Say Psych: News: The Conjuring – A New Psychedelic Festival for 2024
The mainstream music event has vanished chasing the white rabbit… The Conjuring (Northen Lights) has appeared within a flock of ravens. A two-day gathering that will cast spells along the darker waves of psychedelia has arrived which will take place 16-18 August 2024 and is described as “a one stage festival of noise that brings nine …
Preview: Gang of Four UK Tour
The infamous Gang Of Four are touring the UK at the end of this month and into October and BSM will be attending the Manchester show on 4 October. After having recently The band recently re-issued some of their early works on vinyl and CD including their debut album Entertainment (1979) and follow up record …
Say Psych: Live Review: Manchester Psych Fest 2023
The UK’s leading psychedelic music and arts festival Manchester Psych Fest was back for its 10th edition, and BSM was privileged to be part of the 15 hour spectacle. The festival announced its biggest and most ambitious line up to date, with venues scattered across the length of Oxford Road. It also added more holistic pursuits …
Say Psych: Live Review: Thus Love @ YES Pink Room, Manchester 25.08.2023
Thus Love hail from Brattleboro, Vermont, an unlikely setting for the rise of a blistering trio who are setting the scene alight. The self-proclaimed queer post punk act have been selling out venues across Europe and tonight they have packed the pink room to capacity, and at the start of Manchester’s infamous Pride Weekender, they …
Say Psych: News: Left of the Dial completes 2023 line-up
With the addition of 30 new artists, the lineup for Rotterdam based showcase festival Left of the Dial is now complete. Because sifting through 30 artists will mostly likely not be a top priority for anyone, Left of the Dial has offered a tasty solution! These 30 artists – as well as the 90 previously …
Say Psych: News: Manchester Psych Fest announces ‘Cactus Square’, the 2023 festival hub featuring artist meet & greets, yoga, free tote bags & street food!
The year’s Manchester Psych Fest hub will see Oxford Road’s ‘Circle Square’ transformed into ‘Cactus Square’, providing a gateway to the festival and featuring an array of activities for all attendees including screen printing workshops alongside delicious street food, meet & greets with top festival acts and much more. North Tap Room in ‘Cactus Square’ will be home to meet …
Say Psych: Premiere: Druid Fluids – Sour’s Happy Fantasy
On new single ‘Sour’s Happy Fantasy’, Adelaide / Kaurna based psych rockers Druid Fluids flex their ability at writing fuzzed out psychedelia with touches of mystical ambient tranquillity that flies between Black Sabbath and Hobo Rocket era Pond. This track comes off the back of recent single ‘Into Me I See’ which saw the band …
Say Psych: Video Premiere: Routine Death – The Free Man Thinks of Death
Gothenburg-based DIY dream-pop project Routine Death today share their new single ‘The Free Man Thinks Of Death’, lifted from their newly-announced third album Comrade, out 1 September 1st on Fuzz Club Records. Dustin Zozaya said of the new single: “It’s a simple but personal song. It’s the first time I’ve done lead vocals on a track, …
Track Review: The New Eves – Original Sin
Words by Brad Sked There appears to be a Brighton renaissance, with the south-coast city once again birthing some of the finest emerging acts the country has to offer. The likes of Lime Garden, Public Body and Wax Machine and now one of the most exciting new and interesting bands in the country right now, …
Say Psych: News: The Mysterines, The Murlocs, Stealing Sheep, TVAM + many more added to Manchester Psych Fest lineup
Manchester Psych fest has added yet more bands to its huge line up for the 10th edition of the UK’s leading psychedelic music and arts festival which will take place on 2 September. Hotly-tipped Liverpool grunge outfit The Mysterines, Melbourne rockers The Murlocs, MPF electro-pop favourites Stealing Sheep, psychedelic AV masters TVAM, and 60s-inspired psych four-piece The Dream Machine are just …