Pfft. But as I am hanging out with the Mrs we decide, sod it, lets see whats on. To her delight, a programme about Eurovision comes on. Now, I am not Eurovision’s biggest fan, in fact I think it’s dated. But it did make me think a lot about what was sat [...]

When I first heard The Cribs back as a plump faced fourteen year old, who tried ever so hard to fit into a range of Primark’s finest pinstriped blazers, it wasn’t the lyrics or the choruses that grasped me, it was the attitude. The sound. How could three lads from Wakefield create something so raw? [...]

THE PLAYGROUND have just launched their festival for 2013 bringing together a long list of forward thinking producers and artists including the likes of DIGITALISM, GARY NUMAN, [UNKLE] James Lavelle, BOOKA SHADE, JAMES ZABIELA, MODEL 500, DERRICK MAY, KEVIN SAUNDERSON, PANTHA DU PRINCE + many more. And us at Quenched Music are going to be [...]

When a new release from a band lands in my inbox, I usually like to have a good dig around. Well, a 10 minute Google at least. Long enough usually to unearth a Facebook or Souncloud account, maybe even a defunct Myspace page with some pictures of the bass player before he lost all that [...]

Live: Band of Skulls@ HMV Ritz-5th December 2012 After the release of their second album Sweet Sour in February 2012, Band of Skulls have been touring extensively across the globe. This time it was Manchester’s turn to feel their rumbling desert-rock riffs. First up was Manchester locals Folks which quite frankly seemed like a bit [...]

This was the debut year for Festival 6 in the magical Portmeirion, the setting of cult programme The Prisoner, the one with Patrick McGoohan, also played Danger Man. While relaying my obvious inner geek I must add that just to go to the place of where the TV show was shot was enough for me. [...]

In a week where one of the biggest news stories was that of the 2014 referendum to vote on Scottish independence, it almost seems as if Manchester has become the unofficial home of all those seeking to take asylum in the UK, making a break for the border before Alex Salmond begins rebuilding Hadrian’s Wall. [...]

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 [...]

Today I have been shouting. Not in a crazy-guy-on-market-street kind of way but shouting nonetheless, brought upon by a bout of temporary deafness. And who is to blame for this deafness? I’ll tell you who. Scottish people. A few years ago I went watching post-rock outfit Mogwai performing at Manchester Academy. To cut a long [...]

Cleft are a Manchester-based, mental instrumentalist duo. Dan Beesley plays a variety of guitars (not at the same time) and John Simms plays a selection of drums (occasionally at the same time). By their own description, Cleft are a ‘turbo-prog’ band. They produce tracks sounding like 14 minute long prog-rock epics condensed into palatable 3 [...]