Committed to promoting independent music and culture and particularly brilliant at bringing to our attention bands that push boundaries, sounds that we might otherwise miss Louder Than War has, for over 15 years, been the website/social media place to head…
There’s a particular kind of hush that settles over a venue just before the opening act walks on. Not silence, because Mancs and the Ritz don’t do silence, but that low, curious murmur of a crowd still finding its feet,…
Walking into the Ritz last Wednesday, the space grabbed you more than anything else – Not the crowd, the stage, or even the bands, but the fact that the normally well populated balcony was closed off, reserved only for AAA…
The Deaf Institute’s ground floor Lodge Room has always felt like the kind of place where bands come to either find themselves or lose themselves. Sometimes both happen on the same night. The 100 capacity room seems intimate without being…
Superstition demands you stay at home on Friday the 13th to stay safe, so I’m so glad we were all able to prove superstition wrong tonight If you gave superstition the middle finger and showed up looking for fat riffs…
It’s been a while since I’ve been to the O2 Apollo in Manchester. This venue is one of my absolute favourites in the UK. I’m convinced that you could put on anything in this venue and it would sound great….
