Travelodges. Travelodge car parks. Ridiculous 4am drinking sessions in Travelodge car parks. Nearly getting thrown out of Travelodges. That kind of thing. Now where's my f***ing loyalty card?
Music
Yes please. If you know me you know what I like. If you don't, have a look around this page and you'll work it out. Generally, post-rock, shoegaze, techno, proper indie, psychedelia, electronica, 80s Antipodean underground, punk, post-punk, Factory, Warp, Sonic Cathedral, melodicas, comedy percussion, that sort of thing.
Movies
Not usually, but anything with zombies in is usually a good bet.
Television
yeah, I think we have one.
Books
Read "The Last Mad Surge Of Youth" by Mark Hodkinson if you love music and have a soul...
Heroes
Hugh Everett III
Delia Derbyshire
Sonic Boom
Ulrich Schnauss
Nigel Blackwell
Bert Trautmann
Buzz Aldrin
Bruce Mitchell
Wilson / Gretton / Hannett / Saville
Cath Aubergine's Details
Status:
In a Relationship
Hometown:
Manchester
Zodiac Sign:
Capricorn
Smoke / Drink:
Yes / Yes
Cath Aubergine's Companies
By day - electronics factory. By night - manchestermusic.co.uk Manchester, UK
Cath Aubergine DANIEL LAND AND THE MODERN PAINTERS album launch gig TONIGHT! Mcr Roadhouse, £5 on the door, 7.30 start, ace supports & DJ, BE THERE! Posted 6 hours ago view more
About me: What you see is what you get. I like music. I like Travelodges. I write about things for www.manchestermusic.co.uk and things in green type on the blog are also to be found on there. I do the odd bit for Incendiary Magazine and occasionally sic magazine who can be found in my top friends bit. I help out a bit here and there with a couple of rather excellent bands called Air Cav and Daniel Land & The Modern Painters.
Beside this I still have a full time job because I need to eat. Thanks to everyone who reads and comments anyway. If you are in a band and send me a friend request it might take a while before I can listen to you as my full time job plus going out nearly every night plus keeping the website up to date equals more hours in a day than there are. If you're a rubbish covers band just don't bother. (And yes, of course I have a facebook page, but I don't add anyone I don't know personally. If I do know you and you've not added me yet, feel free; otherwise please respect my last shreds of privacy. Thank you.)
You can send press releases / news stories for Manchestermusic to me via the message system here if you like: please include as many details as you can, with URL's for bands / promoters and any background info you may wish to impart, and give me a week or two's notice... Feel free to use my Comments bit to advertise your forthcoming gigs, but I reserve the right to delete anything that clashes with anything I'm trying to get people to go to, or anything that looks rubbish.
Obviously I am not 99 or 100 or whatever it says up there. What do they want to know that for anyway? Cheeky twats. Other common misconceptions: (1) I do not go to "300 gigs a year". It's usually about 250-270. (2) I do not have loads of money. I pay for a lot of gigs by writing words about them. Nice work if you can get it? Well do it then! I desperately need new reviewers for MM. (3) I have not seen British Sea Power 200 times. Although it's possible I may have done by mid 2010. No, I'm not even sure how that happened either...
Who I'd like to meet: pay-to-play and forced-ticket-buy promoters, and steal their fat wallets so they know how it feels and give all the money back to the bands they've fleeced... and decent, non-pay-to-play promoters who do it for the love of music and should therefore be supported and encouraged.
PLEASE DO NOT SEND ME INVITATIONS TO GIGS RUN BY FORCED BUY / P2P PROMOTERS AS I DON'T HAVE THE TIME IN MY LIFE TO HELP THEM LINE THEIR POCKETS.
Hey! Thanks again for being our friend. Make sure you have a little listen to our album Songs For Abandoned Buildings and our EP Gravity. If you like it, please follow the link on the player to buy it from itunes so we can play a town near you! Don't forget to give us a review on itunes when you buy it :)
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.
Nice one Cath, will be great to see you there! Can't wait to start playing again. Would you like me to put you and anyone else on the £5 list. Let me know.
Knowing that you are a friend of George's we thought we should let you know that he is playing his last show in Manchester on Sunday October 18th @ Academy 3. Tickets are just a fiver and they are available from KAREN SPENCER at thecentrum@aol.com George and the Fabs are on stage at 7.05 sharp and there are 3 more great bands on after. Alternatively if you were to buy a copy of 'Fair Xaverian'(£10) it would be signed to you personally (or to someone of your choice as an early xmas present) by all the fabs and still get a ticket as a present from George. We know it would make his day to see all his friends there so by all means let everyone know.
Hope to see you there and thank you for all your support.
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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