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Contents Hello and welcome to the very first edition copy of The Live Guide Manchester. Born out of our love of live music, our pocket-sized, monthly guide gives you the low down on all your local live music needs. From insights and tip-offs about fresh faced newcomers, to interviews with established acts, and thoughts from industry insiders. This month we have an exclusive interview with our cover stars Blossoms, we’re sharing our top picks for September shows, write ups on Leeds Festival, a fresher's guide, Clint’s given his hint, plus there’s a whole month of gig listings in the back to help you plan your gig rota for next month. Emma Baker, Editor-In-Chief 5
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Local News
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Picks Of The Month
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Blossoms Interview
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Leeds Festival Top 10
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Fresher's Guide '17
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Gig Listings
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Clint's Hint
Contributors Words: Emma Baker Simon Robinson Clint Boon Photos: Virgin EMI Ben Bentley Matty Adams Ron Smith Nicolas Green Sarah Koury Matt Eachus Jen O'Neill Ben Bentley Kennerdeigh Scott Andy Hughes Aaron Paul Nicholas Green
Design: James McCarthy Big Love: From The Fields Blossoms Gordon Duncan Paul Kennedy Jamie Muir Festival Republic Keith Patterson Christine Baker
We'd like to thank everyone who has made the first edition of The Live Guide possible and also all those who pick up a copy. We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed creating it! See you all for Issue 2.
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Developers Urban Splash have bought the former Sankeys venue. Turning down proposals to develop the space into a live music venue, it is rumoured to be developed shortly into offices.
Off The Record 10.11.17 - FRMÂŁ15
Rumour has it that the iconic, once Factory Records-owned Dry Bar is to be knocked down and replaced by a 6 story boutique hotel and bar for tourists, presumably visiting Manchester in order to view its iconic musical history.
Tickets for multi-venue, city fest and conference Off The Record are on sale now. Taking place in Manchester's Northern Quarter, expect conferences by day and emerging live music by night. The line-up is kept secret until 24 hours before the event, so prepare for lots of surprises!
Manchester Arena reopens on the 09.09.17 with a 'We Are Manchester' benefit concert to raise money for the Manchester Memorial Fund. The show will feature performances from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Courteeners, Blossoms, Rick Astley, Louisa Johnson, Pixie Lott, Bugzy Malone, and a preshow DJ set from Clint Boon.
Sound Control is being knocked down to be replaced by student housing. Students love to come to Manchester due to its rich musical heritage and happening night-scene with venues such as Dry Bar, Sankeys and Sound Control. Er‌?
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Okay, so this may not be a Manchester show, but if you fancy a bit of Alt-J by the sea, you can hop on the ‘Northern Fail’ for a mere 1 hour 20 minute trip up to the dizzy lights of Blackpool to catch them performing at the Empress Ballroom. Airing tracks from their latest album offering ‘Relaxer’, this is a seaside tour not to be missed.
SEPTEMBER Our pick of the best shows this month 02.09.17
Manchester Psych Fest Band On The Wall / Night & Day Café / Soup Kitchen FRM£12.50 | 3pm Taking place across 3 NQ venues, this psychedelic city fest kicks off a jam-packed month of live music in Manchester. Expect mind-altering, hallucinatory, audible wizardry from Bo Ningen, Ryley Walker, Flamingods, The Telescopes and many more in the lead up to a bill-topping performance from Teleman. Night & Day Café will also be hosting a free after party for wristband holders - and all this before you grab ‘Breakfast’ on the way home. 12
now three-piece will offer an extended evening of two sets separated by an intermission. Expect a choice selection of their best-loved songs, alongside new and unreleased material, currently being written towards a forthcoming eighth studio album.
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Banfi Gullivers | £6ADV | 7:30pm We think you might enjoy a bit of Banfi. Having wet their whistle on the festival circuit this summer, the boys are back with a tour in September. Check out their catchy track ‘She Comes Home’, it’ll get wedged in your head, and harks of promises of plenty of radio play to come.
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Avec Sans The Castle Hotel £8ADV | 7.30pm
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Avec Sans – AKA Alice Fox and Jack St James - will be lighting up The Castle Hotel with their uplifting brand of electro-pop. Anthemic 2016 debut ‘Heartbreak Hi’ fuses undeniably modern tracks with a respectful nod to the 80’s. If you’re an admirer of CHVRCHES you should give this duo a go.
Sigur Rós O2 Apollo | FRM£27.50 | 7pm When you have three chances in three days to catch Icelandic post-rockers Sigur Rós in Manchester, you have no excuse to not witness them. Performing at the O2 Apollo, as part of their month-long European tour, the 13
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Cats In Space Manchester Academy 3 £16ADV | 7:30pm Let Manchester Academy 3 be your vessel of choice for transporting you back in time for some 70’s style classic rock. But this ain’t no cover act - Cats In Space are all original, so it should feel the same as when your folks saw some of the now-household names (like Whitesnake or Europe) for the very first time! Last time CIS performed in Manchester was at the ‘Thunder / Cats’ sold out tour in March (supporting classic hard-rockers Thunder of course). Armed with fresh-August release ‘Scarecrow’; the follow-up to their debut ‘Too Many Gods’, you should prepare for liftoff… MEOW!!!
Day 1 of the festival. While White Lies top the bill on Day 2, with The Horrors, Foals (DJ set), TOY, Airways et al also in attendance. 30.09.17
Aquilo Gorilla l £11ADV | 6:30pm They might be playing at Gorilla but these Lancashire locals don’t monkey around. We had to wait for what seemed like forever until the atmospheric duo’s debut album ‘Silhouettes’ was released in January this year, but boy was it worth the wait. And live? Well, their performances make you feel as if you are the only person in the room, floating in a dream pop landscape. There may be other gigs on that night, but “you
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The British Sound Project Victoria Warehouse FRM£25 | 5pm Kick off your payday weekend in style with this two-day, indoor festival at Victoria Warehouse. Twin Atlantic and Deaf Havana are joined by the likes of Band Of Skulls (DJ set), Pulled Apart By Horses, Lonely The Brave, Fatherson, and many more for
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Blossoms Blossoms are without a doubt Stockport’s biggest export since the hat industry.
gone and documented the whole thing in a film titled ‘All Night Long’. The group has even squeezed in a spot of vintage shopping while in the US, and have the 70’s collars to prove it! But success hasn’t changed the band, as they remain grounded, hard working and up for a laugh.
Named after The Blossoms pub in their hometown, following their formation in 2013 the indie-rock quintet has gone on to spawn a No. 1 self-titled debut album, which currently sits in 116,000 homes across the UK and contains 8 stellar sing-along singles.
As we sit down together, backstage at Leeds Festival, the Main Stage where they are set to perform is but a stone's throw away. Within the perimeter gates, festival-goers don the band's distinct psychedelic logo across their chests in preparation for Blossoms’ early evening slot.
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Cool, calm and collected the group seem unfazed by it all. Drummer Joe Donovan explains; “I’d say we’ve always had [a great time] – especially in Leeds – it’s always been a highlight crowd of festival season. The crowd are always up for it. Catering’s alright, isn’t it? Chili-con-carne this morning.”
Baby-faced front-man Tom enthuses; “It’s a good achievement to go and build yourself up from Festival Republic, to NME, to the Main Stage in three years on the bounce. So yeah, we’re dead proud of what we’ve done and I think we’ll be in very good spirits after we play, especially with Liam Gallagher on afterwards ‘cause we’re big Oasis fans. So it couldn’t be a better afterparty if you could call it that.”
“(If we win the Mercury Prize) we'll probably just have a pot of tea.”
Lead singer and guitarist Tom Ogden nonchalantly adds; “I had a chicken katsu curry – it’s a bit weird when you wake up and Now turning 1 year have that for old (happy albumbreakfast, you versary!) the know what I mean? record has been Frontman, Tom Ogden nominated for the I would have much preferred a bacon Mercury Prize. sarnie, but being Bassist, Charlie a Northern band, Salt, ponders; “Do Leeds as a whole is always up for a you know what, it’s one of them, I good time, which is what you want don’t think we’ll even win, we’ve not when you’re a band.” even thought about it yet. In our heads, we’re not gonna win. Nah.” The five-piece have skillfully scaled an arduous ascent from When asked how they will the Festival Republic Stage up to celebrate if they do win Tom adds; antepenultimate slot on the Main “We’ll probably just have a pot of Stage at Reading & Leeds in three tea.” short years. 19
Lounge or something like that, we just go to a proper rehearsal room or something like that. So, unfortunately, the scaffolding yard is defunct.”
A Stockport scaffolding yard owned by Charlie Salt’s grandfather acted as the backdrop for Blossoms’ aforementioned debut. When asked if they still use the space for rehearsals the band said; “Unfortunately we’ve outgrown the scaffolding yard because we have so much equipment now."
“I think that’s why we put it (scaffolding yard) on the debut album front cover ‘cause we knew we wouldn’t be there forever so it was good to document it. That was that part of our lives and we loved them times, you know what I mean?”
"When we’ve been on the road for the last year and a half, we haven’t really been rehearsing as such ‘cause we’ve been playing the album songs and they’re already rehearsed up. So if we ever need to learn something for Live
Tom jokes; “If the business moves in years to come, we’ll buy it and turn it into a like bigger place, or
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a museum!” Joe adds; “Yeah a Blossoms museum, just loads of Tom’s flares in there!” The ‘Honey Sweet’ boys leave no time for complacency in their busy schedule, as they have already started work on a second album. Tom explains; “We didn’t overthink it and we never got carried away with success and thought we’d made it. In our heads, we haven’t made it until 2 or 3 albums – a solid body of work. So after the first album I just got my head down and focused on writing songs.”
“We weren’t going out, getting fucked, we kinda knew the job at hand. So while we don’t take ourselves too seriously - we’re up for a laugh and things like that - in terms of songwriting we take that very seriously.”
one so, we’ll just have to wait and see.” Blossoms have offered up some new music in 2017 in the form of ‘This Moment’, their collaboration with Chase & Status. The anthem is a real crowd pumper - a “fucking banger” as Tom puts it - and a number of remixes are already floating around the web-a-sphere. Tom explains; “They just got in touch, they were fans of our music and they were making a new album.”
The pressure of a second album can be enough to break any band but there’s a confident camaraderie between the once teenage pals that unites them. “We know obviously the pressures on when you’ve had such a successful first album. Listening to this one (second album) everyone who has heard it up to now has said that they think it’s better than the first 21
“Stockport Council just love us, they’ve done loads for us. I think we were driving past one time and saw it was an advert for - was it Shabaz? – a curry house - and it wasn’t even open. So we just sorted it out and thought it was a bit of a laugh and it’s still there.”
Before our chat came to an end we had to ask about the ‘Home of the Blossoms’ sign in Stockport. The indie-rockers recalled that it had been an advert for a local curry house, and tongue-in-cheek they had suggested to the council that it should be changed.
“For some reason when you are in a taxi on your way up into town, the taxi driver always brings up ‘what do you do?’ and at that moment you’ll be passing that sign, and we say, ‘we’re in a band and that’s our name up there’, and he’s like ‘Nah, you’re full of shit’.” Following the interview, the downto-earth band are happy to pose for photos with their fans, donning a comedy hat or two stolen off nearby heads. As emphasised, the Blossoms do not take themselves too seriously but as their later set plays testament to, there is one thing they are serious about – music. Their sonic prowess and relatable lyrics seem to really resonate with the Northern crowd. As Stockport’s burgeoning hat legacy is now tributed by a Hat Museum, the idea of a Blossoms’ museum in years to come may not be a far-fetched proposition for the lads after all. 22
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Leeds Festival Leeds festival is one of the jewels in the North's festival crown. With fresh-faced, festival virgins, rubbing muddy shoulders with Leeds locals and veterans, as 80,000 music lovers descend on Bramham Park. But boy do some of these revellers come out with some bull when they've had one too many Carlings and a sprinkle of smuggled contraband. Here's some of the stupidest, weirdest, funniest, most insightful shite we overheard at Leeds Festival.
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Boy: "It's busy in the prayer tent!" Girl: "Oh yeah, I bet that's cause they have chairs." Girl 2: "Yeah, cause I guess God is everywhere so there's no point going to a specific prayer tent." Boy: "Yeah, if Jesus was here he'd deffo be down at Piccadilly dancing!" Girl: "Na, he'd be in the VIP area. - Actually, he'd be headlining the Main Stage!" Boy: "Yeah, fuck Muse, we've got Jesus coming up next!"
Boyfriend: "Those socks make your legs look hug e!" Girlfriend: "What??" Boyfriend: "Ahhh sorry that sounded really harsh - It's true though!"
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Leeds locals The Pigeon Detectives celebrated a decade of debut album 'Wait For Me' with chaos and crowd surfing.
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Queens Of The Stone Age launched their latest album 'Villians' with a secret set on the NME / Radio 1 Stage.
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Screw you rules - I saw pineapples all over the Glass Animals set!
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California Girls - Deap Vally put the glam in 'glam rock', while Haim capped off Friday night with a bang!
With a seamless set of cuts from their No. 1 debut album. How could we not feature our cover stars Blossoms in our top 10?
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Bolshy boys Kasabian performed a testosterone fueled headline show. Yes, I am in love with a psycho.
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The biggest circle pit of the festival - A Sunday secret set from Wolf Alice sent the crowd into bloody mayhem!
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"To the window, to the wall" - Rat Boy covered Lil Jon’s ‘Get Low’ and belted out bangers from his debut album 'Scum'.
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Manchester Freshers’ Guide It’s that time of year again; where a fresh batch of student meat join Manchester's already bustling throng of established scholars. And what better way to get acquainted with your new roomies, and soon to be class companions, than to down a few Jagerbombs and get yourself out on the freshers scene. As we all know freshers is all about throwing yourself into the mix, dancing, dressing up, and drinking ’til you chunder, and chundering ’til your nose bleeds. Let us give you the
low-down on the hippest student hang outs for said activities to take place. Fresh off the print; here’s our guide to the city’s hottest freshers shindigs.
Official Freshers Party: Deansgate Locks Deansgate Locks - 17.09.17 - 9:30pm - 3:30am Price: £5 At the first of the University of Manchester’s Official Freshers parties, you’ll be taken on a bar crawl of the iconic Deansgate Locks – home to some the most popular bars in the city centre. Their student-only lockdown will offer you a choice of individually styled bars offering a wide variety of music, you’ll also bag a free t-shirt, and return transport between your halls of residence to the venue. Bonus.
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Manchester's BIGGEST Moving In Party 2017 Aura Manchester - 19.09.17 - 10:30pm - 3am Price: FRM£6.50 When your poor parents have finished helping you lug your beloved belongings up flights of stairs into your new home in halls, flee the boxes of unpacked shit. Collar your fresh friends and get yourself out to Manchester’s Biggest Moving In Party; with none of the clean up after. Expect a huge bouncy castle, a 10 man (or woman)
ball bit, celebrity piñatas, explosive confetti cannons, stilt walkers, fire performers and dancers, a space hopper room, free neon face painting, giant Connect 4 and Jenga, plus vintage porn posing boards. No matter how much drink you down, this is sure to be a night you never forget!
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Manchester Freshers’ Guide Official Freshers Party: City Centre Factory / Fifth Avenue - 19.09.17 - 9:30pm - 3:30am Price: £4 You’ll get a taste of the cities famous, bustling night life at the University of Manchester’s second Official Fresher’s party. With a 'Made in the 90s' night at Fifth, and a 'Twisted Disco' evening cracking off at Factory simultaneously. Plus there'll be cheap as chips drinks at both venues, so even if your student loan hasn't come in yet, you should be able to make this one.
MutherFunkers Freshers Carnival Tickets Antwerp Mansion - 21.09.17 - 10pm - 3am Price: FRM£5 Grab your new homies and head on down to Antwerp Mansion for a night of funky-fun. MotherFunkers guarantees you a funktastic night of live music, performers, psychedelic decor, balloons, bunting, installations, disco balls, projections, diffraction glasses, free sweets, confetti cannons, as well
as a live sax performance by the phenomenal Carl Magnus Thomas (AKA the saxiest man alive). Plus you have the chance to win, amongst other amazing prices, a lava lamp! Now, how funking cool will that look in your new pad!
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Official Freshers Party: Club Tropicana Club Academy - 21.09.17 - 10pm - 3am Price: £5 The drinks might not be free, but there will be UV paint-a plenty, as Club Tropicana returns for a night full of music, explosions and colour. Based at the University of Manchester’s very own Club Academy, located in the Students' Union, you’ll be able to stumble home with ease after this one.
Stay Fresh Fest The Deaf Institute - 30.09.17 - 4pm - 10pm Price: FRM£3 This two-floor all day party features 9 stellar emerging indie bands from Manchester and beyond including Easy Kill, Drahla, Wedding, SlowHandClap, Koalas and Rosey PM. With its collosol disco ball, retro club nights, and pimped up fries, The Deaf Institute is bound to become one of your favourite student hang-outs. For just £3 for an early-bird ticket this event is a blooming bargain!
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THE FRESHERS ALTERNATIVE Sun 24 Sep
MR JUKES
Mon 25 Sep
NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
Fri 13 Oct
WILL JOSEPH COOK
Fri 13 Oct
WHP17: GIGGS, DEVLIN & NADIA ROSE
Wed 25 Oct
ST VINCENT
Wed 25 Oct
MØ
Tue 31 Oct
OH WONDER
Sat 25 Nov
MAC DEMARCO
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Hello handsome, we bumped baskets in the overpriced campsite supermarket at Leeds Festival on the Thursday night. They were all out of beer and in the rush to find some I forgot to ask for your number - I have been kicking myself ever since. I kept an eye out for you all weekend, but no luck. If you do remember me and fancy going out please get in touch. Hopeful glitter-faced girl, Leeds Festival
Dear Mr Cameron. I think we shared a moment at Wilderness. It was in the Conservative campsite. I was making Daily Mail jokes with my companions, while drinking a gin and tonic (Hendricks and Fever-Tree of course), and you chuckled and caught my eye. If you ever leave your wife, like you left Downing Street, come find me. Younger model, Wilderness Festival
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To Mr Hawaiian shirt - AKA one of the only men in the crowd at the Kate Nash show. I think you’re a real hottie. You really rocked my ‘Foundations’. Get in touch so I can wrestle you GLOW-style.
To Michelle the Muddy mess at Y Not – Y not meet up again? You were a cheap date at the burger van, and I’d quite like to feel your buns again. Clive the cabby, Y Not Festival
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Full gig listings Friday - 01.09.17
Parquet Courts / Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever / Ultimate Painting + Many More
The Surfing Magazines / Fruit Tones Soup Kitchen | £8ADV | 7pm
O2 Ritz | £20.59ADV | 6pm
Master Thieves
Dirty Circus / Riviera / Cosmic Shambles
Night & Day Café | £6ADV | 8pm
Younganz Fusion
Gullivers | £6ADV | 7:30pm
Sound Control | £7.50ADV | 7pm
Sunday - 03.09.17
Hands Off Gretel
The Psychedelic Furs
Gullivers | £8ADV | 7:30pm
O2 Ritz | £27.50ADV | 7pm
TG Lee & The Rago Band
Mo Pitney
Soup Kitchen | £8ADV | 7pm
Night & Day Café £12.50ADV | 7:30pm
Saturday - 02.09.17
Rajasthan Heritage Brass Band
Manchester Psych Fest Band On The Wall / Night & Day Café / Soup Kitchen | FRM£12.50 | 7pm
Band On The Wall | £14.50ADV | 7pm
Emily Middlemas
Interpol
Sound Control | £10ADV | 7pm
Albert Hall | £25ADV | 8pm
Misfires + Guests
Monday - 04.09.17
The Deaf Institute | £7ADV | 7pm
Cattle Decapitation / Broken Hope / Hideous Divinity / Gloryhole Guillotine
Deco / Beach Royals / Vneto The Castle Hotel | £6ADV | 7:30pm
Rebellion | £10ADV | 7pm
Strange Waves II:
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September Shuggie Otis
Lowkey
The Ruby Lounge | £20ADV | 7pm
O2 Ritz l £16ADV | 7:30pm
Tuesday - 05.09.17
Margaret Glaspy
Aaron Lee Tasjan
The Deaf Institute l £12.50ADV | 7pm
Gullivers | £10ADV | 7:30pm
Alvvays + Special Guests
Yardbirds
Gorilla l £12.50ADV | 7pm
Band On The Wall £18.50ADV | 7:30pm
KMFDM
Waxahatchee
Friday - 08.09.17
The Ruby Lounge l £13.50ADV | 7pm
The Deaf Institute l £12ADV | 7:30pm
Girlpool
Wednesday - 06.09.17
Gorilla l £12ADV | 7pm
Paul Kelly
The Moods 'Missing Peace' Album Launch Party
Band On The Wall £16.50ADV | 7:30pm
O2 Ritz l £9.50ADV | 6pm
The Districts + Special Guests
Will Heard + Special Guests The Deaf Institute l £12.50ADV | 7pm
Gorilla | £12.50ADV | 7:30pm
Stop Stop
Tom Mcrae
The Ruby Lounge l £6ADV | 7pm
The Deaf Institute £19.50ADV | 7:30pm
The Recreation Gullivers l £3ADV | 7pm
Thursday - 07.09.17
And Yet It Moves
Scott Hirsch / Michael Chapman
The White Hotel l £6.50ADV | 8pm
Gullivers l £10ADV | 7:30pm
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Full gig listings Travis
Mr Eazi
Bridgewater Hall | FRM £27.50 | 7pm
O2 Ritz | £20.50ADV | 7pm
Saturday - 09.09.17
Monday - 11.09.17
Room 94
Banfi
Sound Control | £10ADV | 6pm
Gullivers | £6ADV | 7:30pm
Part Chimp / Mums / Bodies On Everest
Miles & Erica (of The Wonder Stuff)
Soup Kitchen | £9ADV | 7pm
The Deaf Institute | £14ADV | 8pm
Emma Buckley / The Glass Child
Tuesday - 12.09.17 Peter Broderick & David Allred
Gullivers | £6ADV | 7:30pm
Secret Affair + Guests
Low Four @ Old Granada Studios | £13ADV | 7:30pm
Band On The Wall £19.50ADV | 7:30pm
Maisie Johnson
Sunday - 10.09.17
Night & Day Café | £6ADV | 8pm
H.Hawkline / Younghusband
Tash Sultana
Soup Kitchen | £8ADV | 7:30pm
Manchester Academy 2 £15ADV | 7:30pm
Time For Action / The Hurt / Scuttlers
A Night Of Amy
Night & Day Café | £7ADV | 8pm
Gorilla | FRM£12ADV | 7pm
Bright Light Bright Light + Special Guests
Wednesday - 13.09.17 The Beat starring Dave Wakeling
The Deaf Institute | £12ADV | 7:30pm
Manchester Academy 3
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September £18ADV | 7:30pm
Jack Cooper
American Head Charge
Eagle Inn | £7ADV | 7:30pm
Club Academy | £18ADV | 7:30pm
Danny & The Champions Of The World / William The Conqueror
James Yuill The Castle Hotel | £5ADV | 7:30pm
Soup Kitchen | £12.50ADV | 7:30pm
Ne-Yo
The Rails
O2 Apollo | £49ADV | 7pm
The Deaf Institute | £12ADV | 7:30pm
Thursday - 14.09.17
Clan of Xymox
Spiral Stairs
The Ruby Lounge | £17ADV | 7pm
The Deaf Institute | £10ADV | 7:30pm
Weekend Wars + Guests
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Club Academy | £7ADV | 7:30pm
Gorilla | £15ADV | 7:30pm
Mad Winter / Complex State / The Venaglis
Ryan Mcmullan Soup Kitchen | £8ADV | 7pm
Manchester Academy 3 £7ADV | 7:30pm
Ryan Adams O2 Apollo | £32.50ADV | 7pm
Son Yambu
Lewis Capaldi
Band On The Wall | £11.50ADV | 7pm
Fallow Café | £6ADV | 7:30pm
The Sherlocks
Friday - 15.09.17
Manchester Academy | £14ADV | 7pm
John Murry
Voodoo Six
The Castle Hotel | £13ADV | 7:30pm
Rebellion | £10ADV | 7pm
Paul Draper
Pete Macleod + DJ Clint Boon
Gorilla | £16ADV | 6:30pm
Night & Day Café | £12ADV | 8pm
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Full gig listings Berlyn Trilogy
Saturday - 16.09.17
The Castle Hotel | FRM£3 | 7:30pm
Coltsblood / Dawn Ray'd / Underdark / Crimson Throne
Sigur Rós O2 Apollo | FRM£27.50 | 7pm
Soup Kitchen | £7ADV | 6:30pm
Sunday - 17.09.17
Life Of Agony + Special Guests
Sigur Rós
Gorilla | £20ADV | 6:30pm
O2 Apollo | FRM£27.50 | 7pm
Funk With Ink
Monday - 18.09.17
The Deaf Institute | £7ADV | 7pm
Trailer Trash Tracys
706's + Special Guests
Soup Kitchen | £8ADV | 7:30pm
Gullivers | £7ADV | 7:30pm
Sigur Rós
John Legend
O2 Apollo | FRM£27.50 | 7pm
Manchester Arena | FRM£45 | TBC
Tuesday - 19.09.17
Natasha Watts
Henrik Freischlader + Special Guests
Manchester Academy 3 £15ADV | 7pm
Band On The Wall | £15ADV | 7:30pm
The Maine
Charly Bliss
Club Academy | £14ADV | 7:30pm
Eagle Inn | £7.50ADV | 7:30pm
The Warehouse Project: LCD Soundsystem + Special Guests
Minami Deutsch / Stupid Cosmonaut / Thing Soup Kitchen | £7.50ADV | 7pm
Store Street | £35ADV | 7pm
Little Barrie + Special Guests
AnalogueTrash Live: Nature Of Wires / Real Experts /
The Deaf Institute | £12ADV | 7pm
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September Flamin' Groovies
Test Card x Visual Brazil: VJ Eletroiman + Guests
The Ruby Lounge | £17.50ADV | 7pm
Texture | £8ADV | 7:30pm
Wednesday - 20.09.17
Friday - 22.09.17
R5 O2 Ritz | £18.50ADV | 7pm
Jess And The Bandits
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club
Gullivers | £12.50ADV | 7:30pm
The Castle Hotel | £10ADV | 7:30pm
Sparks
Baby Strange
venue O2 Ritz | £28ADV | 6pm
Gullivers | £8ADV | 7:30pm
King No-One + Special Guests
Jaret Reddick (Bowling For Soup)
Gorilla | £8ADV | 6:30pm
The Claremonts + Special Guests
Gorilla | £25ADV | 7pm
The Velveteens Farwell Show
Night & Day Café | £6ADV | 7:30pm
The Venue Nightclub | £6ADV | 7pm
Skerryvore
Artist
Band On The Wall | £18.50ADV | 7pm
venue | £8ADV | 7pm
Barns Courtney
Thursday - 21.09.17
Soup Kitchen | £8ADV | 7pm
Julie's Haircut
Kate Rusby
Soup Kitchen | £6.50ADV | 7pm
Bridgewater Hall | £27ADV | 7:30pm
Avec Sans
The Hubbards / Blooms / Foxglove
The Castle Hotel | £8ADV | 7:30pm
Phil Rudd (AC/DC)
The Deaf Institute | £8ADV | 7:30pm
Band On The Wall £27.50ADV | 7:30pm
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Full gig listings The Warehouse Project Part 1: The Martinez Brothers / Eats Everything + Many More
Breaking Waves Night & Day Café | £6ADV | 8pm
The National O2 Apollo | £32.50ADV | 7pm
Store Street | £35ADV | 9pm
Carnival Club
Polo / Ambiere
Rebellion | £5ADV | 7pm
The Castle Hotel | £5ADV | 7:30pm
Kult
Riggots / Mannequin Death Squad / YouYesYou
O2 Ritz | £27ADV | 5pm
Micah P Hinson
The Peer Hat | £3ADV | 7:30pm
The Deaf Institute | £15ADV | 7pm
New Columbia + Guests
Cosmo Calling / Cordeliers / Flynt
Manchester Academy 3 £7ADV | 7:30pm
Soup Kitchen | £6ADV | 7:30pm
Mayday Parade Manchester Academy £18ADV | 7pm
Coasts
The National
Kiran Leonard
O2 Apollo | £32.50ADV | 7pm
Band On The Wall | £12.50ADV | 7pm
Saturday - 23.09.17
Sunday - 24.09.17
The Warehouse Project Part 2: Ricardo Villalobos / Seth Troxler / Ben Klock / Bicep + Many More
Sarah Close + Special Guests
Sound Control | £11ADV | 7pm
The Deaf Institute | £8ADV | 7:30pm
Mr Jukes (of Bombay Bicycle Club)
Store Street | £38.50ADV | 6pm
Manchester Academy2 £12ADV | 7pm
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September The Headstart
Denai Moore
Dry Bar | £6ADV | 6:30pm
Gullivers | £7.50ADV | 7:30pm
AJR
Portugal. The Man + Special Guests
Sound Control | £9ADV | 7pm
Erja Lyytinen
Gorilla | £16ADV | 7:30pm
Band On The Wall £12.50ADV | 7pm
Lorde
Monday - 25.09.17
O2 Apollo | £32.50ADV | 7pm
Wednesday - 27.09.17
Fredo + Special Guests The Deaf Institute £10ADV | 7:30pm
I Am Giant
Michael Nau
Rebellion l £8ADV | 7pm
Gullivers | £8ADV | 7:30pm
Kawehi + Special Guests
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
The Deaf Institute £18.50ADV | 7:30pm
Manchester Arena FRM£45 | 6:30pm
Bush
Young Guns
O2 Ritz | £27.50ADV | 7pm
Club Academy | £12ADV | 7:30pm
Turnover
Tuesday - 26.09.17
Sound Control | £11ADV | 7pm
Michelle Branch + Special Guests
Anathema O2 Ritz | £20ADV | 7pm
Gorilla | £15ADV | 7:30pm
Cats In Space
Waterparks
Manchester Academy 3 £16ADV | 7:30pm
Manchester Academy 3 £12ADV | 7:30pm
Van Zeller The Castle Hotel | £6ADV | 7:30pm
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Full gig listings Jen Cloher
Thursday - 28.09.17
Eagle Inn | £6ADV | 7:30pm
The Standard Lamps
Jakil
Eagle Inn | £8ADV | 7:30pm
Dry Bar | £5ADV | 7:30pm
NOT3S
The Warehouse Project: Hannah Wants / Sonny Fodera / Shadow Child + Many More
Sound Control | £8ADV | 7pm
Vega Manchester Academy 3 £12ADV | 7pm
Store Street | £35ADV | 9pm
Dead Pretties
Lazy Day
The Castle Hotel | £7ADV | 7:30pm
The Castle Hotel | £5ADV | 7pm
Texas
The Hyena Kill
Bridgewater Hall | FRM£28.50 | 7pm
Manchester Academy 3 £9ADV | 7:30pm
Machine Gun Kelly
Puppet Theory / Young Monarch / Elephant Bay / Deliah
O2 Ritz | £24.50ADV | 6:30pm
Little Big Town Albert Hall | £27.50ADV | 7pm
The Ruby Lounge | £7ADV | 7:30pm
Friday - 29.09.17
Third Eye Blind
The British Sound Project: Twin Atlantic / Deaf Havana / Band Of Skulls (DJ set) & More
Manchester Academy 2 £20ADV | 7:30pm
The Bright Black + Guests Band On The Wall | £8ADV | 7pm
Victoria Warehouse | FRM£25 | 5pm
Kaze + Special Guests Night & Day Café | £5ADV | 8pm
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September New Found Glory
Suzanne Vega
Manchester Academy £22.50ADV | 7pm
Bridgewater Hall FRM£31.50 | 7:30pm
Saturday - 30.09.17
Sunday - 01.10.17
The Warehouse Project: Daphni / Jon Hopkins (DJ) / Floating Points + Many More
Thorbjorn Risager & The Black Tornado
Store Street | £35ADV | 8:30pm
Neil Diamond
The British Sound Project: White Lies / The Horrors / Foals (DJ set) / TOY / Airways / White / Cupids / New York Tourists
Manchester Arena | FRM£94 | 7pm
Victoria Warehouse | FRM£25 | 5pm
Dermot Kennedy
Parade / KYŌGEN
The Deaf Institute | £7ADV | 7pm
Soup Kitchen | £5ADV | 7:30pm
Tubular Bells For Two
Aqulio
Royal Northern College of Music £22.50ADV | 7:30pm
Band On The Wall | £16ADV | 8pm
All Them Witches Sound Control | £10ADV | 7pm
Monday - 02.10.17
Gorilla | £11ADV | 6:30pm
T. Love O2 Ritz | £29.50ADV | 6:30pm
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Clint’s Hint
Control Of The Going DJ, former Inspiral Carpets keyboard player, and new music champion Clint Boon talks us through what he's been listening to lately. One of the lovely things about being a club DJ is that I regularly get approached by bands, singer songwriters, musicians in general who want to chat about the business, grab the obligatory selfie and (often) thrust a copy of their latest work into my eager palm. Often, I’ll get to listen to the music sometime later and, occasionally, I might contact the band to give them words of encouragement. This happened at a recent DJ gig at the Bier Keller Live venue
in Oldham (ex Tokyo Project / Hurricane Club). A group of young lads came over to chat to me about their band ‘Control of the Going’. Their enthusiasm and charm really reminded me of myself and my early band mates starting our journey in that very same room 35 years earlier. They gave me a copy of their latest single. A beautiful 7” piece of vinyl in a lovingly created blue sleeve. It was called ‘She’. 60
The following day, I placed the record on my turntable and dropped the stylus onto the run in groove. The track kicked in… “Fuck me!!” I thought, “they even sound a bit like the early Inspirals!” Control of the Going have that same psychedelic, trance, drone that we and many other psyche revivalists fell in love with back in the mid-80s. I immediately took my iPhone out, set it to ‘video’ and played the track again, this time filming the record going around and the Boon goldfish looking on slightly bemused. All very trippy. I posted the film on Twitter as a little gift for the band (and the world).
I’ve not played with a band for almost two years now. The future of the Inspirals is still very uncertain following the tragic death of our drummer Craig. Occasionally though, I’ll hear a piece of music which gives me that little palpitation in the chest. That twitchy butterfly in the stomach. That taste of adrenaline which makes me want to be in a band again. That’s what hearing ‘She’ by Control of the Going did for me the first time I heard it. Cool As Fuck! Clint Boon x
Ist Ist / Control Of The Going 14.10.17 - £8 - Gorllia - 7pm You can catch Control of the Going supporting Ist Ist at Gorilla next month.
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Strange Waves II
Parquet Courts + Beach Fossils + Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever + Insecure Men + Ultimate Painting + Omni + Nap Eyes + Tempesst + Laurel + Dead Pretties Thur 7th Sep
Fri 10th Nov
The Lemon Twigs Mon 13th Nov
Andrew W.K. Thur 16th Nov
BADBADNOTGOOD + Rex Orange County
Lowkey + Awate
Sun 19th Nov
Cigarettes After Sex
Thur 12th Oct
Loyle Carner
Tue 21st Nov
The Moonlandingz
Sat 28th Oct
Mount Kimbie
+ The Black Lips + PINS
Fri 3rd Nov
Thur 30th Nov
Roots Manuva
+ Chali 2na (Jurassic 5) + Krafty Kuts + Oscar Worldpeace
Jane Weaver
+ She Drew The Gun + Pictish Trail + DJs Andy Votel and Cherrystones
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