Sounds From The Other City – this Sunday!

If you are in and around Manchester you are probably more than aware that it is Sounds From The Other City festival this Sunday in Salford. Here at PYT we are absolutely delighted to be involved in the festival this year, co-curating a stage with the rest of the Postcards From Manchester team. We aren’t going to try and give you a full guide of who to see where and when, as there are loads of them knocking about already, with the guides at Erase Erase and Manchester Music being particularly good.

There are loads and loads of great bands playing all over the festival. Somewhat handily, ours is the last stage to open, so we get to see some other bands before we have to start working! The timings for the Postcards From Manchester stage, which is downstairs at The Old Pint Pot are below. We would also suggest keeping your eye out around the bandstand and our beer garden for extra secret sets…

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 – Underachievers Please Try Harder + Pull Yourself Together + You! Me! Dancing! disco after the bands!

If you want to get into the atmosphere here is a Spotify playlist with a taste of our stage. Tickets are really close to selling out, we’d suggest rushing to Piccadilly Records, Common, Fuel or clicking here pronto to make sure you don’t miss out!

PS – Unfortunately The Lovely Eggs have had to pull out. We will be working on getting some other great stuff going on in and around our venue to make up for this!

PYT vs The Week – 8/2/10

Hello one and all,

Hope you are good and well this bright-but-not-quite-bright-enough day. Here at Team PYT we are very excitable at the moment, as we are launching the new issue of our zine this week. Much like our spiritual home of Common, the zine has had a lick of paint and spruce up and looks, as they say in the trade, the business. More about that below…

So what is going on this week?

Monday night sees Bad Uncle welcoming Dan Friel to The Corner. Maybe better known for being a member of Parts & Labour, Friel’s solo work is all glitchy dark electronics which can go all euphoric at times. Kind of like a happy take on Fuck Buttons. Support comes from local noiseniks Planks, who are ace. Worth checking out —>http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=287104014171&index=1

—>http://www.myspace.com/danfrieldanfriel

Onto Tuesday and one half of PYT will be heading to Academy 2 to see The Low Anthem and David Ford. Rhode Island based folksters The Low Anthem’s Oh My God, Charlie Darwin LP seemed to go down a storm last year, so this should be a good show. That is before you even think that David Ford, the fella from early-noughties indie kids favourites Easyworld, is supporting —>http://www.last.fm/event/1247920+The+Low+Anthem+at+Academy+2+on+9+February+2010

—>http://www.myspace.com/lowanthem

WEDNESDAY – In a very selfish manner, Wednesday night is all about PYT. It is the first PYT of 2010, as we take over the now even bigger and more lovely Common on Edge Street. As well as providing the perfect atmosphere for you to catch up with your friends over a drink and some popsongs, you’ll be able to pick up the flash new zine which has an interview with Eddie Argos of Art Brut/Everybody Was In The French Resistance… Now—>http://www.facebook.com/reqs.php#!/event.php?eid=284374614674&ref=ts

Thursday night was going to be a difficult choice, but as Beach House at Islington Mill has sold out you can only go to that if you’ve got a ticket anyway (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=262409613941&index=1).

So, if you aren’t going to that then you should be heading to The Deaf Institute to see two of our favourite bands of the moment playing at DiScover Manchester for Drowned in Sound. Sian Alice Group make something between post-rock and free jazz, whilst Esben and the Witch are like a electronic-post-rock take on the Grimm Fairy Tales. This will be fantastic—>http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=289665676320&index=1

—>http://www.myspace.com/sianalicegroup
—>http://www.myspace.com/esbenandthewitch

Onto Friday, and we can’t choose between two great nights. So we won’t. Given that they are 5 mins apart, you could/should really go to both. The Red Deer Club Tour hits the ground running at Retro Bar with the delightful Sophie’s Pigeons and Panda Su making great folky/pop/bit electronic music that is sure to leave you with a smile on your face—>http://www.facebook.com/events.php#!/event.php?eid=291083866317&index=1

—>http://www.myspace.com/sophienelson
—>http://www.myspace.com/thepandasu

After the bands finish at Retro, we suggest a quick dash to the Star and Garter for a good old dance at Shake It, Shake It. Justin Shake It knows how to get kids swinging their indie-hips, so go throw some shapes—>http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=224087862318&index=1

Come Saturday and Team PYT will be heading down to Saki Bar on Rusholme for Underachievers Please Try Harder. This week they’ve got the(JELAS), Nursing Home and the hotly tipped Hyacinth Girls playing downstairs, followed by the traditional Underachievers disco-mayhem across two floors once the bands are done—>http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=463286935561&index=1

—>http://www.myspace.com/thejelas

Also of note on Saturday, WOTGODFORGOT have the bright new face of lo-fi-African-beats-reggae-folk, TUNE-YARDS at The Ruby Lounge—>http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=198574174599&index=1

—>http://www.myspace.com/tuneyards

Sunday shall be our day of rest. Go get loved up somewhere. Possibly at Cornerhouse for their Breakfast Club showing of Breakfast At Tiffany’s*—>http://www.cornerhouse.org/film/info.aspx?ID=360&page=0

So there you go, lots to see and do this week. We hope you can make it down to Common on Wednesday, and let us know what you think of the new zine and website!

PYT xx

*[NB – I would like to point out at this stage that I don’t like that film, I think most of the characters in it are rubbish and horrid.]