northern comfort

Never heard of this guy until he appeared on Mock The Week, this week. Seriously funny.
Here’s his Mock The Week routine.

And here’s one from the Comedy store.

Last month was a bit of a cracker with That Amazing Thing; we had breakdancing in the bar, and a Parisian beatbox champion providing beats for an impromptu rap battle in the car park.
September sees us play host to two more DJs forsaking their usual main room antics in favour of musical avenues maybe a [...]

Featuring Megan Washington. Out now on a 7, with the flip feat TY and is also rather super. Album to follow soon on Tru Thoughts.

Featuring Alice Russell.
Hot Hot What What.

Out This coming Mondiddle. (That’ll be the 15th Sept.) Think you might just need this one somehows.

The return if DOOM on Jake-one’s forthcoming LP on Rhymesayers.

I like that shit.

Im feeling fragile, so the rest of this is cut and paste, but hopefully some of you will like the sounds of these upcoming events…

5 TRULY LEGENDARY MANCHESTER DJ’S - BACK TOGETHER AFTER 25 YEARS!
Calling all dance music aficionados. You may never again get the chance to see such an impressive gathering of seminal Manchester [...]

This Sunday (24th August), sees Leeds super club New Bohemia land in Manchester, bringing a touch of Carnival spirit with it, hoping to brighten up our (most likely) rainy Bank Holiday weekend. New Bohemia has been going on since 2004, with some fantastic guests over the years, bringing the very best in Hiphop, Funk, Soul, [...]

It has indeed been a while since i heard some good new hip hop. Maybe i haven’t been looking it the right places. Maybe i haven’t been looking at all, i certainly have been getting much more excited by other genres of music other that HH of late. Or maybe I’m just getting old. Whatever. [...]

When its right its very very right-
Stevie Wonder on Sesame Street singing ‘Superstition’

When its wrong its very very wrong-
James Blunt on Sesame Street singing ‘My Triangle’ to the tune of ‘You’re Beautiful’

Ok, so the new Platinum Pied Pipers single is out this week and its sounding pretty damn hot. In a departure from the sound of the last album, ‘On
A Cloud’ is a upbeat and funky take on the Motown sound of their home city of Detroit. Anyway here a little video of the behind the [...]

Now for some reason i always had it in my head that Carlton from the Fresh Prince was exactly the same in real life, its not the case as this vid proves. He had his own learn how to breakdance video, check all the stuff you get with it. Big shout to Mr Andy Vee [...]

Hooray! A second 4 track EP from Onra & Quetzal’s tribute album has been released. Regular readers will know that were big fans of their work here at NC, the tribute CD and EP 1 were out way back at the beginning of last year and i didn’t think we would see any more tunes [...]