MOLLY NILSSON, IAN NAGOSKI & THE FAMILY ELAN, PHEROMOANS posters and etc

 MOLLY NILSSON makes her Manchester debut this coming Saturday 11th February at The APE & APPLE on John Dalton Street. This is the first UK date on her 'EUROPEAN HISTORY' tour and incidentally our first show at the Ape & Apple too. It will also be your first chance to see APOSTILLE anywhere in the world too. Should you wish you can buy tickets HERE.

Then we invite you to celebrate or shun St. Valentines Day February 14th with us at KRAAK, Stevenson Square where musicologist, cultural historian, curator and compiler IAN NAGOSKI will present 'TO WHAT STRANGE PLACE : The Music Of The Ottoman-American Diaspora, 1916-1929' wherein he'll be playing and discussing selections from the timeless and timely re-issue of the same name, before THE FAMILY ELAN perform live

More information and tickets can be found HERE

 And then to round off a pretty spectacular week, we've collaborated with GIANT HELL to bring the mighty PHEROMOANS to town to play an all-day love-in with 6 of our favourite bands from Manchester at KRAAK. LTD CHEAP TICKETS HERE

THE PHEROMOANS "the bovril boys" from movies for ears on Vimeo.

UT poster by Cali Thornhill Dewitt

UT return to Manchester for the first time since touring with The Fall and Sonic Youth.
Click above for tickets or else go to Piccadilly Records or Soup Kitchen to buy an actual ticket made of paper.
 

Muchos Gracias to Cali for the poster, you should check up the excellent WITCH HAT site that he and his wife (star of the poster above) maintain and his record label, Teenage Teardrops. Two of our favourites.

LAS ROBERTAS & KELLIES June 15th DEAF INSTITUTE

to play in Manchester on Wednesday June 15th at the Deaf Institute.

We are delighted to invite you  to celebrate and witness the Manchester debuts of two of our favourite bands from the South American branch of the international pop underground!



It's almost impossible to convey our excitement. This is a once-in-a-lifetime type of opportunity to see two amazing bands from the other side of the world for less than the price of a cocktail.



 Las Robertas are from Costa Rica. Their album 'Cry Out Loud' was given away for free before being re-mixed  by Jon Greene (engineer for Dum Dum Girls, Crocodiles ) and re-mastered by Pete Lyman (engineer for No Age, Mika Miko, Moondog etc. etc.) ready for release on Art Fag (Dunes, Heavy Hawaii, Bleached, best coast). Since then they've shared stages with their heroes (Black Tambourine, Edwyn Collins) and their peers (the beets, german measles, davila 666, Dum Dum Girls, Japandroids, Aias) all over America and now finally in Europe where they played at Primaverasound. Thanks to Dance Magic Dance they extended their trip to include this, their first visit to the UK. Expect a 21st century take on Black Tambourine and the Runaways. Dee Dee Dum Dum's classification of her own band's sound as 'Blissed-Out Buzzsaw' could quite easily have been coined  specifically for Las Robertas.


Las Robertas

V For You - Las Robertas from Ignacio Hernández Murillo on Vimeo.

KELLIES are from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Their third album is about to be released in the UK by the legendary FIRE records and sees them expand on the feverish Rock & Roll of their earlier records with a kaleidoscopic and encyclopedic blend of garage, cumbia, dub and post-punk which, despite it's uniqueness (or maybe because of it) evokes  bands as various and diverse as the co-ordinated stage outfits they've made their trademark: ESG, the Raincoats, the Slits, Nisennenmondai, the Ramones, Devo, Weave, the Flatbackers and etc. Whether singing in Spanish, English, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Catalan or French, dressed as aerobics instructors or tubes of toothpaste KELLIES live show is guaranteed to be seriously fun and completely unforgettable.

Las KELLIES

perro rompebolas - KELLIES from Marcos Díaz Mathé on Vimeo.

Le BEAT UNHAPPENING  & DANCE MAGIC DANCE DJ's throughout the night!




 £6 TICKETS HERE 

LISTEN TO FEEL RIGHT

  FEEL RIGHT - WAKE UP by BEATUNHAPPENING

Then buy the 10-song cassettes album HERE
Then go watch them  Wednesday  with EAT SKULL





See you in the pit.

TONIGHT! STOMACH PUMP exhibition opening

The Salford Zine Library collection, The Higgins Family collection and originals from MUSEUMS no.1 will all be exhibited and MUSEUMS no.2 will also be available for FREE to the first 15 attendees. MUSEUMS no.2 consists of 25 different zines made by some of Jess' Favourite people housed in block-printed pizza boxes. There is a zine by each of us in there in addition to our contributions to Andrew Beswick's 'Knick Knack' poetry zine which is also included. Other contributors include  Lucy Jones, David Bailey, Julia Scott, Matthias Connor, Katy Flynn, Jess Higgins, Miriam Avery and Edwin Stevens, NO WOMB, Alex Humphrys, Laura Skilbeck, Matthew Walkerdine, Kate Armitage, Sophie Lea Perry, Joseph Logan and more. It's gonna rule for sure.

We'll post photo's here of this and last weeks Mount Pleasant exhibition. After you go to this you should probably go to the Deaf Institute where Dinner Party and WAITERS both play now wave's BEST COAST show.

Here are a few things to help

with the recent  passing of JD Salinger: 

firstly you can read all of his stories (even those which are uncollected) HERE (thanks to Jess Higgins for the tip-off) and tributes and ruminations on the great man and his legacy from AM HOMES and DAVE EGGERS.

secondly you can get excited about this poster and the amazing show that it was made to publicise. Thanks to Lucy Jones for this ray of light:

Thirdly there is this video, which gives rise to smiles for about a million reasons:

Fourthly is the news that MUSEUMS  number one is almost ready and is looking absolutely beautiful. Basically it consists of a giant (11 1/2" x 11 1/2 ") art book, 3 screen-printed posters, an exclusive new 30+ page comic by David Bailey  and a compilation tape that we made with some of our favourite bands in the whole world---- NISENNENMONDAI, LA LA VASQUEZ, PIECE WAR, GIRLS NAMES, SAD HORSE, TY SEGALL, VERONICA FALLS, YELLOW FEVER, FORMER BULLIES, IRMA VEP, SIC ALPS, ROLLIN HUNT, ASSASSINS 88, BEACHNIKS, GOLDEN GRRLS, READING RAINBOW, TIGHTSUCKS, WAITERS, PICASTRO and SILK FLOWERS. It is a serious and fun document detailing the music we care about. It will be C.O.A.T -005. We've been working on it for so long and we cannot wait to share it with the world. We are honoured and privileged to be able to make this and for it to accompany such a sweet and radical publication. Pre-sale and Launch Party/Exhibition details forthcoming.

C.O.A.T-006 will be the new NEIL BURRELL album  'YOU HAVE REACHED...OUTER SPACE' which offers a heavier and more twisted psychedelia than anything else around. Much more forthcoming, wish we could disclose it all now but that's enough for one day.

To play us out Tom Settle at Manchester Zap at islington mill- Thanks to Barry Dean for capturing this rare and special performance of a deep and heavy improvisation that would perfectly serve as a requiem for JD: