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 [...]

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 [...]

Tom Metcalfe’s EP ‘Life is Only Vibrating Energy’ is a five track compendium of folk music from the North West of England. Tom hails from Preston and works in Salford. The title forms the acronym LOVE. I consider volcanos, supernovae, this EP playing through my headphones, all forms of life. The title is a salient [...]

DJ Spinz, a Plymouth turntablist and prolific beat maker, crafts an exemplary mix of cut-up hip hop beats, laidback instrumentals and street bangers. Spinz exhibits a range of influence in his music. Some of the playful instrumentals he has a knack for creating remind me of Mr. Scruff and RJD2 beats. Others assume a more [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]