Blog: northern comfort

Hey up. Here's the latest bout of our radio show; episode 5 but this time Treva was ill, so Manchester soul scene veteran Andy Madhatter stepped in to spin some vinyl, and regale us with stories of the early MCR soul scene. As usual, I was drunk. I'm going to change. Click here to listen [...]

I've been meaning to write this for a while, but you know how it is. Like this site, it's much easier to do work for someone else than it is to do it for yourself - there's loads I need to finish off but it's always bottom of the list. Anyway. One of the great [...]

Yes exciting isn't it? First DJ 'gig' of the year in Manchester, with Barrie 'Striker' Leach. 73 vinyl only, 8-11, Bay Horse, Northern Quarter, Manchester. Free in, obv. Why not come down? Eh? WHY NOT?

And no thanks to the hackers. Fantastically, I got a malware installed on the website, which then went on to infect EVERYTHING on the same server. That was helpful, especially as, because I'm on a Mac most of the time I didn't notice. Thankfully the nice people at Sucuri sorted it out for me very quickly [...]

The latest podcast from me and Treva is up now on the podomatic site, with slightly less rambling nonsense than last time, but the same quality of ace tunes: Cymande - Genevieve Marcos Valle - Mentira Jon Lucien - Would you believe in me Kool and the Gang - Ouiji Barone-Burghardt Orchestra - Bumper thumper Joe Thomas - Mr Mumbles Pastor TL [...]

I got a promo email through today promoting another of Peter Hook's ventures, 'Hacienda Records UK'. Presumably because 'Factory Too' had already been taken. On the one hand it's fair enough that Hook is using his past to make a bit of money now, as if the endless Factory hype mill is to be believed [...]

This is pretty tremendous: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/w ebsites_stop

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Everyone's seen this right? I'm playing catch-up with the blog innit.

Oooh I'd better point out this site ConversionGate as it's one of the first that I've done for a client. Phillip is an ex-Google employee who has set up on his own as an analytics consultant. He got in touch wanting a custom Wordpress theme designing, as well as a simple logo for ConversionGate. If [...]

Hello again! Yes, it's changed a bit. Not finished yet, but better to get something up rather than nothing, right? If you've read the homepage first, you'll see why stuff has changed, though this bit, the blog, will remain pretty much the same. Here are a few things that we've done since the last stuff: Treva Whateva [...]

Hello! Hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year, I certainly did. Few things if you've a moment: First, the NC night at the Salutation is no longer - big up all who came down and played, and indeed everyone at the Sally. After two years we decided to have a change; though we're not sure [...]

Still not sure what I'm doing with NC, as per previous post. Still, here are a load of old tracks I did about 4-5 years ago, of varying quality, etc. All disclaimers apply. Still, if you get chance, have a listen. Ta. Kisses. http://soundcloud.com/northern comfort/tracks

2010 eh? Phew. At least 20 years after the death of vinyl was announced! Well, NC has been going for a while now; must be about 12 years since we first dj'ed as NC, and 10 since I set up this site. We've been doing the night at the Sally for the past 2 years, and [...]

Hey up. So - first off, massive, massive thanks to Pete Haigh for playing a brilliant set at NC the other week. I know that EVERY night says how great their guest was, etc, but I can genuinely say he played one of the best sets of 2009 at NC, and was a lovely guy to [...]

About 7-8 years ago Chopped Herring Records released one of my favourite Manchester hiphop tracks of all time, 'Out to Lunch' Which if you've not bought, you probably should. Then after that, they released my all time favourite cut-up album, "3 Sinister Syllables"; if you haven't heard it, you really should track it down. A full CD [...]

Last month we had Hewan Clarke on - one of my favourite DJs, and an absolute gentleman to boot. I won't bang on about Hewan's background, heritage, etc as I've done it before on here - suffice to say he's one of Manchester's DJ heroes, or fucking should be anyway. So - I kind of recorded [...]

Ah, heritage. Including Mr.December the last three guests we have hosted boast between them over 100 years experience of DJing. Talk about time served! We are indeed blessed, being mere minnows in the wide sea of music by comparison. DJs of such a fine vintage should really be reserved just for Christmas but hell, we've [...]

Since I installed Wordpress. Wows. SO - tomorrow night, Hewan Clarke, The Salutation Pub, 8-1, free. No hype. You either know or don't, will come or not. Funk/breaks/jazz/soul/vinyl/be er/yes.

A brand new night presented by superb Manchester basement club The Roadhouse (Electric Chair, Eyes Down, Cut Loose, Contort Yourself, Hoya Hoya) in which the full evening's DJ entertainment is handed over to one of the Djs that has seriously wowed this club and it's audience in the past. No warm ups, no short sets, just [...]