POSTCARDS FROM MANCHESTER aims to bring the DIY alternative music community uprising together to celebrate all that is great about this city and its music. After a triumphant SFTOC 2010, the Postcards From Manchester collective are back at The Old Pint Pot with another line up they’re truly excited about. The Postcards team is a collective of like-minded, music-loving souls who came together in 2009 in order to use their combined experiences (those of Underachievers Please Try Harder, Pull Yourself Together and Stay Young Forever to help promote the best in upcoming music from within and beyond the city of Manchester.

www.soundsfromtheothercity.com
www.pullyourselftogetherzine.co.uk
www.underachieversclub.co.uk


Young British Artists - Bring The Sun

Weird Era - FullStop (lower amp)

Tigercats - Konny Huck

The Louche FC - Back Bedroom Casualty

Moustache of Insanity have been making music since late 2008 and have played more than 60 shows in the UK, Europe and in the US. The band consists of Nik Vestberg and Bill Botting (who also plays bass with Allo Darlin' and with Darren Hayman & The Secondary Modern), a Swede and an Australian with a shared passion for DIY music (pop, antifolk, punk you name it). Using a variety of vintage casio keyboards, gameboys, electric guitar and drum machines, they play pop songs, sometimes silly, sometimes serious, but always catchy and straight from the heart. To date they have released one mini album on cult London bedroom label WeePOP! and one cassette EP on Fika Recordings, as well as two self-released EP's. Despite never actively promoting themselves, they have found themselves mentioned in publications as diverse as the Dubai National, the Easyjet in-flight magazine, The Fly and The New York Times. They have been compared to everything from The Moldy Peaches to Jens Lekman, via The Television Personalities, but describe themselves as playing "some sort of friendly casio-pop-folk-occasionally punky-bouncy-rock-fun-mess". The band name, apart from being rather stupid, is really a call to arms, expressing a sincere desire to kickstart a revolution in a music world where too many bands take themselves far too seriously and have forgotten how to just enjoy themselves. Moustache of Insanity really is music for everyone, young and old.
Album Of Death is the band’s debut album. It's by far their most polished effort to date and was recorded, mixed and mastered in three days by Simon Trought in Soup Studios in East London. Simon has previously recorded records by bands like The Wave Pictures, Let's Wrestle, Allo Darlin' and Darren Hayman. The record has been pressed in 1300 copies, 1000 on CD and 300 on vinyl.
Upcoming shows
9th July 2011 – The Wilmington Arms, London
22nd July 2011 – The Labour Club, Northampton
23rd July 2011 – Henry’s Cellar Bar, Edinburgh
25th July 2011 – The Old Blue Last, London
26th July 2011 – The Castle, Manchester
27th July 2011 – Buffalo Lounge, Cardiff
28th July 2011 – Horse & Groom, Brighton
29th-31st July 2011 – Indietracks Festival, Ripley, Derbyshire
19th August 2011 – The Red House, Sheffield
20th August 2011 – Album launch party at The Dogstar, London

“Moustache of Insanity are Junior Senior and The Ramones at the same time, which is an act of either heroic folly or absurdly specific genius. Thankfully, they tend more towards the latter: this may be indie writ largely in dayglo crayons, but, esoteric élan aside, they’ve got tuneful charms galore.” The Fly Magazine, November 2010

“Goofy conceptualists" - New York Times

"two overgrown schoolboys running riot with cheap keys, shouting, guitar thrashing, and a sweet song about sending postcards to strangers on the internet. Their DIY ethos captures the anarchic glee of early bis: I’d send these guys ‘round primary schools to show kids how FUN music can be." - thefly.co.uk

“In North America, there are signs that the moustache is rallying, even if somewhat ironically: indie bands, such as Britain’s Moustache Of Insanity, and celebrities Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom have made some powerful lip statements." - The National (Dubai newspaper)
Discography
Album of Death (2011) – CD, LP, download on PYT Records/Fika Recordings
Moustache Dammit! (2011) – Limited edition cassette on Fika Recordings
Postcards To Strangers (2010) – CD-R, self-released 5-track EP
Moustache of Insanity (2009) – Limited edition mini-CDR on WeePOP! Records
Knock Knock! Who’s There (2008) – CD-R, self-released 7-track EP


Album of Death is released on Monday 22nd August through Pull Yourself Together Records and Fika Recordings. 

www.moustacheofinasnity.com // www.pullyourselftogetherzine.co.uk // www.fikarecordings.com


Moustache of Insanity - Lynn Lowry

Moustache of Insanity - Lynn Lowry / The Monkey and My Princess (PYT004) 

Lynn Lowry is the first single to be taken from Moustache of Insanity's debut album, Album of Death. Hailing the fortunes, gory brilliance and general ace-ness of horror icon Lynn Lowry, the track is a great taster to the album. 

The b-side to the single is 8bit pop brilliance. It even has a video made on a Game Boy. 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=swaASu0b13Q 

Moustache of Insanity have been making music since late 2008 and have played more than 60 shows in the UK, Europe and in the US. The band consists of Nik Vestberg and Bill Botting (who also plays bass with Allo Darlin' and with Darren Hayman & The Secondary Modern), a Swede and an Australian with a shared passion for DIY music (pop, antifolk, punk you name it). Using a variety of vintage casio keyboards, gameboys, electric guitar and drum machines, they play pop songs, sometimes silly, sometimes serious, but always catchy and straight from the heart. To date they have released one mini album on cult London bedroom label WeePOP! and one cassette EP on Fika Recordings, as well as two self-released EP's. Despite never actively promoting themselves, they have found themselves mentioned in publications as diverse as the Dubai National, the Easyjet in-flight magazine, The Fly and The New York Times. They have been compared to everything from The Moldy Peaches to Jens Lekman, via The Television Personalities, but describe themselves as playing "some sort of friendly casio-pop-folk-occasionally punky-bouncy-rock-fun-mess". The band name, apart from being rather stupid, is really a call to arms, expressing a sincere desire to kickstart a revolution in a music world where too many bands take themselves far too seriously and have forgotten how to just enjoy themselves. Moustache of Insanity really is music for everyone, young and old.

Moustache of Insanity - The Monkey and My Princess

PYT006

PYT Records are very proud to welcoming one of our favourite bands of the moment to the label, Manchester’s Advances in Mathematics. Advances make the kind of postrock that sends us off into a dream like state, and we have been itching to do something with them since putting them on with Patterns at last year’s In The City. Anyone who has seen them live before will know that ManchesterMusic.co.uk’s review of them as “flowing beautifully, expanding and contracting, soaring and diving, crashing in a hail of drums and slipping away through the echoes of a delay pedal” is pretty on the button.

Advances in Mathematics - Border

Advances in Mathematics - Sad Xmas Present

Hello! We are Pull Yourself Together, an independent record label, indiepop fanzine and clubnight based in Manchester. We like to listen to pop songs, which we then write about and play in bars and stuff. People seem to like that we do this, and they come to see us and pick up our little zine every two months. Lots of people have been saying nice things about the zine recently, including Steve Lamacq, Marc Riley, Artrocker and the NME. Which is nice.

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