Since the world is running out of money and it cannot be long before a rat becomes a unit of currency ,  so it becomes more important than ever that we humans think carefully about how we choose to dispense our funds---hard-earned or otherwise. It is with this consideration in mind we attempt to divert some of your attention to  two projects we sincerely believe are worth investing in.


SIMON JOYNER has long been one of our heroes and is, was and forever will remain a source of inspiration to us. The first Comfortable On a Tightrope show was set up for Simon Joyner. We celebrated our 3rd Anniversary by booking a UK Tour for him. And hopefully 2012 will see him return to our shores once more. You can help make this  more likely and practicable and snag yourself some rare and beautiful artifacts all at once by following the links below.






The 6 years since Diane Cluck released a new album have felt like an eternity. We've been fortunate that, throughout that time, she's made annual visit's to the UK and performed shows wherein we've heard some new songs but that's no consolation for the absence of new recordings. Thankfully, the wait is almost over. For 6 months, from March through 'til September Diane Cluck will write, record and disseminate a  song a week. The project is called, simply 'SONG OF THE WEEK' . You can read all about it and donate HERE

David Bailey made this poster for

our DIANE CLUCK show at SOUP KITCHEN in a couple of weeks. You can buy tickets HERE .

 David Bailey has a shop called GOOD GRIEF! which, if you haven't already, you should totally check out.

NEW SHOWS

DIANE CLUCK PLAYS HER FIRST UK SHOWS WITH DRUMMER ANDERS GRIFFEN IN SEPTEMBER. SHE WILL PLAY A SPECIAL ALL-AGES EARLY EVENING SHOW AT THE SOUP KITCHEN ON SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 25TH. TICKETS HERE 






SEEMS LIKE AGES (SINCE THE FIRST MAKE-A-MESS SINGLE) WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR GRASS WIDOW TO COME AND PLAY IN THE UK. THEY'VE HAD AMAZING RECORDS ON MAKE-A-MESS AND CAPTURED TRACKS AND THEIR NEW LP 'PAST TIME' HAS JUST DROPPED ON KILL ROCK STARS. COME SEE THEM AND TRASH KIT AT TROF NQ ON MONDAY 4TH OCTOBER. TICKETS HERE 


Grass Widow "Shadow" from Kill Rock Stars on Vimeo.

GUN OUTFIT'S 'POSSESSION SOUND'LP HAS JUST BEEN RELEASED ON NO AGE'S PPM RECORDS. THEY PLAY TROF NQ ON SUNDAY 24TH OCTOBER. TICKETS HERE 

AND THEN THE NIGHT AFTER, OCTOBER 25TH, NISENNENMONDAI RETURN TO MANCHESTER TO PLAY IN THE SOUP KITCHEN'S AMAZING NEW BASEMENT SPACE. TICKETS HERE 

DIANE CLUCK:

-made these images for the June 2009 issue of the trof times.

-makes our favourite music in the world (listen here).

-is performing live at THE DEAF INSTITUTE tomorrow, MONDAY 8th JUNE 2009th Y.o.o.L with MARY HAMPTON and SERFS.

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