Music in the North
Johnny James, Managing EditorWe’re championing all things underground this month, with a selection of gigs and festivals that embrace the strange.
We can’t not start with The White Hotel, the notorious “art space & club-cum-freak sanctuary”. Next month it plays host to one of London’s most hyped – and most enigmatic – songwriters: Mark William Lewis.
Also in Salford, Penelope Trappes selects Sacred Trinity Church as the venue in which to exorcise her demons, while just up the road, Chapel Street awaits the 20th anniversary of Sounds From The Other City, whose typically audacious line-up has just dropped.
Over at Band on the Wall, Moin deliver a rock-informed, techno-adjacent collage defiantly at odds with the post-post-post punk zeitgeist. And hopping over to Leeds, StrangeForms brings two weird and wonderful days of math-rock, post-rock and post-metal to the glorious Brudenell Social Club.
If classical is your thing, there are some boundary-pushing concerts coming up as part of the RNCM’s Spring Season, including a Manchester Collective show that pits chaos against serenity.
And if jazz does it for you, take a look at the newly announced line-up for manchester jazz festival, which does an amazing job of platforming emerging artists alongside big names, while making much of the festival free of charge.
