Postcards From Manchester

Postcards From Manchester are unique within Sounds From The Other City as the group embody the spirit of the event to produce their own smaller version of the festival itself. All components of this group formed around two years ago with a shared passion for the DIY, promoting new music and most importantly, making their events fun. They quickly realised that camaraderie was the best way forward and last September formed the collectively ambitious new annual fixture, Postcards From Manchester.

Within the group they have highly respected fanzine writers and DJs (Pull Yourself Together and David from Asparagus Next Left), fervent champions of new music in Manchester (Phill Daker) and the consistently influential combination of it all (Underachievers Please Try Harder). Sounds From The Other City will see them take over downstairs of The Old Pint Pot to share this unified vision. Expect the unexpected. 

 

 

11.15 The Rural Alberta Advantage

10.00 Islet

9.00 Windmill

8.15 Help Stamp Out Loneliness

7.00 Just Handshakes (We're British)

6.00 The Cavalcade

 

DOORS: 6pm till 1am




 

The Rural Alberta Advantage

The Rural Alberta Advantage play indie-rock folk songs about hometowns and heartbreak. They sing about summers in the Rockies and winters on the farm and ice breakups in the spring time, but mostly the songs try to embrace the advantage of growing up in Alberta. With the well-received debut Hometowns (rated 8.0 by Pitchfork) and once being cited as "the best unsigned band in Canada" by Pitchfork also, RAA's mix of acoustic pop, energetic rock and rich arrangements has resulted in a thriving and growing global audience.

www.myspace.com/theraa 

 

Islet

Islet are a four-piece Cardiff experimental rock band. Essentially Cardiff's supergroup, Islet comprises members (or past members) of The Victorian English Gentlemens Club, Attack + Defend, Fredrick Stanley Star, and Them Squirrels. Despite having only a few recorded songs and as of yet no online profile (such as MySpace), Islet have had considerable succes. Islet played Swn Festival 09, were part of Huw Stephens' Happy Huw Year Tour, have supported Teeth Mountain, Lovvers and Los Campesinos!, and have featured on BBC Radio Wales and in the NME. The band have gained a significant amount of press coverage for their "shun" of the internet, not having a MySpace or band website.

 http://thisisislet.com/ 

 

 

Help Stamp Out Loneliness

Help Stamp Out Loneliness grew from when old flatmates Colm McCrory and Bentley Cooke from popular twee band Language of Flowers decided to take a sabbatical from the drug fuelled ultra-violent world of C86 and start a lounge-gaze-krautpop band instead (whatever that is). They were soon joined by Ben Ambridge and Louise Winfield on drums and organ respectively and a little later by Katherine McMahon (piano) and D. Lucille Campbell (vocals). Their debut single 'Torvill & Dean' quickly sold out and they have regularly packed out venues across Manchester, attracting a devoted following.

 

www.myspace.com/helpstampoutloneliness

 

Windmill

Windmill, aka. Michael Thomas Dillon, has impressed many since arriving in 2007, including sharing bills with The National, The Smashing Pumpkins and St. Vincent. With two hugely acclaimed albums, most recently 2009's Epcot Starfields (which, apparently, captures Dillon's sense of impending doom threatening humanity and has a backdrop of 70s sci-fi), Dillon's talent for creating tunes of a star/shoegazing, delicate quality is likely to make you laugh and, perhaps, shed a gentle tear. A rare appearance from an understated yet major talent.

 

www.myspace.com/windmillband

 

Just Handshakes (We're British)

Take some Offend Maggie Deerhoof and some Camera Obscura and there's Just Handshakes (We're British).  This lot from Leeds have caused a stir with their handmade, blue ribbon packaged releases with Rough Trade saying they're "UK indie pop at its best".  We agree: Clara Casiotone' Patrick's vocal is enough to make you sigh while Michael 'Prince of Preston' Denham's guitar makes your feet do all sorts of excitable things. At times sensitive and delicate, yet like great indie-pop bands there's always something surprising and unexpected lurking beneath.

 

www.myspace.com/justhandshakeswerebritish

 

 

The Cavalcade

Preston-based The Cavalcade have charmed with their Felt-cum-Field Mice inspired sound. They have recently signed to Pebble Records, who will soon release the new album by C86-legends The Orchids; and come off the back of their well-received 2009 EP Meet You in the Rain and successful gigs in London, which included sharing a bill with The Clientele and playing as part of the How Does it Feel Presents series at Brixton's Windmill. Tight and precise with heartfelt lyrics written and sung accordingly, they remind you of the last great era of indie-pop and yet are by no means dated nor an unimaginative throwback.

www.myspace.com/thecavalcadeuk


 

Special Guests: The Lovely Eggs
 

 Fresh off the plane from SXSW, The Lovely Eggs continue to wow everyone in sight; they've just toured with Eddie Argos of Art Brut's new band and there's the small matter of recording with the legendary Jad Fair. They're currently one of the best live - and unpredictable - bands in the country, and 'Have You Ever Heard a Digital Accordion?' has brought Richard Brautigan to a new host of curious readers. Prepare yourself for a VU-cum-Moldy Peaches-cum-Bikini Kill influenced bout of such unpredictable and incredible fun you'll begin to worry about the state of your cheek muscles.  We're being entirely objective, honest.

 www.myspace.com/thelovelyeggs