'Woodwose' by WAY THROUGH

Please enjoy and share this, the new video from WAY THROUGH. Filmed  by the band themselves for the song 'Woodwose' from the recent cassette alnum 'ENCLOSURE', which, for the time being is still available HERE

CORPSEKISSER JANUARY 7th 2012 at KRAAK

Above is the poster for our first show of 2012

CORPSEKISSER are Ethan Swan (SILK FLOWERS, Barr, Car Clutch, Emergency) and Heather Anderson from New York City. Their debut album was released on Fred Thomas' (CITY CENTER , Saturday Looks Good To Me) Life Like Records. Listen to it in it's entirety HERE.
 

MARIA & THE MIRRORS are from London and have a 7" and a 12" on Parlour Records. 


IRMA VEP and NO WOMB also perform live.

There will be records played throughout the evening and also after the live entertainment has finished.

Advance tickets are available for £4 HERE 

Another WAITERS video

This time a fashionably late video for 'BREEZY' one of the two waiters contributions to COAT010 Former Bullies / Waiters split 7".

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 

SIC ALPS have a new record out right now

It is called 'Napa Asylum' and is a 23 song sprawler spread across two slabs of vinyl. It's their first album since 'US EZ' and their first since  Noel Harmonson joined the ranks. Below is the first of four videos they've made to accompany the new record.




buy it now from DRAG CITY

Times New Viking - No Room to Live

Times New Viking - No Room to Live from Merge Records on Vimeo.

FEEL RIGHT made a video

Last few copies of their album on cassette HERE 

MARIKA PAPAGIKA

recorded some of most beautiful, haunting and rebellious music ever between the years of 1919 and 1928. We first heard her sing on the excellent compilation 'I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore' which was Mississippi records 013 if you believe the cover or 014 if you prefer to put your trust in the etching on the record itself. Their were also songs on 'Black Mirror: reflections in Global Music' on Dust-to-Digital and the amazing compilation of Rebetika  (rembetika) 'MORTIKA' also on Mississippi who are now releasing a whole LP entitled 'The Further The Flame, The Worse It Burns Me', containing all known recordings with a booklet containing all known photographs and translations of the controversial ( which were illegal in Greece). We could not recommend an album any more than this. Buy it now from Honest Jons or wherever you can find it.

Double click the second video to watch the rest of the documentary.

NISENNENMONDAI

PLAY SOUP KITCHEN ON MONDAY 25th OCTOBER 2010.
LUCY JONES MADE THE AMAZING POSTER ABOVE.

TICKETS HERE

CHECK OUT THIS VIDEO OF THEM PLAYING IN JAPAN AT THE END OF 2009

GRASS WIDOW ON MONDAY! Plus new poster!

We are so excited for the Grass Widow show on Monday. IF you've any doubt as to why check out the videos below, this is going to be amazing. There are still tickets available HERE 



Grass Widow "11 of Diamonds" from Mike Stoltz on Vimeo.















Here is the Poster Lucy Jones made for the GUN OUTFIT show which HYACINTH GIRL are now playing too. Tickets for that one HERE 

LUCY JONES has made GRASS WIDOW / TRASH KIT posters

in a variety of colours. Check out the new Grass Widow video: 

Buy tickets HERE

GIRLS NAMES

are from Belfast. We were fortunate to have them come play in Manchester in March and we'll try our best to get them to come back soon. One of their first ever recordings is on the tape we made for MUSEUMS. Here is a video of them playing the twin peaks theme in their sweet-looking practice room.



Falling (Twin Peaks Theme) by Girls Names from claire miskimmin on Vimeo.

Veronica Falls have a video

We encourage you to buy both versions of this single, the captured tracks one has a different b-side to the one on Trouble which has the finished version of the song 'Stephen' which appears in demo form on the 'MUSEUMS'  compilation.

SPOOKY THEREMIN DANCE TO CLARA ROCKMORE

Irma Vep have a video

it runs slow by IRMA VEP

kicktheghost | MySpace Video

THE CARTUNE XPREZ travelling animation roadshow

 comes to town on Tuesday, Jess Higgins made a special poster for it. CARTUNE XPREZ is to animation what Kramers Ergot is to comics- in other words the best of the best of the North-American animation scene. We are so honoured to host their first visit to Manchester. Their will be an exclusive screening of their latest 45-minute long show reel featuring new work from  :Martha Colburn, Adrian Freeman,Shana Moulton, Takeshi Murata, Bruce Bickford, Jeff Kriksciun, Jacob Ciocci ,Amy Lockhart, Peter Burr, Christopher Doulgeris, + Cassandra C Jones and a special live interactive performance  called TRASH featuring animation and music from HOOLIGANSHIP described as "Pure absurd rainbow bliss, Trash is a wacky 

journey into media oversaturation inspired by a hypnotic abundance of digital 

information"and as if that wasn't enough FRANCOIS AND THE ATLAS MOUNTAIN ENSEMBLE featuring ROZI PLAIN and THE BALKY MULE will be playing live too! There are still some tickets left HERE and if you are from an arts or educational group you can email us for SWEET DISCOUNTED TICKETS FOR GROUPS comfortableonatightrope@googlemail.com 

 

 

 

Here are some videos of all the amazing people we have coming to play in June

CRYPTACIZE

DIANE CLUCK

T.I.T.S

FINALLY PUNK

THE STICKS

Is it really obvious we just finally now learned to embed youtube videos onto the blog? Hope so. We've got the skills that don't pay the bills..

Seriously though, the forthcoming month promises much excitement and super-diversity, it's like the past 5 years in microcosm.

You're all more than invited, YOU are beyond welcome, we URGE you to come and check out some of the music we CARE about.

To hear more from each band click on their name above the video. To buy tickets click the show listing in the North-East of the screen or go to piccadilly records

This is kind of what Sounds From the Other City looked like

Batts ran out before FORMER BULLIES played. We would like it if anybody had a good photograph and sent it to us.

THANK YOU...

to Poppy, LEXIE MOUNTAIN BOYS, LA LA VASQUEZ, FIRST TIME FLYER, TEEN SHEIKHS, SIR YES SIR, FORMER BULLIES, Leslie & James from Salford Restoration Office, Roxanne & James, Mark Carlin , Dave and Lucy, Andrew & Anna and everyone that joined us at Sounds From The Other City.

It was radicchio!  Everybody brung it. If you couldn't get a ticket or you live somewhere else or you had a ticket and didn't visit our stage we feel sorry for you. 

Muchos photos and videos to follow, having uploading problemos