Comfortable On A Tightrope stage at Shebeen Festival 16/12/12

Above is the poster for SHEBEEN FESTIVAL by David Bailey, The poster we made for our stage at said festival, a video playlist we made containing music and video of most of the acts from our stage and the album artwork for our 'headliners' GOLDEN GRRRLS forthcoming debut album (made by Laetitia & Roxanne). Hits the shelves and the streets Feb 2013 via NIGHT SCHOOL and SLUMBERLAND and with a small cassette run on C.O.A.T. A Release is in the works too for EDIBLE ARRANGEMENTS who'll be performing in Manchester for the first time!

CHAIN & THE GANG at KRAAK Monday 26th November 2012

It is with great pleasure we announce the return to Manchester of the mighty CHAIN & THE GANG.

Remember when Rock and Roll was going to  at lest try to change the world? They do! And one night and one town at a time they've been doing exactly that. Now three albums in, the most recent 'IN COOL BLOOD' is out now on 'K', CHAIN (aka Ian F Svenonius of the Make-Up, Nation of Ulysses, Weird War, Felt Letters and etc) has a new GANG---this time comprised of M'Ladys Records mavens Brett Lyman (Bad Thoughts, Saturday Looks Good To Me) and Fiona Campbell (Coasting, Vivian Girls), Katie Alice Greer (last heard, in our house at least on 'Desire' by Duck Duck Grey Duck aka MR001-the first ever release on Mississippi Records) and  Martha Fabi Reyna (of Reynosa, Modern Marriage and She Shreds Magazine) and tomorrow for one night only they perform live in Manchester at Kraak, Stevenson Square.

It's been a while since TRASH KIT last  came to play in Manchester, though you may have had the privilege of seeing some of their other bands HALO HALO, SACRED PAWS, GOLDEN GRRRLS, ELECTRELANE in the past couple of years.   Anyone  present at the Trash Kit /Grass Widow show in 2010, or those in possession of their LP on Upset The Rhythm or split 7" with WOOLF on Milk, will need no reminder of how necessary it is to see TRASH KIT live. Below is an audio/visual postcard from the aforementioned GW/TK tour:

DINNER PARTY have one album 'Swinging' available from Life Dunk International and will get the party started as only they know how.

Our friends from THE VAULT will be providing between-band entertainment (no respite), playing 45's into the night

TICKETS HERE

Saturday from 2pm at KRAAK

COMING VERY SOON

'YOU HAVE REACHED... OUTER SPACE' by Neil Burrell. A Re-issue of a 9 song set recorded in Cambridge and Hove over the last couple of years. Occupying the same kind of (outer) space as the classic Jakob Olausson lp 'moonlight farm' but even more damaged. This is the wooziest, trip we've been on in a long time. Listening to it is like being in the Casa Batllo at night on some vintage C.1960's acid. The cover art is by David Bailey who, along with Lucy Jones , is prepping their first exhibition for a long time at Islington Mill in Salford. The exhibition opens Friday 30th April with a party at which we will be playing records. It runs through Sounds From The Other City.

The following Friday 7th May sees another exhibition opening in the same space of the Higgins family zine collection entitled 'STOMACH PUMP' as part of the launch of the excellent SALFORD ZINE LIBRARY

which will, for one day only, be installed in the Angel Centre in Salford between the two floors we're curating for Sounds From The Other City on May 2nd. Our line-up is 100% complete and totally gnarly. Upstairs we have a screening room which as well as hosting an exclusive show-reel of animations from CARTUNE XPREZ  will also feature performances from MARIA & the GAY, GIRL MOUNTAIN and NO WOMB.

Downstairs TALK NORMAL, PHEROMOANS, WAY THROUGH, HOTPANTS ROMANCE, DINNER PARTY, SEX HANDS , WAITERS & LEVERET all play live. If you don't have tickets yet we strongly recommend you get them soon because if you email or call us on the day we will not be able to help you out no matter how much we love you. Get them HERE.

Also May 7th WAITERS and DINNER PARTY will be playing at the DEAF INSTITUTE with these guys: