Mandrake Handshake
Say Psych: News: Float Along Festival is back in 2025, first names announced!
Float Along Festival returns to Sheffield on Saturday 27th September 2025 with its biggest and boldest line-up yet – a full-day celebration of the best in alternative music. Following last year’s success, the festival expands across a wider range of the city’s iconic venues and unveils a thrilling first wave of artists, offering a bold …
Live Review: Mandrake Handshake – No.90, Hackney Wick, London 28.02.2025
There’s that scene in the film High Fidelity when record shop owner Rob boldly claims he’ll now flog some records as he pops a Beta Band EP on the turntable. We watch in wonder as the vinyl heads become entranced by the music. These days that plot would surely feature a Mandrake Handshake record. So …
Say Psych: Live Review: Float Along Festival, Sheffield, 24.09.2022
This weekend saw Float Along Festival hit the streets of Sheffield for the first time. It spanned four venues, six stages and encompassed the best of psychedelic rock as well as a medley of the best in indie and alternative. I arrive in time to watch local ladies Sister Wives at Record Junkee. The four piece …
TRACK: Mandrake Handshake – ‘Gonkulator’: Oxford dectet debut the new acid
THEY may be one of the most populous bands you’ve seen this side of My Life Story and The Polyphonic Spree in their pomp – but Oxford psych dectet Mandrake Handshake breathe new and trippy life into that old adage: the more, the merrier. They’ve signed on the dotted for cult British indie imprint Nice …