1) We Swear By The Light Life, 2) Say, Scientist, 3) Don't Take Holidays 4) Temperate Lives, 5) Starts With Dean Moriarty (Bad Sign), 6) You And Me And An X-ray Machine
Cat Number HVCD 022. CD mini-LP released 25th Feb 08. Also available from Piccadilly (Manchester), Rough Trade (London), Jumbo (Leeds) and Action (Preston)
1) We Swear By The Light Life, 2) Cemetery, 3) Cold Theatre
Cat Number HVCDS 020.
Limited CD single housed individually in hand printed sealed envelopes. Taken from the forthcoming mini album 'Say Scientist'.
Released 3rd Dec 07
£2.99 - Order here
Also available...
7" - a) Silent Hotels, b) It's Over! It's Over! It's Over!
Cat Number HV07 019 limited edition 7" vinyl
Released 18th June 07
£2.99 - Order here or purchase download here
7" - a) Joanna b) Wood & Rain
Cat Number HV07 018 limited edition 7" vinyl
Released 19th Feb 07
£2.99 - Order here, or download here
7" - a) Test The Water, b) Steven Get Even
CD - 1) Test The Water, 2) Divide & Rule
Cat Number HV07 017, HVCDS 017, 1000 x 7" vinyl + 1000 x CDs
Released 27th Nov 06
£2.99 - Order here
VARIOUS ARTISTS - FULL CHARGE
Featuring tracks by (in order) The KBC, Snowfight in the City Centre, The Answering Machine, Bureau, 4ft Soldiers, The Jakpot, Lucky Star, Modernaire, Dead Disco, The Clerks, The Whip, redcarsgofaster, The Maple State, The Search Map, The Headlines, Big Cash Prizes, Delta Fiasco, Run Hide Survive &
Lone Lady.
Cat Number HVCD 015, CD album
Released 20th Nov 06
£5.99 - Order here
REDCARSGOFASTER - 24 PASSES/HOUSE OF FLIES
a) 24 Passes, b) House of Flies
Cat Number HV07 016
Released 13th Nov 06
£2.99 - Order here
THE ANSWERING MACHINE - OKLAHOMA/THE HOLD UP
a) Oklahoma, b) The Hold Up
Cat Number HV07 014, 500 x 7" vinyl
Released 16th October 06
Sold out!
SNOWFIGHT IN THE CITY CENTRE - LISTEN
7" - a) Listen, b) Big Ideas (XFM session track)
CD - 1) Listen, 2) Big Ideas (XFM session track)
Cat Number HVCDS 013 + HV07 013, 1000 x 7" vinyl + 500 CDs
Released 16th October 06
£2.99 - Order here
BUREAU - AFTER MIDNIGHT
a) After Midnight, b) Doll House
Cat Number HV07 012, 500 x 7" vinyl
Released 2nd Oct 06
£2.99 - Order here
REDCARSGOFASTER - MICRO/I AM THE STORM
a) Micro, b) I Am The Storm
Cat Number HV07 011, 1000 x 7" transparent blue vinyl
Released 21st Aug 06
£2.99 - Order here
High Voltage started out at a halls of residence bar in Manchester in Spring 2003. The aim was to provide a platform for local musicians at a time when Manchester was still suffering from an Oasis hangover.
At present (early 2009) we are re-designing the website to give you a more comprehensive view of Manchester music as as well as buzz bands from across the world who we think will take off this year. There's also plans to reignite the record label in some form we haven't quite decided on. Anyway, these are exciting times.
Here's a reminder of some of the acts we've hosted gigs by to show you how serious we are about promoting new music....
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
!!!
Radio 4
Simian Mobile Disco (live)
Wild Beasts
Frightened Rabbit
MGMT
Arctic Monkeys
The Whip
Wave Pictures
Thieves Like Us
Mystery Jets
The Longcut
The Bravery
The Pigeon Detectives
Nine Black Alps
Forward Russia
Help She Can't Swim
The Long Blondes
Good Shoes
The Maccabees
Shout Out Louds
The Sunshine Underground
and many many many others.
We also produces a fanzine, which comes out every two months. And we have an record label called High Voltage Sounds, founded in Nov 2004, which has released 7" singles by The KBC, Former Bullies, Lisa Brown, Dead Disco, The Maple State, The Answering Machine, Snowfight in the City Centre and redcarsgofaster, a 10" compilation EP, and a 20 track CD featuring the best new bands in the North-West; all to great acclaim.
SOME OLD POSTERS FROM AWESOME SHOWS WE'VE HOSTED...
Sept 25th - Doll & The Kicks @ Sub61 - fresh from 2 sold out Apollo dates with Morrissey, D&TK returun for a headline show in Manchester - £6 from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/50385
LOTS LOTS MORE GIGS ON THE MYSPACE SO CHECK THE FULL LISTINGS......... IF YOU WANT TO PLAY A GIG FOR US MESSAGE US VIA THE MYSPACE
Greetings.. Apologies in advance for the nature of this comment - but our latest opus is out and we don't have the benefit of a million-quid juggernaut behind us :) Listen to the all the tracks via the widget below (there's a coupla free downloads too)
If you want get your mitts on it - see below: Our preferred method of digital delivery, we offer you our wares via our Official Download Store.
multiple audio formats, name your price...payment via PayPal or debit card :)
Cheers for your support, it keeps us going through the perpetual winter that is day-to-day existence TBK x
THE MANDIGANS - LIVE @ MANCHESTER ARNDALE........ JULY 1ST - 7PM
Its our only Manchester gig of the Summer as we're taking a break to write some new songs - so come on down for your last chance to hear the old Mandigans songs
WHATS THE DATE AND WHAT TIME? Wed July 1st @ 7pm
WHERE? Halle Square - its where JD Sports and Henri Lloyd store are
(Note: There's a very very small chance the gig may get moved to Exchange Square, near Next, so if you dont see a PA system and band around 6.30pm at Halle Square you know where to move to)
ISNT A GIG IN A SHOPPING CENTRE A BIT WEIRD? Yeah, in the UK maybe, but they happen all the time in America.... so come down, make noise, invite your mates and make sure everybody knows the Mandigans are in the building
IM NOT IN MANCHESTER SO CANT MAKE IT? We have gigs throughout the Summer in Wigan, Blackburn, Leeds, London, Birmingham and maybe a few more TBC so keep checking http://www.myspace.com/themandigans
NLF3's music has been described as "a kitsch This Heat" by The Wire, and compared for its rhythms to a 2009 version of the Ege Bamayasi-era of Can. The Guardian even spoke of them as "a Radiohead seduced by the idea of live improvisation". The members of NLF3 - F.lor, Mitch and Don Nino - name influences as varied as Pierre Henry, Fela Kuti, Steve Reich, Ennio Moricone, as well as Syd Barrett, Zappa, Fantomas, Aphex Twin, and Sonic Youth. Strange gurus indeed, for a music that, after all these comparisons, still sounds unique. NLF3 is the story of three music lovers – two brothers in blood and a third in spirit – united by the same passion: to make music, record it and take it all around the world. In that regard, their kinship with Battles and Animal Collective, with whom they have toured, seems perfectly natural - they all belong to the same generation of musicians and have the same desire to discover new territory, to explore new possibilities and to bring together past and future. It comes as no surprise either that the brothers F.lor and Don have lived in Germany as well as the US, and have spent some time in Nigeria where their father introduced them to the great Fela Kuti and others like the sculptor Twin Seven Seven. www.myspace.com/nlf3
YOU BETTER BE COS WE'VE JUST JOINED THE WONKY POP TOUR IN MANCHESTER ON MAY 26TH....AND ITS HALF TERM SO NO ESCUSES ABOUT EXAMS (NOTE: its an early show with doors at 6pm and us on at 6.30pm)
WE'VE GOT LOADS ON IN MAY / JUNE / JULY SO HERE'S JUST A HANDFUL OF THE GIGS SO FAR - CHECK THE MYSPACE PAGE OUT FOR THE FULL LISTINGS
LOTS LOTS MORE GIGS ON THE MYSPACE SO CHECK THE FUL LISTINGS......... IF YOU WANT TO PLAY A GIG FOR US MESSAGE US VIA THE MYSPACE
Xxx
ADVANCE TICKETS
June 19th - The Ruling Class @ Manchester Roadhouse - Just been on tour with The Charlatans and The Twang - £5 tickets from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/47829
June 20th - The Sand Band @ Roadhouse - one time Coral guitarist and just played Manchester gig with Nick McCabe / The Black Marquee - £5 tickets from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/48101
THE HORRORS, the xx, MAGIK MARKERS, graham coxon, BANJO OR FREAKOUT, no pain in pop, DIRTY PROJECTORS, kap bambino, WILD PALMS, peaches, PASSION PIT, trailer trash tracys, KOTCHY, sleepy suns, PLUG, the pan i am... and more
