In a very real sense, there is a large and evergrowing amount of people involved in the collective, in different capacaties and to varying degrees. If you would like more information, to get involved, to perform at an event or to submit content for the website, please contact one of the following:
Lowell Walbank
07894 056 744
lowell - at - mindonfire.co.uk
Joe Webster
07886 461 060
joe - at - mindonfire.co.uk
Ben Gretton
07852 374 583
ben - at - mindonfire.co.uk
Here's a (probably not quite complete) list of people weve put on so far:
If you should be on it please let us know!
Absent Minds
Andy Peek
Atrial Phoniks
Bandyleg
Barbarians
Beans
Biome
Blendaholics
Burnst
Charlies Hero
Chevron
Chimpo
Chris Lewin
Chronic Mammal
Collides in Arc
Craggy
CXCII
The Citizens
Day For Airstrikes
Daylite Robbery Soundsystem
Day of the Fight
DBH
Denis Jones
Dragon Rapide
Ernest Herb
Faktion DJs
Fighting
Folded Remediez
Forbidden Tongues
G-Kut
Gnod
Go Lebanon
Herrotics
Hey Little Cobra
Hot Club De Paris
IMP
Indigo
Inertia Blooms
iRedux
Jack Ruby
Jeniferever
Jonny Dub
Jon K
Kane Testrack
Kelpe
Kibbo Kift
Kong
LA77
Larry Ketang
Lazy Habits
Lite
Little Green
Live Earth
Longshot Soundsystem
Lukid
M16 Live
Maga B
Making Faces
McWatt
DJ Meja
Melatonin
Miss Me Blind
Moth HiFi
Musa House Band
Natural Curriculum
Neko Neko
No1S & MC Flip-Flop
No One Lost
The North Cross
Olly Farshi
Omas
Ovenaxx
Padro
Peter Parker
Parkertron
PhatPat
Public Relations Exercise
Real Dolls
Rickenrod
Ryan O’Neill
Seaming
DJ Scotch Egg
Se7en
Settlefish
Shadow Project
The Shakti
Shitmat
Sirconical
Solace
Someotherguy
Sparkles
Synkro
Tay
Telekinetic Fortunato
Ten Past Seven
That Fucking Tank
DJ Timber
To Sophia
Tom Cristavao
U-Basstard
Venetian Snares
Vostok
Vox Pop 45 Djs
Willo Wispa
WoliWols
XXXY
Yndi Halda
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We are a Manchester based collective of musicians and Djs united by a relaxed and open minded approach to making and sharing music. Since September 2004 we have been organising gigs and clubnights under the MindonFire moniker, trying to expose the unseen local talent and provide an alternative to a music industry often riddled with hegemony and unoriginality, as well as working with more established artists from both Manchester and further afield. Brap
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Believe it or not 5 years have passed since all of us at MOF organised our first shindig at the Music Box, and to celebrate this momentus occasion we have a full month of events, appearances and downloadable treats from www.mindonfire.co.uk for you all to enjoy.
The month goes a little something like .....................
THURSDAY 1st - To kick things off for the month, the first of what will be a monthly 1 hour PODCAST will be available for download at www.mindonfire.co.uk. Expect top tunes from local acts and selections from various members of the collective.
FRIDAY 2nd - Will see us back at SAKI BAR for Neighbourhood 02. If your a fan of Reggae and Hip Hop and you missed the first one now is your time to atone for this mistake. Check the link for full details
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=272269905542
SATURDAY 3rd - MOF resident Djs will be appearing at THE NOOK in Chorlton supporting an appearance from Barcelona based electronic artist Tulis Rennie. Click on the link for more details
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=132034569926
FRIDAY 9th - Come down to ODDER for the first of a weekly session with MOF residents Woli Wols and Loga, who will be spinning soulful and funky party sounds all night.
SATURDAY 17th - This is our Official Birthday party so make sure you bring your party poppers and silly string. We will be taking our travelling circus to ISLINGTON MILL(http://www.islingtonmill.com/) with The Mind On Fire House band performing alongside our Djs and resident visual artist Cycloptic. There are also some special performances and guest Djs to be announced so keep your ears peeled and your eyes to the ground.
THURSDAY 22nd - Will be the first of a new weekly MOF night at ODDEST in Chorlton and we are taking a trip back in time with retro computer games projected onto the big screens. So if you fancy a mid week blast on Street Fighter or Mario Kart nows your chance. Tunes will be suitably eclectic for those of you down to hear the sounds and not just bruise your thumbs.
FRIDAY 23rd - sees us teaming up with our friends at DUCK HUNT in their new home at THE SALUTATION. Expect good tunes, good beer and good food in a top Manchester institution... The Mind on Fire Band will be playing alongside Duckhunt and MOF djs and more acts TBC.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=289440165590
WEDNESDAY 28th - The Mind on Fire band will be returning to Saki Bar to see the Pub Dog, and to play with Pit Pony and other animals to round off the month of activities..
SATURDAY 31st - To finish off the month we have a COMPILATION available to download at www.mindonfire.co.uk featuring acts from across the city. Expect MOF favourites and some great new acts to get your ears around.
Check out this footage from CYCLOPTIC's MoonDay exhibition at Upper Space in September 2008:
Also, check out this marvellous video...
Marvellis - 'Healing'
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Summer 2006 saw the launch of of Mind on Fire's first release, a compilation of tracks by 12 Mancunian artists that have been involved in some way with the collective over the past year. The tunes in the player all feature on this release and if you like what you hear you can now go and buy yourself a fresh copy from the following fine establishments:
You can also get in touch with us through myspoon or by email if you want a copy, but with only 1000 pressed and alot going as promo they are sure to run out, so get on it, your purchase will help us be able to put out a second one later in the summer of this year.
Feel free to get in touch for more info:
For general enquiries - please select one of the email addresses to the left.
To send demos / mixtapes - mofsounds -at- gmail -dot- com
For press / PR - mofpresspubs -at- gmail -dot- com
We are no longer using amindonfire at hotmail dot com as it got spammed up to fuck.
Pending the new release "Melotonine" (release date coming soon), i decided to offer you a part of my best recent works in a free EP, "Cupboard Replacement", downloadable in all numeric formats with special graphic art works by Flint on Music AutOmatiK's Website :
We can stay in contact on facebook now... Thanks for your support !
Tickets SELLING FAST! £7 adv avaliable from (more on the door): wegottickets.com seetickets.com Ticketline Picadilly Records
Grouper (US) has her latest – Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill – of three albums on Type Records. She has also been involved in collaborative releases, contributing a track to Xiu Xiu’s Remixed & Covered and four tracks to a split release with Inca Ore. Her other contemporaries are Belong, Growing, Tim Hecker, Windy & Carl and Atlas Sound.
Jasper TX (Sweden), with a hefty back-catalogue of releases on labels such as Miasmah, and collaborations with buddy Machinefabriek, is an essential domestic appliance in the household of conceptual music. He is comparable to artists Fennesz, Sigur Ros, Múm and Tape.
Intricate and atmospheric songsmith, Danny Saul (UK) performs with different combinations of musicians, making each gig a unique event. His forthcoming release is "Harsh, Final", and he also performs with Greg Haines as Liondialer.
Fieldhead (UK) music delights in tape hiss, bleak landscapes and decaying analogue loops. He is also a member of The Declining Winter and Glissando. His debut album, "They Shook Hands for Hours" is released soon on Home Assembly.
This is one of only three UK dates on The Paper Hats' European tour - The Paper Hats is the solo project of sometime Lambchop and Silver Jews guitarist William Tyler, performing here as a duo with Calexico's Volker Zander. Expect hypnotic picking folk guitar, symphonic poetry and Indian Raga paired with noise and drones - absolutely unmissable!
Support comes by way of a special set from Denis Jones.
Tickets £5 adv from Piccadilly Records and wegottickets
This is the first set from the slightly tweaked Beach Fuzz line-up with Fliss Horrocks now playing guitar alongside Tom Settle and Nick Mitchell. Seven tracks of clattering drums, chugging and wailing guitars, screaming keyboards, mellow, lilting pastoral improv and moaned vocals.
Pay by Paypal to goldenlabrecordings@hotmail.co.uk
Recorded at The Bowling Green pub in Manchester on 17th November 2008, when Bridget was on tour with Marcia Bassett, this is a maximal 25-minute set of epic guitar brutalising and deep, moaned vocal incantations. Employing a bow and 'metal' effects pedals, the resulting cacophony is orchestral in scope, rendering almost unreliable the memory of one woman and her instrument. Somewhat akin to Bassett's duo with Matthew Bower, Hototogisu, the deeply layered tones created by Hayden offer, upon first exposure, a somewhat icy auditory experience, but as the recording settles in, the richness and sheer breadth of sound wraps around you like a feather quilt and shifts your perception almost 180 degrees. A truly magnificent set from this former Vibracathedral Orchestra member.
Limited to 80 copies with sleeves printed on recycled paper using soya based ink
Pay by Paypal to goldenlabrecordings@hotmail.co.uk
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4 track EP, titled Call Signs, it provides the perfect introduction to
the band prior to the release of their debut album, Grappling Hooks, in
early 2010.
Was wicked to play together at The Nook this Saturday. Great tunes! Keep in touch, I'd love to do something together again sometime... maybe in sunny BCN? Cheers, Tul
Trespassers William (Seattle, US) are the duo of Matt Brown and Anna-Lynne Williams. "Subliminally sublime and pragmatically perfect, you would have to possess an ashtray for a heart not to feel this coursing through your soul" (DSD Music Magazine). A new EP, The Natural Order of Things, is set to be released on Gizeh Records. They will make a church performance with special guests.
Glissando (Sheffield, UK) “have the kind of atmosphere that can captivate and relax in equal measure- never before has tranquillity sounded so urgent. While track lengths of over 10 minutes may fail to hold the attention of the ADHD sufferers among us, with patience it plays like a majestic dream. And it's one you'll never want to wake up from." NME
Operations (Chris Anderson) is a Manchester based conceptual music producer and sound artist. He performs and records with an array of analog synths and effects, reel-to-reel tape and casette players, and guitars. Followers of Tim Hecker, Slowdive, Fennesz, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Stephen O'Malley, Type and 12K Records will surely nod in approval.
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