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From Tuesday 17 October 2023

LIVE: Manchester Orchestra @ Union Chapel

Never has a show fitted a venue more perfectly than Manchester Orchestra’s set at Union Chapel. From the moment that the opening lines of ‘I Know How To Speak’ open a chasm into our emotions and frontman Andy Hull’s falsetto notes swoop and soar up to the bare-boarded gothic

An Evening with Manchester Orchestra @ Academy 2, Manchester

Thursday 09 March 2023

Manchester Orchestra – ‘The Valley of Vision’

By now, it’s commonplace for Manchester Orchestra not to be a routine band. Ever since 2017’s ‘A Black Mile to the Surface’, frontman Andy Hull, lead guitarist Robert McDowell, bassist Andy Prince and drummer Tim Very, have branched out from their indie rock roots. ‘The Million Masks of

Wednesday 08 December 2021

Top 25 Albums of the Year

Thursday 21 October 2021

Every Time I Die – ‘Radical’

It’s been a long, long time since we last got a full length album from Buffalo hardcore legends Every Time I Die – five years to be exact – but that wait is finally over. After sharing their first taste of new music towards the end of a

Friday 06 August 2021

Foxing – ‘Draw Down The Moon’

Here’s the trick to conquering the music industry – reinvention. The reason the likes of Bowie, Dylan and Madonna are so revered is because they’re able to reinvent themselves multiple times to become relevant again. Like a snake shedding its skin, it’s the change in either image or sound

Wednesday 28 April 2021

Manchester Orchestra – ‘The Million Masks of God’

It has been almost four years since Manchester Orchestra released their stunning, if slightly under-appreciated, fifth album – ‘A Black Mile to the Surface’. For some, the prospect of them delivering a worthy follow-up was going to be a difficult task for the Atlanta group. Nevertheless, Andy Hull

Thursday 02 November 2017

Manchester Orchestra, Slothrust @ Church, Leeds

Saturday 28 October 2017

Manchester Orchestra share new video for ‘The Moth’

Manchester Orchestra have released their new video for ‘The Moth’. The track is taken from their fifth album, ‘A Black Mile to the Surface’, which was released in July on Loma Vista Recordings. photo: Nolan Knight

Thursday 07 September 2017

New Manchester Orchestra video for ‘The Grocery’

Manchester Orchestra have released their new video for ‘The Grocery’. The track is taken from their fifth album, ‘A Black Mile to the Surface’, which was released in July on Loma Vista Recordings. They will also be returning to the UK via the following dates next month with Slothrust. OCTOBER 21 MANCHESTER Academy 2 22 GLASGOW