In the days when I used the phrase “making it” without quotation marks I never stopped to consider what it was I actually wanted. Everyone, no matter how abstractly, wants to be successful (be it professionally or personally) and for [...Read More]
Features
Manchester Punk Festival: A Retrospective from WFTU
It’s been a few weeks since the entire Oxford Road area succumbed to the now annual onslaught of orchestrated anarchy that is Manchester Punk Festival. Once again, the event saw a patchwork sea of freaks, fans, and fiends descend from [...Read More]
Words from the Underground: Shredding Faces, and a Night at the Flicks
This month we’ve got some absolute crackers for you. First off, we revisited Manchester punk scene’s favourite haunt for an evening of face shredding skate punk with Guildford’s Darko, and out-of-country label-mates, Straightline. We were at Anarchistic Undertones’s ShredFest, as [...Read More]
Meet the team behind Manchester Punk Festival
For many (myself included), Manchester Punk Festival has become the official signal for the start of the festival season. From humble beginnings, the event has expanded yearly, and now features a fully international line-up, with home grown UK talent sharing [...Read More]
The worst crime is faking it
If you were the kind of person to be interested in all things magical, mystical and occultish, you might recognise the power significance of the number 23. On April 5th (we presume) twenty-three years ago, Kurt Donald Cobain lead [...Read More]
ART FOR EVERYONE
When you listen to a great song you listen to it alone, no matter how many people are in the room. To hell with a sense of community- to hell with revolution- and to hell with music being the food [...Read More]
The Biggest Unsigned Music Platform In The Universe*
*On A Narrowboat When I first meet Mark Holdsworth at Chirk Marina and step aboard the lovely Carriad VI, I am immediately greeted by his waterborne neighbours tapping at the window in search of a snack; resident ducks! Mark tells [...Read More]
Chuck Berry’s School Day
Last month we bid a fond farewell to Mr Charles Edward Anderson (that’s Chuck Berry to you and me) who was finally granted his one-way ticket to Valhalla at the grand old age of 90. Although rock ‘n’ roll might [...Read More]
Kurt Cobain – From Working Musician to Athena Poster Boy
February 20th would have been Kurt Cobain’s 50th birthday. As I perused Instagram on that day, I was struck by how many younger fans paid tribute to him and also to how they wished they had been around in the [...Read More]
My Fading Voice Sings Of Love – 20 years without Jeff Buckley
Jeff Buckley was haunted by comparisons to his famous father Tim, a father he never knew as anything more than a voice on a record, a voice often very similar to his own, and who he only met once. Raised [...Read More]