How I wish I was at Whitby this weekend ... but in case there are any Manuskript fans around that are also missing out, why not read my 10/10 review of Protect and Survive (single).
Here's an excerpt:
"When reviewing Duran Duran's debut album in 1981 for Smash Hits magazine, reviewer David Hepworth accused New Romantic bands of 'scanning maps of Germany for snappy song titles'. I'm reminded of this review by the inside sleeve of "Protect and Survive" which features a map of war-divided Berlin. Manuskript have already decided on titles for all the songs from their forthcoming album – to be known by the same name - but I offer this piece of advice in case they get stuck in the future. It has been four years since their last album proper, so there must be something holding them up."
We have just uploaded version of four songs, from our forthcoming new album 'Protect and Survive' of which you can also see a preview of our debut music video.
All that and much more to come....
Our next show will be the headline slot on Friday 21st April at the Whitby Goth Weekend, where the album will be released!
Wednesday, 24 November: No work/school the next day! "Thanks Be To Goth", A Dark Alternative Holiday Dance Party! With a live performance by England's MANUSKRIPT (crowd favourites from the Convergence 10 festival!) and DJs Rickbats & Scary Lady Sarah spinning goth, indie, industrial, new wave, darkwave, deathrock, etc! Also, chances to win the new cd by THEE MERRY WIDOWS, VNV Nation concert tickets, & holiday treats! At Bottom Lounge, 3206 N. Wilton, Chicago (1/2 block east of the Belmont red-line el stop.) 18 and over! 10pm - 2am $10.
amongst our heroes other pursuits, winning the whitby football match last sunday was a definite highlight with both mike and paul on the winning team. fantastic!
Just to let you know, we've added a small movie to the downloads section of the website. It was cobbled together from a load of shenanigans filmed on my wee digital camera last week at the gigs oop North. It's shakey, poorly lit and of low resolution (but then again, so were the subjects!) I think it captures the atmos pretty well (unless it is viewed in a quiet, air-conditioned, smoke free room with working toilets, in which case you can count yourself lucky!)
nahh, just kidding. the gig was blinding despite a poor showing at insanitorium for the 2nd band night in a row (summer not the time for Goths apparently). From the moment they walked on stage (to the theme of battlestar galactica no less) to the end of the 2nd encore Mike, Tim et all worked the crowd like pros, total energy and that stupidly high charisma count that makes their live stuff so compelling. buggers even got ME on the dancefloor.
Every time i see them play i realise they are better than before, more together as a group and meshing in the indefinable way that marks a great band. Sickening isn't it. Far too much talent there.
I still can't get over how few people there were, i know its a bad time of year but a band like this should be a sellout.
Of course if there had been more people we would all have died of heatstroke.
mine would be pants, i invite other attending parties to produce some class review material of the gigs so i can then all my own brand of crap humoured blurry pic reviews later.
youd think there hadnt just been too gigs at this rate/1
and who'll be out thursday, friday or saturday???? (its really going to be quite a load of fun!)
(sorry for cross posting! and repeating nearly verbatim from last week heh)
I will be out and about this weekend and will have on my person advance tickets to Attrition, Voices of Masada and Excession Friday, 23 July at The Verge, for only £6 (i.e. No booking fee). This isn't just a gig, it's a party with me and Martin Oldgoth playing music til 2 a.m. And it's the "extra Friday" so there's nothing else going on, you have no excuse! ;P
I will be at Synthetic Culture (Egg Club) tonight, Slimelight tomorrow night, Dark Salvation 2 in Nottingham on Sunday, and Skinny Puppy on Monday with tickets.
Hey there! Anyone from London going to Dark Salvation and have room in their car? The last coach leaves at 8:30 - not terribly useful! I can offer petrol money and I don't take up much room :)
minusbat has just admitted that due to his hatred of the gym's rowing machine he is going to inspire himself to work out harder by listening to (and i quote) "a mixture of nelly furtado and manuskript"
after minusbat spent several hours tweaking with the big scary box in the study, previously unreadable jpegs have been somewhat randomly salvaged from the warped CF card...
here's a bit of one picture...
a bit blurry but.....
actually on saturday we found whole mines of pics from previous gigs that have never seen the light of day... *muhahahahaha*
MANUSKRIPT + THE SCREAMING BANSHEE AIRCREW on Friday 23rd July 2004 at Fibbers Barfly, The Stonebow, York.
With DJ's GlennPsychosis and Jared (Darklands/616 Abortions) playing goth and alternative.
Doors open: 7.30pm
Advance tickets are £5 and will be available shortly online at www.fibbers.co.uk, 24 hour ticket hotline, over the bar at the venue, direct from us by e-mailing [email protected] and from Hellraiser Records, 7 Colliergate, York. On the door: £6
so i think it was sunday and we saw this hottie walking around the metro.. and were like helllooo where did HE come from?? where has he been for the last 3 days?!?
g*dfriggendammmit!! he was from manuskript! my plan all along was to head down early that night just to see them, they were 1 of the 2 bands i really wanted to see. our cocktail hour lasted alittle too late and we missed them :( i was so pissed... grrrr.
of all the bands at CX, manuskript put on the best show. and i prefered their music to most of the other bands. i'll be sure to check them out again if they ever come near, or i happen to be in england near where they coincidentally do a show.
that will be sometime after hell freezes over. my getting to go to england, that is.
bouncy
accomplished
cheerful
excited
tired
devious
groggy
curious
crazy
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