Sep 1 2004 Surferosa Profile

The Line-up Mariann (vocals/keyboards), Kjetil (guitar), JR (drums), Andy (keyboards) and Ziggy (bass)
The History Having formed in 2001, Surferosa spent a year perfecting their “synth-punk” sound in an old shipyard, before setting it loose on the Norwegian rock scene. Extensive touring and a series of EPs […]

Sep 1 2004 Squarepusher Profile

The Line-up Tom Jenkinson. That is all.
The History Squarepusher began releasing music through the Spymania label back in 1995 (these tracks were later released by Warp Records as the Burningn’n Tree album). In 1996, he joined Richard James’s (Aphex Twin) Rephlex label and put out his […]

Sep 1 2004 Graham Coxon Profile

The Line-up Well, it’s Graham Coxon - he does it all. However, on The Kiss Of Morning, he was backed up by Louis Vause (Piano, Fender Rhodes and Hammond) and BJ Cole (Pedal Steel).
The History Graham began his rise to fame in a band called Blur, formed […]

Sep 1 2004 Skalpel Profile

The Line-up Skalpel are Marcin Cichy and Igor Pudlo, from Wroclaw, Poland. The pair are talented DJs, who have had four mixes aired on Ninja Tune’s Solid Steel radio show over the last two years but they have come via the music they create out of […]

Sep 1 2004 On The Set Of 24hr Party People

Well it’s been far too many years since I was last in the holy house of the North; that’s the Haçienda for the uneducated. And when it too had succumbed to the housing development of Manchester, I thought I’d never have the opportunity to tread the most famous boards in clubland again.
I’d been a patron […]