Price: £6
Door time: 7.30pm
Age: 14+
Whatever may have been before, this band are here and now and have their finger right on the pulse of what makes a great British band in 2008: ladies and Gentlemen, we give you The Whip.
Born out of a dank rehearsal room in the basement of a pub in Manchester, Bruce and Danny worked non-stop perfecting their combined musical magic. They then craned their necks towards the sun and brought what they'd created out from the underground. Raising the game even further their partners in crime, Fee and Nathan joined the force to take The whip on tour. And boy have they been on tour.
The Whip have spent the past two years distinguishing themselves as one of the most forward thinking (and hardest gigging) bands in Manchester...no mean feat considering the calibre of music hailing from this city, but The Whip contain so many diverse musical elements it's hardly surprising. Whether it's dub influenced bass lines, Aphex Twin-esqu glitches or Bruce's belting grunge-rasp vocals The Whip are truly an every-man's party band.
With Jim Abbiss (Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian, Editors) on production duties for this debut long player, The Whip have created a wealth of dance floor ruptures and neon explosions all wrapped up in good old fashioned pop songs. And bloody good ones at that.
The opener and new single, ‘Trash', is a tub-thumping ignition of hard beats, a fuzzy bass line that won't quit and a hook that sounds like Gun Club and New Order vigorously mixed in a martini shaker and served up to 007 - it's completed by a terrifyingly catchy vocal hook that has had the hoards singing along at the many live shows for months. This Is Big
