Gullivers Oldham Street Manchester

It's me! I can't keep up with all these different social media sites, but it is this one that gets neglected the most, so I'm going to try muster up a little of the force and put something down.

Last night (25/08/2012) we played a show at Gulliver's on Oldham St. in the northern quarter of Manchester's city centre. The night was organised by fledgling record label Longevity Records who are based in Manchester and offer "to get quality new music released without the usual big budget restrictions!" as their mission statement. They go on to say "we strive to give bands & artists that elusive first stepping stone to becoming a professional act, by helping them with their initial releases & videos through to the heights we all want to achieve. We work alongside a fantastic video team and Recording studio and have passion to help and promote what we believe in." , and from what I have seen they are doing just that. Thanks to Ian and his team for putting us on.

Gulliver's is a great venue, a bit like the Yorkshire House in Lancaster but without the over powering stench of piss, and the staff are excellent, from the doormen to the bar staff through to the DJ and sound engineer, all made us feel properly welcome. Cheers.

It was the usual on the night; bands play and then fuck off home, downstairs or somewhere else without sticking around to support the other acts...after enjoying the support of their successors all evening. Poor.

The Blackhearts set was excellent, as you might guess, and was watched over by a certain Manchester legend who stood in front a microphone for The Fall. Yup, Mark E Smith was in attendance along with some of the travelling faithful, a gang of French folk and a selection of Gulliver's finest. What a noise they made! I was really blown away by the way they all got involved and it drove us on to put on one of our best shows ever - at least it certainly felt that way.

So, we made some new friends, caught up with some old ones, had the best time on stage, poured with sweat for 40 glorious minutes, on a rainy evening in Manchester, and I only had one drink all night.

Thanks Gulliver's x

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