Doves, Polytechnic @ Apollo, Manchester, 06/12/05
They love local lads done good in Manchester, and Doves are received with raptures from a home-town audience tonight.
Millencolin, Flogging Molly, Randy, The Unseen @ Academy, Manchester, 05/11/05
Tonight’s punk extravaganza kicks off in hardcore fashion with The Unseen from Boston. Lead singer Mark charges mohawked head-first into a set of screaming, hi-octane punk rock.
Casual Saints, The Dirty Years, Suka Suka @ Star and Garter, Manchester, 12/10/05
Three new bands on offer tonight at the Star and Garter, a small unassuming pub behind Piccadilly station with a reputation for great live music in an intimate (ie tiny) room.
Inme, Sweet Suzie, The Morenas @ Academy 2, Manchester, 05/10/05
The majority of the crowd tonight may not yet have sat their A-Levels but they know what they want: shouty songs with big riffs and obvious lyrics about bedrooms and loneliness. They are not about to be disappointed. Gigwise definitely is.
The Flaming Lips - 'VOID Video Overview In Deceleration' DVD Released 03/10/05
Anyone who’s ever been to a Flaming Lips show will know all about their ability to manipulate surreal imagery and zany props to create full-on freak-out visual back-up to their beautiful, tragi-comic psycho-rock.
t.A.T.u - 'Dangerous And Moving' (released 10/10/05)
Want to get ahead in the pop business? A little lesbian action does you no harm. Sparking off the are they?/aren't they?/should we care? debate once again, everyone's favourite Slavic lady-lovers have got a new album out.
Snap Ant - 'This Is Jut' (released 10/10/05)
This is the debut album from Liverpool-based chap Snap Ant, who is also one half of Ninja Tunes outfit Super Numeri. The Ninja ethos of out-there sounds on a mission straight to your cerebellum is prominent in this remarkably accomplished and super-cool LP.
Bloodhound Gang - 'Hefty Fine' (released 26/09/05)
The Gang return with a fourth attempt to make the soundtrack to drinking a keg of beer, soiling yourself, vomiting on a girl's t*ts, and finding it all very funny indeed.
Queen Adreena - 'Live at the ICA' (released 19/09/05)
Katie Jane Garside and Crispin Gray, the creative core of 90’s grungers Daisy Chainsaw, re-emerged in 2000 from the wreckage of that band’s implosion. In their new guise, Queen Adreena, they retain the punk theatre that made so many people take notice of Garside’s ferocious performances.
Shaggy - 'Clothesdrop' (released 19/09/05)
Mr. Lover Lover is back with another boombastic take on the commercial dancehall reggae format that has earned him massive worldwide sales, international awards and, he would have us believe, more honeys than you can shake yo' booty at.
Arcade Fire - 'Funeral' (released 28/02/05)
By the time you realise you are hooked on the full-length debut from these Canadian multi-instrumentalists, it's too late to do anything about it...
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