The season of Halloween is upon and it looks like we have nearly a weeks worth of celebrations! We're decking the place out, Common-style and its gonna be great, plenty of music, strange happenings, fancy dress's and plenty more to boot.



Common. Edge Street, Manchester. M4 1HW
http://www.aplacecalledcommon.co.uk


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Upcoming at Common:


Wednesday 29th October

Pull Yourself Together

A new indiepop fanzine and club night, based at Common in the Northern Quarter.

Expect to hear the likes of Jens Lekman, France Gall, Belle and Sebastian, Los Campesinos!, Hefner, Pulp, Noah and The Whale, Moldy Peaches, Sebastian Tellier and many more...Plus you get to read our lovely fanzine first!


8pm - Midnight FREE

With Special guests Jamie from Daggers



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Thursday 30th October

Common Knowledge Halloween Special

Dress up, get down to the best quiz on Edge Street.

After last years success we are asking people to dress up in their favourite ghoulish suits, scary hats and bed sheets. For a super duper Halloween special, expect apple bobbing, bonus rounds and prizes for the best costumes.

with your hosts Chris Higson and Paul Jones

8pm - 11pm FREE

followed by Stop Making Sense Dj's till 1am



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Friday 31st

Busy Being Born / Upperspace after show

the wonderful people at Upper Space are putting on a special show, we are hosting the aftershow, loads of details here:



UPPER SPACE PRESENTS 'DOGS, THIEVES AND DEAD GIRLS'.........

FEATURING WORKS BY:

GUY MCKINLEY (http://www.guymckinley.com)

RICH T (http://www.flickr.com/photos/richt)

CHINA MIKE (http://www.chinamike-art.co.uk/)


Upper Space, Manchester's only street art and graffiti gallery space, is pleased to announce the launch of our latest exhibition 'Dogs, Thieves and Dead Girls'.

Featuring three of the UK's most exciting and contemporary street artists, each artist will be basing their works around a central theme and exploring the strange worlds of dogs, thieves and you guessed it, dead girls as we welcome in the witching hour of Halloween.......

Having painted throughout the Uk and Internationally, they now find themselves residing in the Upper Space and they will be taking to the walls, floors and ceilings in the style that they are renowned for. This promises to be our best show to date.

Expect to see original works, screen prints and super rare collaborative pieces as we bring you into the fairytale world of our nocturnal heroes.

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SECRET HALLOWEEN LAUNCH PARTY INVITE ONLY

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8PM - 10PM

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'DOGS, THIEVES AND DEAD GIRLS AFTER PARTY @ COMMON

FREE WITH A TICKET FROM THE LAUNCH PARTY

FREE TO MEMBERS / £2 NON MEMBERS

with Djs Ryan Hunn, Jonny Dub and will Tramp

9PM - 2AM


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Saturday 1st November

Best Foot Forward

"There is no stringent music policy as such, truly anything goes - Best Foot Forward isn't not a club, and we don't want to be, but rather a place to play great records to like-minded people.

Best Foot Forward is a Manchester institution. OK, you probably think that's just hyperbole, but just file this away somewhere so you can be pleasantly surprised in 5 years time , with Kev Maguire and Friends….."

http://www.bestfootforward.info


9pm – 2am £2 after 10PM - free to members


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Sunday 2nd November : Afternoon

Haxan

Take two men with an ungodly fervour for finding, buying, hoarding and playing rare and obscure vinyl, add a little food and fire water and leave behind the turntables for five hours. Get spoons ready for digging

Miles Whittaker (Pendle Coven/Modern Love) + Sean Vinylment (B-Music/Pooka)


3pm until 8pm FREE








Sunday 2nd November : Evening

Technicolour

Giving you a chromatic pinch and a polyphonic punch on the first Sunday of the month.
with Hue Spectrum and Mooken and special guests

Sankt Goran (Bear Funk Gold)
Born and raised in Falun – a small town most known for cross country skiing and its old copper mine. Göran Dahlström fell in love with pop music in his early teenage years. Like every ordinary Swedish teen he rumbled around in different pop constellations before Kerri Chandler and Sylvester danced in and replaced former indie heroes on his record shelf.

Göran's first track Back 2 Back, instantly gained love from Japanese blogs as well as New York's wfm, Us Beats In Space and made Stevie Kotey reach out from Bear Funks headquarters, and sign him up for two 12-inches and an album.

This sent Göran back to his room, trying to compose pop music with the city nightlife of slow house music screaming for attention outside his window. This sound of sinners, of dirty concrete floors in packed afterpartys, of equally hung over and energetic pulse and a never ending struggle to play and make music that doesn't kick you in the face, but force you to stop, listen and get caught in the groove. An insttheirant monotony of layered melodies and a rusty hinge on the door to dance music is the music of Sankt Göran.

http://www.myspace.com/Sanktgorangbg

Cosmic Disco

Cosmic Disco features uninterrupted DJ mixes and exclusive interviews from a number of their favourite artists and DJs. Since 2006 they have been staging a number of intimate, low-key parties as well as showcasing the music they've collected and cherished over the last 15 years via their mixes and 'Makin Music' podcasts.


8pm - Midnight FREE



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