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 [...]

Massive launch gig at the Kraak Gallery; Revolutionary rapper, and BBC Radio 1 Fire in the Booth star Jun Tzu is set to perform in Manchester on 24th January. He will be joined by anticapitalist hip hop collective Broken Dialect, and local musicians Prose, Bamo and Shem. The event has been organised to celebrate the [...]

REBEKKA KARIJORD “WE BECOME OURSELVES” 29th October 2012 JANUARY 2013 TOUR DATES 16th January 2013 – The Borderline – London 17th January 2013 – The Ruby Lounge – Manchester 18th January 2013 – The Workman’s Club – Dublin 19th January 2013 – King Tut’s – Glasgow WE BECOME OURSELVES’s centerpiece is ‘Use My Body While [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

While listening to ‘Disastrochimp’, the new EP from Sheffield trio Great Deeds, I found myself racking my brains for a succinct way to sum up their sound. After much deliberation and scouring of the net, I came across the perfect phrase which would describe this band’s music, and I found it on this very bands [...]