It’s striking just how visually different the four members of Still Corners are. They appear to be more like four strangers on a train platform than a band when first taking the stage. However as Circulars starts up, they instantaneously establish themselves as a unit. The sounds from the...
Manchester Academy 3 is quite a small venue and you can stand right up against the stage, although the venue wasn’t full from the start with barely any people there intitally it was quite a nice relaxed atmosphere. Supporting The Big Pink on their UK tour first up on...
Comedian Simon Day opened for Barry Adamson, reading poems as ‘Yorkshire poet Geoffrey Allerton’. By turns wonderfully comic and subtle, his poems touched on everything from Art house cinema fans to trains as a microcosm of British society. It was certainly an unusual opener and fun to see him...
It’s hard to credit just how fast far and hard Wild Flag have come in a little over a year. OK there is that ‘super-group’ tag, and the portents were always good, born out of the ashes of such luminary bands as Sleater-Kinney, Helium, The Minders and the myriad...
Currently riding the crest of a wave fuelled by an appearance on BBC Scotland’s Hogmanay Live, Radio 1 play for new single “Beetle in the Box” and the use of foot-stomper “Squealing Pigs” in just about every episode of Countryfile, Glasgow’s Admiral Fallow played their biggest show to date...
With a band like FOE all attention is rightly and firmly focussed on front woman Hannah Clark. So much so, that it’s possible to be blind to what goes into getting those brilliantly skewed vocals up front and central like some flying house of cards. The Castle in Manchester...
There are many roads to Henry Rollins, his visceral dark angry music with Black Flag and the Rollins Band, his visceral dark angry books, and then there’s his spoken word. While you’ll get the all the viscera and the Angry you can handle, you’ll also get a roller coaster...
By Katerina Webb-Bourne There are not many spoken word nights that can boast premier poets, a top class DJ (DJ Able), and a spot on host (Dan Simpson) in a full house but the Gallery Cafe had it all for the Word House’s January gig… And then some! Going...
Ani DiFranco took the stage at the Union Chapel beaming with smiles, ploughing through her 18 album back catalogue and highlights from her latest “Whose side are you on?”. But behind the smiles and charm, she’s lost none of her politicised anger or sense of indignation at the world’s...
The Mountain Ash Inn has been attracting attention lately, especially since former Creation Records’ boss, Alan McGee has been DJing there recently. Tonight, the place was packed to the rafters, with women of all ages dressed to the nines, and even many of the men had made...
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