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In The City Unsigned 2005: who's playing where and when...

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by Dom Gourlay
This year's In The City Unsigned event begins in Manchester this weekend as 54 of the UK's best bands, the cream of almost 3000 entrants, play 11 venues over three nights from Saturday 1st October to Monday 3rd October.

The full line-up of artists, stage times and venues is as follows:

Saturday 1st October

Squares, Peters Street
7.30pm
The On Offs
8.15pm
Absentee
9.00pm
Kubichek!
9.45pm
Youth of Britain

Late Room, Peters Street
7.00pm
Free Repeater
7.45pm
Unkle Bob
8.30pm
Neat People
9.15pm
The Seal Cub Clubbing Club

14 Lloyd Street (Downstairs) - Lloyd Street
7.15pm
The Maccabees
8.00pm
Dartz!
8.45pm
The Fratellis
9.30pm
!Forward Russia!(pictured)
10.15pm
The Brian Jacket Letdown

14 Lloyd Street (Upstairs) - Lloyd Street
7.00pm
Adequate 7
7.45pm
The New Shapes
8.30pm
The Rifles

Sunday 2nd October

Squares, Peters Street
7.15pm
Along Came Man
8.00pm
The Cyclones
8.45pm
IKO

The Late Room, Peters Street
7.30pm
Catherine Feeny
8.15pm
Good Shoes
9.00pm
The KBC

14 Lloyd Street (Downstairs) - Lloyd Street
9.15pm
The Voices
10.00pm
Drive By Argument
10.45pm
Working For A Nuclear Free City

Cellar Vie - Lloyd Street
9.30pm
My Luminaries
10.15pm
Dirty Perfect
11.00pm
Captain

One Central, Central Street
9.45pm
The Lodger
10.30pm
Jeepster
11.15pm
Omerta

42nd Street, Bootle Street
10.00pm
This Et Al
10.45pm
Tay Scumaci
11.30pm
Balor Knights

Monday 3rd October

Squares, Peters Street
7.30pm
Lucky Soul
8.15pm
Chris Tye
9.00pm
Flying Matchstick Men
9.45pm
The Cuckolds
10.30pm
The Fronts

14 Lloyd Street (Downstairs) - Lloyd Street
7.15pm
Jim Muir Slideshow
8.00pm
The Cells
8.45pm
Orson
9.30pm
The Sunshine Underground
10.15pm
Ivory
11.00pm
Former Bullies

14 Lloyd Street (Upstairs) - Lloyd Street
7.00pm
Parisman
7.45pm
Stoney
8.30pm
The Voom Blooms
9.15pm
Liam Frost and The Slowdown Family
10.00pm
The Scarlet Tuesday
10.45pm
The Lathams

ACOUSTICITY
The best unsigned acoustic acts and singer-songwriters from across the country… and some further afield. Appearing in Selfridges, Exchange Square on Saturday afternoon (1st October),and in Bedlam on Sunday 2nd and Monday 3rd October.

Saturday 1st October

Selfridges, Exchange Square
12.15pm
Elizabeth Phillips
1.00pm
James Roper
1.45pm
Maria Miller
2.30pm
Tom Cartledge
3.15pm
Isobel Heyworth
4.00pm
KT Forrester

Sunday 2nd October

Bedlam, Peters Street
7.45pm
Peter and The Wolf
8.30pm
Emmy the Great
9.15pm
Sumladfromcov
10.00pm
Tom Grant
10.45pm
Son Of Dave

Monday 3rd October

Bedlam, Peters Street
7.00pm
The Boy And Girl Who Trapped The Sun
7.45pm
Catherine Tran


In The City Unsigned 2005: who's playing where and when...

also :

THE HOT TEST BANDS
A rock'n'roll event starring a bill of favourite live acts of the UK's DIY network
11 headliner performances presented by Parlour 9/Hot Club
M.A.S.S. + CORPORATION:BLEND + SHARD + BLACK BIKINI ALPHA + GEMMA RAY RITUAL + CHARLIE BROWN + OUTSIDER + THE BETES NOIRES + KOROVA + SALVO + PLUGS - Saturday October 1st cellar-bar-festival at HOT CLUB, THE DRY BAR starts 3pm.
£5 entry to entire venue (until early hours!) including Glasswerk ground floor festival http://www.inthecity.glasswerk.co.uk/ - so early as possible arrival advised!
Hot @ Dry, 28-30 Oldham Street, Manchester central!


THE BETES NOIRES A three-piece alt rock band from Belfast that have been compared to The Pixies, Sugar and QOTSA. They've won fans supporting Art Brut, Ash's Tim Wheeler and The Wonderstuff. Wowed as part of London's sellout Northern Ireland The Next Generation event in March and stormed the TMF Festival in August. Steve Lamacq, Xfm and NME are among those picking up on this essential outfit popping out all over the airwves of an array of independent radio stations. They're out on the road with The Editors next! (Parlour 9 Session stars) http://www.betesnoires.com/

Re: In The City Unsigned 2005: who's playing where and when...

of course it's totally irrelevant, but most of those bands have rather shitty names don't they?

Re: In The City Unsigned 2005: who's playing where and when...

Perhaps, but M.A.S.S, Korova and the Bêtes noires are all very good.

In The City Unsigned 2005: who's playing where and when...

There are so many things to go to this week my head is going to explode.

In The City Unsigned 2005: who's playing where and when...

those sons of bitches. god i love that term.

In The City Unsigned 2005: who's playing where and

If I was to go to only one of the above on Saturday, what would people recommend?

Re: In The City Unsigned 2005: who's playing where and

Go see They Drove Me to It

Saturday 1st October
The Packhorse, Levenshulme
Onstage: 2nd, about 8.30

As featured in Rock Sound (7/10) Kick arse rock and roll with strong female vocals. You kn ow you want to!

www.theydrovemetoit.co.uk

In The City Unsigned 2005: who's playing where and when...

8.00pm
Dartz!
8.45pm
The Fratellis

go see Dartz!

But The Fratelli's??

Haha, we lost to them in a Battle of The Bands final, they do Libertines covers, and are all about 7.

In The City Unsigned 2005: who's playing where and when...

My Luminaries... (also Son of Dave on Sunday, but you didn't ask that so I'll shut up).

In The City Unsigned 2005: who's playing where and when...

The scarlet tuesday are ace !

Re: In The City Unsigned 2005: who's playing where and when...

http://inthecity.glasswerk.co.uk/2005/schedule.htm

Mon 3rd Oct - Dry Bar, The Vault stage:

SouthBySoWhat Presents...
7.45pm Filthy Romance
8.30pm The Fontanelles
9.15pm Dirtyblood
10pm 65 Days Of Static

Re: In The City Unsigned 2005: who's playing where and when...

i second this motion! They are going to be on a compilation called knives and forks with 5 other bands from sheffield. The clip I heard of "power-up" is ace :D

www.thescarlettuesday.com for details on getting it

In The City Unsigned 2005: who's playing where and when...

http://inthecity.glasswerk.co.uk/2005/schedule.htm

Mon 3rd Oct - Dry Bar, The Vault stage:

SouthBySoWhat Presents...
7.45pm Filthy Romance
8.30pm The Fontanelles
9.15pm Dirtyblood
10pm 65 Days Of Static




In The City Unsigned 2005: who's playing where and when...

Drive By Arguement just got signed to a subsiduary of Sony/BMG

In The City Unsigned 2005: who's playing where and when...

I knew Static were playing. Go see.

In The City Unsigned 2005: who's playing where and when...

FictionNonFiction
DAY Sunday 2nd October
WHERE Tiger Lounge
WHEN 7:00pm till 2:00am
ADMISSION £ Free

Featuring:

Mystery Meat

Ex-Ikara Colt bassist Tracy Bellaries, Blood Valley front-man Alex
Lindsay and ex-Beach Buggy, Adrian, regenerate to form Mystery Meat.
A heavier Ikara Colt with fuzz and thunder, scuzz fire cast asunder,
they make their Manchester debut in this current life form. Climb
out of the bunker and affix bayonets.


http://www.mysterymeat.co.uk/



TVH-3

The legion of 6,000 (approx) surely cannot be wrong.

“…in those shadows lurk all things menacing, threatening, yet
eminently watchable” BBC Online

“…the best parts of Nitzer Ebb and Suicide… the bloody buzzsaw
guitar adds the white noise rock 'n' roll to the scene” Manchester
Music

Polythene

Former NME Single Of The Week under their belts if they wear them
and if they care, about the NME, that is, not belts.

“you have to admire their bold insistance on producing something
that is so unrelentingly nasty” Manchester Music

Sir, Yes Sir

Sir Yes Sir, featuring Daniel Cowley (aka Faith & Hope’s National
Forest) and Joe Logan, juxtapose machine drums and guitars measured
with angles in a two man avalanche.

Kid Voodoo

The hands of DJ Jesus moves too fast…

The Diamond Pistol Express

Debut outing of the rock n roll punk driven Schnell-Bahn. Boom!

The Zeema Zees

Living fast in a dirty world and a razor sharp suit.

The Shallow Call

A raw glistening and malevolent treat…

Plus DJ Niche Ian & FNF DJ’s

07971 226 089

07971 226 089

In The City Unsigned 2005: who's playing where and when...

Hi,

iLiKETRAiNS are playing at the Star & Garter on Fairfield Road on Sunday, if anyones interested. Around 9pm I believe.

As if you didn't have enough bands to choose from.

In The City Unsigned 2005: who's playing where and when...

turn up at any akoustik anarkhy nights that are on... http://www.akoustikanarkhy.co.uk thats on...bound to be an ace night, with the inclusion on conga lines circling manchester.
x

In The City Unsigned 2005: who's playing where and when...

I don't think it's that Fratellis James

I think it's the ones from Glasgow

And go see iLiKETRAiNS please cos they're amazing

In The City Unsigned 2005: who's playing where and when...

Everyone should check out iForward, Russia! if they get chance...

A-MAZE-ing!!!

I hope I can see you before long :D

xxxxxx

In The City Unsigned 2005: who's playing where and when...

Alright its the morning after the night before and I have NO idea what that last message was about...

Ah well it's all good...

Inidentally FR kicked the proverbial ass last night anyhoo

Re: In The City Unsigned 2005: who's playing where and when...

That's very kind of you to say so.

Regards,

Alex (Free Repeater)

In The City Unsigned 2005: who's playing where and when...

FR probably = Forward Russia.

Re: In The City Unsigned 2005: who's playing where and when...

omerta. now i would be really happy if they were all fat tonys.