First off leading into a busy weekend we had a couple of nice surprises, the first of which was an nice email from Manchester United Football Club asking for the details for our song I'm Not Playing so that they could arrange our royalty payment from when they had played it at half time at Old Trafford.
The second was a total surprise, after flicking through the pages of the Manchester Evening News we were shocked to see a great review on us in the City Life section labeling us a ONES TO WATCH :) Hopefully this is a sign of some good things to come.
Anyway, moving on if you follow us on Facebook or Twitter (if you don't then please do, it's a BIG help) you will already have seen lots of promotion about our own event that we have been organising over the last few months.
We decided on the name 'The Playlist' because we wanted to host a night with bands who are our friends and we love to watch followed by a DJ playing music we love - a playlist of music we're into.
As we hadn't done this before and had no idea how popular the night might turn out to be, we chose the intimate Castle Hotel in Manchester's Northern Quarter as the venue. We can't stress enough how much of a brilliant music venue this is! It has an amazing sound (that the great sound engineer worked perfectly) and the rooms character with it's high arching ceiling and skylights gave all three acts a great backdrop to perform from.
Skinny Roller started the night off packing a right old punch with their big sound, and at that point we knew that the night was going to take off. If you haven't been to see these guys you need to.
Skinny Roller
Our pal, David Liversidge took to the stage performing on his acoustic and wowed the crowd with his amazing vocals - and an AWESOME cover of 'Go Your Own Way' which had the room rocking.
David Liversidge
We then took to stage with our extended set. It could not have gone any better! By this point the room was packed, the sweat was dripping, hands and legs were flying everywhere as everyone seemed to be dancing. All the regulars were there singing along, and so many new faces. We threw in two covers to our set - The Clash 'I Fought The Law' and The Libertines 'Up The Bracket', basically because it was our playlist, we love the songs and mostly, just because we could! Although it was just a one-off for the night, I'm sure we'll throw them into our sets every now and again after the reception they got from the crowd.
We also asked ex Hacienda DJ Paul Langley to play some classic tunes before and after the bands so we partied on until the early hours with his help.
We are all still buzzing at how well the night went down, and because we all had a top time too. So a massive thank you to all who came and made it such a good night for everyone involved.
Roll on the next Playlist ;)
Thanks to Trust a Fox for the photos.
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