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 [...]

He’s a former member of the Happy Mondays. Knows a thing or two about a Bic razor. But doesn’t feel he’s worthy of getting in Mick Jagger’s pants! KAV, real name Kav Sandhu, has formulated a band he believes will deliver the “live energy” previous group members have failed to capture. The Guardian once quoted him as [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

A small crowd part filled the Roadhouse basement. Gary Sloan was playing music to an empty dancefloor. It didn’t take long for people to start dancing. He played dark, discombobulated sounds. For a warm-up, the temperature was already set high. Throughout the night this would increase to a feverish intensity. Manchester based techno outfitters AnD [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

As soon as I received this album in the post I was excited as I have scene Robert John a lot live and I knew this to be the first thing from him recorded that had been packaged. Lets just say I was not disappointed in fact the complete opposite, not only was the album [...]

Remember ‘that’ band Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong? me too. Baffling, right?  Well, three of TOY’s psych line-up consist of that youthful blunder. A blunder who decided they wanted to punch the indie big time, and actually, ended up with a deserved kick in the balls. Anyway, sometimes we forgive and it’s fair to say they have thrown the [...]