ManchesterMusic.Co.Uk - One of the UK's first independent music websites and one that's still with you today - bigger and better - First published in 1999, the webzine provides an innovative independent focus on new music, both regional / nationally and signed / unsigned.
The MM website and all its activities are undertaken by a (happy) band of volunteers and contributors who gladly - and like heroes of the state - give their time for free. No one gets paid or takes any money and the whole operation is within a legitimate non-profit framework.
The website is unfunded and is not owned by any publishing, media or any one connected with the general entertainment industry.
We don't like to self publicise too much, but many bands and artists have been supported by the website and many national headline acts had their very first reviews on the MM pages.
People who take pictures , write words, or who do creative stuff have started here at MM and moved on to professional qualification / education courses (eg. journalism, where references and experience are pre-requisites to registration); being successfully self employed; working for newspapers and magazines; and even working on Sony Australias web site ... all using MM as a reference / portfolio..
Which makes us very happy - and quite proud to be accepted as a platform for new music and all that comes with it...
Believe the truth - MM is THE biggest Music Only review site for Manchester and the region and was of course the first, almost a decade ago. We get 5-10,000 unique visits a day - double that at peak times like ITC... it adds up to 1-2 million hits per MONTH...
Thanks to everyone who's been and still is, part of the MM experience - we love you !
Alberto lose their Manchester cherry at The Whitworth tonight, then back again at the Castle next Saturday for a proper good larf in the northern quarter.
Come down to Bakers Vault in Stockport to watch a great night of live bands. A top slot line up of The Drake Equation, 100 Club and Rainmaker. Free entry and cheap beer!
The Drake Equation Stage time - 9pm
100 Club Stage time - 10pm
Rainmaker Stage time - 11pm
The Bakers Vaults, 28 Market Place, Stockport, SK1 1ES
SAT 28TH JUNE!!! MINDTRAIN THIS MONTH PROUDLY PRESENTS...
BEHAR'S Inspiration comes from traditional Bosnian folk music (Sevdah) - often described as ‘The Balkan Blues’. Behar are a newly formed group in the North-West and aim to bring this amazing music to new audiences. their music is passionate, soulful and poetic with stories to tell through unusual rhythms and beautiful eastern harmonies.
imagine Broadcast scoring the BBC ghost stories for christmas and you may be somewhere close to the splendour of DAVID A JAYCOCK...
all the way from Rio de Janeiro JOHANNE RUSSELL brings sunshine psych folk and Tropicalia tapped directly into the Gal Costa / Secos e Molhados / Os Mutantes source!
weather permitting we'll be having a barbecue early doors, CHEAP bevvies, tropicalia djs, nudie 70's czech flicks...all on your doorstep!! (if you live in west didsbury...)
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MUCHOS LUVOS & SMILIOS, THE BUTTERFLY EXPERIMENT : )
6th July 19.30 - Tommy Flynns, Camden, London (2hrs of original music & classic rock covers) *********************************************************************************
EYES come from Chicago and make glorious music for dancing that straddles the vibes of Ariel Pink and HEALTH. The type of band people might lie about having seen first time round once they make the cover of Plan B. You know, if they felt so inclined.
Skitanja, in spite of what the poster says, are actually from Bournemouth. They make scrappy, electronic bleep party pop music with guitar.
Shiu-Yeung Hui is the Chinese member of Japanese group Maher Shalal Hash Baz. He drinks quite a lot of neat vodka then takes to the stage to perform his wonderful, fractured, miniature songs using guitar and keyboard. An exercise in patience, an audience with Shiu pays off massively.
Elapse O are a death disco unit from Oxford. Imagine swimming the butterfly through a load of broken Swans LPs. That's what they sound like. Dig.
