hayseed dixie

Almost twenty years since John Wheeler and Mike Daly launched Hayseed Dixie after drunken recording sessions, the band hits Manchester Academy 2. It was a summer day back in 2000 when John Wheeler and Mike Daly first lay the foundations of Hayseed Dixie.  They had spent the previous few years touring with a string of…

Seventeen years and fourteen albums after Hayseed Dixie formed, they come to Manchester’s Club Academy. The band began one day when legend has it John Wheeler and Mike Daly drank roughly enough whiskey to float a battleship from the Florida Coast over to Portugal and back and decided to play around in John’s studio. Having spent…