Below are our Dpercussion 2006 photos of Snowfight In The City Centre (or as they were previously known Lisa Brown):

More Snowfight In The City Centre Dpercussion photos after the jump…

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Slowly but surely we’re working our way through the Manchester Dpercussion Festival photos from a coupla weeks ago (Sat 5th Aug 2006). Below you’ll find our photos of The Nightjars:

More The Nightjars photos at Dpercussion after the jump…

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The Answering Machine have announced via their MySpace blog that they will be releasing a new single - ‘Oklahoma’ backed with ‘The Hold Up’ - on October 16th via High Voltage Records. The record will be available on limited edition vinyl and you’ll be able to pick it up at Piccadilly Records/Rough Trade or buy it as a download

Related The Answering Machine links:
- The Answering Machine MySpace
- The Answering Machine official site (currently points to MySpace)
- High Voltage official site

The Loungs played at Manchester Dpercussion (on the Roman Garden stage) a few weeks ago. Apologies for the delay in getting the photos up:

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The Longcut played a secret show at the Manchester Roadhouse on Friday (18th Aug), under the alias ‘Cliff Rescue and The Helicopters’. The Club Save Yourself night was the first one in their new home at the Roadhouse. A few quick photos are below… I’ll upload a few more later:

Previously:
Secret headliners to play Club Save Yourself this Friday

The Pipettes are currently in the top 10 buzz bands on elbo.ws, and with tunes, moves and looks like these, it’s not hard to see why! The Pipettes enthralled the crowd at Manchester Dpercussion Festival the other week (5th Aug) - check out the photos below:

(Update: 26th July 2008 - I’ll be uploading the full set from this Pipettes concert to www.hobbsy.com shortly!)

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Here’s a few photos I shot from the audience of The Longcut at Manchester DPercussion festival (which took place on Sat 5th Aug 2006). The band played the same stage two years ago, although much lower down on the bill - I’ll try and dig out those photos shortly…

Onwards with The Longcut DPercussion ‘06 pix:

Related links:
- Omerta photos at Dpercussion 2006
- The Pedestrians photos at Dpercussion 2006
- Polytechnic photos at Dpercussion 2006

I caught Liverpool band Hot Club de Paris supporting Peter Bjorn and John last Tuesday (8th Aug) at the Manchester Roadhouse. Here’s a few photos from their set:

Few more of our Hot Club de Paris photos on Flickr here

Hot Club de Paris head out on a huge headline tour in September and October, and also support Maximo Park in early October. Buy tickets and check dates on SeeTickets and Ticketline

Related Hot Club de Paris links:
- Hot Club de Paris MySpace
- Hot Club de Paris official site
- Peter Bjorn and John photos at Manchester Roadhouse (8th Aug 06)

Congratulations to Keith who tonight have won the Channel 4 competition ‘Road To V‘ along with Bombay Bicycle Club. This means Keith will now play at this weekend’s V Festival on the Channel 4 stage. Commisserations to St Helen’s band The Loungs who made it through to the final 14.

Related links:
- Keith official site
- Keith MySpace
- Bombay Bicycle Club MySpace
- Road To V official site

Club Save Yourself have moved homes from Manchester’s Waldorf Hotel to the Roadhouse, and to celebrate the new venue, this Friday (18th Aug) will see local band Movement play alongside what is being billed as secret guests ‘Cliff Rescue And The Helicopters’ (although not this Cliff Rescue And The Helicopters). Whilst this has to be Manchester’s worst kept ’secret’, if you were in any doubt, a cursory glance at the press release should make things a bit clearer:

Yes people, it’s here! After 15 months of mayhem and madness in the sweaty, disorganised chaos of the Waldorf, we emerge, blinking into the, well, subterranean darkness and slightly more organised chaos of our beautiful new home. Brace yourself for the very first…
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SAVE YOURSELF!

AT THE ROADHOUSE

FRIDAY 18TH AUGUST 2006

And what a debut it’s going to be – we’ve pulled off something really special for you, our favourite dandies and divas. It’s only what you deserve after all. Now Brace! Brace! again because we’ve got this crazy sh*t happening…

Playing live:

CLIFF RESCUE AND THE HELICOPTERS
What can we say about our last act of the night, CR&TH? Mystery surrounds this secretive Manchester-based band but our sources reckon these three are gonna absolutely blow the roof off! ‘But who are they?’ we hear you call, ‘What do they sound like?’ Perhaps we should try to give you a concise blurb about the band, but there is just no shortcut to describe them. Suffice to say, if like us you’re not one for a quiet life you’d better get down early, otherwise you’ll be getting the late night bus home…

MOVEMENT http://www.myspace.com/movementhq
Who better to kick off this new chapter in our history than Save Yourself favourites Movement, soon to release their debut single on our very own record label (more news on this soon!). The boys bring their exhilarating, dark, new-wave sound to the Roadhouse stage and our source (nosy b*stard isn’t he!) tells us that there will be tonnes of freshly minted new songs mixed in with your old favourites… ‘an infectious whirl of Suede and the Las wearing black eyeliner’ ManchesterMusic

SAVE YOURSELF DJS
Before, after and in-between the bands you can get your crazy little rocks off to a heady mix of indierockpunkfunksoulelectrohiphop such as…
Looking For A Kiss – New York Dolls
Get Myself Into It – The Rapture
Oh Marie – Ladyfuzz
Dead Disco – Metric
Dolls – Primal Scream
Express Yourself – NWA
The Man Don’t Give A F*ck – S.F.A.
Walking On Thin Ice – Yoko Ono
Oh Mandy – Spinto Band
Bells – Vitalic

The factual facts:

Venue: The Roadhouse, 8 Newton Street, Piccadilly, Manchester, M1 2AN

Doors: 9.00pm ’til 2.00am

Dollar: £5 on the door / £4 with flyer or cheap guestlist (email: clubsaveyourself@gmail.com )

Edit:
I guess now this event has passed it’s okay to file this post under The Longcut you can find photos from this show here

Related links:
- Club Save Yourself official site
- Club Save Yourself MySpace
- Movement MySpace