Hot Chip will play Manchester Academy and Leeds O2 Academy in October as part of a full UK tour. This nine-date trek will send the London electropop act all across the UK in support of their new album In Our Heads which is on sale now. This collection of new material is the band's fifth record and the follow up to 2010's One Life Stand. The album's debut single Night And Day was directed by Brit comedian Pete Serafinowicz and features appearances by Terence Stamp and... Read more »
NEWS: Head Automatica to play Manchester Sound Control in August.
June 18th, 2012 
SimonBland Head Automatica have announced plans for a brief summer UK tour that will see them play Manchester's Sound Control in August. The New York dance-rock act will play five dates in total including stops at Southampton, London, Glasgow and Nottingham following frontman Daryl Palumbo's Glasjaw appearance at Hevy Fest. Formed back in 2003, the band was created by Palumbo as an outlet to release music that he felt didn't quite fit in with his current band Glassjaw. As a result, Head Automatica's debut record Decadence was... Read more »
LIVE: Tenacious D, Manchester Apollo, 10/6/12
June 14th, 2012 SimonBland As far as comedy-rock duos go, you don’t get much bigger than Tenacious D. Tonight their brief UK tour has brought them to a packed out Manchester Apollo and by the looks of its rabid crowd, they’ve arrived not a moment too soon. With support act The Bots cramming as many face-melting guitar riffs and seriously frantic drumbeats as humanly possibly into their express set, this Northern rabble are dying to get a little silly. Part light-hearted stage act part balls-to-the-wall rock show Tenacious D manage... Read more »
NEWS: Bat For Lashes to play Manchester and Leeds in October
June 14th, 2012 SimonBland Bat For Lashes have announced plans to embark on a 12 date UK tour in October and early November. The singer-songwriter whose real name is Natasha Khan, will arrive at Manchester Cathedral and Leeds Metropolitan University on the 22nd and 23rd of October respectively. The tour is scheduled to kick off just a few days after the release of her long-awaited third studio album The Haunted Man which will hit shelves on October 15th. The follow up to 2009's Two Suns, The Haunted Man has taken... Read more »
NN LIVE: Rough Fields Announced As Headliner
June 13th, 2012 DanielSavage It's almost time for our next NN Live gig! Last month's was another sell out and a great night all round. This month, on June 30th, sees Levenshulme’s Rough Fields recreating his soothing electro-acoustic sound-mosaic using live looping in the intimacy of The Castle Hotel. The man behind the project – James Birchall – self-produces in a spare room, incorporating field recordings and unique percussive instruments (“boxes, crates, tins, tent-pegs…”) to create uplifting distinctive textures. Already a series of acclaimed EP’s have been released via his Bombshop label and the full-length debut Edge Of The... Read more »
