Folly of Youth

Well did the set get to go over sixty minutes? Jury's still out on that one. Here's the set-list: All Nite Disco Party Hi How Are Yo...

Malcolm Middleton played Fopp in Manchester this lunchtime. Appeared a bit uncomfortable at whole idea of 'promotional in-store tour...

You know how it is. For a work meeting, you pop out for coffee. And then someone suggests a record shop that happens to serve coffee. You co...

Due to a horrendous scheduling error, I am not attending the Half Man Half Biscuit gig at Manchester Academy tonight; instead it is "...

Photo by Supercapacity Rather hastily assembled (just like those last-minute presents and cards?) is the fourth Follycast: Love Comes in Sp...

Well who shook Manchester Academy 3 anyway. Exceptionally good gig from Clinic tonight. Only about a hour in length but to the point and wit...

Tonight's gig was their third time in Manchester; my first time seeing them. And it was great. I expected them to be bookish and seriou...

FOLLYCAST #3: PSYCHEDELICTRONICA (Hippy Skippy Moon Stomps) A collection of the classic and the curious stetching from 60s psychedelic and g...

Saw Bonnie "Prince" Billy last night at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester. Enjoyable experience but strangely unmoved to write an...

Three songs that all came out last year to shake off some of the January blues: Swan Lake All Fires Came across this on the Best of 2006 Co...

Well made it to a second Follycast. 30 minutes of songs from The Broken Family Band, The Velvet Underground, James Yorkston and others - tim...

Well everyone else is doing it so let's join in. With some mp3s for evaluation purposes. Firstly honourable mentions to Yo La Tengo, Cam...

Grant McLennan 1958 - 2006 In 1990 someone I worked with returned from a trip to the States with a huge bag of cassettes, mainly American ba...

The Delgados called it a day in April this year with this announcement . Having seen them play Manchester only a few weeks before, with the ...

First in her new column 'Hail Hail Rock 'n' Roll' in The Guardian , Laura Barton writes how she spurned a suitor with the li...

Two excellent gigs to choose from tomorrow in Manchester: Weird and folky with DANIELSON at the Klondyke in Levenshulme. or weird and noisy...

Greetings! After 14 months of preparation/procrastination, here we go. Will be posting here to create an archive of some of the past, presen...