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UPCOMING GIGS:
MARK KOZELEK (SUN KIL MOON/RED HOUSE PAINTERS)
When: 7.30pm on Monday 20 July 2009
Where: St Philip with St Stephen Church, Encombe Place, Salford, M3 6FJ‎
We’re delighted to welcome songwriting legend Mark Kozelek for what is only his second solo appearance in Manchester during an illustrious 20-years recording career. His debut here was a sold-out performance at the Dancehouse Theatre - and this time we’ve picked out another very special venue: St Phil’s Church in Salford.
Originally a lynchpin of the sadcore movement in alternative rock with Red House Painters, Kozelek’s harrowing autobiographical lyrics gave unflinchingly detailed accounts of pain, despair and loss while the lengthy accompanying music was slow, intense, dissonant and bleak.
As time has passed, his music has become more acoustic and folk-inflected, while his lyrics now seem obsessed with memory, geography and those who died before their natural time, arguably best demonstrated on Sun Kil Moon’s Ghosts of the Great Highway.
We’re delighted to confirm that Richard James is support for this show. Uncut described his last album as ‘a sultry charming collection… carefully distilled influences: John Fahey, snatches of Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel and the atmospheric folk of the late 60s’. The former Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci is twice a Hey! Manchester headliner, which gives you an indication of how much we rate him. Please arrive early!
St Philip with St Stephen is one of Greater Manchester’s finest Georgian buildings, situated just seconds from Chapel Street and less than a mile from Deansgate . And it has a bar you’ll be glad to hear!
This all-ages show is a co-promotion with Pineapple Folk.
Tickets from WeGotTickets.com , Ticketline.co.uk , SeeTickets.com , Piccadilly Records on Oldham Street, Ticketline Box Office in St John’s Centre, Liverpool, and on 0161 832 1111.
MUM
When: 7.00pm on Sunday 16 August 2009
Where: The Deaf Institute, 135 Grosvenor Street, Manchester M1 7HE
We’re very excited to be bringing experimental Icelandic collective Múm back to Manchester.
Originally a duo, Múm (pronounced ‘moom’) have expanded and contracted in their 12-year existence. The band was formed in 1997 by original members Gunnar Örn Tynes and Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason, their first release was a split 10†with the girl-band Spúnk and saw light in the summer of 1998.
They were joined a year later by twin sisters Gyða and KristÃn Anna Valtýsdóttir and released two albums as quartet. Following a number of collaborative projects, the group’s celebrated debut album Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today Is OK (reissued by Morr Music in 2005) gained a wealth of glowing press and widespread praise. A remix project, Please Smile My Noise Bleed, also released on Morr in November 2001.
In 2002, after the release of Finally We Are No One and a world tour, Gyða left the band to return to her studies in ReykjavÃk. Shortly after, the third sister Ãsthildur Valtýsdóttir joined for singing duties temporarily and Serena Tideman replaced Gyda on cello, for a single European tour. The band’s third album, Summer Make Good, a darker and foggier, nautically themed work was released in 2004.
Múm present a casually gorgeous blend of electronic atmospheres and funny old instruments like accordions, melodicas and cellos
Múm’s second album fills in the gaps between the work of fellow compatriots Bjork and Sigur Ros with amazing results
Tickets available soon from WeGotTickets.com , Ticketline.co.uk , SeeTickets.com , Piccadilly Records on Oldham Street, Ticketline Box Office in St John’s Centre, Liverpool, and on 0161 832 1111.
WILLIAM FITZSIMMONS
When: 7.30pm on Wednesday 19 August 2009
Where: Night & Day Cafe, 26 Oldham St , Manchester , M1 1JN ‎
Born the youngest child of two blind parents, William Fitzsimmons was raised in the outskirts of the steel city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. William’s childhood home was filled with myriad sounds to replace what eyes could not see. The house was suffused with pianos, guitars, trombones, talking birds, classical records, family sing-alongs, bedtime stories, and the bellowing of a pipe organ, which his father built into the house. When his father’s orchestral records were not resonating through the walls, his mother would educate him on the folk stylings of James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Simon & Garfunkel.
William draws from those early influences of his mother’s music, and the embellished instrumentation of his father’s. He is often compared to contemporaries Sufjan Stevens, Iron & Wine and the late Elliott Smith, not only for his unique style and skill in writing and proclivity to deal with substantive and evocative subject matter, but also for his use of organic and colourful melodies and arrangements. His first two records were completely self-produced and his new album, The Sparrow And The Crow, is his first studio recorded work. While his lyricism deals often with darker undertones (his most recent album is said to have been written following his own divorce), a measure of hopefulness is always carefully blended in.
It’s a shame Bon Iver got in there first, at least in the UK, otherwise Fitzsimmons would be this year’s fashionable heartbreak kid
Goodnight is one hell of an album
One of the first five-star albums of the year
A work of stark beauty
Main support comes from one of our favourite local artists, Denis Jones . His live performances never disappoint – so be sure to be there in time to catch him! Plus one more support to be confirmed.
This show is a co-promotion with Night & Day Cafe .
Tickets from WeGotTickets.com , Ticketline.co.uk , SeeTickets.com , Piccadilly Records on Oldham Street, Ticketline Box Office in St John’s Centre, Liverpool, and on 0161 832 1111.
GROUPER AND JASPER TX
When: 7.30pm on Friday 6 November 2009
Where: Nexus Art Cafe, Dale Street, Manchester M1 1JW
Grouper is the artist name of Elizabeth (Liz) Harris from Portland, Oregon. She has put out three album, with her latest – Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill – on Type Records. She has also been involved in collaborative releases, contributing a track to Xiu Xiu’s Remixed & Covered and four tracks to a split release with Inca Ore. Liz’s other contemporaries are Belong, Growing, Tim Hecker, Windy & Carl and Atlas Sound.
The word ‘grouper’ actually comes from the name of a fish found on warm and tropical seas – Garoupa, in the Russian dialect of the Enchained Forest region of Siberia, and not from the English word group.
This bill also features Jasper TX , aka Sweden’s Dag Rosenqvist. The former double bass student discovered recording through a borrowed four-track cassette recorder, and Jasper TX (also a small Texan town) was born. His music is mainly-guitar driven but when a layer of drums, voices, organs, toy pianos, field recordings and effects are added it becomes something quite special and unique. His music can be compared to artists such as Fennesz, Sigur Ros, múm and Tape.
Leeds’ Fieldhead also play. Under this guise P Elam produces ambient/electronic music that delights in tape hiss, geography, bleak landscapes and decaying analogue loops. He is also a full time member of The Declining Winter and a part-time member of Glissando’s Fleeting Glimpse Ensemble.
This will be our first show at Nexus Art Cafe , a regular haunt of ours opposite Vinyl Exchange. The staff are great, they have great music taste, and make excellent tea and cakes.
This all-ages show is a co-promotion with Room Tones.
Tickets from WeGotTickets.com , Ticketline.co.uk , SeeTickets.com , Piccadilly Records on Oldham Street, Ticketline Box Office in St John’s Centre, Liverpool, and on 0161 832 1111.
TICKETS:
We sell ticketlessly so you don't have to pay a ridiculous handling/postage fee. Just search WeGotTickets.com for whichever band above you want tickets for.
If you want to pay in cash, however, Piccadilly Records on Oldham Street usually has a handful of tickets for each show (10% booking fee), or try Ticketline Box Office in St John’s Centre if you're based in Liverpool. You can also book on 0161 832 1111 or via Ticketline.co.uk and SeeTickets.com .
BANDS:
If you think your music is suitable for a Hey! Manchester night, send a message or leave a comment - make sure to mention any relevant influences etc. We get several gig requests a day so we can't always reply and if you play punk/hardcore/r'n'b/trance/hip hop/metal/dadrock, chances are it won't fit. PREVIOUS SHOWS:
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Jens Lekman, Bill Wells & Vinny Peculiar @ The Kings Arms, Salford
Hush the Many, Little Neemo & Nancy Cunliffe @ The Star & Garter
Richard James (Gorky’s), Viking Moses & Voice of the Seven Woods @ The Kings Arms, SalfordDressy Bessy, Fonda 500 & Persil @ South Nightclub
Final Fantasy, Corey Dargel & At Swim Two Birds @ The Circle Club, Manchester
Espers, Edith Frost, Starless & Bible Black & Ed Cottam @ The Klondyke Club, LevenshulmeDanielson, Los Campesinos!, The Search Map & Magic Arm @ The Klondyke Club, Levenshulme
Six Organs of Admittance, Vibracathedral Orchestra,
Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love & Danny Saul @ The Klondyke Club, Levenshulme Sodastream, Airport Girl, Gethin Pearson & The Scenery & Julian Donkey-Boy @ Kro BarJason Molina, Olav Larsen & The Alabama Rodeo Allstars, From a Family of Candlemakers @ Green Room Theatre Last Harbour, Sweet Baboo, Pagan Wanderer Lu, Crazy Man Michael @ Kro Bar Richard James (Gorky’s), Quiet Loner, Garron Frith, Petty Thief @ Kro Bar The Pony Collaboration, At Swim Two Birds, Tim & Sam’s Band, My Side of the Mountain @ Kro BarAlasdair Roberts, Elaine Palmer, Jenny McCormick @ Urbis Marissa Nadler, Ivan Campo, Thomas Denver Jonsson @ The Phoenix Fireworks Night, Vinny Peculiar, Amida, Bird by Snow @ Kro Bar Maria Taylor, Boy Omega @ The Phoenix Band of Horses, the Hellsayers, the Answering Machine @ Music Box Of Montreal, Dufus, Video Nasties @ The RoadhouseVetiver, Starless & Bible Black, Paul E Hodson @ The Roadhouse Six Organs of Admittance, Stranger Son of WB, Kailash @ The Phoenix The Twilight Sad, Frightened Rabbit, Gintis @ The Phoenix Herman Dune, Emmy the Great, The Baby Skins @ Music Box Jeffrey Lewis, Onions, Ivan Campo @ the RoadhouseMenomena, Oh No Ono @ the Roadhouse Mark Kozelek (Red House Paintes/Sun Kil Moon), Neil Halstead (Mojave 3/Slowdive) @ The Dancehouse Theatre Okkervil River, Anna Ternheim @ The Roadhouse Pinback, The Dudley Corporation, This Town Needs Guns @ The Roadhouse Jens Lekman, Magic Arm, Neil Burrell @ Sacred Trinity Church, SalfordEfterklang, Peter Broderick, Esker @ The Roadhouse Akron/Family, Phosphorescent @ The Phoenix A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Miracle Fortress, Donovan Quinn @ Music Box Efterklang, Nancy Elizabeth, Our Broken Garden @ The Ruby Lounge Health, Yacht @ Charlie's Nightclub (part of Futuresonic 08) Sounds From The Other City festival featuring David Thomas Broughton, Lost Harbour, the Bottomfeeders, Vinny Peculiar, Planet Earth, Stranger Son of WB, the Declining Winter @ The Salford Arms Vetiver, Birds of Avalon, the Travelling Band @ Dulcimer Darren and Jack play Hefner songs, Amida, Pierre Hall @ The Ruby Lounge Sun Kil Moon/Mark Kozelek, Darren Hanlon @ The Roadhouse Olafur Arnalds, Finn, Run Toto Run @ Mint Lounge Portico Quartet, Library Tapes, The Hunter/Andreae Quartet @ Mint Lounge Herman Dune, The Baby Skins @ The Deaf Institute Animal Collective, Highlife @ Club Academy Of Montreal, Casiokids @ Club Academy Horse Feathers, Men Diamler, Animal Magic Tricks @ Dulcimer Dirty Projectors, Polar Bear, Lucky Dragons @ Mint Lounge Wildbirds & Peacedrums, Volcano!, The Lone Taxidermist @ Dulcimer Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Table, Petty Thief, Shrieking Violets, Judy & The Blumes @ Dulcimer Johann Johannsson, Murcof, Denis Jones @ RNCM Great Lake Swimmers, Sharon van Etten, Last Harbour @ Dulcimer Alasdair Roberts, Starless & Bible Black, Denis Jones, John Stammers, Sparky Deathcap, Lora Linhares-Marx @ Dulcimer Phosphorescent, O'Messy Life @ The Deaf Institute Acoustic Ladyland, Chris Illingworth Trio, Gnod @ Mint Lounge