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Hecklerplay- Bring Me the Horizon Live in Manchester

August 5th, 2012 By Si Sharp

During the summer if the heat gets too much, rather that buy a fan, consider inviting much-lauded Australian noise-merchants Parkway Drive over to play a quick set. We've never been cooled down by the breeze coming from speakers twenty metres away every time the bass drum is kicked.

Their career-spanning set got a reaction worthy of a headliner from the young audience. They alternated between punk-paced metal noise and sludgy breakdowns which conveniently let the old-timers do some slow-motion moshing.

There are few bands dividing people in the metal scene quite like Sheffield?s Bring Me The Horizon. Examine any left-of-centre genre and you\’ll always find the band that makes people sneer.

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HecklerPlay: Interpol- Live in Manchester

August 5th, 2012 By Si Sharp

Unlike their fellow New Yorkers that broke at the start of the last decade, Interpol have run a marathon rather than a sprint.

The Strokes were the band of their generation with the sound of the time, and their subsequent career is often looked, unfairly, through the prism of that brief moment when they were everywhere.

Interpol?s long game seems to be paying off. They are almost at that safe stage where they can maintain indie credibility and healthy sales, at least for an alternative band. All they have to do is keep releasing good quality albums and they?ll become part of the rock furniture. The question is whether that's enough for them.

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