Thursday 12 May – The Travelling Band – The Deaf Institute Manchester based folk-rockers The Travelling Band, just back from tour with Lissie, are set to perform a home-town gig at Manchester’s Deaf Institute before they launch into festival season. After the excellent reviews of their 2014 release The Big Defreeze, the band have been hard at…
Blues is the teacher. Punk is the preacher. It’s all about emotion and energy, experience and raw talent, spirit and intellect. Exciting things happen when these things collide. Bob Vennum and Lisa Kekaula made The BellRays happen in 1991 in East LA but they weren’t really thinking about any of this then. They wanted to…
Sound Control is set to launch a brand new monthly club night, Fermata, curated by a team of Manchester based promoters and the minds behind artist management company EQ. The regular event, which takes place on the last Saturday of every month, promises to present the finest alternative electronic music from across the globe, featuring an…
HOUSE // TECHNO // FUTURE BASS // CHILLWAVE // DANCEHALL // BASSLINE // BREAKBEAT // HIP-HOP // FUNK // GRIME // NEO SOUL // FUTURE GARAGE // AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN Manchester’s Sound Control is set to host a brand new, forward thinking student and club night, Eat Beats. The new club night will showcase the…
Wednesday 30 March – Newton Faulkner – Albert Hall Back with a major UK tour throughout March and April, Newton Faulkner comes to Manchester’s Albert Hall for the first date. The singer will be performing tracks from his fifth studio album Human Love as well as some of his classic hits from his hit albums including the…
Signed to Virgin EMI, Manchester based storytellers Prose have released their brand new single Home of The Brave ahead of a home-coming gig at Sound Control. Following on from the release of their track Caravan and their exceptional debut EP What If? in late 2015, Home of The Brave, the band’s first official single and…
Two of Scotland’s hottest bands have joined forces for a co-headline tour this May, which will see them performing at Manchester’s Sound Control. Fresh from their first UK tour earlier this year, party band White team up with the unhinged punk of Baby Strange for an eight date race around England. Releasing their new single…
Sunday 6 March – Josef Salvat – Gorilla Josef Salvat performs following the the release of debut album Night Swim. You might have first heard of Josef from his unique cover Rihanna’s Diamonds – but since, he’s become a global sensation with single Open Season receiving 5 million views and a No.1 in France, with the Aussie’s…
Fickle Friends have been cutting their teeth the old fashioned way, with 2 years of solid touring, including sets at major festivals such as Bestival, BBC R1 Big Weekend and Secret Garden Party, not to mention a sold-out show at Dingwalls in London in November. All the long drives and late nights have paid off,…
Hailing from the Ruhr area in Germany, Wolf Down have made it their task to bring back an uncompromising hardness to the hardcore genre, both lyrically and musically, to lead this subculture back to its leftist-oriented political roots. The band will release their second album Incite & Conspire via BoySetsFire’s End Hits Records on 26th…
