2015 END OF YEAR – JOE CURRAN
ALBUMS Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly It’s topping polls left, right and centre and for good reason. An enormous, sprawling hip hop opus that captures the grim reality of black America, wealth...
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LIVE: STRANGE WAVES PRESENTS KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD – 09/09/2016
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – THE RITZ, MANCHESTER – It seems like barely a day goes by without us at Silent Radio extolling the virtues of the Psych revival. This is not by design; Manchester...
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LIVE: TOM HICKOX – 10/02/2017
Tom Hickox – GORILLA, MANCHESTER – Support slots are a funny thing. Important in the development of any musician’s career, and often arriving with the inherited prestige of the headline artist. When I...
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INTERVIEW: TOM HICKOX
Tom Hickox I meet Tom Hickox in Ye Olde Cock Inn, an old, country-style pub whose exterior belies its location just a short walk from Didsbury village. This part of town was of the singer’s choosing,...
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ALBUM: TOM HICKOX – MONSTERS IN THE DEEP
Tom Hickox – Monsters in the Deep Music writing is full of unending discussion of the fabled album number two. It’s a hurdle so many fall at – buckling under the weight of expectation, overreaching,...
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LIVE: JESCA HOOP – 06/04/2017
Jesca Hoop – GORILLA, MANCHESTER – There is something undeniably special about a hometown gig. Adopted hometown it may be, but it is no less special to see Californian Chorlton-dweller Jesca Hoop on...
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LIVE: JANE WEAVER – 19/05/2017
Jane Weaver – BAND ON THE WALL, MANCHESTER – It’s a beaming Friday night and I’m goose-stepping through the Northern Quarter’s recent proliferation of makeshift outdoor drinking spaces, giddy as a...
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LIVE: THE WEDDING PRESENT – 20/06/2017
The Wedding Present – George Best – CENTRAL STATION, WREXHAM – I’ve been given license by the Silent Radio grandees to leave our Manchester stomping ground for unexplored North Walian pastures. Having...
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LIVE: HOLLY HERNDON – 30/06/2017
Holly Herndon – GORILLA, MANCHESTER- Manchester International Festival returns with one of its most eclectic and strongest bills since inception in 2007. The last event 2015 passed with barely a...
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LIVE: LOYLE CARNER – 12/10/2017
Loyle Carner -THE RITZ, MANCHESTER- It’s commonplace for fans to attend concerts dressed like their hero onstage – we’ve all done it – and the plethora of vintage football shirts in honour of South...
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