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News: Manchester’s legendary Band on the Wall launches a singles club with the lush future soul of Mali Hayes’ ‘Forgive You’

A VENUE legendary across the North-West, with bands gracing its hallowed boards at least since a stage was installed 90 or so years ago (when it was The George &…

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Say Psych: Track Review: Peacock Method – I Don’t Mind

Formed in Manchester during the bleak pandemic period & foreseeing the inevitable nightlife renaissance Peacock Method fuse a passion for colourful indie disco mellow gothic styles & funky synth tones…

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News: A Certain Ratio reveal details of ‘ACR:EPC’; see the video for the wired dazzle of ‘Emperor Machine’

MANCHESTER’S legendary proponents of the post-punk soulful funk A Certain Ratio, fresh from the release of their excellent ACR:EPA EP, four tracks from the final session that the band laid…

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Say Psych: News: Manchester Psych Fest reveals full line up for 2021

Manchester Psych Fest has today revealed the full line up for its return on 4 September 2021. It includes Malian rebel rockers Tinariwen as co-headliners with Stereolab, feted post-punk outfit Dry Cleaning, afrobeat eight-piece Kokoroko and Japanese…

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Track: The Goa Express take off with the shimmering track ‘Second Time’ and announces tour

Last year, The Goa Express released a gorgeous track ‘Be My Friend’ – a shouty, slightly snotty and utterly endearing post-punk blast of energy – and this year follow up…

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Say Psych: Album Review: Saccades – Flowing Fades

Flowing Fades is the second Saccades album from The KVB’s Nicholas Wood and is out this week via Fuzz Club Records. Where Wood’s work in The KVB (Invada Records) trades…

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Say Psych: Video Premiere: Bones Shake – Hey Hey

Bones Shake are a scuzzed out, fuzz enthused garage rock trio formed in 2011 in Manchester’s underground They play everything to the extreme; violent bottle-neck blues riffs, drums kicked, pounded…

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EP REVIEW: Blanketman’s ‘National Trust’ – A Northern state of mind

MANCHESTER indie-pop and post-punk outfit Blanketman have come a long way since their early years. A band that has created a hard-earned and well-deserved name for themselves after performing extensively…

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Track: Lindsay Munroe – ‘Need A Ride’: Mancunian alt.blues riser finds strength in solitude

YOU CAN sum up Manchester’s Lindsay Munroe succinctly, thus: wow, that voice. Yours truly remembers dropping their spoon into my metaphorical cornflakes, jaw agape, as I first bathed in Lindsay’s…

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Say Psych: Track Review: The Watchmakers – Clover

Manchester’s neo-psychedelic group The Watchmakers are back after a longer than planned hiatus with ‘Clover’. Having previously gained radio play and recognition from the likes of major radio networks like Xfm (now…

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