CALL AND RESPONSE

THE LONGCUT/WE START FIRES /KLAXONS PLAY CLWB IFOR BACH, MAY 12TH

Signed to Deltasonic, the label that spawned The Coral and The Zutons, The Longcut are part of a new wave of Manchester youth rejecting their home city’s baggy musical legacy in favour of a clanging, Sonic Youth-influenced alt-rock sound. Live sets simmer with energy, thanks chiefly to frontman Stuart Ogilvie, who darts between microphone, drum machine and live drum-kit with a driven urgency, but importantly, beneath the fizzing dynamics, debut album ‘A Call And Response’ boasts a suite of songs that threaten to become mini-classics.

Support on the night comes from electro-punks We Start Fires and new NME darlings Klaxons. Tickets are available now from Spillers Records and Clwb.net, priced at £8.50