Instead of a band by band review of the Manchester’s Cosmosis Festival Of Psychedelic Music & Arts we thought we’d keep it short and mainly pictorial. This is due in no small part to the …
A couple of years back Manchester band Shinies became something of a bête noire to the Daily Mail’s ‘we demand to be offended by EVERYTHING brigade.’ This was in the wake of a video that …
It seems that MJ from Hookworms has been involved in quite a few tunes we’ve featured in recent weeks. And todays track ‘Trembling Moon’ from Manchester based Kult Country was indeed recorded by MJ at …
The video for Manchester duo Bernard & Edith’s début single puts us in mind of “Noodles” Aaronson getting royal f**ked up in an opium den, in Sergei Leonie’s flawed masterpiece ‘Once Upon A Time In …
Here at the VPME we love Shinies; after all, they do say ‘Shinies makes it better.’ This is obviously not without good reason because our mood has infinitely improved after wrapping our ears around Manchester’s quartet …
Today we have an exclusive première and free download of a brand spanking new remix from Manchester’s Suzuki Method entitled ‘Ask for the Moon’ which is from the bands forthcoming EP. This come hot on …
New musical discoveries are normally unearthed using a wide variety of resources, be it old school word of mouth or via new music champions such as Amazing Radio and BBC introducing or indeed wading through …
Findlay was described to me once as ‘a female Iggy Pop, albeit much better looking” (fun fact -her cats called Iggy) and yeah, we get what they mean, there’s a raw primal, hot sweaty dynamism to …
Today’s Track of the Day arrives in the rather sinister sounding form of Emperor Zero. They emerge, as black snow falls, from their underground bunker deep in the dark heart of Manchester to unleash the …
Here we have something of a Brown Brogues triple header (oo-er)! Mark Vernon one half of Brown Brogues, AKA King DJ is steadily gathering more musical nom de guerre’s than that pretentious prancing purple garbed …
It really has been an extraordinary year for emerging artists from Manchester, the sheer diversity, and depth of talent have marked it out (again!) as one of the most exciting musical cities in the UK. …
New Salford/ Manchester alt electro dance duo Factory Acts invite you to “Turn up the volume, feel the dark sound, let fantasy surround”, well it would be rude not to in lieu of such an …