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Live Review: Omni at The Deaf Institute in Manchester 17 April 2024

Words: Andy Hughes There’s a lot to be said for securing yourself a seat at Manchester’s The Deaf Institute, up the steps with a big fat pint of the finest pale ale and a great view of the live room and the stage beyond. Yes, the prime spot is down on the floor, front and centre, but when you’re hitting quite a few live shows throughout the month, it’s hard to pass up the chance to give your…

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#17 April 2024 #Birthday cake for breakfast #Exacto #I Hope You Die #INTL Waters #Izzy Glaudini #Live Review #Manchester #Omni #Plastic Pyramid #Souvenir #The Deaf Institute #TTSSFU

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'Up On Gravity Hill' - Listen to the eighth episode of ’60 Minutes or less’, the new podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast – featuring Alex Edkins of METZ!

Words: Andy Hughes They said it couldn’t be done – ’60 Minutes or less’, the new podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast, returns for our eighth episode! Off the back of our last episode with Steven Hodson of USA Nails, we continue on with noise-rock frontmen with a chat featuring Alex Edkins, guitarist and choice shouter in gnarly power trio METZ. Formed in Ontario, Canada, METZ have been…

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#60 Minutes or less #Alex Edkins #Birthday cake for breakfast #METZ #Up On Gravity Hill #Weird Nightmare

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Release Rundown - Flesh Creep, Jane Weaver, Joel Harries, Metz and USA Nails

Words: Ben Forrester Flesh Creep – We Need You To Bleed(No Time) This Midlands based crew have been making waves in the underground scene since their blistering debut EP back in the winter of 2021. Having spent the past two years building momentum on both the release and live front, the quintet are ready to kick the door down with this absolutely barnstorming LP. With a dream runtime of 18…

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#Album Review #Birthday cake for breakfast #Feel Worse #Fire Records #Flesh Creep #Jane Weaver #Love in Constant Spectacle #METZ #No Time Records #One Little Independent Records #Sub Pop Records #Up On Gravity Hill #USA Nails #We Need You To Bleed

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Live Review: Stuck at The Peer Hat in Manchester 10 April 2024

Words: Andy Hughes For American bands touring in the UK, you can imagine there’s a checklist of sights and experiences that they have on their bucket lists. How many have scraps on their lists though? For Chicago outfit Stuck, who just landed for their first official UK tour, the potential for a post-punk punch-up was seemingly too much for a group of young lads and mid-show / post-show there…

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#10 April 2024 #AITA? #Birthday cake for breakfast #Born Yesterday Records #Change Is Bad #Content That Makes You Feel Good #Deep Tunnel #Do Not Reply #Freak Frequency #Live Review #Manchester #People Pleaser #Stuck #THE PEER HAT

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Live Review: Hell Is For Heroes at Manchester Academy 05 April 2024

Words: Ben Forrester When Hell Is For Heroes announced their hiatus in 2008, there was concern amongst their dedicated fanbase that they may not return again. However, we only had to endure four years of silence before the quintet headed back on the road again and much to the delight of many, they’ve been touring on and off for the past 12 years now! Tonight we are at the Academy 2 as part of a…

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#05 April 2024 #Big Scary Monsters #Birthday cake for breakfast #Folded Paper Figures #Hell Is For Heroes #I Can Climb Mountains #I Should Never Have Been Here In the First Place #If Your Heart Will Answer #Live Review #Manchester #Manchester Academy #Night Vision #The Neon Handshake #You’ve Got Hopes

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'Feel Worse' - Listen to the seventh episode of ’60 Minutes or less’, the new podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast – featuring Steven Hodson of USA Nails!

Words: Andy Hughes Here we are then – the seventh episode of ’60 Minutes or less’, the new podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast. What a peach too – a bumper chat with Steven Hodson, guitarist and vocalist in gnarly quartet USA Nails. Having formed around 2013, we’ve been following USA Nails for pretty much the life of Birthday Cake For Breakfast. I still fondly recall their appearance at…

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#ArcTanGent #Bear Bites Horse #Birthday cake for breakfast #Character Stop #Feel Worse #Kong #No Pleasure #Oceansize #One Little Independent Records #Pack Of Dogs #Steven Hodson #The Sun In The Sands #USA Nails

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Listening Post – April 2024

Words: Andy Hughes I can’t quite Adam-and-beliEve-it that we’re already easing into spring. No, this isn’t an April Fools (particularly as that was a few days ago), but rather the year zooming ahead as per.  Alongside our bumper playlist for the year (cataloguing everything we’ve been loving from January through to now), the ‘Listening Post’ returns this month and it’s full of choice cuts, 20…

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#60 Minutes or less #Bingo Fury #Birthday cake for breakfast #Bite Down #East Flat Crows #Engelchen #Holiday Ghosts #Mannequin Pussy #Modema #Non La #Real Doll Time #SLAP RASH #Thru Being Zuul

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Exclusive: WATCH a new video for ‘Paper’, from A.L. Lacey’s debut album ‘Lesson’

Words: Andy Hughes At the tail end of last year, we were chuffed up to have an exclusive stream on ‘Lesson’, the debut album from Bristol based classically trained multi-instrumentalist A.L. Lacey. We’re strong believers in the longevity of a record, certain that reviews, features and the like should not be confined to the weeks leading up to release with nothing to follow. Good news then that…

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#A.L. Lacey #Alice Lacey #Birthday cake for breakfast #Cower #Friend #Human Worth #J&J Studios #Jim Barr #Lesson #Memo #Off the Record #Sorrell Kerrison #Tall Trees Audio Mastering

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Live Review: Tapir! at YES in Manchester 20 March 2024

Words: Andy Hughes Right – cards on the table – I bet me and the missus were the only ones in the crowd at Tapir! on Wednesday night at YES who’d met an actual tapir. Two in fact. Most Certainly the only one who’s who’d met a family of capybaras… As it turned out though, I don’t think such a gloat was a requirement for entry as when we opened the door to the basement, it was to a literal wall of…

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#14 March 2024 #Birthday cake for breakfast #Eidolon #Gymnopédie #Heavenly Recordings #Live Review #Manchester #Mountain Song #My God #On A Grassy Knoll (We&039;ll Bow Together) #Tapir! #The Pilgrim Their God and The King Of My Decrepit Mountain #YES Manchester

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Listen to the sixth episode of ’60 Minutes or less’, the new podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast – featuring Steve Davis of The Utopia Strong!

Words: Andy Hughes Finally – a world class athlete on ’60 Minutes or less’, the new podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast! For our sixth episode, we welcome royalty – the only guest thus far with an OBE, former world number one in snooker, Steve Davis. Amassing 71 major titles over his playing career, Davis remains one of the world’s best-known snooker players. Not content with such a…

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#60 Minutes or less #Birthday cake for breakfast #International Treasure #Kavus Torabi #Lamp Of Glory #Marc Riley #Michael York #Rocket Recordings #Steve Davis #The BBC Sessions #The Tower Is Locked #The Utopia Strong #Weather All

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Live Review: The Jesus And Mary Chain at the Albert Hall in Manchester 23 March 2024

Words: Ben Forrester Let’s start at the end shall we? My night ended with getting the last train back to the Cheshire countryside, as it usually does. But as it was a Saturday night, it was a total war zone, resulting in a group of sleepy drunk teens being individually slapped by fellow passengers in fear of them missing their stop. Even playing super gnarly, early cuts of the band I’d just been…

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#23 March 2024 #Albert Hall #Birthday cake for breakfast #Chemical Animal #Deathcrash #Empty Heavy #Glasgow Eyes #Just Like Honey #Less+ #Live Review #Manchester #The Eagles And The Beatles #The Jesus And Mary Chain

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Do Not Miss: Cold Comfort at The Talleyrand in Levenshulme 21 March 2024

Words: Andy Hughes We recently wrote of what a treat it is to venture somewhere new for a live show, eschewing regular haunts for Stockport Plaza and, back in December, The Carlton Club in Whalley Range. This Thursday, it’s a pleasure once again to skip town in favour of a gig in Levenshulme, the south Manchester hotspot that’s home to The Talleyrand, a lovely wee bar and live venue. Off the…

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#21 March 2024 #ASTROLAYB #Bad Grammar #Birthday cake for breakfast #Cold Comfort #Engines #GUG #Levenshulme #Manchester #NØELLE #Peaks #The Talleyrand

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What’s On Michael Portillo’s iPod: The Oscillation

Here at Birthday Cake For Breakfast, we like to get to the heart of what an artist is all about. We feel that what influences them is just as important as the music they make. With that in mind, ahead of releasing new album ‘The Start Of The End‘ (out May via All Time Low Records / Dinked), Demian Castellanos of The Oscillation talks us through a number of influences. Take it…

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#All Time Low Records #Birthday cake for breakfast #Body Electric #Demian Castellanos #Desert Navigation #Dinked Edition #Jonathan Fitoussi #Mother Sky #Singularity Zone #Sonic Boom #The Oscillation #The Start Of The End #Tom Relleen #Untold Futures #What&039;s On Michael Portillo&039;s iPod

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Live Review: Folly Group at YES in Manchester 14 March 2024

Words: Andy Hughes It’s funny to think that such a memorable live gig experience involved being hardly able to see the actual band. Such was the case the last time (and maybe first time) I saw Londoners Folly Group, back in 2021 at Manchester Psych Fest. Downstairs in the basement of The Ritz, in a part of the venue I only knew existed seconds before entering the room, I squeezed into the space…

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#14 March 2024 #Awake and Hungry #Birthday cake for breakfast #Butt No Rifle #Down There! #Folly Group #Four Wheel Drive #Human and Kind #I&039;ll Do What I Can #Live Review #Manchester #Now Wave #So Young Records #Strange Neighbour #YES Manchester

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Listen to the fifth episode of ’60 Minutes or less’, the new podcast from Birthday Cake For Breakfast – featuring Peter Brewis of Field Music!

Words: Andy Hughes Off the back of the first four ‘60 Minutes or less‘ episodes – featuring guests Joe Casey of Protomartyr, Paul Hanley of The Fall, Philip Frobos of Omni and Jonathan Higgs of Everything Everything – it’s a trip to present our fifth episode, featuring Peter Brewis! A North East musician of note, alongside brother David, Peter is the other half of the brilliant Field Music.…

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#60 Minutes or less #Birthday cake for breakfast #Blowdry Colossus #David Brewis #Dinked Edition #Dog Bark Dark #Field Music #Flat White Moon #Making a New World #Memphis Industries #Peter Brewis #Sarah Hayes #The Week That Was #You Tell Me

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This One Song… TTSSFU on I Hope You Die

Tell you what – we love hearing from artists when things go right. We equally love hearing from artists when things go dreadfully wrong. A song that was a piece of piss, written in 20 minutes? Or years in the making and a bastard to write? Whether it’s a song that came together through great duress or one that was smashed out in a short amount of time, we’re getting the lowdown from some of our…

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#Andy Warhol #Baggage #Birthday cake for breakfast #Duvet #Fear of Missing Out Records #I Hope You Die #Jed Johnson #Me Jed and Andy #Studio 54 #Tasmin Stephens #TTSSFU #Will Toledo

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a/s/l: MAQUINA

Remember the days of the old schoolyard? Remember when Myspace was a thing? Remember those time-wasting, laborious quizzes that everyone used to love so much? Birthday Cake For Breakfast is bringing them back!  Every couple of weeks, an unsuspecting band will be subject to the same old questions about dead bodies, Hitler, crying and crushes.   This Week: Ahead of releasing their debut…

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#Birthday cake for breakfast #Blanche Biau #Body Control #Carlos de Jesus #Concentrate #Denial #Desterro #DIRTY TRACKS FOR CLUBBING #Fuzz Club Records #Kontakte #Man It Feels Like Space Again #MAQUINA #PRATA #Subversive