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Owl City – Manchester University

I won’t go into why Punktastic is not only covering one Owl City show on this tour but two… I agree it’s not Punk but let’s not go down that road please. I was very sceptical about seeing a relatively new band headline a reasonably large club venue.

Wednesday 27 January 2010

Glassjaw – Manchester University

Glassjaw ? Manchester Academy ? Sunday 24th January 2010 The phrase ?most anticipated gig of the year? is constantly bounced around. It feels very appropriate. A good number of the crowd would never have seen Glassjaw live before. The expectation levels are thus at

Thursday 10 December 2009

A – Manchester University

There’s only one word on my lips tonight nostalgia! I will happily confess that I have a few reservations about tonight and whether A can meet the unfair expectations and memories I have from when seeing them at the turn of the century. First up though This

Saturday 14 November 2009

Mew – Manchester University

The Danes have taken over Manchester, well for tonight anyway. The only support band tonight, ?Choir Of Young Believers? seem incredibly polite and even Sam Beam (Iron and Wine) has to be impressed with Jannis’ beard. The band play a 6 song set. They give an accomplished

Saturday 20 January 2007

A Wilhelm Scream – Manchester University

Academy 3 received a fair turn out tonight for what, in my mind, was always destined to be one of the shows of the year. And so it proved to be. Openers Failsafe were obviously at odds with the sound setup for the more raucous

Monday 25 September 2006

Liam Frost and the Slowdown Family – Manchester University

Thursday September 21st Manchester, Academy 2 PTRecs favourites The Maple State open proceedings to a largely empty spacious room. 7 songs span little over 20 minutes, and by the time they’ve left the stage, I’m feeling a little let down by their performance.

Sunday 16 January 2005

The Used – Manchester University

A cold and damp Friday night in Manchester is hardly something to get genuinely excited about, but for my first real gig of the year (the bash doesn

Tuesday 05 March 2002

A – Manchester University

Clubs are ace things. The ‘no girls’ sign on the door (or boys, in the interest of equality;) the ridiculous rules such as no cheese and onion crisps, or comics which have to be kept in a neat pile, separated into different publications. ‘A’ are also ace, and exactly

Monday 28 January 2002

Mad Caddies – Manchester University

It’s becoming all too frequent now at punk shows. Yep, the ‘sold out’ sign seems to have become a permenant fixture on the doors of many a gig, especially when a US band are visiting our shores. And the visit of Californian skanksters The

Thursday 21 June 2001

The Ataris – Manchester University

The Ataris have finally come back to the UK after a break of about 5 or so months, and this time fortunately decided to play Manchester as well. The recent release of ‘End is forever’ didn’t impress me to the extent their earlier albums did, and I had