Manchester
Live Review: Shania Twain – AO Arena, Manchester 25/09/23
Photo Credit: Ian McDonnell (Dublin show) Words by Dale Unsworth After months of waiting, the day had finally come for everyone to don their cowboy hats and boots and begin their pilgrimage to the most sacred of events in the calendars of drunk white women and members of the LGBTQ+ everywhere: Shania Twain’s Queen of …
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: 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 …
Premiere: Manchester-based singer songwriter T.R. Burge is going to ‘Ride This Rail’ on the eve of his new EP ‘Selling You’
We are very pleased to premiere the new single ‘Ride This Rail’ from Manchester-based singer/songwriter T.R. Burge, released on the eve of the release of his new EP, ‘Selling You’ due out on 21 July 2023. The acoustic-based track rests on a shuffling beat, gentle dappling guitars and subtle piano with Burge’s velvet vocals coasting …
Say Psych: Video Premiere: XUP – Sunday Girl
XUP is Lane on the Mustang bass, drums and vocals – a one woman, all power offering that is here to blow your mind. Lane began writing, recording and performing as XUP in 2008, releasing seven albums while based in London and Manchester. For live performances, she’s occasionally had other musicians playing drums and guitar, …
Say Psych: Interview – XUP
Manchester’s underground has never been short of bands, but it could be considered lacking when it comes to solo females. XUP is a one woman spectacular who has been around for a while now, but has recently upped the anti and is making a stir. With a new single on the horizon, BSM caught up …
Live Review: Cannibal Corpse / Dark Funeral / Ingested / Stormruler – Manchester Academy, Manchester 21.04.2023
As I forged my way across the Pennines, I was extremely excited for the evening that stood before me, an eclectic mix of metal sub genres and an evening of uncompromising brutal Death and Black metal from various corners of our planet. Early doors meant a sprint to the box office to grab my accreditation …
Keeping Control : Independent Manchester Music Scene 1977-81 Remembered
Keeping Control: Independent Music from Manchester 1977-1981 Various Artists on Cherry Red Records (76 track 3xCD set) This a great collection of Manchester music from a 4-year period in its history, perhaps the most important era in the overall scheme of things. Manchester entrepreneurial legend Anthony Davidson, the owner of TJM Rehearsal studios, probably the …
Outbreak Festival 2023 – Day Splits Announced
It’s 12 years since the Outbreak Festival began in Sheffield and the festival has new home in Manchester for 2023, in the shape of the Mayfield Depot, a stones throw from Piccadilly Station, having been at Bowlers Exhibition Centre in 2022. Day splits and day tickets have just been announced, which sees some of the …