Past shows include Viking Moses!, Gang Gang Dance, Bat For Lashes, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, The Dead Science, Castanets, Carla Bozulich, hrsta, Phosphorescent, Shearwater, Man Man, Jeff Lewis Band, Dufus, Danielson, Six Organs of Admittance, Damien Jurado, J. Tillman, Now Its Overhead, Jason Molina, Panda Bear Priestbird, David Dondero, Alasdair Roberts, Great Lake Swimmers, Maria Taylor, Daniel Johnston, Adem, Band of Horses, Of Montreal,Neva Dinova, Jeremy Warmsley, Vetiver, Herman Dune, Emmy The Great, The Blow, Mark Kozelek, Neil Halstead, Animal Collective, Simon Joyner, Julie Doiron, Okkervil River, Anna Terhheim, Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Dirty Projectors, Will Johnson, Bishop Allen, Slow Club, Efterklang, The Good Life, The Mountain Goats, Micah P Hinson, David Bazan of Pedro The Lion, Black Dice, Aidan Moffatt, George Pringle, Jana Hunter, Black Mountain, Wintersleep, The New Amsterdams, Xiu Xiu, Chris Garneau, Sunset Rubdown, No Age, Ex Models, Atlas Sound, Mt Eerie, No Kids, Silver Jews, Adrian Crowley, Liars, Deerhunter, High Places, Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse, Scout Niblett, Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub, Jad Far, Four Tet, Los Campesinos!, Nina Nastasia, The Mae Shi, Johnny Foreigner, Calvin Johnson, Bearsuit, Múm, Olafur Arnalds, David Thomas Broughton, Sun Kil Moon, The Wave Pictures, Horse Feathers, Dent May, Melt Banana, Mike Bones, Kong, Jason Lytle of Grandaddy, Dan Deacon, Teeth Mountain, Adventure, Future Islands, Fever Ray, Soap&Skin, The Slits, Isis, The Wave Pictures, Dananananaykroyd, Wild Beasts
CASS MCCOMBS
Wednesday 2 December
Roadhouse, Manchester £8
CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS - JASON MOLINA OF MAGNOLIA ELECTIC CO & WILL JOHNSON OF CENTROMATIC
Thursday 3 December
The Deaf Institute, Manchester £13
DEER TICK & MEGAFAUN
Thursday 3 December
Dulcimer, Manchester £7
HAPPY FUCKING CHRISTMAS w/ BATTLES, FLYING LOTUS, NICE NICE
Monday 7 December
Academy 2, Manchester £17.50
PINEAPPLE FOLK, NOW WAVE & WOTGODFORGOT COOK UP A STORM AND PRESENT.... LIGHTNING BOLT
Wednesday 9 December
Islington Mill, Manchester £13
KURT VILE & THE VIOLATORS
Monday 14 December
The Deaf Institute, Manchester £8
CO PROMOTION WITH NOW WAVE
MEMORY TAPES
Saturday 16 January
The Corner, Manchester £7
VIVIAN GIRLS
Sunday 17 January
The Deaf Institute, Manchester £8
THE EX & THE BRASS UNBOUND
w/ Mats Gustafsson, Roy Paci, Ken Vandermark & Wolter Wierbos plus support ZUN ZUN EGUI
Thursday 4 February
The Deaf Institute, Manchester £8
WHY?
Wednesday 17 March
Brudenell Social Club, Leeds £12
Friday 19 March
The Deaf Institute, Manchester £12
We have put a new song up for you, it’s only a rough demo which hasn’t really been mixed well and hasn’t been produced but it will give you a taster of what may come next in our next recording sessions which we are trying to set before Christmas.
Enjoy! It’s called 'Stop'. Please tell us what you think.
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.
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
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.
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace" - Jimi Hendrix.
Greetings from Tarbert Music Festival, Tarbert (Loch Fyne), Kintyre, Argyll, Scotland.
This Years Festival 18th - 20th September 2009.
Still mostly free except £5.00 charge for main gig on Saturday Night (optional)
Artists include ...
Skerryvore, The Anyways, Archie McAllister & Ian 'Stretch' McFadden, Twisted Melons, The Disguisers, The Democrats, The Keelies, The New Jolly Beggars, Keep'er Lit’ Alex Wayt, The Wild Sarachs, The Den Collective, Rob, Caragh Sinclair and Lauren Prentice, Strangetouch, Campbeltown Pipe Band
If you're a local artist/musician, manager or promoter and you'd like to be more self-sufficient through your creative projects and you have a degree ... then why not try this new Masters course at the University of Bolton starting in September ...
* we have 2 remixes up by dj_spleenbaby >> both of tracks from the as yet unreleased - read unfinished - cassette ep (it'll be out on shape when it is)
