Party time down at the Mill tomorrow night. Excellent line-up of three funking acts.

Doors are at 8pm
Tickets are £6 in adv from
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/110443
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=151621221565993&index=1

MIE and Comfortable on a Tightrope are proud to present this excellent night!

Tickets are £6 in adv from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/103491

Mi Ami
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Mi Ami come back to Manchester touring with their new radically different sound on the new 12" 'Dolphins'. It makes it hard to believe that Mi Ami used to be a rock band. Gone are the ferocious guitar, hypnotic bass-lines, and the thundering drums of Steal Your Face and Watersports, now replaced by an unrelenting electronic vibrancy. Bass player Jacob Long left the band earlier this year, creating anopportunity for founding members Damon Palermo and Daniel Martin-McCormick to dive headfirst into a new setup: Damon on the 707 drum machine and a sampler that uses floppy disks, Daniel on the mic and keys, riding the mix. Elements of this new approach can be heard on their Cut Men and Techno 12's, but those were baby steps. Dolphins is the sound of a band diving head first into the musical fray. Listeners can feel Damon's command of the rhythm expressed through the drum machine, alchemizing the inorganic into the organic, while Daniel's trademark vocals remind you that this is Mi Ami. Psyched on their fresh palette as a duo, they went in the studio only three months later with Phil Manley (Watersports, Steal Your Face) performing these four tracks live.

Dolphins is the fruit of that labor. A melting, dystopian refraction of left-field new age, lush soundscapes and Italo daydreams overlapping with slaughtered dolphins and the heartbreak of 'Hard Up.' Simultaneously ingesting and rejecting pop pleasure, wide-eyed optimism and modern despair, it is equal parts improvisatory winging it and forceful, fully-realized vision. Blurring the line between the tainted and the sublime, Dolphins is the sound of a band thrillingly re-imagining itself.

http://www.myspace.com/miamiamiami

No Babies (Upset The Rhythm)

NO BABIES is a five piece friend army from Oakland, California. Since forming in 2008, they've worked tirelessly to develop a unique 'new punk' sound influenced by jazz, art music and hardcore, not unlike Old Skull playing Schoenberg, while Magma heckles from the audience. No Babies chooses to eschew the effects-drenched 60s garage cult of worship for an aggressive, hyper-present and harmonically dense sound that is playful as it is relentless. You might run for cover as guitars, saxophones, drums or even whole band members whiz past your head in frantic childlike spasms of terror and joy, or choose to meet the nervous fury head on, and join in the churning bodily mayhem yourself. Upset The Rhythm are releasing their debut LP next month!

http://www.myspace.com/nobabies
http://nobabies.bandcamp.com/album/no-babies-lp-upset-the-rhythm

FTSE 100

NASDAQ's favourite alter-funk-ego's THE FTSE 100 will come in and start the party hard and funkily.

http://www.myspace.com/financialfunk