MANCHESTER ACADEMY GIG GUIDE

JUST CONFIRMED :

Skin

Winds of Plague

The Lancashire Hotpots

Joy Diversion (Joy Division Tribute)

Chromeo

Steve Forbert

!!!

Helmet

Cherry Ghost
One Night Only

We Are Scientists

Peter Broderick

Featured Event : Oceansize

It's all about fitting in, apparently.

Remember the best (actually the worst) days of your life? Wear the wrong

pair of trainers and your schoolday would become a living hell. It's

easy to become part of the crowd, to blend in seamlessly with everyone

else. But not when you're wearing trainers bought from Castleford Market.

When Oceansize quietly crept into a Manchester music scene that was

still doggedly hanging onto its glory(?) days and into a British music

scene that was still trying to shag Britpops mouldy corpse, nobody

noticed. One word stood out in the review for their first EP in the UKs

leading music comic: Preposterous. Oceansize were still wearing those

shit trainers.

When that difficult second album came around it was time to try and fit

in. A more diverse collection of songs adorned Everyone Into Position

and it contained two (gasp) singles. Support tours with the likes of

Biffy Clyro, The Cooper Temple Clause and Cave In helped spread the word

but you know what lads? You're still wearing those shit trainers.

You can't blame the music press, why on earth would a magazine feature

five normal looking blokes wearing shit trainers when they could feature

some really cool looking blokes wearing fucking ace trainers! After all,

we only had our music to talk about and that's not enough!! You need

good trainers!!

After losing a bass player and a manager (they're not dead) Oceansize

were cast adrift and floated for a while. And then Steven burst into the

room and shouted 'I'm your fucking bass player now! check out my

trainers!'. They were even worse.

Oceansize's Third album was released in 2007 and the band had come to

the happy conclusion that fitting in was just not for them. 'Frames'

contained eight tracks with an average length of 8.13625 minutes.

Preposterous indeed. The next year Oceansize celebrated their tenth

anniversary with three special 'Album' shows. The whole sold out crowd

was wearing shit trainers.

So we come to 2010 and Oceansize's fourth album, 'Self Preserved While

The Bodies Float Up'. If you're expecting classic 'Size then you'll be

dissapionted, this is a new refined Oceansize, a more concise Oceansize,

a more mature Oceansize.

But those trainers?

Still shit.

Aside from Oceansize, many of the band members affiliate themselves with additional musical endeavours. Guitarist Gambler recently released his debut solo album, titled Consolamentum, a review of this album can be found here. One of his piano-laden tracks was also recently selected to feature on a compilation record by multi-instrumentalist Peter Broderick. Gambler also plays bass for disjointed-punk-edged, female-fronted trio Pocketknife.

Drummer Mark and bassist Steven make up two parts of experimental noise-punk band Kong. Steven is also currently filling in as bass player for Welsh rockers Future of the Left.

Vocalist Mike Vennart is currently on tour with Biffy Clyro acting as touring guitarist.

Slaraffenland
 

Slaraffenland is Bjørn Heebøll, Christian Taagehøj, Jeppe Skjold, Niklas Antonson and Mike Taagehøj, and were formed in 2002. Most of them childhood friends (and Christian and Mike twins), they’ve spend years developing a sound that conjures everything from melodious addictive building rock and pop to tumbling jazz and noise. The band are good friends with fellow songsmiths Efterklang.

Slaraffenland has released two albums Slaraffenland (2004) and Private Cinema (2007) and three EP’s Jin Katawa (2005), Sunshine (2008) and Meet and Greet (2009).
 

September 7th/15th 2009 marked the release of the new Slaraffenland album “We’re on Your Side”, released on Rumraket in Scandinavia and Benelux and on Hometapes in the US and Europe . The album is produced with the danish producer Fridolin, who formerly worked with other danish bands like The Fashion and Moi Caprice and actually wrote/produced songs together with P.Diddy.

Slaraffenland is now building their own studio in Copenhagen, where they plan to work and do all their future recordings and experiments.

DISCOGRAPHY

STUDIO ALBUMS

Slaraffenland (2004)

Private Cinma (2007)

We’re on Your Side (2009)

EPs

Jinkatawa (2005)

Sunshine (2008)

SINGLES

Meet and Greet (2009)
 

FULL LISTINGS FOLLOW:

MANCHESTER ACADEMY

Wu Tang Clan

Tues 3rd Aug - £29.50 Adv



Jason Derulo
Mon 23rd Aug - £23.50 Adv SOLD OUT
 

Eels
Sat 4th Sept - £20 Adv Doors 7pm SOLD OUT

Jonsi + Mountain Man
Mon 6th Sept - £18.50 Adv



Gong + Nik Turner’s Space Ritual
Fri 10th Sept - £18.50 Adv



Grinderman
Weds 29th Sept - £25 Adv

Basshunter + Sash

Fri 1st Oct - £17.50/£20 Adv Rescheduled from Sun 11th July to Fri 1st Oct – Original tickets remain valid.
 

Groove Armada

Sat 9th Oct - £21.50 Adv SOLD OUT



Bowling For Soup + A + Forever The Sickest Kids + The Dollyrots

Thurs 14th Oct - £18.50 Adv Doors 7pm

 

Plan B

Fri 15th Oct - £15 Adv SOLD OUT
 

Joshua Radin

Sun 17th Oct - £13 Adv Doors 7pm
 

Alter Bridge

Tues 19th Oct - £17.50 Adv
 

Yeasayer
Weds 20th Oct - £13.50 Adv



Train
Sat 23rd Oct - £14.50 Adv

The Cat Empire + Tinpan Orange

Tues 26th Oct - £17.50 Adv



Avenged Sevenfold/ Stone Sour

Weds 27th Oct - £27.50 Adv Doors 6.30pm SOLD OUT



Foals

Sat 30th Oct - £14 Adv


 

Ellie Goulding
Weds 3rd Nov - £15 Adv




Avenged Sevenfold/ Stone Sour

Thurs 4th Nov - £27.50 Adv Doors 6.30pm SOLD OUT

Imperial Never Say Die! Club Tour 2010 feat Parkway Drive + Comeback Kid + Bleeding Through + Emmure + Your Demise + War From A Harlots Mouth + We Came As Romans
Fri 5th Nov - £14 Adv Doors 6pm



Kids In Glass Houses

Weds 10th Nov - £13 Adv RESCHDULED DATE


 

Skunk Anansie
Sat 13th Nov - £20 Adv


Devildriver & 36 Crazyfists + Eluveitie + Idiom
Sun 14th Nov - £17 Adv Doors 6pm – 11pm

Less Than Jake

Tues 16th Nov - £15 Adv Doors 7pm

Owl City
Thurs 18h Nov - £17.50 Adv CANCELLED – REFUNDS AVAILABLE FROM POINT OF SALE

Kids In Glass Houses

Fri 19th Nov - £13 Adv RESCHEDULED TO WEDS 10TH NOV – ORIGINAL TICKETS VALID


Cast
Fri 26th Nov - £20 Adv
 

The National
Sat 27th Nov - £18.50 Adv SOLD OUT

The Complete Stone Roses
Sat 4th Dec - £15 Adv

 

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Sun 5h Dec - £18.50 Adv

The Drums

Mon 6th Dec - £11.50 Adv

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Tues 7th Dec - £22.50 Adv

Airbourne
Thurs 9th Dec - £16.50 Adv

The Human League

Weds 15h Dec - £25 Adv

Dot To Dot Festival 2011Mon 30th May 2011 - £15 Adv

MANCHESTER ACADEMY 2, 3 & Club

July 2010
 

OK GO – Sun 25th Jul - £12.50 Adv Doors 7pm

Luciano + Turbulance with Jah Messenjah Band + Mynx Brown – Sun 25th July - £20 Adv (Doors 7-11pm)

August 2010

My Favourite Runner Up + Tyro + Club Hi-Fi + Eighth Confession – Fri 13th Aug - £6 Adv

Speedbird + Beta + The Empty Hearts Project + Kill The Drama Class – Sat 14th Aug - £6 Adv

The Something Story + The Racket + Dressed To Kill + Into Airstrike – Sat 21st Aug - £6 Adv

Bad Religion – Tues 24th Aug - £15 Adv
 

September 2010

The Bloody Beetroots Death Crew 77 – Fri 3rd Sept - £15 Adv

The Locals + Section II + Alpha Theory + Evolution – Sat 4th Sept - £6 Adv

Elliot Minor – Sat 11th Sept - £10 Adv

Slaraffenland + Driver Drive Faster (feat members of Polytechnic) + Minute Orchestra – Sun 12th Sept - £8 Adv Doors 7pm

Black Mountain – Weds 15th Sept - £11 Adv

Two Door Cinema Club + We Have Band – Sat 18th Sept - £9.50 Adv SOLD OUT

Stolen Peace + Green Vigo + The Leftrights + Freedom of the City – Sat 18th Sept - £6 Adv

Glenn Hughes + Scott McKeon – Tues 21st Sept - £20 Adv

Framing Hanley – Tues 21st Sept - £8 Adv

Paul Heaton – Fri 24th Sept - £16.50 Adv

Pete Molinari – Sun 26th Sept - £8.50 Adv Doors 7pm

Bring Me The Horizon + Cancer Bats + Tek-One – Mon 27th Sept - £13 Adv SOLD OUT

The Magic Numbers – Tues 28th Sept - £14 Adv RESCHEDULED DATE

Example – Weds 29th Sept - £10 Adv SOLD OUT

Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. -Thurs 30th Sept - £13.50 Adv

October 2010

Steve Ignorant – Fri 1st Oct - £14.50 Adv

Joy Diversion (Joy Division Tribute) – Fri 1st Oct - £8 Adv

FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK: Livewire AC/DC + Limehouse Lizzy – Fri 1st Oct - £17.50 Adv Doors 7pm

Y&T + Fury UK – Sat 2nd Oct - £18 Adv

NME Radar Tour feat The Jot Formidable + Chapel Club – Mon 4th Oct - £9.50 Adv

City of Fire feat Burton C Bell and Byron Stroud from Fear Factory + Illuminatus – Tues 5th Oct - £10 Adv

Of Montreal – Tues 5th Oct - £12.50 Adv

Blood Red Shoes – Weds 6th Oct - £9.50 Adv
 

Mayday Parade/ The Maine – Weds 6th Oct - £10.50 Adv

Introducing play DJ Shadow’s Entroducing – Fri 8th Oct - £12.50 Adv

Delays – Fri 8th Oct - £10 Adv

Corinne Bailey Rae – Fri 8th Oct - £19.50 Adv

Ex-Simple Minds (Derek Forbes & Brian McGee) – Sat 9th Oct - £12.50 Adv

Imelda May – Sat 9th Oct - £16.50 Adv

August Burns Red – Sat 9th Oct - £12.50 Adv

Chimaira – Sun 10th Oct - £13 Adv Doors 7pm

Sabaton + Alestorm – Mon 11th Oct - £12 Adv

Darwin Deez – Tues 12th Oct - £8 Adv

Professor Green – Thurs 14th Oct – £10 Adv

Cherry Ghost – Fri 15th Oct – £12.50 Adv

Mark Chadwick – Fri 15th Oct – £15 Adv

Goldblade – Sat 16th Oct – £10 Adv

Fozzy – Sat 16th Oct – £12 Adv

Attack Attack! (US) – Sun 17th Oct – £8Adv

We Are The Ocean – Mon 18th Oct - £7.50 Adv

Tinie Tempah + Chiddy Bang + Bluey Robinson – Mon 18th Oct - £12 Adv

Robyn – Tues 19th Oct - £15 Adv

Peter Broderick + Tsukimono – Tues 19th Oct - £9.50 Adv

Easy-Star All-Stars – Weds 20th Oct - £15 Adv

Hot Hot Heat – Thurs 21st Oct - £10 Adv

Brandi Carlile + Katie Herzig – Fri 22nd Oct - £11 Adv RESCHEDULED DATE

Crystal Castles – Fri 22nd Oct - £13.50 Adv SOLD OUT

Vans Off The Wall Music Night feat Against Me! + Fenix TX – Sat 23rd Oct - £12.50 Adv Doors 6pm

Feeder – Sun 24th Oct - £20 Adv Doors 7pm SOLD OUT

Trentemoller – Mon 25th Oct - £15 Adv

Lissie – Weds 27th Oct - £10 Adv

Twenty Twenty – Thurs 28th Oct - £9.50 Adv

One Night Only – Thurs 28th Oct - £10 Adv

Leaether Strip + Deviant UK + Resist + System FX – Fri 29th Oct - £14 Adv Doors 7pm

!!! – Fri 29th Oct - £13 Adv

Swans + James Blackshaw – Sat 30th Oct - £20 Adv
 

Dillinger Escape Plan + Rolo Tomassi – Sat 30th Oct - £12.50 Adv

Syd Bozko + The Volantes + The Magpie Project + The Novacaines – Sat 30th Oct - £6 Adv

November 2010

Ian McNabb – Sat 6th Nov - £15 Adv

Job For A Cowboy – Sat 6th Nov - £13 Adv
 

Philip Sayce – Sun 7th Nov - £12 Adv Doors 7pm

The Divine Comedy (an evening with Neil Hannon) – Tues 9th Nov - £17.50 Adv

3 Daft Monkeys – Tues 9th Nov - £10 Adv

Winds of Plague – Tues 9th Nov - £9 Adv
 

Amorphis – Weds 10th Nov - £15 Adv

Stornoway + Foxes – Weds 10th Nov - £11 Adv VENUE CHANGE – NOW IN ACADEMY 2 – ORIGINAL TICKETS VALID

Cheap Trick – Thurs 11th Nov - £17.50 Adv
 

Ezio – Fri 12th Nov - £12.50 Adv

Drive By Truckers – Fri 12th Nov - £15 Adv

The Fillers (The Killers tribute band) – Sat 13th Nov - £10 Adv

Chromeo – Sat 13th Nov - £12.50 Adv

Seth Lakeman – Sun 14th Nov - £17 Adv Doors 7pm

Oceansize – Mon 15th Nov - £11 Adv

Akala Tues 16th Nov - £8 Adv

The King Blues –Thurs 18th Nov - £10 Adv
 

Steve Hackett & The Electric Band – Fri 19th Nov - £20 Adv

Wilko Johnson & Band + Mark Radcliffe + The Big Figures – Sat 20th Nov - £17.50 Adv
 

We Are Scientists – Sat 20th Nov - £13.50 Adv

Frightened Rabbit – Sun 21st Nov - £11 Adv

Arch Enemy + Sabbat + Enslaved + Spiritual Beggars – Tues 23rd Nov - £16.50 Adv RESCHEDULED DATE

The Parlotones – Weds 24th Nov - £10 Adv

65Daysofstatic – Thurs 25th Nov - £10 Adv
 

John Lees Barclay Harvest – Sat 27th Nov - £20 Adv

Shrinebuilder – Sat 27th Nov - £12 Adv

As I Lay Dying – Sun 28th Nov - £13 Adv Doors 7pm

December 2010

Steve Forbert – Weds 1st Dec - £15 Adv

Young Guns – Thurs 2nd Dec - £8.50 Adv

The Young Gods – Thurs 2nd Dec - £14 Adv Doors 7pm

Chantel McGregor – Fri 3rd Dec - £8 Adv

The Doors Alive – Fri 3rd Dec - £10 Adv POSTPONED

Athlete – Fri 3rd Dec - £16.50 Adv

Volbeat – Sat 4th Dec - £10 Adv

The Lancashire Hotpots + The Re-Entrants – Sat 4th Dec - £11 Adv

Frost* + ARK (John Jowitt) – Sat 4th Dec - £15 Adv

Johnny Flynn – Sun 5th Dec - £12 Adv Doors 7pm
 

Electric Six – Thurs 9th Dec - £10 Adv

The Wedding Present – Bizarro Anniversary Tour – Fri 10th Dec - £15 Adv

Skin + Toby Jepson + Matti Alfonzetti – Fri 10th Dec - £15 Adv

Hawkwind + The Jokers – Sat 11th Dec - £20 Adv

The Virgin Marys – Sat 11th Dec - £10 Adv

Asking Alexandria – Mon 13th Dec - £7.50 Adv 14+ show VENUE CHANGE – NOW IN CLUB ACADEMY – ORIGINAL TICKETS VALID

Helmet – Thurs 16th Dec - £15 Adv




 

**Academy Unsigned**

**Academy Unsigned 536**

Shez 420 + Big City Beats + Filthy Skint + Plato

Sat 24th July - £5 Adv
 

**Academy Unsigned 539**

The Rubys + Not Ned

Sat 14th Aug - £5 Adv
 

**Academy Unsigned 540**

Thurs 19th Aug - £5 Adv
 

**Academy Unsigned 541**

Hero Syndrome + Playing The Ghost

Fri 20th Aug - £5 Adv

**Academy Unsigned 542**

Siren City + Another Dead Hero + The Control

Sat 21st Aug - £5 Adv

**Academy Unsigned 543**

Nothing Sinister + Modern Day Society + Undercolour

Mon 23rd Aug - £5 Adv

**Academy Unsigned 544**

Stopmotion + The Image + Magic Alex + Single For Sonic

Tues 24th Aug - £5 Adv

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All information correct at time of press.