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Cave Painting Offering Their Album For Free
As a festive gift for their fans, Cave Painting will be offering their critically acclaimed debut album ‘Votive Life’ for free for a 48-hour period, via a brand new sharing application on Sunday 2nd December 2012 from 2pm. Using a specially crafted app fans will be able to ‘gift’ the album to up to five … Read more
Kendal Calling Add More Bands to the Bill for Sold-Out Festival
Kendal Calling has sold out for the 7th consecutive year and the countdown is on for this year’s festival; as the site begins to take shape and the crew start to create 16 areas and arenas of wonder! The gates will fly open in just 3 weeks, and Kendal Calling is now revealing details of the … Read more
Live Review: Live from Jodrell Bank 2012
Last years Live from Jodrell Bank was a huge success, bringing music fans and space lovers together in one big field underneath the world famous Lovell Telescope. The Flaming Lips, British Sea Power, OK Go, Alice Gold all played last year putting on an incredible musical show mixed with the production of the staging, video and lighting … Read more
Day 2 of Live from Jodrell Bank Cancelled
Regrettably due to the recent adverse weather conditions Paul Weller at Live Form Jodrell Bank, Cheshire has been cancelled. After conducting a site survey with an independent health and safety adviser and senior event management personnel the site has been deemed unfit to accommodate today’s crowds. The organisers have arranged for all ticket holders for … Read more
Interview: Ian Taylor
Here at Music from Rainy Skies we are always trying to support the local talent from across Manchester and the North West. In the first issue of our magazine we interviewed rock photographer Ian Tilton, of The Stone Roses and Nirvana fame and we’ve gone back to interviewing some of our favourite Manchester creatives; this … Read more
Interview: Liars
We caught up with Angus Andrews, vocalist from Liars, to have a chat about their latest album, their tour and how they came up with the album title WIXIW. Firstly, thanks for taking the time to do this interview for Music From Rainy Skies during the middle of your album release and tour, how’s it … Read more
Review: Kid British – You Can’t Please Them All [EP]
Opening up this EP is “Until Monday” with indie sounding guitars opening the song it kicks into crisp and snappy drum beats, I feel sad as I glance out of my bedroom window and see that the Sun isn’t shining, this song makes you wish the sun was shining, it’s a festival song. The rap … Read more
Live Review: Dot to Dot Festival 2012
I was rather disappointed when I realised that I couldn’t make last year’s instalment of the Dot to Dot Festival, and then hugely elated when this year’s line-up came around. It’s a great festival, moving between some of Manchester’s iconic venues. The Music From Rainy Skies team arrive at Sound Control just in time to … Read more
Paloma Faith Announces UK Tour Dates
Paloma Faith has announced a series of UK tour dates for 2013. Paloma’s incredible second album Fall To Grace reached number 2 in the UK albums chart when it was released in May. The album was beaten to the number 1 spot by Gary Barlow’s Diamond Jubilee record, by only 5000 copies! The 2013 dates … Read more
Muse Announce New Album and Tour Date Details
Muse have announced news on their sixth studio album The 2nd Law which will be released on September 17th through Helium 3/Warner Records. The album will be followed by a European tour which will see the band play 5 UK shows; Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester and two shows in London. Muse will travel through France, Spain, … Read more
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