Helen O'Hara CAT Club event sold out within a few hours. If you'd like to join the waiting list, you can here: thecatclub.co.uk/whats-goin-on/
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There's a sudden rush on for this book at the moment. We can't find the source of it. It's global. Anyone seen anything in the last day or so?
'Any band that ever moaned about the freshness of the backstage towels should read this book.' Word Manu Chao talks about The Train of Ice and Fire, a borderline insane tour through Colombia with his band Mano Negra. His dad went along as chronicler.
Manu Chao talks about The Train of Ice and Fire
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Hot weather stops play. This Thursday's HMHB appreciation night at The CAT Club with Steve Hill and Paul Hanley has been postponed for a week. Now on 20th August. This means there's a few tickets newly available. Email contact@thecatclub.co.uk if you'd like to come.
If you want to walk around Manchester with Funky Si as your guide to the musical haunts, get on his Walking Tour. But don't hang around, spots are selling like hot cakes. More | funkysi.com
Paul Hanley's lists his Top Ten Manchester Venues for the freshly launched Cult Manchester. Questions about the omission of Free Trade Hall need to form an orderly queue behind Dave Nolan (and CP Lee). The anecdote about Nico is worth your click alone.
He's seen the light... Paul Hanley's Top Ten Manchester music venues.
Lost in music (venues). Author, drum botherer and ex-Fall guy Paul Hanley on his favourite Manchester gig venues.
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Out 21st September! Updated & with new photos & extra chapters including Dexys, Tim Burgess, The Bluebells, Tanita Tikaram & the magical Laugharne festival. New adventures & circles completed. www.route-online.com Cover design by leah@leahs-studio.art
Many thanks to all who have pre-ordered Friday Night Fever. This time next week we'll be processing books for despatch. We can't wait for people to start reading it. If you haven't ordered yet, the deadline to guarantee a numbered edition is Weds 12th August: www.route-online.com/all-books/fr...
Very exciting! Paperback release date 21st September. Extra chapters/new photos. Advance copies available from www.route-online.com
NEW FROM HOUSE Of ALL: The Best Of The Jest: BBC Sessions And More. A swansong, this limited edition CD features two Riley & Coe sessions for BBC 6 Music and three live songs from their final show at St. Stephen's Church in Ipswich. Hear sample tracks and pre-order here: houseofall.bandcamp.com
The deadline to guarantee a signed and numbered edition of Steve Hill's book Friday Night Fever: Inside The Cult Of Half Man Half Biscuit is Wednesday 12th August. We only issue them once. Please don't regret missing out | www.route-online.com/all-books/fr...
The Women of The Fall Weekender. A two-day celebration with live music, film, conversation and collaboration. Details here : events.humanitix.com/the-women-of...
Dub Sex | I Am Not Afraid | The Other Side of Midnight
Dub Sex - I Am Not Afraid - The Other Side of Midnight.
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Very pleased to be giving a presentation - talk with video and audio - here:
Summer Read Recommendation | Ramón Chao's dazzling novel tells the story of his grandmother's adventures in her native Galacia and Cuba, viewed through a magical realist lens. 'Chao brings an imaginative dimension to the story of emigration.' - El Mundo | www.route-online.com/all-books/be...
Just taken delivery of the top 3 of this stack. Absolutely buzzing, though not sure the breadknife is best pleased with my spending again. Cant wait to get stuck in! @routebooks.bsky.social @hanleypa.bsky.social
Ramón Chao positions the origins of magic realism in his native Galicia, Spain.
The Origins of Magic Realism - Ramón Chao
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OTD 40 years ago, Mark Hoyle and Cathy Brooks first show together, in a renewed Dub Sex. Read all about it: www.route-online.com/all-books/sw...
If you like deep history, this is an astonishing two-volume history of a village in Yorkshire.
Pit-folk and Peers: The Remarkable History of the People of Fryston
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Ian Anderson on the history of The Designers Republic (tdr), a radical, Sheffield based design house. Ian and tdr designed the paperback cover for Ian Clayton's Bringing It All Back Home.
‘We didn’t care what the client wanted!’: Sheffield’s Designers Republic on their art for Aphex Twin, Pulp … and Pringles
Their eye-popping designs burst out of Sheffield in 1986, making them the toast of the music scene. Founder Ian Anderson reveals why some fans think his art is worth remortgaging the house for
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Rob Barbato is the guest on the latest Oh! Brother podcast. High Fall content: Rob talks through the experience of The Dudes, the all-American line-up that came together to rescue a US tour and stayed on long enough to form lasting friendships and record Reformation Post TLC linktr.ee/Ohbrothershow
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ROUTE TV: Tom Hingley | Carpet Burns Tour Movie
Tom Hingley | Carpet Burns Tour Movie
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Another Louder treat in store for sure! Join us for Film Night: The Dave Bush Tapes - a film of The Fall on tour in the US 1993/94 Saturday 14th November, 8pm at The Innside, Manchester. All tickets and info: tinyurl.com/mht6bw52
OTD in 2013, Tom Hingley appeared at Deer Shed Festival on his Carpet Burns Book Tour. There was a Q&A with Dave Simpson followed by a full solo set. Here's 'Leaving It All Behind' from the set.
Tom Hingley - Leaving It All Behind
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The extended paperback edition of Helen O'Hara's memoir includes a new section to include her full playing career. It's the beautiful story of one of Britain's most prominent violinists. We have advance copies in stock if you'd like the be the first to read it | www.route-online.com/all-books/wh...
