Proposed Manchester City academy Manchester City football club have unveiled plans to build a new academy for training potential talent. The planned academy facility would be open for the 2014/15 season and would be a state of the art facility set in 80 acres adjacent to the Etihad stadium. It will have space for 400 […]
As pioneers in computer science, the University of Manchester needs to catch up with the times or fall behind in the dark ages of classroom focused teaching.
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Los Campesinos!, S.C.U.M and Spector are among the hordes of bands that impressed crowds across Leeds.
Last week saw John Barnes arrive at UMSU to discuss the issue of racism in football. The Mancunion went along to find out John’s plan to tackle racism in the UK.
Venues like the Apollo are where Feist now belongs, as much as she might want us to think otherwise.
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Tom Ingham chats to Inspiral Carpets bassist, Martyn Walsh, on what it’s like to be back in action.
The past few years have seen P!ATD deviate from the stereotyped “emo” and are now appreciated for their music ability
Review: UMMTS Back to Broadway
Trade Unions are putting self-interest ahead of the public interest – failing to recognise that we are all in this together
In preparation for their Apollo gig, Phoebe Clarke has a chat with Fenech-Soler’s Ben Duffy.
A step-down from their last Mancunian venture at Academy 1, The Maccabees prove that it’s not where you play but how you play that matters.
Lingering, delicate and hauntingly beautiful. It can only be Bon Iver.
With show proposals swamping the studio and scheduling in full swing the Fuse team are eagerly awaiting getting back on the airwaves 9th October when we’ll be broadcasting for ten weeks. We’re going to be training all week, so if you’ve been lucky enough to bag yourself a show prepare to be amazed. Fuse has […]
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It’s a wild life for us music journalists, constantly rubbing elbows with the stars. Nearly every week, we’re barraged with requests to meet the pinnacles of musical excellence. Imagine such treats as interviewing the occasional fill in keyboardist of a local rising band, or chatting on the phone with somebody you’ve been assured is next year’s big thing; we’re just too lucky. Occasionally however, outside of busy journalistic hours, your glowing aura of musical obsession helps you stumble upon an amazing chance meeting and it’s at these times you remind yourself why you bloody love music.
The greatest genre in the entire world is one which many have little experience with; Stoner rock. It’s a style of music which has very few definite articles; at one edge you have psychedelic, technical acts like Monster Magnet or my personal band of 2010 Sungrazer and on the other you have deep, sludgy behemoths such as Electric Wizard and legends of the genre Sleep. Even within stoner rock there are tonnes of sub-genre’s, fuzz, psychedelic, desert and sludge to name but a few, and as spring approaches, some of the finest examples of these bands are rolling through Manchester. So here’s a preview of the four gigs to look out for if the words stoner and rock sound good to you.
Alex Trimble, Kevin Baird and Sam Halliday, otherwise known as Two Door Cinema Club, are sitting backstage at the Academy 2, admiring the glorious view of the building site in front of the John Rylands library. They may have just driven through the night from Glasgow, but as lead singer Alex starts talking, you can instantly tell they wouldn’t change it for the world.