The infamous Chips With Everything returns on Friday 29th February at Grosvenor Street’s Deaf Institute, having been in hiding in London for the past year following the nosedive of some of Manchester’s best venues.
This month Chips is proud to welcome Ebony Bones, who’ll be playing her first ever Manchester show, complete with a full band.
A [...]

Those slipperly people are back this month with another first-class booking. This month sees Krikor visit Charlies to feather the music to an all appreciative crowd.

Balearic - Who cares? I’ve read about this track twice on two different message boards this week and it’s brought back memories of indulging in things that made me smile to 10 past 9 tunes on a Saturday night. With Cruel Summer a Cosmic Disco fave, it only seemed fair to give Only Your Love [...]

[ February 29, 2008; 9:00 pm; ] We’re already into another week and nearly at the end of February. So this weekend it’s all about Niles and I this Friday selecting the music to the evenings sound track.

Music from Stephen Stills, Bo Hansson, Crosby Stills and Nash, Attitudes, Fleetwood Mac, Bananarama, Chromatics, Alan Parsons, Hawkwind, Steve Hillage and then some.

Come say hello [...]

Al-Jazari, an inventor during the Artuqid dynasty, designed and constructed a number of automatic machines, including kitchen appliances, musical automata powered by water, and the first programmable humanoid robot in 1206.
Al-Jazari’s robot was a boat with four automatic musicians that floated on a lake to entertain guests at royal drinking parties.
His mechanism had a programmable [...]

I’ll be playing a selection of disco records tonight at Jabez Clegg in Manchester.
It’s Freeman Hardy Willis all night and dancing starts at 8pm prompt.
Come say hello if you’re out and about in the area.

Growing up in the north of Sweden people would expect J2B to be a snowboarder or a punk-rocker.
Having tried both and being the eldest sibling - Jonas aka JohnnyTooBad’s passion for music eventually cast its fat shadow over everything else, including little brother Göran.
This is where the Hermanos started, a dynamic duo of the deep [...]

While we no longer broadcast from Beehive Mill on a Monday night, we do have some fond memories from last Summer, when everything seemed straightforward and innocent and we didn’t have to worry about whether or not we needed an extra mic.
On the rare occasion that all 3 of us played, good times and stupid [...]

Zillo: I have been listening to electronic music for about four years now and DJing for around three. I am really into the disco sound, in particular Italo.
The music I play is heavily influenced by the disco sound; it’s all about music that has a good melody because it feels more personal, rather than hearing [...]

There’s some amazing music being released at the moment, and that, coupled with our latest bargain bin find, prompted us to compose a selection of those records for your perusal.
Digest and buy accordingly.

THP’s selection: ‘Don’t toot your horn honey, you’re not that good’

Mawkish/Glitch/Spiller - Formula Futuro [Glitch & Spiller remix] - Nano
Faze Action - Disco [...]