Neighbourhood Festival to return in 2017

Neighbourhood Festival to return in 2017

Following the huge success of Saturday's excellent Neighbourhood Festival, organisers SJM Concerts have announced that the event will return in 2017, taking place on 7 October. More than 100 artists and bands including the likes of Circa Waves, Twin Atlantic, Liam...

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Pretty Vicious to perform at Sound Control

Pretty Vicious to perform at Sound Control

Following a series of raucous shows across Europe and a summer packed full of festival dates, Pretty Vicious will play a run of UK shows this September including a performance at Manchester’s Sound Control. Formed in 2014, in their hometown of Merthyr Tydfil, Pretty...

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Previewed: The Bellrays at Sound Control

Previewed: The Bellrays at Sound Control

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...

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Sound Control launches new club night Fermata

Sound Control launches new club night Fermata

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...

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Previewed: Prose at Sound Control

Previewed: Prose at Sound Control

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,...

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Previewed: Wolf Down at Sound Control

Previewed: Wolf Down at Sound Control

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...

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