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

Islet
Islet are a four-pie
ce 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.
Help Stamp Out Loneliness
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.
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.