NO CEREMONY/// – HURTLOVE
I haven’t been myself lately at all. The past few weeks and months have been a blur, everything moving with such great speeds that the only thing constant is the residue of space they leave behind – a strange, fulfilling emptiness. I have been waking up every morning at precisely 7:43am “We live in an...
Savages + Pins @ Fuhrer Bunker, Manchester 1st May 2012
Had a shit day. Was saved by a mate who suggested we went to a gig in Manchester. At a place called Fuhrer Bunker. In a dead industrial estate with glass shattered and burnt out buildings in the middle of nowhere. Where two supposedly “amazeballs” bands were going to play. In a cage. When you...
Sex Hands / Daily Life Split 7″
Gonna break up my synth theme this week with some straight up guitar rock by 2 bands from Manchester, Sex Hands and Daily Life. Sex Hands is in actual fact 3/4 Welsh and only 1/4 Mancunian. Daily Life on the other hand, decided to go on a temporary hiatus by the time this release came...
HEROIN DIET
The pleasure of finding and listening to such ungodly sounds at this holy hour, its so fucking satisfying. Heroin Diet are a punk band from Manchester, fast 2 minute blasts with reverb vocals, very much in the vein as the recent new wave of punk upstarts like those Danish brats, Iceage. Heroin Diet are somewhat...
(We Are) Performance
The good thing about not being seen is that while I hide in the shadows, lurk around the edges, I get to observe with better freedom. The truth is that, Performance has always been on the brink of something bigger. They have been “up and coming” for a few years now. A quiet hiatus here....
