Not Part Of is having an alternative New Year’s Eve – on January 16! With 25 acts over seven hours, this is a a great way to liven up a dark and miserable month.
The fringe festival to Manchester’s International Festival is putting on a one day festival at the Dancehouse Theatre with comics, hip hops acts, a choir, poets dance and theatre.
The Durutti Column’s A Paean to Wilson is being performed at the Lowry at Salford Quays, to launch their new album of the same name. Originally performed as part of Manchester International Festival’s 2009 line-up, this album is a tribute to Manchester’s famous son, Anthony Wilson, who died in 2007.
Why yes, there’s ANOTHER new music venue planned for Manchester in 2010. No recession can’t stop us rocking out. Indeed.
This new rockin’ hub is to be called Sound Control. And guess what, it’s actually going to be where the shop Sound Control was, until went bust. Mr Manchester Is Ace used to work in this music shop when he finished college – except when I say work, I mean sit around all day and play drums. And then we used to go across to the Thirsty Squalor Scholar, and put tunes on the juke box all night. Ah happy days.
I can imagine this being a right good live band venue because it’s such a big space, sat right next to Oxford Road train station. There was supposed to be a New Year’s Eve party, but I got an email to say the heating hasn’t been installed, so it’s been cancelled which is a bit of a bummer for a new opening. Also it doesn’t say anything about it on the website, that I can see.
The website is a tad basic, but you can sign up for updates, so get on it.
Also more background information here at Citylife.co.uk.
Sound Control Manchester, 1 New Wakefield Street, Manchester, M1 5NP.
Check it out: www.soundcontrolmanchester.co.uk
Sooo Factory Manchester is back? Well, it seems so judging by the Facebook group I am a member of, which now has 3853 members.
Fac251 is a new indie and rock and roll club from Peter Hook (nicely timed in with his Hacienda book then!), designer Ben Kelly and Funktion One.
Now don’t all shout at me, but usually I find the whole Manchester nostalgia thing just a tad boring (maybe because I was too young to be there). But this is quite an unusual move, and could be potentially quite exciting if it’s a new venue to support new and upcoming bands, using one of the most legendary music names in history.
Visit www.factorymanchester.com for more information.
