PYT vs The Week – 28/3/10

A dead brief PYT vs The Week for you. Weather is horrible, so you are better off inside a venue watching bands. Here’s what you can be doing this week…

Wednesday night is going to be ace. PYT’s new favourite band are in town, and we are excited to the max. If you have seen either our website or the last issue of the zine then you will know how much we love This Many Boyfriends, whose particular brand of shambolic C86 tinged noisepop is just what we are after. Get down to Night & Day to catch their energetic live show.

Whilst you are there, Night & Day will be the first place to pick up the new issue of the PYT zine. Given that it is a 5 Wednesday month we don’t actually have a night of our own to release it at, so thought we’d go with a gig by a band we love instead. The new issue of the zine has an interview with Frightened Rabbit, our thoughts on the terrible news about BBC6 Music and WOXY, why Pay2Play has no place in this city and exactly why Dan is getting back into science. Oh, and some bloody amazing artwork by Lizzy Huthwaite. If you aren’t at the gig then the zine will be in Common and all the usual places too, and around the rest of the country in time for the Bank Holiday Weekend (if the postmen play nice…)
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Skip forward to Friday, and PYT will be racing ducks down at Spinningfields in the daytime. Sounds like a lot of fun to us!

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From twee and family friendly to the ever terrifying and bloody loud Kong are playing at Soundcontrol. Prepare to lose the use of your hearing for a while after…
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Come Saturday and there is only ONE place you want to be. Once you’ve got over watching the new Doctor in action (Hannah like the look of him a lot, Dan thinks his look is obviously styled on the Tweed jacket he’s been rocking for a couple of years) get over to Night and Day for YOU! ME! DANCING! Team PYT and David Asparagus will be delivering the finest popsongs disco in the Northern Quarter, with cheap drinks offers and dancing galore. Oh, and after you all said you wanted to dance longer last time, we’ve gone and sorted it out – we are open till 3am! WOOP!

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Onto Sunday night, and it is a birthday party for a Manchester institution – High Voltage is 7! I don’t think it would be over egging it to say that PYT might not exist if not for High Voltage, as Richard inspired and encouraged both of us in our first musical ventures in Manchester, which led onto PYT. Get yourself over to Islington Mill to celebrate the way HV does it best, with ace bands!

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PYT vs the week: 22nd – 28th March

It’s a busy old one this week, so prepare yourselves! But first, why not head to our homepage to be in with a chance of winning a copy of their latest album!

–> Monday 22nd March
PYT are off to the Royal Exchange tonight to see Matthew Dunster’s adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984. If it’s even half as good as his version of Macbeth we saw last year then we’re in for a treat both chilling and shocking.

In terms of music, we believe your best bet is to head down to the Deaf Institute for The Album Leaf – another fine booking by OH Productions. Death Cab meets Explosions in the Sky. Glitchy electronics, soaring vocals. You know the score.

–> Tuesday 23rd March
Over at Band on the Wall the delightful Tunng are in town. A sold out show mind, so be glad if you’ve got a ticket! New album …And Then We Saw Land is just the kind of beautiful stuff we’ve come to expect from the folktronica group over the years, and it’ll be ace to see them in such a pretty venue. Support comes from Erland and the Carnival, who we hear are good and yet haven’t worked out who they are yet…

Another sold out gem for tonight is Tindersticks at the Cathedral (yep, that’ll be those busy boys at OH Productions again!), which, if the Cathedral show from Magnetic Fields is anything to go by, will be absolutely stunning.

–> Wednesday 24th March
Being the fourth Wednesday of the month it’s time for PYT at Common again! 8pm-midnight, indiepop delights. You know the score.

Also tonight is one of the last ever shows from youthmovies (who I’m still inclined to call Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies), so if you’re in the mood for noise then definitely head down to the Deaf Institute tonight. Support from Adam Gnade and This Town Needs Guns.

–> Thursday 25th March
Head down to the Ruby Lounge tonight for some excellent things from The Twilight Sad, one of PYT’s favourite bands of the past couple of years. It’ll be intense. To win tickets or a copy of the album, head to the post below this one!

–> Friday 26th March
It’s the weekend! Surely that means it’s time to run between venues all night? Yes? Glad you agree. Down at Nexus there’s the chance to catch worriedaboutsatan (which we’re very pleased about having missed them when they supported Errors. Gutted) with Her Name Is Calla. worriedaboutsatan will no doubt previewing much of their forthcoming album – brooding, glitchy and brilliant.

Then, just a hop, skip and a jump down the road there should be time to get to Night + Day for Meursault – heartwrenching Scottish beauty at its best. And if you fancy staying on after for a bit of a dance it’s the launch of Everything You Need, the new night from Carefully Planned. Or indeed take a wee walk over to the Star and Garter for the Belle & Sebastian disco!

–> Saturday 27th March
You perhaps feel like after that hectic Friday you could do with a rest. But fight off that urge to sleep and get yrselves down to Underachievers where you can see Cats in Paris, Deaf To Van Gogh’s Ear and NASDAQ on the same bill. Plus Underachievers clubnight upstairs as normal!

–> Sunday 28th March
For a bit more peace and quiet (well, it is Sunday), we’d recommend getting down to The Art of Tea in Didsbury to see Stanley Brinks (aka Andre Herman Dune).

And then sleep….

PYT xx

It's you, it's me, and it's dancing!

PYT are very excited to be joining up with David of Asparagus Next Left for our brand new indie-disco clubnight You! Me! Dancing!

A simple proposition. You! Me! Dancing! We aren’t trying to reinvent the wheel, we just want to play great popsongs so that you can have a good old dance on a Saturday night.

Don’t expect (much) pretentious waffle. Don’t expect any cheesy floor fillers. Do expect Pull Yourself Together and Asparagus Next Left DJs to be playing cracking music from the likes of Belle & Sebastian, Los Campesinos!, Dutch Uncles, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Lovely Eggs, British Sea Power, The Divine Comedy, Deerhunter, Au Revoir Simone, Sky Larkin, Art Brut, Blur, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, The Lightning Seeds and more!

If you are looking for a great disco party in the middle of the Northern Quarter then Night & Day is only place to be on the first Saturday of the month!

Launch Night is this Saturday, 6th March – featuring guest DJs Underachievers Please Try Harder!

11pm – 2am

£3 (or £2 with valid NUS)