Musical goings on from Manchester. This is a [pretty much] daily updated version of the fanzine, with news, releases, gig listings, new bands, videos, and whatever else might occur.

Thursday, 13 November 2008

Latest Gigs

Shockwaves NME Awards Tour 2009 (Glasvegas, Friendly Fires, White Lies, Florence & The Machine) - Friday 6th February 2009 - Academy 1 (on sale Wednesday 19th November)
Kings Of Leon - Monday 22nd June 2009 - MEN Arena (on sale Friday 14th November)

The Courteeners have been announced as the support act for the Stereophonics, playing the MEN Arena on 10th December.

Tuesday, 11 November 2008

Bands With Photographs

Cajun Dance Party are in the studio at the moment, recording their second album (which bassist, Max Bloom, talks about in an interview at Myspace.com/_youvedonethiswrong). So they've done a picture blog at Cajundanceparty.com/blog/.

Foals appear to have been to Brazil, so here are their holiday photos:



















Monday, 10 November 2008

Bands With Songs

The Futureheads are releasing a new song called 'I Wouldn't Be Like This If You Were Here' on download only next month. It's very energetic, noisy and punky - good stuff. You can hear it at Myspace.com/thefutureheads.

Soft Toy Emergency have given out their MSN address (softtoyemergency@hotmail.co.uk) for "random convo's, free mp3's and more!!"

Bands In The Studio

Nine Black Alps have posted a new blog about their recording antics at Nineblackalps.com/blog with pictures and a video.

Does It Offend You, Yeah? are in the studio recording an album set to keep them off the road until its release. So here's a video of new song that basically sounds like a remix of various emergency services vehicles' sirens: