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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 still feels like yesterday when I used to go to varies open mics around Manchester and the North-West and I would see Josephine tuning up ready to play. It has been great to see her go from beginning to where she is now. I would hazard a guess that this is only the beginning [...]

Mark Wynn’s album ‘James Dean makes me insecure, why does he have to be so shexy’ is a woven narrative detailing the highs and lows of every day life. It will strike a chord with folk, wherever you are. Be we drinking tea in the morning, waiting for the bus, or eating hot food from [...]

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 [...]

Manchester Academy. Don’t you just, hate it?  Don’t get me wrong, as multifaceted venues come, Manchester Academy beats the rest hands down. Catering to an array of music and events with a venue to suit any occasion, it’s the chameleon of the live gig and Student’s Union world. And that’s what annoys me. Having attended [...]