Music Review

Review of Emanuel and The Fear's Listen

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Emanuel and the Fear 4th April 2010 Dulcimer, Manchester, England Easter Sunday, the time of nails and wood, and the singular emptiness of a Sabbath Bank Holiday stretches ahead, a hollow prediction rung true. An email informs that a band, Emanuel and the Fear, will be playing Dulcimer, a minute's walk away. There's eleven of them, a mini orchestra, so things will be a little cramped on the venue's tiny stage. As they've come from New York, and the other alternatives are of the four walls at home variety, it really is the best offer of a quiet day.

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Concert review of Rodriguez in Manchester, UK The Manchester Deaf Institute is a perfect contradiction. An elderly building, once a refuge for the hard of hearing and the dumb of a century ago, it has been refurbished with sublime louche taste, and is now a rock venue, Going deaf seems to resonate from within these walls, now papered with eccentric birds and enhanced with a tiny theater-like venue on the top floor, painted red and finished off with much crimson velvet. It suggests a bordello of sorts. People now willingly come here to be deafened, not cured of that complaint.