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 [...]

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 [...]

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? [...]

Following the release of their critically acclaimed self-titled album in 2011, British indie five-piece WhiteMoor are hoping to make an explosive comeback with their second album, Horizons. ‘All I’ve Ever Known’ is the second single to be taken from the new album and sees the band exploring new ground, blending their well-known brand of post-apocalypse [...]

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. [...]

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. [...]

Since its madder days, the Manchester music scene appears to have lost much of its buzz with London and Birmingham seemingly leading the way with a brief early naughties emergence in the North of the country. Stalagmites from Salford are bringing the scene back to where it should be with a post Oasis style that [...]

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 [...]