Latest Akoustik Anarkhy signings It’s A Buffalo played at Friends Of Mine last Saturday night (12th Aug) at Manchester’s Joshua Brooks.
Here at IndieMusicBlog.com we just can’t get their tune ‘Divorce Song’ out of our heads — go and check out It’s A Buffalo’s MySpace and take a listen
Here’s a few pics we snapped on Saturday night:
Tune into Channel 4’s Transmission With T-Mobile tonight at 23:35pm as Manchester band The Longcut will be performing their next single (out in October) ‘A Tried And Tested Method’. Also featured on the show are Badly Drawn Boy, The View, Orson and The Egg. The show itself was recorded last Friday (4th Aug) at the 3Sixty Media studio in Manchester
Here’s a snippet from a recent The Longcut MySpace blog posting about the new single:
Its backed by a new song that some of you may recognize
from the gigs, and also (hopefully) a cover of the Euros Childs song
“Circus Time” which we are currently recording ourselves. We’ll be
posting more details about this nearer the time.
We’ve also been working on a few remixes recently, One is a Maps tune called “Start Something” and the other is “Sapphire Eyes” by Serena Maneesh. Hopefully we’ll be able to collect them all together on cd at some point but we’ll keep you posted on that one. We should also have a few more european dates coming up soon but plans aren’t finalised so again we’ll keep you posted
If you can’t wait until October for the new single, The Longcut will be releasing an online EP avaliable on 21st August. The EP includes four tracks, Idiot Check, Vitamin C, Lonesome No More! and The Kiss Off, which were recorded at Airtight studios. Available for the bargain price of £1.50 from iTunes/ Napster or free if you’re on the band’s mailing list
Finally, you can check out the video for The Longcut’s most recent single ‘Vitamin C’ (released in July) on YouTube below:
Manchester band Keith have made it to the final four of Channel 4’s Road To V competition along with Bombay Bicycle Club, The Holloways and Sunny Day Sets Fire. The eventual winner will get an opening slot at this year’s V Festival, which takes place over the weekend of 18th/19th August
Meanwhile, Keith head off to Japan this week to play the Summer Sonic festival, but will return to play UK live dates towards the end of this month - catch them at:
I caught Peter Bjorn and John live last night (Tues 8th Aug) at the Manchester Roadhouse - pretty much on the strength of their soon-to-be-massive summer hit ‘Young Folks‘ (and a few tracks on the band’s MySpace). Check out a quick video I shot of them performing ‘Young Folks’ below:
Unfortunately my digital camera couldn’t cope with the bassline, so the sound is all distorted, but you do get to see the lead singer (Peter?) climb up onto the speakers in front of the crowd, and also his laughable attempt at whistling (plus it gives you the chance to see the band in the flesh, rather than in cartoon form!). The Concretes singer Victoria Bergsman wasn’t at the show to perform the duet, so Peter sang both parts
If that’s not made your ears bleed (!), you can alternatively check out the offficial video to the song via YouTube:
Overall the gig was enjoyable, but I’m not sure they’ve got anything in their locker as huge as ‘Young Folks’
Our third Dpercussion 2006 photo set is of Omerta. Stay tuned as we’ve got pics coming up of Gideon Conn, The Nightjars, Cherry Ghost, Liam Frost & The Slowdown Family, Snowfight In The City Centre, The Loungs, The Sugars and The Pipettes
Here’s our Omerta photos from the Kenworthy Stage:
Here’s the first batch of our DPercussion photos from this weekend’s festival in Manchester - The Pedestrians - who appeared on the Roman Garden stage around 1pm:
NB: Remember all times are subject to change
On the A4 printout not all the acts have specific times by their names, so I guess they could be performing any time within the 30 minute timeslot… best to get there early if it’s a band you really want to see
Here’s a summary of the main acts playing and their approximate times
Main Stage (in association with Hooch)
21:30 - Aim
20:20 - The Longcut
19:10 - The Young Knives
18:30 - Polytechnic
15:30 - Jenna G
15:00 - Daywalkers
14:00 - Alterkicks
13:30 - Cherry Ghost
12:30 - This Is Seb Clarke
Kenworthy Stage
Blowout presents
18:30 - The Whip
17:30 - Dirty Circus
17:00 - Wax Planet
16:30 - Pink Fruity
16:00 - Keith
15:30 - Black Wasps
15:00 - Jayne Compton
14:30 - The Sugars
14:00 - The Nightjars
13:10 - Omerta
12:30 - Snowfight In The City Centre
The Roman Garden
The roots of music (12.00pm – 8.00pm)
19:45 - Folks
19:00 - Field Music
18:20 - Stoney
17:45 - KT Forrester
17:25 - Tsana
17:00 - Daniel Kakonge
16:30 - Liam Fray
16:00 - The Loungs
15:25 - The Final Tribe
14:50 - The Waverton Collective
14:15 - Eugene McGuinness
13:45 - Super Group
13:10 - Gideon Conn
12:35 - The Pedestrians
12:00 - Orphan Boy
Manchester DPercussion festival takes place tomorrow in Castlefield Basin, from 12 midday to 10:30pm. There’s 60 bands performing across 8 stages, and an expected attendance of 50,000 people
Here’s the line-up below from three of the stages we’ll try to feature on this blog. Hopefully we’ll have plenty of photos for you if you check back on Sunday and Monday:
Update1:
full runtimes are being published later this afternoon
I’m delighted therefore that Midlake are set to play the Manchester Academy 2/3 on Wednesday 1st November. Tickets for this show go onsale this morning at 9am (Friday 4th August 2006)
Update1: SeeTickets already have this Manchester show onsale NOW (priced £7.50 plus bf), along with Midlake shows in Nottingham, BIrmingham and London:
Update2: Ticketmaster have a show in Glasgow and one in Dublin listed on their site
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