April Gig Explosion!

April 2014 could be the busiest month for Manchester gigs I have experienced. Some nights there are as many as four good gigs to choose between!

These are the ones I made it to so far:

3 Therapy? / Lonely the Brave @ Academy 2

4 The Taskers / Vanity Pages / The Folk Remedy @ The Eagle

6 Robert John / dbh / Race to the Sea @ Band on the Wall

8 Lorelle Meets the Obsolete / Spectres / Mistoa Poltsa @ Gullivers

9 Stephen O'Malley / Aluk Todolo @ Deaf Institute

10 Lumerians / Boogarins @ Band on the Wall

11 Bridget Hayden / C Joynes / White Death @ Hotspur House
11 Blue Angel / Dead Rabbits / Underground Youth @ Dry Bar

13 Mike Watt and the Missing Men / Superfast Girlie Show / Buzz or Howl @ Ruby Lounge

15 Gallon Drunk / Mowbird @ Academy 3

17 Carlton Melton / Mind Mountain / Horrid @ Kraak Gallery

18 Buoys / Bad Grammar / Tribal Fighters @ Kraak (Groves also played but I missed them as the gig started so early)

19 Desmadrados Soldados de Ventura (E) / Sex Hands (E) / Yerba Mansa (E) / Mistoa Poltsa / Pins / Brown Brogues @ Soup Kitchen
19 Irma Vep (E) @ Night and Day
19 Dinner Party (E) / Holy Mountain @ Common
(E = band featuring Edwin Stephens)

21 The Ex / Championlover @ Soup Kitchen
22 Nightingales / Politburo @ Kraak
23 The Body / Arabrot / Esoteric Youth / Trojan Horse @ the Roadhouse
23 dbh / Irma Vep / Dave & Otto @ Kraak

I wrote reviews of  Therapy? and Gallon Drunk and the two gigs I attended on the 23rd.