Our Manchester gig guide for June
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"With their pop nous and polyrhythms thrown in, there is always much to enjoy. Often serious, always fun, ‘Bingo!’ is bedlam, danceable and utterly wonderful."
@andrewneal66.bsky.social reviews the new album from La Securite
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"For any fans of house music, this is a great record to listen to, and given another chance tonight, I’d do it all over again."
Alex McFerren reviews Spectrum by Roger Sanchez
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"There is a tremendously cosmopolitan quality to ‘The Trumpets of Michel-Ange Volume 2’. A great variety of instrumentation and styles meet with and enhance the quarter-tone trumpet which is the star of the show"
@andrewneal66.bsky.social reviews Ibrahim Maalouf
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Album roundup for the week ending 12 June 2026
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"With ‘The Gods Laugh’, Cotton has created an atmospheric and deeply meditative record."
@andrewneal66.bsky.social reviews the new album from
@alisoncotton.bsky.social
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"They are about to hit that moment where they blow up and ‘Restless In Bloom’ is a glorious opening statement."
Izzy Hayden reviews Tooth's new EP.
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After an incredible May bank holiday, where the sun was shining, maybe a bit too much, June is also looking hopeful for another great month for gigs in Manchester. Festival season is just around the c...
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Silent Radio's weekly roundup of new releases
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It is apt that both albums released so far by La Sécurité (‘Stay Safe!’ and ‘Bingo!’) contain an exclamation mark in their title. Their music is, in the best way possible, an immediate demand for atte...
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As would be expected, ‘The Trumpets of Michel-Ange Volume 2’ is a natural continuation and development of the first instalment released in 2024. Central to the album is the quarter-tone trumpet develo...
“If I had another chance tonight…”, most fans of Roger Sanchez (or house music in general) will instantly know that line. Well, if you enjoyed that classic tune the first time round, Sanchez is back f...
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Africa Oye returns to Sefton Park later this month - www.silentradio.co.uk/06/10/news-a...
"Perfectly curated with some touching melodies, a soft but powerful performance by Camille, and a longing for something real."
Lewis Hannah reviews Enchanted Sea by Camille Camille
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Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders – Liquid Donnon The band continue to evolve their own musical space that overlays dusty folk, cosmic jazz, deep psych, free improv, and even indie rock. T...
There is an impressively austere quality to Alison Cotton’s music. Set within the self-imposed parameters of only using instrumentation that she owns, that policy initially saw her limited to viola, v...
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Emerging with an EP that bottles up overwhelming coming of age fears both lyrically and musically, Tooth aren’t going to slip through the cracks and rightly so. Even with only three singles out, the L...
Frankie Archer The Dance of Death Archer reconstructs some of the oldest songs in the English canon with fractured, future-facing production. Working from archival ballads of obsessi...
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After a fallow 2025, Africa Oyé returns to Sefton Park on 20 and 21 June. A highlight of the Liverpool summer since 1992, it is the UK’s biggest celebration of African and Caribbean music and culture....
“Yet my heart belongs to thee” Oh, to live a quiet life, but what would that quiet life entail? Would I perhaps love to live in the countryside, far away from the big cities of the world, enjoying the...
