MANCHESTER GIGS IN MUSIC: September 2010 Pt.1

With August and festival season behind us, it's back to a month chock-full of gigs. Well, festival season is not quite over.

Not only does this month have the excellent (and now sold out) End of the Road Festival in North Dorset but also, closer to home, Manchester's own boutique, urban one-dayer Postcards From Manchester, this year at The Deaf Institute. Twelve hours, ten bands on the poster, three more in the basement courtesy of For Folk's Sake (and all for £12 pounds advance); it certainly lives up to to the promoters' aim "to show what Manchester is all about- innovation, originality, and most importantly, fun". Read more about the bands on Pull Yourself Together and buy a ticket whilst there still are some about.

This month's mixtape could have been just from Postcards From Manchester but instead it draws from the full month's offering. It may not be as coherent as Postcards From Manchester but there's so much this month I wanted to feature - and then look at all the other great gigs missed out! The download link for the mixtape [63mins/73 MB] is in the post following.

Manchester Gigs in Music: September 2010 Mixtape

Slaraffenland Meet and Greet [3.48] (12 Sep Academy 3 BUY TICKETS)
Ólöf Arnalds Innundir Skinni [6.44] (16 Sep Dulcimer BUY TICKETS)
Homelife Buffalos [10.49] (9 Sep Band on the Wall BUY TICKETS)
The Brute Chorus Hercules [14.00] (16 Sep Ruby Lounge BUY TICKETS)
Grinderman Get It On [17.05] (29 Sep Academy 1 BUY TICKETS)
Brown Brogues Wildman [19.08] (4 Sep An Outlet BUY TICKETS)
Ducktails Hamilton Road [21.31] (22 Sep Trof NQ BUY TICKETS)
Deer Tick Twenty Miles [25.11] (30 Sep Deaf Institute BUY TICKETS)
The New Pornographers Moves [29.01] (8 Sep Ruby Lounge BUY TICKETS)
Allo Darlin’ If Loneliness Was Art [32.30] (18 Sep Deaf Institute BUY TICKETS)
Kath Bloom Heart So Lonely [36.50] (10 Sep Band on the Wall BUY TICKETS)
The Soundcarriers Last Broadcast [41.42] (11 Sep Ducie Bridge BUY TICKETS)
Erland and the Carnival Gentle Gwen [45.14] (25 Sep Night & Day BUY TICKETS)
Zola Jesus Night [48.47] (2 Sep Deaf Institute BUY TICKETS)
Damian Jurado Mr Brown [50.56] (26 Sep Deaf Institute BUY TICKETS)
Josh Ritter Change of Time [55.02] (22 Sep RNCM BUY TICKETS)
Walton Hesse Auld Claude [58.18] (26 Sep Odder BUY TICKETS)
Phosphorescent South (of America) [63.08] (6 Sep Night & Day BUY TICKETS)

And not forgetting:
2 Sep Women Deaf Institute / 4 Sep Neon Indian Deaf Institute / 4 Sep Eels Academy 1 / 6 Sep Cymbals Eat Guitars Deaf Institute / 6 Sep Jonsi Academy 1 / 8 Sep Bright Light Bright Light The Corner / 12 Sep John Head Deaf Institute / 14 Sep Moddi Night & Day / 14 Sep Horse Feathers King’s Arms / 15 Sep Black Mountain Academy 3 / 15 Sep Trouble Books Trof NQ / 16 Sep Sky Larkin Deaf Institute / 18 Sep Sage Francis Roadhouse / 18 Sep Joanna Newsom Palace Theatre / 20 Sep Liam Frost Sound Control / 21 Sep The Travelling Band Sound Control / 23 Sep The Answering Machine Sound Control / 23 Sep The Vaselines Deaf Institute / 23 Sep The Wilderness of Manitoba Night & Day / 23 Sep The Shout Out Louds Ruby Lounge / 25 Sep Mount Desolation Deaf Institute / 25 Sep Hexstatic Sound Control / 25 Sep Young British Artists Soup Kitchen / 26 Sep Fuzzy Lights Dulcimer / 26 Sep Pete Molinari Academy 3 / 28 Sep An Astronomical Evening with Darren Hayman Godlee Observatory / 28 Sep PVT Deaf Institute / 28 Sep Islet Islington Mill