This year has been an absolute barnstormer for live underground music in and around the North West of England. The bar was set ridiculously high early on with the post-metal onslaught of Oathbreaker at Manchester’s Star and Garter last January [...Read More]
WTFU: Math-Jazz Noodling Meets An Icy Blast of Svalbard
Despite our efforts to stay as desperately unpopular as possible here at Words From The Underground, sometimes we’re forced to cross swords with the mainstream be it wittingly or otherwise. This month was one such occasion. Well, sort of. Svalbard [...Read More]
WFTU: Hitting the sticks with EZXP
Set at the top floor of an old Victorian mill on the outskirts of Bury is the Arcade Club. Lovingly designed by a team consisting of Andy, Gaynor, Linda, and others, in just a few years it’s expanded from a [...Read More]
WFTU: Get Your Asana Yoga Mat! – An Interview with Bad Juju Yoga
Namaste. In an effort to stave off writing about more grindcore – I truly love it. I do. It’s just increasingly difficult to write “fast as fuck” in fifteen different ways every month – we’ve something a bit different [...Read More]
WFTU: New faces for The Old Town House
This month, I visited an established venue under new management to see what the The Old Town House is like under its radical new leadership. There’s a lot of excitement in the underground punk scene over what Cait Costello and [...Read More]
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]
Words From The Underground: Four Shades of Death Metal
This month’s Words From The Underground is shamefully short. With the whole of February teasing a tickling of snow over the Scottish highlands, I’ve selfishly tried to keep the weekends commitment free. Watching webcam weather feeds in a state of [...Read More]
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‘WFTU: Drowned in sound with Oathbreaker, and SNFU deliver a blast of the fast For the first proper edition of 2017, we’ve a tale of two front-people. A duo of equally spectacular lead vocalists for our listening and viewing pleasure. [...Read More]