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THE LAST CHAPTER
29 December 2009 / Tiger Lounge / Manchester
:: The Black Knights :: Lux Decorus :: Brown Brogues :: Kid Voodoo ::
After several years of putting on your new favourite
bands before you'd heard of them and sending us
press releases with lines like "Stagnant crop of
base and tender, gender the f of hallowed and
Ovaltine aberrations" FictionNonFiction bows out.
BOWING OUT DISGRACEFULLY
11 December 2009 / The Well (formerly Joseph's Well) / Leeds
:: International Trust :: The Hydropaths :: Instant Species :: The Swindells ::
After three years of making unfeasibly brilliant
singles far too few people were ever aware of
they're bowing out in typically disgraceful style,
promising a midnight set involving everyone who's
ever been in the band. It could get messy.
OUT ON THE EDGE
10 December 2009 / Kings Arms / Salford
:: Denis Jones :: Vuk :: Caro Snatch ::
All the ingredients for a brilliant live music
session: innovation and imagination, organic and
electronic, loop box and autoharp, candles and
cakes.
WARPED OUT
07 December 2009 / Academy 2 / Manchester
:: Battles :: Flying Lotus ::
Manchester's DIY promoters club together to bring us
the vodka swigging future of experimental hip-hop
and the weirdest dancefloor filling party tune of
the decade. Happy fucking Christmas indeed!
THE LONELINESS OF A LONG DISTANCE GIG PROMOTER
04 December 2009 / The Castle / Oldham
:: Victorian Dad :: Drink And Drive ::
Tonight it is Manchester’s newest of the new, in the form of Oldhamites Drink & Drive, crossing swords with the enigmatic and rather mighty men of Wigan, Victorian Dad at this, the esteemed Castle.
FIZZY POP PARTY
04 December 2009 / Academy 2 / Manchester
:: The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart :: The Depreciation Guild :: The Heartbreaks ::
It's worth remembering the 80s wasn't all overcoated
angst and synthpop. Odd that it takes a bunch of New
Yorkers to remind us how great good old-fashioned
sunshine indie-pop could be...
BLACKPOOL ROCKS AGAIN
03 December 2009 / Moho / Manchester
:: The Membranes ::
Someone's hammering at what looks like a milk churn,
but even this can't distract attention from the
human tornado at the front:
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