"..flavoursome guitaring – gruff blues licks that hit some nerve in your brain that can't be over-ridden by rational thought."
Sean Dagan Wood, Guestlist Music.
."..made up of thickly condensed riffs and chord hugging vocal lines. The guitar break is very much in keeping with this foggy fuzz of modern Seattle blues and very well done it is too." Manchester Music.
Ayatana are a three piece band from Manchester playing bluesy hard rock with groove. The band was formed by Mike Brotherton and Matt Fitzpatrick late in 2006. Eddie Wastnidge joined the band over the summer months completing the line up after the departure of Dan Leigh earlier this year. Their four track demo EP, recorded in '07, led to a string of successful gigs at venues such as Dry Bar, Night & Day, The Ruby Lounge, as well as a live appearance on the Artradio project at The Cornerhouse and some other local radio airplay. Ayatana’s live performances in particular have been well received; this is documented in a review from Guest List Music of the band at ‘In the City’, October 20th ‘07 at the Ruby Lounge.
Recently, Ayatana have been writing and rehearsing new material for upcoming gigs and plan to enter the studio in the coming months.
ALUNA bring the “psych blues doom” to the following venues in October:
Oct 9th Rising Sun Walsall w/ Days of Ruin Oct 10th Old Angel Notts w/ Orange Goblin*** Oct 11th Old Wharf B’ham w/ TBC Oct 12th Robin 2 W’hampton w/ War Pigs (sabbath tribute) Oct 18th The Unicorn Camden London w/TBC Oct 25th The Monument Newbury w/TBC
heya best of mornings,xxxxxxxxx, just stopped by to check out your page and see how you are really...so how are you? weve got a few gigs booked in october and november, you ca find details on our page, it wud be absolutely amazing if you could come to one of them, weve also got a new ep that were giving away for free, you can downlaod it from here.
Hope your very well all our love ben, time for china
aauh im soo in adore of your off beated direction and unique ways, such a unique sound you guys have i be highly addicted >.< respect and best wishes to one and all
The first of our new nights FUCKED UP THURSDAY is occuring at Dry Bar TONIGHT- the 10th July. If you interested in going to nights we're all the bands are important to the vibe of the evening, there's no shitty fillers, prices are reasonable and the music is imaginitive then you are in luck. WE ARE OFFERING HALF PRICE ENTRY TO ANY BANDS WHO HAVE A GIG ALREADY LINED UP WITH US.
Our 4 bands this week are-
ADVANCES IN MATHEMATICS
Flowing tuneful instrumental spacepop and a fine mixture of old school shoegaze and post-rock.
ARFICEDEN
Sexy 3 piece , awesome drumming, big dirty dub bass lines and plenty of noise coming from 1 guitar. Giving jazz a good name!!
IYE
Stoke 7 piece guitar orchestra making big swoooshing soundscapes and still managing to find room for some 3 piece harmonies. Holy shit balls!
A MIDDLE SEX
I'll be buggered if I can describe it- basically a lot of noises- electronics and other stuff going through distorted amplification. Improvisation and some rather sweet rhythmic stuff occuring.
You can check out all these bands in my top friends, doors are at 8pm, entry is £4 or £3 if you come down before the bands have started We're going to whip out some jossticks for the night and play some quality tunes by Mogwai, Battles, Melt Banana, 65 Days of Static, Vessels, Clinic, Boards of Canada, Kraftwerk, Vengaboys and much more.
Psych – Blues – Doomsters Aluna are touring the UK in support of their debut release “Fall To Earth”, if you’re in the area come on down. If you have an available slot for the missing dates, please get in touch.
The ”Fall To Earth” E. P is released Monday 23rd June on Catacomb Records and is available from all good record stores, pre-order your copy now by following the links below…
I offer my useless skills as a drummer. However my skills are poor as I have never played but my air-drumming is superb! I do recommend to not pick me. x
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Hello there, I'm playing Academy 3 on the 19th of Febury with the fantastic Rosie Smith on piano, If your interested then drop us a message and I'll sort some tickets (£5) You can get them through Fuel in Withington, just let me know and I'll leave them behind the bar!
HELLO!!! THANKS FOR JOINING THE "TEA APPRECIATION SOCIETY". WELL DONE. GIVE YOURSELF A PAT ON THE BACK AND REWARD YOURSELF WITH A NICE CUP OF TEA. www.teaappreciationsociety.org
2 great gigs at Dry Bar this week if you fancy a quality night out.
Thursday 10th Jan-THE FOUNDATION. Doors 8pm, entry £4/£3 with NUS
THE CHRISTOPHERS THE BLIMP BILLY RUFFIAN JULIUS MARTOV AND THE SEXY MISTAKES
If you love The Fall, Talking Heads, XTC, The Cardiacs and drum machines this one not to be missed.
Saturday 10th January-THE BIG SATURDAY BASH. Doors 8pm, entry £5
Upstairs THE CONSOLATIONS KING PEST THE ENDING OF THE GREEN HALF
Downstairs VESSELS LAYMAR THE SANDELLS STOP THE BLACKOUT
2 contrasting rooms of glorious music featuring 8 bands I reckon are going to do really well for themselves this year. Upstairs is headlined by The Consolations who could well do a Twisted Wheel this year. Downstairs our post-rock extravaganza is headlined by the mighty Vessels who have just got back from recording in America and are so good it should be illegal.
All nights have an array of drink offers if you bring NUS/Student cards. Happy days. Come along and get involved!
Ayatana are a three piece band from Manchester playing bluesy hard rock with groove. The band was formed by Mike Brotherton and Matt Fitzpatrick late in 2006. Eddie Wastnidge joined the band over the summer months completing the line up after the departure of Dan Leigh earlier this year. Their four track demo EP, recorded in '07, led to a string of successful gigs at venues such as Dry Bar, Night & Day, The Ruby Lounge, as well as a live appearance on the Artradio project at The Cornerhouse and some other local radio airplay. Ayatana’s live performances in particular have been well received; this is documented in a review from Guest List Music of the band at ‘In the City’, October 20th ‘07 at the Ruby Lounge.
