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 [...]

The Blackburn based band Sky Valley Mistress play the Blues with the attitude of Rock n roll. The bands EP ‘The best thing you’ve never heard’ which includes four tracks of Bluesy passion is very promising indeed. Now, in this day and age people are not that bright. They are how can I put this…thick [...]

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 [...]

When a new release from a band lands in my inbox, I usually like to have a good dig around. Well, a 10 minute Google at least. Long enough usually to unearth a Facebook or Souncloud account, maybe even a defunct Myspace page with some pictures of the bass player before he lost all that [...]

The night was a symbiosis between man, machine and music. The Narrows carved a noisy electro rut, using computer hardware to provide rhythm and synthesis. The man on the keyboard was controlling drums and some synthesizer patches. I spent a portion of their set trying to locate the fourth man they appeared to be using. [...]

Liz Lawrence sings subtly effective folk music, accompanied with acoustic backing band. This album was made for putting on in bed in the morning. She contends with the human condition; growing up, painting the future as observed from the past and falling / being in love. The tracks alternate between upbeat anthems and down-tempo moodiness. They are [...]

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 [...]

There are a couple of things you need to know about brothers David and Neil Newport. Firstly, they come from Manchester. Secondly, they don’t play guitars. And, finally, they create commanding electronic arrangements from old school analogue synths. Or at least they do under the Shmoo guise, with critical comparisons already being drawn to an [...]