The smell of the River Mersey on a warm swampy day, Jaffa Cakes, David Hasselhoff, Manchester warehouses, curry alley, the rain, our old science teachers shite jokes, bunsen burners, piccallilly sandwich spread...
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Walking in the rain in Manchester on a warm day, whilst listening to your favourite new song on your ipod & not giving a damn that you're smiling in a slightly strange yet envious way... :-)
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Suck My Sound is a beast of a radio show & daring expedition team.
We're not a band!
Something very special is happening across the Manchester music scene.
We aim to capture it, to transport all the sounds, the vibes,
the shenanigans, the blood, the guts, the rock n' roll stories
via the Mancunian airwaves & world-wide cyber-streams.
This is 'Suck My Sound'...LISTEN...to our brand spanking new PODCAST for JUNE 2009 at www.suckmysound.org and check out our first living room based 'Shed Session' of Manc talent Phil Eddlestone at youtube.com/suckmysound... TOLD YOU WE'D BE BACK!!! xXx
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.
*** THE MANDIGANS ARE COMING BACK HOME - 20TH OCTOBER - MANCHESTER DRY BAR ***
We've spent the past few months away from Manchester gigging around the UK while writing our new album
You can hear all these songs in MANCHESTER at Dry Bar on 20th Oct - get tickets online from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/59016 or message the lads on myspace for them
*** NEW PHOTOS AND MYSPACE LAYOUT - CHECK IT OUT ***
Also check out the new photos on myspace and comment them so we know which you think are the best - they've been done by Karen McBride, the photographer behind iconic images of Liam Gallagher, The Ting Tings and Robbie Williams
* NEW EP READY TO GO NEXT MONTH * 1ST GIG SINCE SUPPORTING LEGENDARY NEW YORK BAND - BEAR HANDS - THIS SUMMER * FRESHERS WEEK GIG SO NEW FACES IN NEW PLACES
Come hear the new songs if you havent been on myspace recently...
FUTURE EL POLICIA GIGS * 24th Sept @ Kro Bar (Friends Of Mine Gig - Kro Bar is opposite Manchester Academy) * 30th Sept @ Chicago Rock (Scruff Of The Neck Promotions) * 19th Oct @ Dry Bar (ITC Fringe Gig)
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.
Don't know if you've heard about A Cabinet of Curiosity? it's quite a different sort of night where bands don't just play songs, but also put on some sort of drama presentation/theatre/happening.
Anyway, next one os this Wednesday at Tiger Lounge in Manchester...and we're appearing. Our show will be titled 'Just What You Need', loosely based on an episode from 60s cult TV show The Twighlight Zone.
Entry is by 'donation'. 4 bands taking part in total, including The Sandells, Kingfishers catch Fire, The Thin Man Project.
If you decide to come, please come up and say hi...(though nor while we're playing obviously!)
Wednesday 22nd July @ The Tiger Lounge, Manchester
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
Svarte Greiner (Deaf Center/Miasmah/Type) explores deep into a dark,
mysterious and disturbing universe. Drawing inspiration from artists
such as Earth, Volcano the Bear, David Darling & Deathprod, the
music is draped in Lynchian mysticism and horror film cinematics. "The
music of Svarte Greiner is practically perfect. It's like that sound in
our heads we've been imagining for ages but had never actually heard."
- Type Records.
The Sight Below (Rafael Anton Irisarri/Miasmah/Immune) draws as much on
modern genre progenitors like Brian Eno, Robin Guthrie and My Bloody
Valentine as it does from the more historic traditions in
neo-classicism from Erik Satie and Olivier Messiaen. His album Glider
has appeared on Thom Yorke's radar in making the Radiohead's lynchpin's
top ten playlist.
His debut album Navigare soon to feature on the Miasmah label, Simon
Scott (former Slowdive) is set to be a household name in conceptual
music. Simon is the former Slowdive drummer, co-producer of Televise,
producer of Seavault, and owner of KESH Recordings label.
Good evening Suck my Sound, free this Bank Holiday Monday? I'm playing with my band at the Bay Horse in Manchester as part of the Hungry Pigeon festival, should be a most splendid affair ... Get in touch if you want tickets they're £4 in advance. Catch you there.
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