Manchester
Album Review: I Am Fya – ‘Homeland’: A future dub, avant pop, deep searching story that makes for vivid listening.
Manchester’s I Am Fya’s new audio-visual album ‘Homeland’ is a project that’s been evolving for some time. She swaggered into the electronic, avant-pop arena with the punchy ‘A Womxn’ debut in 2019, a dark dub, twitchy glitch, post-mod RnB drill down into socio-sexual dynamics. It was some announcement followed up by a string of forceful …
Say Psych: Live Review: Meltchester 2025
Sour Grapes brought back their one day festival for the fourth time this month. Hosted at Projekts Skatepark, with free skating for tickets holders, Sicilian street food to hand and an enviable eight band bill, the event was truly a feast for the senses. With two of the heavier hitters unfortunately dropping out very late …
Live Review: Chalk & Makeshift Art Bar @ Band on the Wall, Manchester 28.02.2025
It’s got to be said, February has been pretty dreary. But tonight in Manchester, the line up at Band on the Wall is worth dragging yourself out for. We have an Irish double header, one well known, one not so. The sold out show put on through local promoters Now Wave has all the makings …
Say Psych: Live Review: Warmduscher @ O2 Ritz, Manchester 07.11.2024
Warmduscher are a group of miscreants, known only by aliases (Clams Baker Jr, Lightnin’ Jack Everett, Salt Fingers, Quicksand and Dr. Withers aka Little Whiskers). Ardent fans, Iggy Pop and Marc Riley have only gleaming praise to heap on the band, and in return, Warmduscher have blessed them both with immortality. Tonight, Marc Riley introduces …
Live Review: Arch Enemy – Manchester Academy, Manchester 04.10.2024
When it comes to Melodic Death Metal there is a camp of a select few behemoths who lead the way and Swedens Arch Enemy sit firmly rooted at the top of that pile. Since the birth of the band, and the decade that has now passed with Alissa charged with the vocal duties, the trajectory …
Live Review: Cannibal Corpse / Municipal Waste / Immolation / Schizophrenia, O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester 27.09.2024
A colossal billing is a thing of beauty and this was certainly one to tempt me over the Pennines without even a second thought. The venue, the O2 Victoria Warehouse, was one that I had never had the pleasure of patronising before but once the trauma of the parking demographics was navigated and I had …
Say Psych: Live Review: A Place to Bury Strangers @ Deaf Institute, Manchester 26.09.2024
A Place to Bury Strangers are infamous for the furosity of their live shows. To celebrate the forthcoming release of Synthesizer, the band are on back on the road. Formed in 2002, in New York City, they specialise in a wall of pulsating sound which uniquely blends noise rock, shoegaze and space rock, with just …
Live Review: Terrorvision / Bar Stool Preachers – Manchester Academy 2 22.09.2024
With only two days since the release of their latest opus, ‘We Are Not Robots’, I found my way treading the boards of the M62 over the Pennines to the Academy 2 for another evening with the lovely gents from Bradford. Having had the new album pretty much on constant repeat, the new anthems were …
Live Review: Infected Rain / Skarlett Riot – Rebellion, Manchester 30.08.2024
So, it’s been just under three weeks since we caught the charismatic Infected Rain at Bloodstock with their impressive set on the Sophie Stage and this time round we had an appointment with them in the cosy and oppressive surroundings of the Rebellion Club in Manchester. Skarlett Riot were opening up the proceedings and they …
News: Manchester Based Promoters Rancid Offal Promotions Unveil The Full Lineup Of Goremageddon 2025
Following the success of this year’s edition, Goremageddon will return on 22 March 2025 at The Star & Garter in Manchester, UK. Headlining the event will be legendary Japanese goregrind band Viscera Infest, who will also be making their highly anticipated exclusive UK debut. Making headlines in 2017 for the invention of “cockroach moshing,” the band …