Category: Live

Very few artists have had a career trajectory quite as strange as Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark: forming in the creatively fertile Liverpool post-punk scene, they broke away and sided with Factory Records for their initial releases before very nearly out Closer-ing Joy Division with second album Organisation, receiving both critical acclaim and scorn in…

The Pink Room of YES opens its doors and plays host to three incredibly exciting Australian bands as Brisbane dance-punk outfit DZ Deathrays, touring with new album Positive Rising: Part 1, bring their European tour to the drizzly north-west of England along with fellow antipodeans Wharves and Planet, the former of which making their UK…

It came about at the request of the lead actress- a yet-unnamed project about teenage love both requited and unrequited, in a setting already familiar to the cast and crew. A single by a band she liked very much, at the time her favourite song. She asked a screenwriter, a man she enjoyed a close…

“Tonight we celebrate our weirdness. We celebrate being outcasts. Being dirty computers. All the things that make us unique. All the things that make them uncomfortable.”Scant days removed from her low-key show-stealing turn at Glastonbury and fresh from a brace of arena shows in London and Dublin, Janelle Monáe has turned to Manchester as part…

The iconic Californian rockers brought their incredible, five-star show to the M&S Bank Arena, in what might be the local highlight of the musical year. The Eagles have been around for almost fifty years now, without taking out their break-up years between 1980 and 1994, and their catalogue is far reaching, but you’d have to…

Nick Cave at the Olympia. Too good to be true? Liverpool’s most beautiful example of faded Victorian glamour playing host to the Gothic Prince himself, it’s a match made in heaven. Had this been any ordinary gig, it would have been wonderful enough, but this night, part of his Conversations with Nick Cave Tour was…

The annual BBC Radio 6 Music Festival lands in Liverpool for the weekend and showcases our bright city for what it really is, the musical capital of the UK. The Eventim Olympia was the opening ground, the venue that in its original heyday held a circus, tonight is the stomping grounds for the live adventures…

Sleaford Mods are back in town and whilst it feels like there should be a pre-gig tension in the air, inlight of Jason Williamson’s penchant for angry wailing polemics, there is a much more prevalent feeling of love in the air. No amount of city re-generation can hide the fact that Liverpool is still feeling…

A smoke-filled basement lit only by the haze of a handful of colourful neon light tubes, with an assortment synthwave playing over the PA in the background, Manchester’s Soup Kitchen has been transformed into a setting within a sci-fi dystopia, a dim bunker that would not look out of place within Neo-Tokyo, nestled away from…

The city of Manchester can lay claim to be the focal point of dance music’s evolution, just as much as it was the gestation point for punk, and everything that followed. It was DJs around the city that began importing ‘the sounds of the future’, music created by the increasing availability of drum machines, samplers…