Welcome to "Under the Pavement", Manchester's radical/ alternative radio show broadcast every Thursday from 11.00pm until 1.00am on ALL FM 96.9, a community radio station for south, central and east Manchester, England.

"Under the Pavement" is presented by three vegan anarchists, David, Spike and Lauren and has been broadcasting for over six years. The show brings you regular guests and interviews, news from Indymedia, what's on guide and reports on direct action and grass roots resistance in the Manchester area.

The music is an alternative/ leftfield eclectic playlist covering punk, folk, experimental, indie, hip hop, electronica and pop.

Tune in every Thursday from 11.00pm until 1.00am on ALL FM 96.9 across south, central and east Manchester and online at www.allfm.org.

The Music Network is open to all on Thursday 24th June 2010

The Meeting will be lead this month by Mark Badger from 4pm til 6pm at Millennium Point, Curzon Street, Birmingham, B4 7XG

I work as a Driver / Tour Manager and help bands find just about everything else tour related.

I am a Driver / TM and I can find the best Vehicle for your tour (Splitter, Gear Van, Car, Minibus etc)

Email or Call for more info: Mark: (+44) O7974-746-8IO

I can also help you with: Merchandise, Production, Backline, Crew, Rehearsal, Recording, Press, Promotion.

Most of my work is based around Driving and or Tour Management in the Music Industry but I have also worked with the Theatre and Film Industry.

I have played in all sorts of bands myself over the years, I’ve organised 1000’s of gigs in Birmingham, I’ve set up tours, managed bands, put together press kits, pr and promotion strategies, worked out online strategies for artists big and small, i run a record label, and i’ve dealt with all sorts of madness along the way. I’ve taken a lot of people to a lot of gigs from small venues, squats, warehouses, TV and Radio Stations to major music venues and festivals.

Police Bastard, Selfless and War/System
Sunday 27 June 2010 at 8:00pm

http://ironmanrecords.net

The Old Wharf
21 Oxford St.
Digbeth, Birmingham B55NR
United Kingdom
Iron Man Records, Monkey Business, Ovation Music Management, Musoplex Studios and Badger Promotions are proud to present a Money Burning Live Music festival of Punk, Metal and Crust Music:

Police Bastard will be playing songs from the new CD “It’s Good To Hate…” (Iron Man Records 2010) and a selection of tunes from Traumatized and perhaps a few choice covers too.

Selfless will be supplying addicts with some 4 piece insane politically and socially charged hardcore punk crust grindcore lying somewhere between Black Flag/Heresy/Discharge…and War/System will be greeting punters with their own brand of political punk metal crust. The gig will be free to get in but we may have to pass a glass round at some point to find some cash to pay the sound engineer.

Devil In the Detail – The Nightingales (Single, 2005)
This is The Nightingales flexing their muscles, going for an almost Pistols-like power, whilst Robert Lloyd adopts an almost Iggy-like drawl on top of it all. My Single of 2005.

Rocket Pool Via Rough Hills – The Nightingales (Out Of True LP, 2006)
Silver Machine-like noises over an Eddie Cochran riff and a beat to die for from their then new drummer Daren Garrett. Wonderful stuff!

Music Supported Here is a new movement from the Musicians’ Union.
It’s a campaign for all musicians.

It’s about the simple but important principle that musicians should
not get ripped-off in the digital world.

For musicians, it will be a way to publicise and debate the issue
and to remind fans that you want to control your rights.

It’s a platform for musicians to raise their profile and direct their fans to
their own stores and websites: a source of music controlled by the musicians.

And for music fans it’s a way to say that you don’t rip-off musicians.

By supporting musicians' rights, we’re supporting music.

The new Life in A Blender site now includes a storefront where you can buy all the band's music, in physical or digital form.

Check out the rarities on Mysterious Floating. Songs you never thought or wished existed–now you can own them!

You can also stream the entire catalog in case you like to try before you buy. Our music is available at iTunes, Amazon, etc, but directly from our website is the… best deal for you and for us, so come on by.

Visit the site often for news about shows and exclusive goodies. For instance, right now we're giving away a FREE (or pay-what-you-wish) download of a brand-new recording, HOOT OWL, from our forthcoming full-length album.

Buy some stuff and you'll play a mighty role in helping us finish our new CD and you'll be awesome!!

The site was designed by Mark Lerner, Life in a Blender's bassist.

Manchester’s number one budget Splitter bus hire company. We have a wide range of vehicles to suit most needs for the transportation of bands in E.U and beyond.

Starting with 9-14 seater splitter bus with DVD, flat screens, game consoles, etc. All our vehicles come with high quality leather recliners and very secure back line space.

We have trailers to suit all our vehicles.

I have a weird relationship with Last Under The Sun. I love the idea, the lyrics and artwork, but have never found them an easy listen.

Considering most of them are in Police Bastard they are much more melodic than you’d expect, but over the years their sense of melody and the superbly-crafty songs have slowly, but surely grown on me.

The vocals do not make the listening experience any easier. They hold an almost spoken word quality about them that breaks into a shout on songs such as Summers Day and, again, they may take a while to grow on you.

A fiver for a new Police Bastard EP and DVD which clocks in at well over an hour is a bargain you really can’t do without. The fact it’s released as a tribute to Trogg, who used to play bass for the band, but sadly died in 2008 is another reason, should you need one, to part with your ill-gotten cash.

The third reason is it’s bastard good.

The five-track CD contains a Mob cover (I Wish), which I much prefer to the original (never really got into The Mob), the fucking awesome hardcore punk of God Off and the infectious riff of The Lie. Before this week, Poundaflesh and Slipknot’s Iowa CD were my “pissed off” albums – you know those CDs you play to exorcise all that pent up brutality and fury, now there’s a third CD to add to the list!

I guess, for those who haven’t heard the band, Poundaflesh isn’t a bad reference point – those and Doom will do, if you must have lazy comparisons.

It’s fucking well produced and tight as fuck too.

Interview with Robert Anton Wilson by Fly Agaric 23 fom 10th September 2002 published in Maybe Quarterly Vol 3 Issue 3 Autumn 2006

Born out of Leuven-Belgium’s activist squatting scene in 2004, Cop On Fire have been putting up festive foundations of pumping drums and sub-bass dub supporting their local scene. Local in this case is as global as a good part of Europe as C.O.F. toured between Scotland and Slovakia, though never playing Kortessem. Consisting of 4 people who have a heart for dub, ska, punk and protest-songs alike, C.O.F. uses these influences to recreate feelings from daily life: sticking it to The Man, taking a stand for Mother Earth, opening the bin for bigoted morality and xenophobia of all kinds…Oh, and we don’t like cops. Reclaim The Streets, opening autonomous social centres, Antifascist Action, sustainable living, … action backed up by the flow of drum and bass, a guitar crossing musical boundaries all thrown in a mix of effects and echoes from the underbelly of society – the samples. DIY has been more than a label to the band as we've played just about anywhere

OVATION MUSIC MANAGEMENT & PROMOTIONS IS PRIVILEGED TO REPRESENT 8 OF THE MOST DEDICATED AND TALENTED BANDS IN THE MIDLANDS. IN ADDITION, OVATION IS NOW PROMOTING FREE ROCK/METAL/ALTERNATIVE NIGHTS AT THE OLD WHARF, DIGBETH AND BI-MONTHLY SHOWCASES AT THE SLADE ROOMS, WOLVERHAMPTON