This was the first time in a very long while that Quenched Music had stepped into Manchester’s Soup Kitchen, for live music rather than their famous DJ nights. Let’s just say the night did not disappoint. Even when we first arrived there was a buzz around the venue with spectators and musicians mingling and soaking [...]

The Ritz was busy. In the darkened gloom of the cavernous room, people stood about, talking in low tones. Onstage, four piece band 14th had set up and began their set. 14th are made up of a violinist, cellist, singer and electronics. They played a few of their own tracks, some cover versions, all low [...]

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 [...]

The key to a good e.p and an e.p that keeps our burgeoning interest and intrigue waning like an overweight mop haired rocker who has been receiving a handful of naughty messages from a Mila Kunis lookalike from Bolton, is to keep it cool. Keep it short. But keep it big. Hailing from Anglesey and [...]

Rolling in off the crest of a potentially over hyped wave of modern day melody fuelled indie pop, New York City based Darwin Deez strolled back into town to treat an ever appreciative Manchester crowd. My ever lasting impression of The Ritz is one of blokes getting into fights as their girlfriends jump into a [...]

Tom Metcalfe’s EP ‘Life is Only Vibrating Energy’ is a five track compendium of folk music from the North West of England. Tom hails from Preston and works in Salford. The title forms the acronym LOVE. I consider volcanos, supernovae, this EP playing through my headphones, all forms of life. The title is a salient [...]

DJ Spinz, a Plymouth turntablist and prolific beat maker, crafts an exemplary mix of cut-up hip hop beats, laidback instrumentals and street bangers. Spinz exhibits a range of influence in his music. Some of the playful instrumentals he has a knack for creating remind me of Mr. Scruff and RJD2 beats. Others assume a more [...]

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 [...]

Hidden down a back alley in the depths of the Northern Quarter in the former squat know to many as Kraak Gallery I stood with a crowd of merely 20 people waiting patiently to see East India Youth aka William Doyle. If you haven’t heard of East India Youth don’t be dismayed as material only [...]

Four Demons is an EP of superstitious caterwauling from Ruby Tingle, a beautiful garden variety witch who has created an artistic outlet for her strange intentions. She makes handmade collages, sculptures and puppets of animals and humans in unusual scenes. These lean towards her macabre fascinations. Peruse her artwork; it exhibits a grotesque and vaudevillian [...]