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hip young gunslinger

About Me

Hello!

hip young gunslinger is a blog that 'deals with' pop music, electro music and indie music you can dance to. It is basically an 'indiepop electro' blog, whatever one of those is.

When not making brilliantly-conceived and well-argued points about world famous records and people, we also enjoy writing about up-and-coming bands and solo artists. If you are one of these, feel free to send us a message or 'drop us a line‘, or whatever it is people are doing these days, and tell us about yourselves.

We are also eager to hear from club promoters in the Manchester area: if you’ve got an amazing night you want the world to know about, let us know and we will tell them.

Visually, the site isn't up to much - it's essentially just a load of words on a pink background - but we have recently worked out how to put YouTube videos on it, which has spiced things up somewhat. Anyway, you get what you pay for, and the pink is very nice.

hip young gunslinger is really very good and you should probably go there right away, but don’t take our word for it, listen to this lot:

“An ace pop blog” - Penny Broadhurst

“A great Manchester-based music blog… dealing out sarcastic retribution to bland music, and fawning adulation to shiny, sparkly pop. A must-read for anyone that’s choked on their tea whilst laughing at sites like Popjustice or Popbitch“ - TheConsole.co.uk

"Very funny... well worth checking out" - Oscar Wildstyle, Modernaire

“You’re fab” - Martina Sorbara, Dragonette

“Not bad at all” Yer Mam!


Blimey. Visit the site.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Ridiculously good bands and club promoters, and rubbish ones too.

My Blog

Little Boots interview

We recently did an interview with the amazing Little Boots.Some of the things we talked about included::: keytars:: Giorgio Moroder:: blogs:: 'Stuck On Repeat':: fighting in Hull:: rollercoasters that...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:51:00 GMT

INTERVIEW WITH HEADS WE DANCE

Manchester’s most inconsistently brilliant pop blog hip young gunslinger has done an interview with Leeds-based makers of "custom chromed aerodynamic pop" Heads We Dance.You can read what was sa...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:55:00 GMT

EXCLUSIVE MAT PAYNE MIXTAPE

FYI We're helping Manchester DJ Mat Payne celebrate the official launch of his Facebook group by giving away a brand new and exclusive mixtape. It's an hour of electro-wonk goodness and it's entirel...
Posted by on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:50:00 GMT

UPDATE - JULY 07

- UPDATE! - hip young gunslinger is having a rethink. Not an 'our third album is going to be acoustic and all about our mums' rethink, but a very exciting one. We are bringing sexy back. If you have ...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:45:00 GMT

UPDATE - MAY 07

Hello!   hip young gunslinger - great blog, terrible name - has been updated at long last. But what with? Let's find out! Tune in now for:   > Photographic proof of Rachel Steven's existenc...
Posted by on Wed, 16 May 2007 11:02:00 GMT