It seems indie has taken a back seat on the music scene of late; true indie giants such as Tegan and Sara or Fugazi seem to have been lost in the ether. However this has not let Palomino simply sit back and accept indie’s death with their EP ‘We Were Doldrums’. There’s a much more delicate quality to the [...]

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 [...]

As fine a modern folk band they are, Mumford & Sons are no exception to the controversial slaps that tend to hit a band when returning with album No2. Although they have been blessed with recognition for the folk jangling effort that hooked hearts worldwide in ‘Sigh No More’, ‘Babel’ quite simply, needs to be [...]

Forget what you’ve heard before. Leave your preconceptions at the door and prepare yourselves. This is The Vaccines, but not as we know them… Like The Arctic Monkeys before them with ‘Favourite Worst Nightmare’, The Vaccines have traded in their indie roots for something altogether more heavy on this second album. Swapping twangy guitars for [...]

Meet Manchester’s latest darlings The Heartbreaks, a four piece Indie band who have made their home in our fair/rainy city. Their debut album ‘Funtimes’ has been making waves with it’s mix of Johnny Marr-esque guitar janglings and retro stylings and the band, buoyed by this success, are about to hit the road once again for [...]

With the bank holiday fast approaching I want something different enter Ravelength Festival a three day festival at Retro Bar, we caught up with Ste the organiser. Hi Ste, you’ve been running great nights all around the North for a while, but have you ever taken on anything like this before? Ste-This will be the [...]

Today Quenched Music is joined by Bradley Thompson and Luke Bainbridge (Observer Journalist), Festival Director and Head of arts and culture of Festival No.6, one of the UK’s newest festivals, which is based in picturesque Portmeirion and has captured the imagination of the public. As a massive fan of the idea of this festival and massive fan [...]

Playing host to a range of fantastic nights such as the BBC Introducing and Communion Records showcases, The Ruby Lounge is fast becoming one of my favourite venues in Manchester, with tonight’s billing looking set to fulfil and surpass my expectations once again. Golden Firs is the events moniker for the evening and is the [...]