Blog: There Goes the Fear

Anyone not in the know might have thought tonight was a joint headlining show. Such was the strength of main support, Manchester's The Answering Machine . We could use many phrases to describe them, however we'll nick one from a guy stood behind us to his mate: "They're like the Strokes if they'd been to Art School and didn't have money, together with Franz Ferdinand if they'd bunked off Art School or if they'd not spent years poncing around". Couldn't have put it better myself. Angular, fast paced and smartly dressed at first [...]

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