Aug 12

Jimmy C and the Blues Dragons: almost a festival

JUNE 2021: VERY SHOCKED AND SADDENED TO HEAR OF THE DEATH OF JIMMY C. He will be missed by his friends, fam­i­ly and every­one who has seen this won­der­ful band per­form over the years. Being able to hear live music again lifts the spir­its and gives us hope for the future. Jim­my C & the Blues


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Aug 6

Fightback beer range to help music venues

Just as one venue is saved, the fate of anoth­er becomes per­ilous, and some have had to close for good. The lat­est casu­al­ty is Zanz­ibar in Liv­er­pool. Hence this new ini­tia­tive which has just been announced: with the help of pop­u­lar singer-song­writer Frank Turn­er, Music Venue Trust today announce their Offi­cial Beer Part­ner Fight­back Brew­ing Com­pa­ny will begin


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Jul 30

Poetic drama: Sylvette release album Stiller than Still

I have to cred­it Chris Hawkins’ ear­ly morn­ing show on Radio 6 Music for intro­duc­ing me to the Man­ches­ter band Syl­vette. The slinky, crys­talline notes of their new sin­gle Kelpius cut through the ear­ly morn­ing blur and I was instant­ly wide awake. Music as caf­feine.  The album Stiller than Still, the band’s sec­ond album, was


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Jul 24

HENGE release Exo, first single from album ExoKosm

Atten­tion Earth! A brand new sin­gle beams down today cour­tesy of HENGE. Exo is the first and title track from the space rock­ers up and com­ing new album ExoKosm. HENGE’s new release Exo is a fur­ther explo­ration of the band’s Cos­mic Dross sound – a psy­che­del­ic prog rock mix with dance and elec­tron­ic ele­ments thrown


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Jul 20

New single Light Me Up by The Coronas

The Coro­nas’ thir­­teen-year jour­ney has def­i­nite­ly been unique. With a hand­ful of mul­ti-plat­inum sell­ing albums and a huge fan­base in their native Ire­land, the band were just about to embark on a 6‑month world tour when a cer­tain unfor­tu­nate­ly named virus tried to spoil the par­ty. Thank­ful­ly, the band are back with the new album. “The


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Jul 14

Doves thrill their fans with long-awaited new songs

There was a Twit­ter account for Doves fans a few years called some­thing like @Dovespleasegettogetheragain (it’s no longer live, hav­ing suc­cess­ful­ly done its job). It was a place where the Doves-bereft could share their heart­break and hope­ful­ly jog the trio back into action And lo, in 2019, it hap­pened – as Doves head­ed out to


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Jul 3

Sparks and ‘The Existential Threat’ video

Sparks release a new video for The Exis­ten­tial Threat to coin­cide with the phys­i­cal release of their lat­est album A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip. Cre­at­ed by the ani­ma­tor Cyr­i­ak, known for his sub­ver­sive and sur­re­al work, the video pre­mieres today. Said Sparks broth­ers Ron and Rus­sell Mael of the video: “The incred­i­bly man­ic and overwhelming


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Jul 2

Powerful video for Heartachers by Luca Wilding

Luca Wild­ing has cre­at­ed a pow­er­ful new video for his debut sin­gle Heartachers.  The video is made by award win­ning film mak­er Patrick Fileti. His full short ‘Infer­no’ has won mul­ti­ple awards (includ­ing Best Short Doc­u­men­tary | Palm Springs Inter­na­tion­al Film Fes­ti­val 2019) and Patrick has re-edit­ed it espe­cial­ly for Heartachers.  The video for Luca Wild­ing was filmed in


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Jun 25

Marshall amps support for MVT

The “I’ve Got the Music In Me” #saveour­v­enues t‑shirt can be pur­chased here: https://marshall-amplification.backstreetmerch.com/ Info on how you can help to save our venues is here https://saveourvenues.co.uk/#/

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Jun 23

Exhibition ‘A Different Age’ by Shirley Baker

A new exhi­bi­tion of Shirley Bak­er’s work is now tak­ing place online at the James Hyman Gallery. Called ‘A Dif­fer­ent Age’, it focus­es on the lives of elder­ly peo­ple. Much of Shirley Bak­er’s work has cen­tred on work­ing class com­mu­ni­ty life, the pho­tographs tak­en in bomb-shat­tered post-war Man­ches­ter and Sal­ford in the 1960s and 70s


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