The Castle Hotel on Oldham Street will have the likes of Phil Beckett, Nev Cottee and Mike Joyce snuggled in the snug for Saturday and Sunday, playing loads of their favourite tunes and doing interviews and live sessions with the bands and artists we've got on the bill.

So - if YOU want to be a part of the radio show, GET IN TOUCH!!

Bring your guitar along, bring your demo CD, bring your fully produced album... whatever you want to do to plug your band...

We're all about support and plugging new and exciting things from Manchester and the Northern Quarter, so GET INVOLVED...!!

Drop us a line and let us know if you're interested, and we can put you on the bill:

miz.mapsfestival@gmail.com OR ben@taylorjohnson.co.uk

MAPS Festival Busking is a series of random musical and performance spots throughout the Northern Quarter, over the Saturday and Sunday of MAPS weekend.

If you're interested in coming along to show off your talents, get in touch - the Festival is all about creativity, so as long as you don't upset the local council or risk any lives we'll be happy for you to come along and entertain the crowds!

The pitches are available all afternoon, and sets are recommended to be 15-20 minutes long, but you can do as many as you want.  Obviously there won't be any power and you'll be in the open air, so think your set through before coming along, but do bring anything battery powered if you like.

Last year we had the wonderful Travelling Band on the corner of Tib Street, as well as Kev Fox and The Paris Riots who are now on tour across Europe, and lots of other colourful performers, including circus jugglers!

This year we've got Mrs Boon's Tea Party on Thomas Street and Fashion markets again on Tib Street, so if you fancy yodelling to shoppers or dancing around cake-eating couples drop us a line!

Email: miz.mapsfestival@gmail.com before Wednesday 29th April to confirm your slot - you DO NOT have to be playing MAPS Festival already!

THURSDAY 30th April:

Band On The Wall (fringe event)

Sonic Journey – a musical and social history walk with John Robb

Band on the Wall is back! Manchester’s iconic venue kicks off its new education and outreach programme at MAPS Festival.

Soundroutes is an exploration of the city’s Northern Quarter on a tour led by Manchester musician, writer and broadcaster John Robb.

Children from local primary schools will join him and take in the sights, sounds and scenes of the quarter from its rich music history to the bustling and bohemian pathways that intersect it at every corner. While doing so they will record what they encounter along the way and transform it into an online account of the area in sound, vision and text.

FRIDAY / SATURDAY / SUNDAY

For public to participate in the walk and investigate!  Record your journeys through the Northern Quarter, at MAPS gigs and elsewhere in the area then upload to our gallery creating a visual representation of people’s adventures!

Cup Café & Gallery                                                       

http://www.myspace.com/welovecups

NICK RHODES EXHIBITION

www.switchopen.com

Launch evening 18:00

Exhibition on until end of April

FREE

Café and Gallery open daily - 08:00-18:00                       

The Rock Poster (or Gigposter to use American terminology) can, in the modern world, be regarded as Art with a capital "A". It’s a movement populated by risk-takers producing exciting work on canvas, plastic, velvet, metal, and wood, silk-screened, litho printed, woodblock printed, spattered, photocopied and collaged.

Nick Rhodes is one of these risk-takers - a Mancunian gig poster designer, who has been creating hand screen printed pieces since 2000.  He’s worked with bands such as Queens Of The Stone Age, Elbow and Ian Brown to name but a few, and now brings a unique collection of his work to MAPS and Cup for this special 8 week exhibition.

FRIDAY 1^st May:

Frog & Bucket

http://www.thefrogandbucket.com

The Frog and Bucket is Manchester's original alternative comedy club and over the past 15 years has helped produce an impressive wealth of comedy including Johnny Vegas and Peter Kay. It's also picked up multiple awards including "Best Venue - Northwest Comedy Awards 2006" and "I Love Manchester Award - North West Tourism Awards 2008" to name but two. If you want a laugh, it's gotta be the Frog!

FRIDAY

19:30-02:00

£14 / £6 concession

Barrel Of Laughs - MC Chris Ramsey Presents… Steve Royle Steve Shanyaski & guest

Say MAPS when booking for concessionary rate and show your MAPS ticket on arrival.

SATURDAY

19:30-02:00

£14

Barrel Of Laughs - MC Chris Ramsey Presents… Steve Royle Steve Shanyaski & guest

MONDAY

19:00-02:00

FREE

Beat The Frog - MC Chris Ramsey, open mic

Mooch Art Gallery

FRIDAY / SATURDAY / SUNDAY

10:00-17:00                                                                   

FREE

Founded in 2007, Mooch Art is the most exciting and forward thinking gallery in Manchester, displaying artwork from emerging talent. 

Focusing on original and quality wall art, Mooch has something for all tastes and budgets and currently has an exhibition featuring Barry Spence, Victoria Tsekidou and Victoria Ashworth.

SATURDAY 2^nd May:

An Outlet

The Northern Quarter’s newest deli and independent licensed coffee house brings us an evening of film and fun.  Find them at77 Dale Street, Northern Quarter, telephone 0161 236 3043.

19:30-23:30

Art Farty Film Party

Manchester Craft And Design Centre

http://www.craftanddesign.com 

10:00-20:00                                                                   

UK CRAFT MAFIA exhibition is on it’s last day, and the MCAD guys are having an arty crafty celebration, with activities throughout the afternoon and some delightful acoustic music to end.

Music from 15:00-17:00                                                                                                        

Nexus Arts Café

Open daily - 10:00-19:00

Nexus is a not-for-profit community space that facilitates an exciting and varied arts programme including exhibitions, live music events and theatre.  They host numerous groups and classes such as a film discussion group, a life-drawing class and a knitting group!

Art Workshop 13:00 (Saturday only)

The public are invited to come along and get involved with the latest art exhibition, creating a paper sculpture to go in the window box installation space at the front of our cafe, make your own spontaneous art exhibition!

The current exhibition, on until the first week in June is a student show entitled "Interdependence" and is a mix of painting, sculpture and found objects.
                                                                                    

SATURDAY night / SUNDAY morning

2.00-6.00am

FREE

Night Café

With StukaSoul Collective presenting DJ Mauricer, live music and drawing.

Nexus encourage night owls into the cafe to have a nice brew and some healthy food before calling a cab from their approved firm and getting home safe and sound.

Odd Bar

All afternoon in the basement cinema

Odd are digging out a brilliant selection of classic funny and scary films for punters to enjoy whilst supping and eating.

Radio Republic @ The Castle Hotel                              

SATURDAY & SUNDAY

11:00-02:00

Manchester’s newest radio team from Radio Republic are taking up residence in the snug for the Festival weekend – come and have a pint with them, some of the artists and bands, and listen in on interviews, live sessions and some local band’s demos.

Tib Street Fashion Market

10:00 – 17:00

Designer-makers bring a choice of hand-made leather goods, jewellery and unique clothes from the likes of Me&Yu and other Affleck’s Palace stall holders.

TV21

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mrs-Boons-Cakes/22923394727

15:00-18:00                                                                   

Mrs Boon’s weekly tea party event – tea, cake and lovely live music!

Busking Pitches & Street Performance

SATURDAY / SUNDAY

We’ve got some nice outdoor spaces for our performers to entertain you whilst on your travels through the Northern Quarter!

- Tib Street near Fashion Market - area gateway               

- Smithfield next to Bluu Bar                                          

- Stephenson Square next to the Koffee Pot                   

- Thomas Street next to brush sculpture (with Mrs Boon’s Tea Party)

 SUNDAY 3^rd May:

Cord                                                                            

SUNDAY

13:00-01:00

12 – hour DJ showcase

‘A Reet Rum Sunday Doo 2’

With some of Manchester’s most prominent DJs having a good old Sunday knees up.

Night & Day

Open daily for food - 10:00-18:00                                  

Listen04 labels himself as an artist and graphic designer, Listen04 has exhibited across the UK and Europe.  Check out the website at  www.listen04.co.uk we really like this guy!!  The exhibition is loosely called 'Some old and new paintings by Listen04'.

13:00-16:00

FILMONIK Presents a collection of Film Short from their archive of North West based film makers and directors.

Thomas Street – at the Brush Sculpture

15:00-17:00                                                                    

FREE

Mrs Boon's Tea Party

The famous rock n roll cake party, with busking, bunting and a jubilee style outdoor knees-up!

MONDAY 4^TH May:

Odd Bar 

Open daily 10:00 – 23:00

http://www.oddbar.co.uk

SKETCH CITY’S Sketchbook Sessions:

20:00 – close

An evening for artists and art lovers with live art and discussion with Hammo (current exhibiting artist).  Join us for an evening of drinking, drawing and dancing with DJ Jonny Dub. Sketchbooks, pens and pencils provided but bring your own and show off your skills!!

TUESDAY 5^th May: 

Urbis (fringe event)

18:00 – 23:00

£2.00                                                                            

Manchester launch of John Robb’s new book ‘The North Will Rise Again’

With Clint Boon taking a Q&A session and some appropriately Mancunian music!

For Arts queries contact: clare.mapsfestival@gmail.com

Music Listings:

CORD SUNDAY A Reet Rum Sunday Doo 2 FREE From 1pm With Rob Bright (Bugged Out), Greg Lord (WHP), Detroit Public Radio DJs and more, for a 12 hour spectacular

DRY BAR SATURDAY Glasswerk Events (www.glasswerk.co.uk) £5.00 ADV 19:30 Billy Ruffian 20:15 Venetia & The Voltage 21:00 The Yosarians 21:45 Picture Book 22:30 Beggar Joe

JOE'S BAR FRIDAY Nuclear FREE Live music from 7pm

HILTON CHAMBERS LAUNDRETTE SATURDAY A bit of a twist FREE 18:00 Matthew Childs 18:45 Robin Mukherjee 19:30 Nick Connors

MANCHESTER CRAFT & DESIGN CENTRE SATURDAY FREE 15:00 Graeme Ross/Midhopstones 15:45 Louis Barabbas 16:30 Risa Hall & Band

NEXUS ARTS CAFÉ - Night Café Acoustic / DJs / drawing SATURDAY/SUNDAY FREE 02:00 DJ Mauricer 06:00 CLOSE

NIGHT & DAY FRIDAY £6.00 adv/£8.00 on the door DOORS 7pm 19:30 Petty Thief 20:15 Albany Throws 21:00 Jake Flowers 21:45 Alessi's Ark 22:30 Liam Frost

SATURDAY £6.00 adv/£8.00 on the door DOORS 7.30pm 20:00 Romanov 20:45 Little Volcanoes 21:30 Suzuki Method 22:15 Orphan Boy 23:00 Officer Kicks DJ Russ Wood til late

SUNDAY £7.00 adv/£9.00 on the door DOORS 7pm 19:15 Last Of The Kiskadees 20:00 Sycamore 20:45 Spokes 21:30 iLiKETRAiNS

ODD BAR SUNDAY Your Mama’s Cookin’ FREE From 7pm with Delta Maid

MONDAY Hammo & DJs FREE From 7pm with Jonny Dub/Ryan Hunn (SketchCity/Hoya:Hoya)

PICCADILLY GARDENS HOTEL SATURDAY £5.00 19:30 Catfish & The Bottlemen 20:15 Strange Ways 21:00 DBOTG 21:45 Deadbeat Echoes 22:30 The Jade Assembly

ROADHOUSE FRIDAY RAC Presents £5.00 DOORS 8pm With: The Naughty's The Score Danny Mahon

THE BAY HORSE SUNDAY The Country Club #23 £5.00 15:30 tbc 16:10 Andy Needham 16:50 Risa Hall & Band 17:30 The Ambersons 18:10 The Ragamuffins 18:50 Ash Mountain 19:30 The Velvetines 20:15 Cheap Cuts 21:00 Hard Luck Child 21:45 The Black Marquee

MONDAY The Country Club's Springtime BBQ £5.00 15:30 Eleanor Lou 16:10 I Am Blackbird 16:50 Dan Melrose 17:30 Samson & Delilah 18:10 The Hi & Lo 18:50 Butler-Williams 19:30 Lucy & The Caterpillar 20:15 Delta Maid 21:00 Kathryn Edwards 21:45 The Yellhounds

THE RUBY LOUNGE FRIDAY Lost & Found £5.00 DOORS 8pm With: Baddies Airship Egyptian Hip Hop The Sticks Satellite Club DJ Mr Bill Ryder-Jones (The Coral)

SUNDAY/MONDAY MAPS FESTIVAL AFTER PARTY!!! 04:00 FINISH £5.00 ADV - ADVANCE TICKETS ONLY 23:15 Black Velvet Band 00:00 The Jannocks 00:45 The Brute Chorus 01:15 Fat City DJs

MONDAY Glasswerk Events (www.glasswerk.co.uk) £8.00 ADV DOORS 7.30pm Ginger (Wildhearts) with support from Vagner Love

Weekend ticket holders have FREE ENTRY into every MAPS Festival show, with limited entry into promoter shows, check for details...x

Check out this link - http://www.highvoltage.org.uk/displaydemoreview.asp?num=3718&band=2275 or read the full article from the HV peeps below:

MAPS Festival 2008 - In Review

It was a long weekend. Saturday had some lovely sunshine (Bay Horse beer garden then) whilst Sunday was overcast but warm nonetheless. Monday was dead nice if I recall rightly. Enough about the weather though, what about the music? Roving and venue hopping, it's over to Percy...


FRIDAY

Putting on three days of gigs to promote all that's good about a local music scene can be a bit of a risky thing to do; the problem being that most local scenes do not have three days worth of bands decent enough to warrant such an event. Covering event like this can also be something of a challenge. With over twelve venues and 200 acts to choose from where does one start?

God's Gift were my introduction to MAPS and I'm still trying to decide if it was a fitting one. They are best described as an ironic Christian Rock band, consisting of two blokes with acoustic guitars and a warped sense of humour. Not warped in a bad way necessarily – I laughed along with them and their throng of guffawing friends a number of times but as the set went on the same joke was given a different polish and it became tarnished.

I decanted myself to Dry Bar where three stages had been installed for the weekend. Downstairs, I put up with the toilet stench long enough to watch Sloganeer, their main message seemingly being "sorry it's a bit lame, we're normally much louder but we're doing it acoustically tonight", which was a bit unnecessarily self-deprecating as their accordion-enhanced songs were perfectly amenable. Back upstairs on stage one, Cine suffered from their sound being diluted completely by the warehouse-style space, the first band of many to fall that fate over the course of the weekend.

Over at Centro, Armrug filled half an hour with some punky-pop, followed by Light Syndicate, whose intelligent, involved music lacked the essential bite that the masters of that particular craft have (I'm looking at you, Radiohead). Kid British & The Action Manky finished my Friday night off back in Dry Bar with a thoroughly engaging mix of ska, hip hop, punk and pretty much everything else.


SATURDAY

Saturday afternoon could be perceived as the graveyard shift but the size and enthusiasm of the audience in Ruby's Lounge contradicted that sentiment. It's a shame that Kranius didn't match up to that enthusiasm. Tight, very heavy rock it might have been but judging by the looks on half of the bands faces they'd rather have been anywhere but there. Mantric Hatters surprised by being much more enjoyable. The young threesome were, by contrast, the epitome of enthusiasm. It all needs reigning in a bit to be fair and the good ideas need tidying up, but there's certainly potential there.

Over in the Mint Lounge Lazy Fader delivered their raw hip-hop with an almost aggressive confidence, the two MCs taking turns to spit their rhymes into our faces with force. Their flow and rhythm were excellent, enhanced by some clever guitar breaks, if a little limited. A quick stop back at the Dry Bar allowed me to catch The Slow Readers Club (acceptable indie-pop), The Chase (too timid for my liking) and All The Kings Men – again, perfectly enjoyable but never really getting past that seemingly hard to break through beige indie/pop ceiling that so many bands seem to be banging their heads against.

A virtually empty Moho Live hosted The Planets, whose energy filled some of the gap left by the poor turn out and so my MAPS festival ended where it started - in Joe's – for How's My Pop, who entertained on a level that summed up the whole experience for me; enjoyable to a point with some nice ideas but nothing that really stood out and excited.

(PH)


SATURDAY pt. II

There is surely no better way to kickstart a music festival than with a rock opera from a ukulele quartet. With dancing girls, showtunes and a bistro owner from Salford who used to make budget porn films, Thingumajigs' Rock Opera was surprisingly family-centric. Even the most committed of music snobs succumbed to pantomime booing, and who can argue with morally upstanding lyrics like "The magic begins, ten minutes in / When we've told you that video piracy is tantamount to the-e-e-e-eft…"

Continuing on the novelty trail, Dr Butler's Hatstand Medicine Band bring a taste of the delta to Moho Live alongside their kazoos and washboards, and local favourite Gideon Conn teaches an increasingly animated crowd the actions to his 'Electricity' a cappella.

At the Roadhouse, The Black Velvet Band are all high-kicks and frantic strumming with choruses emulating the pant of a dog, but any unbridled abandon is countered by the incredible holler of their female vocalist, who softens the coarseness with deep rolling soul, before Little Tremors arrive to give us all a smack in the chops. Their frontwoman is a roaring, snarling, passionate superstar that women want to be and men want to… you know. Rocking in the same way that early Riot Grrrl rocked, they bash out super-charged heavyweight punk to which there is little resistance. Nobody envies Walton Hesse having to follow that, but the ensuing half-hour evolves into a hootenanny; Gram Parsons and Linda Ronstadt playing with Lynyrd Skynyrd's rhythm section. The Roadhouse is clearly getting its money's worth from the time machine.

Finishing Saturday off with a bang (or fifty) are Ten Bears, who can make a Bob Dylan cover sound like Black Sabbath, and who become more electrifying with every gig. Having carved out a niche for themselves as The Deadbeats, sitting on rocking chairs and stamping their feet, tonight they begin with several seconds of brilliantly mind-bending synth. It's loud and sweaty and well past our bedtimes.


SUNDAY

On Sunday, TV21 hosted a unique performance from Canadian composer, Gabriel Minnikin. Today he has assembled a 17-piece orchestra; a veritable supergroup of local talent featuring members of Polytechnic, Cortina Deluxx, and Bone-box, amongst the wealth of violin maestros and trumpeters. With an unexplained darkness to his music, Minnikin almost slurs his gravelly Lou Reed lyrics, while the complexity of each arrangement transforms simple melodies into expansive Hitchcock scores. It's hard not to be a little perturbed by the sci-fi prosthetics on display...


MONDAY

Running between The Bay Horse's all-day barbeque and For Folk's Sake's spoken word at Cup, Monday is rather more fraught than the chilled tunes would suggest. The Chimps wind things up into a veritable frenzy of bumpkin wedding reception swing-your-pardner hick-rock, but the unpretentious songs of Petty Thief are much gentler on the ear. Manchester's answer to Bob Dylan, Petty Thief's subtle humour shines. Perhaps the parents in the room would have preferred a censored version of "your job's fucking shite and your boss is a tosser", but there are few complaints.

Over at Cup, The Bees' Niece play some deliciously twee folk, and a song dedicated to a bike thief recalls the carefree madness of Soko, but Ivan Campo are soon calling us back down the road. I can say with some certainty that they are the best ever band to be named after a former Bolton Wanderers player. With a campfire philosophy, they swap guitars, bang at the tablas and have a whole box of interesting things to shake and rattle. If Peter, Björn and John destroyed your perceptions of the whistle, Ivan Campo may just rekindle the joy.

Later, Jay Jay Pistolet exchanged the Bay Horse's microphone with something resembling a showerhead, but the gorgeous megaphone crackle created luscious music-hall acoustics. Despite some dead air space where a band should be, his modest love songs wrapped up the weekend with poignancy. See you next year?

(MV)

MAPS Festival @ Northern Quarter

MUSIC Arts Poetry and Stuff, aka MAPS Festival, rocked into Manchester on May Bank Holiday weekend.

Over 200 bands took to the stages in venues across the Northern Quarter to launch this new creative break through festival.

From acoustic street sets by The Travelling Band to die hard death metal fans there was something for everyone, it was just a case of crawling the bars to find a hidden gem.

Just when you thought head banging had died a death along with leather trousers, the Ruby Lounge offered up a back-to-back duo of female fronted heavy metal goth rockers.

Screeching into action Incassum took to the stage led by a feisty vamp with graveyard vocals.

Before handing over control to Gone Till Winter whose haunted house intro paved the way for selection of soundtracks that seemed to have been stolen from teen slasher flicks.

Nevertheless it would be hard to deny the lead singers vocal ability captured amidst the band's eerie possessed puppetry.

The undisputed diamond in the rough could only be Shanty Town who played the Dry Bar on Saturday night.

Hailing from Salford the group of local lads got the party started when they took to the stage.

Charismatic front man Paul Edwards' enthusiasm and swagger rallied a heaving posse of adoring fans and kamikaze crowd surfers.

Chanting, cheering and causing security some trouble Shanty Town stole the show,

Literally ending on a high the lead singer was carried aloft by the crowd and didn't even miss a note before finishing their set.

Fast, furious and difficult to pigeonhole, slightly punky part indie, but impossible to dislike, Shanty Town are undoubtedly an undiscovered talent.

Meanwhile, back in the bat cave, First Black President at The Castle proved to be a hit with the intellectuals, improvising with their use of drumsticks, which seemed like a novel attempt to mask the high pitched feedback.

Ten Bears made a truck stop at Roadhouse to drop some dirty bass lines and one or two cabaret intros.

The folk funk five piece with a country edge headlined the venue stomping out tunes to keep the audience entertained with the help of their own superstar compare.

Sunday afternoon took a mellower tone with flute folk fusion from Risa Hall at Mr Scruff's cup cake hangout.

Plugging in and tuning up, the gigs rolled on throughout bank holiday Monday before the working week kicked back in; and although musicians seemed to out number visitors at MAPS, this creative showcase has all the potential to gain a reputation as a hub for the best of Manchester talent.

Me&Yu is Angie and Gordon - a boyfriend-girlfiend team.

Me&Yu specialise in printed streetwear - t-shirts, hoodies and sweatshirts but also create a range of limited edition dresses. All their clothes are hand-made or hand-printed by the duo (with a little help with sewing) in our Manchester studio.

Each piece is worked on by hand so every garment you purchase from Me&Yu has it's own unique and distinct quality. Screen-printing each garment by hand creates a unique finish - it's like creating a unique piece of art every time! 

The usual Me & Yu street market will be on this Saturday, at the gateway to the Northern Quarter, Tib Street (Piccadilly end) and on Sunday and Monday for more shopping at TV21 (Thomas Street)

"Me&Yu - it's not just a fashion label it's our life! "

Me&Yu can be found at:
www.myspace.com/lovemeandyu

Me&Yu
Afflecks
3rd Floor
Church Street, Manchester
Open Monday to Saturday 10.30am to 6pm
Tel: 0161 8390399

UPGRADE YOUR SINGLE EVENT TICKETS TO DAY / WEEKEND TICKETS

With about 250 bands, poets, artists etc to see we're sure a lot of you will come to MAPS to see a few bands and then realise you want to stay the whole weekend...

...so we're offering all MAPS Festival goers with a single event ticket the chance to upgrade to day or weekend tickets at each of the main venues throughout the weekend simply by paying the difference

* Single event tickets are £4/£6
* Day tickets are priced at £10
* Weekend tickets are £19.50

Its less than 2 weeks to go to MAPS and we're really looking forward to a weekend of fun in Manchester's Northern Quarter so upgrade and enjoy the full on festival experience

If you haven't got tickets yet then Day and Weekend tickets are available via Piccadilly Records, Ticketline & See Tickets

MAPS Festival Team

MAPS FESTIVAL - PLAN YOUR WEEKEND

Plan your weekend now - each venue is generally no further than a few mins apart from each other so its easy to catch bands in all of the venues throughout the weekend.

FRIDAY 23RD MAY

URBIS
8.15pm Twem
9.00pm Orchids
9.45pm The Great Fury
10.30pm Operahouse
11.15pm The Dykeenies
12.00am DJs

DRY BAR STAGE 1
7.30pm Floone
8.40pm Cine
9.50pm Twilight Robin
11.00pm Kid British & The Action Manky
12.10am Urban Circus
1.00am DJ

DRY BAR STAGE 2
8.05pm Bleached Wail
9.15pm The Title
10.25pm Gasperilla
1.35pm Circus Electric
12.45am White Sunday
1.30am DJ

DRY BAR STAGE 3
7.30pm Last Loft
8.15pm Sloganeer (acoustic)
9.00pm The Times
9.45pm Jealous
10.30pm Aristocrash
11.15pm Paleface
12.00am The Witches

RUBY LOUNGE
8.00pm The Suns
8.45pm The News
9.30pm Stupid Little Cars
10.15pm Exit Calm
11.00pm The Displacements

JOE'S BAR
7.30pm Tramps & Horses
8.00pm Gods Gift
8.30pm Dan Melrose
9.00pm George Borowski & The Fabulous Wonderfuls
9.45pm Box Kid
10.30pm Maladies of Bellafontaine
11.15pm DJ - Up At The Red Bricks (Stan Chow)

THE CASTLE
8.30pm Billy Ruffian + guests

BAR CENTRO
TRIPTRONIC MAPS Special
8.15pm Special guest
9.15pm Armrug
10.15pm Light Syndicate
Resident DJs 11-2am Entropic Reveversal & Theanon Wonder from m.f.t.b.s
Resident DJs 11-2am Shmoo DJs




SATURDAY 24th MAY

DRY BAR STAGE 1
5.25pm Hangfires
6.35pm Dile
7.45pm The Slow Readers Club
8.55pm All The Kings Men
10.05pm Shanty Town
11.15pm Northern Uproar
12.25am The Vortex

DRY BAR STAGE 2

4.50pm Hey Bulldog
6.00pm Enertia
7.10pm Smart Soutane
8.20pm Sandbox
9.30pm The 66
10.40pm Exile Parade
11.50pm Orphan Boy
1.00am DJ Jay Ellis

DRY BAR STAGE 3
6.00pm Topsy & The Boss
6.45pm Trash
7.30pm Pistola Kicks
8.15pm The Chase
9.00pm Stop The Blackout
9.45pm The Score
10.30pm Jesus In India
11.15pm The Novellos
12.00am Parka

RUBY LOUNGE
3.30pm We Are The End
4.15pm By The Dorcia Deceived
5.00pm Kranius
5.45pm Drop Science
6.30pm Mantric Hatters
7.15pm Glitter Kittens
8.00pm Daywalkers
8.45pm Incassum
9.30pm Gone Til Winter

ROADHOUSE
8.00pm Fake Kings
8.45pm The Black Velvet Band
9.30pm Bluebird Kid Clark
10.15pm Little Tremors (formerly Troy de Trop)
11.00pm Walton Hesse
11.45pm Ten Bears (formerly The Deadbeats)
1-3.00am Ten Bears DJ set

JOE'S BAR
7.30pm El Condorez
8.15pm Little Engine
9.00pm City Joy Cons
9.45pm The Ending Of
10.30pm Hows My Pop
11.15pm DJ til 3am

THE CASTLE
12:20 Postcode
13:00 Psychotic Reaction
13:40 The Dead School
14:20 The Lovely Eggs
15:00 Awesome Wells
15:40 The Affection
16:20 Colt .

45s
17:00 Dirtblonde
17:40 Plague Doctors
18:20 Pink Riot
19:00 Town Bike
19:40 Billy Ruffian
20:20 The Housewives
21:00 Starfighter Pilot
21:40 Delicate Hammers
22:20 First Black Precedent


MINT LOUNGE
8.30pm Feral man
7.45pm Lazy fader
7.00pm Ill Memba
6.15pm W8ty
5.45pm Sylence
5.15pm Scam
4.45pm Menace
4.15pm  Flowzart

MOHO
4.45pm Thingumajigs Rock Opera
6.00pm Dr Butlers Hatstand Medicine Band
6.45pm Gideon Conn
7.30pm Milo Cho
8.15pm The Jade Assembly
9.00pm Stephen Evans & The Planets
9.45pm Penny Blacks
10.30pm Optional Wallace
11.15pm A Foreign Town
12.00am Stars of Track and Field
+ Room 2 8pm-2am Thriller Killer Vs Bollox clubnight with live music from The Salty Lips + Ste McCabe

CUP
6.30pm Mike Dignam
7.10pm Si Connor
7.50pm Neville Skelly
8.30pm Nomad Jones


SUNDAY 25th MAY

DRY BAR STAGE 1
5.25pm Phonaphobics
6.35pm The 64
7.45pm Fox Force Five
8.55pm Bauer
10.05pm Juno Ashes
11.15pm The Rools

DRY BAR STAGE 2
4.50pm Medicine for the Meek
6pm The Romes
7.10pm Titus Stacks
8.20pm Red Sea
9.30pm The Ronnies
10.40pm The Broadcast
11.50pm The Nouvelles

DRY BAR STAGE 3
5.15pm El Gazelle
6.00pm The Lizzies
6.45pm Daniel Land & The Modern Painters
7.30pm The Quangos
8.15pm The Satellite Towns
9.00pm Six10Repeater
9.45pm Rory McKee
10.30pm Domino State
11.15pm Dovestone
12.00am No Life

RUBY LOUNGE
4.15pm The Rise and Fall of the Rockets
5.00pm The White Light Parade
5.45pm The Would Be Emperors
6.30pm The Stations
7.15pm Live Wires
8.00pm Firelines
+ MAPS After-party
9.15pm Hard Luck Child
10.00pm The Brute Chorus
10.45pm The Deadly Brotherhood of The Gun
11.30pm Eskimo Smile
12.00am Fiction Non Fiction DJs / Burlesque Dancers
4.00am Close....??!

ROADHOUSE
4.45pm Harrison Drive
5.30pm Metro Max
6.15pm Epiphany
7.00pm The Hems
7.45pm El Policia
8.30pm Reemer
9.15pm Space Armstrong
10.00pm The Arcadian Kicks
10.45pm Downtown Rag

JOE'S BAR
5.15pm The Bollocks
6.00pm
6.45pm Filthy Souls
7.30pm Blue Gary
8.15pm The Vandals
9.00pm Port Erin
9.45pm Neil McSweeney
10.30pm The Cordels
11.15pm DJ til 3am


MINT LOUNGE
4.15pm The Imogen Styles
5.00pm Amongst The Russians
5.45pm Maria Jordan
6.30pm Frazer King
7.15pm Thomas Truax
8.00pm The Mekkits
8.45pm Mistys Big Adventure
+ Electro night
9.30pm Dieter & The Gadabouts
10.15pm This Morning Call
11.00pm Shmoo
11.45pm Modern Bullies
12.30am The Glorious Yang
1-3am DJ sets – from all electro bands!!

ODD
7pm-10pm Art & Music Night:

Butler-Williams, Kathryn Edwards, Samson & Delilah and Gideon Conn see the end of their art exhibition with an evening of music...

NIGHT AND DAY
5.15pm Mudflaps
6.00pm Lucky Star
6.45pm The Reverend Coyote
7.30pm Yellowdog
8.15pm Bells For Rene
9.00pm Onions
9.45pm Our Fold

MOHO
5.00pm (doors)
5.45pm Empty Hand
6.30pm Without A Reason
7.15pm Rainbow Trout
8.00pm Karma
8.45pm The Paris Riots
9.30pm HIghroller
10.00pm Teamnoir
+ Room 2 5-10pm Speakeasy (poetry and music)

BAY HORSE
3.30pm Ben McGarvey
4.15pm Chris Thom
5.00pm Natalie Findlay
5.45pm Kamal Arafa & The Moonshines
6.30pm Dan Haywood's New Hawks
7.15pm Carlis Star
8.00pm Passenger
8.45pm The Steals
9.30pm Ernie's Rhythm Section
10.15pm The See See

TV 21
3.30pm Last Chance
4.15pm George Agan
5.00pm Gabriel Minnikin
5.45pm Rook And The Ravens
6.30pm Moore Marriott
7.15pm The Windfall
8.00pm God's Gift
8.45pm Phre the Eon
9.30pm The 100 Club
10.15pm Grand Volume

CUP
6.30pm Risa Hall
7.10pm The Valentines
7.50pm Catherine Taylor Dawson
8.30pm Kid 4077


MONDAY 26TH MAY

BAY HORSE - All day chill out BBQ
3.30pm Becca Williams
4.15pm The Chimps
5.00pm Petty Thief 
5.45pm The Miracle Cure
6.30pm Gillan Edgar
7.15pm Ivan Campo
8.00pm Danny Mahon
8.45pm Jay Jay Pistolet
9.30pm The Green Half
10.15pm The Yellhounds

THE CASTLE
3pm Kev Fox + guests

CUP
For Folk's Sake - Curated by Sophie Parkes (Air Cav)
6.10pm The Bee's Niece (Music)
6.30pm Jackie Hagan (spoken word)
6.35pm Dominic Berry (spoken word)
6.40pm Fergus Evans (spoken word)
6.45pm Michael Wilson (spoken word)
6.50pm Jenny McCormick (music)
7.25pm Kirsty McGee (music)
7.50pm Mike Garry (spoken word)
8.05pm Gaia Holmes (spoken word)
8.25pm Joolz Denby (spoken word)

ODD
7.00pm Cerca Trova
7.45pm Kristyna Miles
8.30pm Ben Glover
9.15pm Paddy O'Hare