EVENTS – 11stsq

The Peer Hat, Manchester

“In a city where Factory Records’ legacy is exploited by the same property developers who are rapidly pricing any creativity out of the city centre, the Peer Hat – a pub, grassroots music/arts venue and DIY record shop – has, in 18 months, come to feel like a much-loved last stand … a persistent weed amid all that new concrete and glass. Hidden on a Northern Quarter side street where stag dos fear to tread (and so shambolic they wouldn’t stay long anyway), the Hat has a gloriously random, lo-fi events programme, clearly done for love not money, giving it a friendly, all-comers community feel that is far closer to the dissenting spirit of late-1980s Manchester than any Hacienda revival night. It is an oasis of odd in an increasingly bland city. “
Tony Naylor, Manchester-based Guardian journalist

Leonard Skully presents an all Mexican line-up at Kraak, Manchester.

Tickets here The Polar Dream Gira

7pm, 20th Aug 2015

The Polar Dream

“The quality instrumentals and sound effects on today’s featured track ‘The Wooden Ship’ conjure up imagery of a wooden ship of old sailing towards the Northern Lights at night.” Insomnia Radio
Source: http://insomniaradio.net/2011/06/12/the-polar-dream-the-wooden-ship/

“The music of this Mexican 5 piece follows every rule of the holy book written by Mogwai and Godspeed, with openings of light, sweet melodic piano and glockenspiel, humming guitar; repition leads to evolution which in a similar style to Mono and This Will Destroy You threatens to erupt at any moment” Almost Blue
Source: http://almostblue2010.blogspot.mx/2010/06/album-review-polar-dream-follow-me-to.html

Fauno

“Musica Psicodelica Mexicana”

Helea Gimeno

Helea Gimeno’s music seems to reach across vast distances. It is simultaneously longing, earthy and cosmic. Her stylings recall Joan Baez, Los Jaivas, Broadcast, a hint of PJ Harvey and a heap of her own special medicine.

Leonard Skully PhD