DJs:
Emily Rabbit {of the Baltimore Bass Collective}
Chips DJs

The Death Set:

“Has the maximum-impact intensity of the young Henry Rollins in Black Flag or like an Iggy Pop for the era of samples and laptops. Worldwide is an extraordinary offering. The Death Set are a quixotic, perfect pop thrill.” The Guardian

“A relentless racket but of the highest order. Gleefully ballistic, a riot of chants, distortion and oddball samples.” Q

“Sublime pop-punk brevity from Baltimore” Sunday Times

“They make the Libertines look like Dire Straits… Original, entertaining and fun.” Vice

“The Death Set blast out of Baltimore, and onto your stereo, if your any fun.” Drowned in Sound

“Has the momentum to engulf dancefloors the world over.” Kruger “Quite literally a blast. A twenty first century update of hardcore. The Death Set blast through their material as if they can hear the police sirens in the distance coming to close their party down.” Clash

Derrida you can dance to. - The Onion (Austin).

“If the Cheerleading squad from a young offenders institute entered a beer bong-athon with Black Flag and Best Fwends, it’d still sound reserved compared to this lot.” NME

Australia to Baltimore transplants The Death Set are a faster, poppier, punker and more straight forward Devo for 21st attention spans. Their debut Ep “to” is the giddiest wall bouncing sugar over dose that’s come my way in some time – going down like a mix of three balloons full of nitrous and three more o’ helium. Sticky speedy spazzy songs defined by tuneful high-pitched screaming distorted guitars and casios blasting over rigid mechanical beats. It’ll make you jump up and down and pound your head against the wall – New York Night Train

“Loud, abrasive and sickly fun, Black Flag for a new generation ” Artrocker

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Support comes from Manchester freaks Hot Bone!

Special guest DJ Emily Rabbit of The Baltimore Bass Connection Crew.

As ever Chips DJ’s playing the finest outsider pop and electronic disco until very late.

9pm - 3am.
£5 entry
Email chipsrecords2@yahoo.co.uk for advance cheap guest list!

Live:

School of Language

The Week That Was

Magic Arm

It’s been over a year since Field Music, a band specialising in meticulously assembled recordings packed with melodic twists and herky-jerky rhythms, said they were going to postpone band duties and ‘go and do some real work’.David Brewis re-emerged first as School Of Language, whose album ‘Sea From Shore’ was a triumphant attempt to ‘make the weirdness in my music more explicit so that reviews stopped saying we sounded like Maximo Park’.
Now his bandmate and older brother, Peter, has also recorded an album as The Week That Was, and the two acts play together at The Deaf Institute on August 14th.

What they say :::

School of Language -

“This is without doubt one of this year’s most innovative exciting and original albums with a vocal range that would make Freddie Mercury wince and an ear for harmony Brian Wilson would envy, this isn’t so much an album that breaks the mould but one that warps it indistinguishably…. An album, then, that will change your life”.  NME

“As one third of Field Music, David Brewis makes chamber pop cut with polished ’70s rock and post-hardcore work outs. His own enterprise is both a very different kettle of carp and yet closely connected. Here he’s roped in two of the Futureheads, among others, for an experimental but avowedly goodtime romp that updates everyone from Badfinger to 10cc and Yes in one admirably, fizzily energetic sweep”  Time Out

The Week That Was -

‘brainy, yet immensely gripping pop music’ uncut”genius” Mojo

“Field Music’s new film-noirish side project manages to be a whole lot better than, well, Field Music” NME

Magic Arm -

“a work of understated magnificence.” -Drowned in Sound

“Highlight of Glastonbury” Steve Lamacq“Irresistible summer hit.”

Artrocker“The most innovative and sparkling new musician in Manchester” Manchester Evening News

From 8pm

£5. Buy tickets here….

It’s a Buffalo - After recently touring the country with The Courteneers and destroying the live stage at Summer In The Park its a buffalo make their Deaf Institute debut for August’s Akoustik Anarkhy. www.myspace.com/itsabuffalo

Something Like Fire - (in their own words) Something like fire are a 5-piece band passionate about creating the best music they can. Their influences span from Hip-Hop and Breaks through to Indie and Folk. They are passionate about breaking boundaries in music and making their audience move to their unique style. www.myspace.com/somethinglikefire

The Minnikins - Canadian siblings Ruth and Gabriel Minnikin are teaming up for a UK tour this summer as The Minnikins. Hailing from the faraway land of Halifax, Nova Scotia, they are former members of the late great Guthries. The alt-country/americana band achieved notable success while signed to Haysale Records in Canada & Circus 65 in the UK. They toured and shared stages with many great acts, Garth Hudson, Calexico, & The Handsome Family to name a few. The Guthries went their seperate ways in 2003, and Gabriel relocated to Manchester. He’s currently working on his third and fourth solo albums as well as being a noted producer, his credits including Ruth’s most recent record ‘Folk Art’. www.myspace.com/ruthminnikin

Joined as ever by aA deejays Lego, Young Will and Soft Priest.

8pm - 3am
£5 - advance tickets available here

www.akoustikanarkhy.co.uk
www.myspace.com/akoustikanarkhy

With a nod to the past and a wink to the future, El Diablo’s has always been about an open-minded party vibe where the emphasis is dancing and meaning it. Soaked in electronic, cosmic, disco, house and techno taking in anything else on the way that‘s suitable for your dancing feet.Infamous illegal basement parties in and around Mancunia’s less salubrious cavernous basements, derelict shops, tucked away public houses and even canal barges have cemented their seedy reputation.

Join Neil Scott and the amazing No Mark Duncan at The Deaf Institute for a feast of cosmic chuggers, discoid slammers, technoid jammers and leftfield balearic bombers.

They will also be joined by Mr Mike Smith aka Mike Luvdup aka Balearic Mike, joining us to hand crank away the night in celebration / mourning of him leaving the legendary 2nd hand record emporium that is Vinyl Exchange after 15 years hard labour in which he has siphoned off all the best/rarest records himself.

From 9pm

£5 in, or £3 if you send an email here……

DJs:
Le Beat Unhappening

Imagine an insane birthday party with Sun City Girls, Keiji Haino and Mika Miko all invited, things are gonna go volcanic, and that’s where Nisennenmondai come in! Of all the noisy girl groups of Kansai, Tokyo, Nisennenmondai - their name translates as ‘Year 2000 problem’, a reference to the millenial computer bug - honestly! - are at once the most intense and hypnotic band to run out of the scene. Himeno Sayaka (drums), Zaikawa Yuri (bass) and Takada Masako (guitar) met, of all places, at the same after school music club at university in Tokyo and quickly jumped into band formation, self-releasing two EPs with short shrift before touring Japan alongside the likes of Death Sentence: Panda!, OOIOO, Lightning Bolt, Hella, Oshiri Penpenz, and Afrirampo. Their pulsing rhythm section and metallic overtoned guitar sound something like a heathen and tranced-out amalgamation of Boredoms, Neu!, Ruins and Leopard Leg - apt comparisons considering their group ensemble ethic and circular pattern performance setup.

From 8pm. £6 entry

Nisennenmonda’s myspace
Hot Bone’s myspace

You can vote for The Deaf Institute here. Hip Hip Hooray!

DJs:
Ryan Hunn & Jonny Dub
{Sketch City, Hoya:Hoya}

Freedom Principle and Sketch City bringing you urban jazz artists and DJs to launch this years Manchester Jazz Festival. Three pioneering acts mixing up loop/sample based grooves and intense and energetic improvisation alongside Ryan and Jon digging their crates and drawing the line between jazz and various genres, taking in African, Brazilian, Soul, Funk, Soul Hip-Hop and more.

From 9pm

Tickets £6 adv./£8 on the door. Book now from www.skiddle.com

Sweet Baboo
Welsh one-man-band, Sweet Baboo has already recorded an album with Euros Childs and supported Daniel Johnston. With his inspired and witty story songs, and his brilliant Twee-pop ingenuity he has been described as a cross between Jeffery Lewis and John Cooper Clarke. But you have to listen to his brilliant song ‘Tom Waits Rip-Off’ to really understand.
www.myspace.com/sweetbabootheband

The Voluntarty Butler Scheme
A one-man assembly of bold and vibrant caricatures in sound; Rob Jones aka The Voluntary Butler Scheme takes a wry look at life’s shortcomings and styles a plasticine pop of ruggedly organic and excitingly abstract songs.
Fresh from a tour with with Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong and Duke Special, his debut EP Trading Things In is released on 21st July on The Lowest Layer Of The Trifle Recordings.
www.myspace.com/thevoluntarybutlerscheme

Plus support from local wonders - Walton Hesse
www.myspace.com/waltonhesse

From 8pm
£5 entry or email info@trof.co.uk for cheapo£3 guestlist

Retox, a new night to make Sunday’s more interesting, aims to bring you two of the best Manchester bands on the scene, gently sandwiched between three DJs bringing a rock and roll feast for your ears. Can’t say fairer than that. Like Elbow? Like Bob Dylan? Like The Beatles? Like Radiohead? Like the Arctic monkeys?. . . You’ll love Retox!

From 7pm
£5 entry

 Yellowdog’s myspace…
Gladeyes myspace… 

It’s free in, so no excuses!

From 9pm