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Live Review: New Model Army / Zen Baseball Bat – The Ritz, Manchester 03.12.2022

It was refreshing to get across the Pennines fairly smoothly with almost no hold ups at all, a feat which I haven’t been able to achieve in the last eight…

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Live Review: Amorphis / Eluveitie / Dark Tranquility / Nailed To Obscurity – O2 Ritz, Manchester 24.11.2022

By Sian Connolly It was a Thursday evening in Manchester and the venue we are in tonight is the amazing o2 Ritz, welcoming not one, not two, but four incredible…

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Live Review: Amorphis / Eluveitie / Dark Tranquillity / Nailed To Obscurity – O2 Ritz, Manchester 24.11.2022

By the time I’d battled across the Pennines, in the now all too familiar tailbacks and gridlocks of the M62 and Manchester City Centre, I arrived at the Ritz just…

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Live Review: Deaf Havana / Jaws The Shark – Manchester Academy, Manchester 11.11.2022

By Sian Connolly The Deaf Havana tour has finally arrived in Manchester and warm-up band Jaws The Shark are here to kick it off. Originally working as a tour manager,…

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Live Review: After The Burial – Manchester Academy, Manchester 11.11.2022

By Sian Connolly To all the metal heads out there, this one’s for you. The Never Say Die Tour well and truly smashed it this year with headlining band After…

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Live Review: Sepultura / Sacred Reich / Crowbar -O2 Ritz, Manchester 02.11.2022

With a bill that was dominated by thrash, what better way to keep the evening grounded than by kicking it off with a heavy dose of New Orleans sludge courtesy…

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News: Charged GBH – Grievous Battery Harm – Lords Of The Flies

November 6, 2022

The Battery Farm are a gutter punk band from Manchester. They are one of, it not the most hard working band on the North West scene over the last couple…

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Say Psych: Interview: The Dirt

Manchester’s underground has never been short of bands, but recently a new breed are emerging, none of them more exciting than duo The Dirt. Being less than a year into…

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Live Review: Hypocrisy / Septic Flesh / The Agonist / Horizon Ignited – Manchester Academy 2, Manchester 07.10.2022

I was already fighting to make it over the Pennines to reach the Manchester Academy 2 for the advertised doors of 18.30 but when I heard that the doors had…

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