Off with Their Heads special!
The crazy people behind Off with Their Heads bring us 3 very different events in the next few weeks. Between hosting their first event here last April Fools Day, bringing a mental Royal Wedding party here last year and teaming up with Now Wave to curate the all female stage at Sounds From The Other City these are one of our new favourite Manchester promoters. And look, they’ve kindly given us a day off between each one to recover!
Wednesday May 30th // High Places & Savages
Friday 1st June // Laurel Halo & Kuedo
Sunday 3rd June // Queen’s Jubilee
P.S They’re also putting on Austra at Soup Kitchen on June 6th
Future Everything at Islington Mill
This week we are very proud to be hosting some of the most exciting and forward thinking music showcased by Future Everything.
Shabazz Palaces: Wednesday 16th May : 7:30pm
Deadbeat / Andy Stott / Szare: Wednesday 16th May : 10:30pm
Holy Other / Evian Christ / The Haxan Cloak / Vessel: Thursday 17th May : 9pm
DJ Cheeba: Friday 18th May : 9pm
Mike Huckaby: Saturday 19th May : 10pm
More about these events can be found on our website
We cannot wait for these guys to team up with CHERYL
“Push the button start the show…the beat will always save us” 16/5/12
Dayse & Aver: Footage taken from their gig here on Monday 9th April
Not long to go…
Starting off at the Mill, exchanging your ticket for a wristband, you’ll be able to start your Sounds From The Other City adventure along Chapel Street. Taking in venues along the mile-long corridor from The Crescent at the top to the newly re-openedBlack Lion at the bottom, you will be able to feast yourself on some of the best new music and performance from across the globe. Established Manchester promoters like Faktion (who’ve put on Demdike Stare, Blackest Ever Black label showcase), Now Wave (Sleigh Bells, the XX, Caribou, Alt-J) and Hey! Manchester (Jens Lekman, Momus, Steve Reich) will be joined by indie tastemakers, Drowned in Sound, to present a huge array of talent on 14 stages, including Swedish ice princess, MOLLY NILSSON, Kompakt records WALLS, Wire magazine favourites EKOPLEKZ, queer super groupCOVERGIRL, and the beat-driven deluge of Ghostly International’s (Dabrye, Matthew Dear) SHIGETO.
Dynamic Death Party // Short Film
Nudity and Fashion
Last night’s life drawing class featured a surprise special guest! Fashion designer Dana Bocai from bench came to talk about how designers work with the naked form to design the best clothes for the male and female body. Rubbish was also used to ‘clothe’ the model to explore the trashion phenomenon that is currently strutting it’s way down catwalks.
Life Drawing takes place every Wednesday at 7pm here at The Mill. Next week the ‘flower man’ will be springing up an a guest… exciting!
Last event of the season
(Usually) Barcelona based Diego Mallo hosts an open studio this evening showing the large scale illustrated animation that he has created during his stay with us this past month. Then, Devandra Banhart’s new favourite gent, Luke Rathbone falsettos his way through gentle folk supporting French Chanteuse Soko whose songs express love and heartbreak in the most beautifully un-cynical way that only the French can.
Diego Mallo 6:30-7:30
Luke Rathbone 8:30- 9
Soko 9:30 onwards
Soko & Spike Jonze - Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die by Your Side)
