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It’s the 30th Birthday of Manchester’s Night & Day Cafe this week, and to celebrate they lined up a week of special gigs (and received a noise complaint to boot). Tonight fans are in for a treat with a holy trinity of Manchester bands on the bill, promising a night you’re not likely to forgot. …

Blanketman return today with new single ‘Beach Body’, produced by Luke Smith (Foals, Depeche Mode, Petite Noir, LIFE). It arrives as the follow-up to their much-heralded debut single ‘Taking You With Me’, which cruelly arrived right after the band performed sold-out live shows just before Lockdown took hold. Over the last year or two the band have …

Blanketman are a new band who sweat and toil in a city called Manchester. Over the last year or two the band have been spearheading a burgeoning scene locally and have gigged extensively throughout the town performing their original brand of restless-legged post-punk, served with a sharper, more sardonic pop edge than many of their more po-faced peers. So sharp in …

Manchester’s Night & Day Café plays host to Hull band The Black Delta Movement, who with a new line up and an album release imminent are one of Britain’s hotly tipped prospects for 2018. First on the line up is a band who are only a few months old, the oddly named Blanketman are a …