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When: 7.30pm on Tuesday 8 April 2025
Where: The Castle Hotel, 66 Oldham Street, Manchester M4 1LE
We’re delighted to be working with Index for Working Musik for the first time!
Index for Working Musik emerged from the depths of an East End bunker in 2023 with Dragging the Needlework for the Kids at Uphole (Tough Love), a ‘Heroin Country’ affair, followed by the experimental Indexe’e.
2024 saw the release of Purple Born, an eight-minute track that channels the likes of John Fahey and Polvo — leather boys, leather girls, and silly cuckoo clocks — and served as the first signal of the future to come with the pending release of second album, Which Direction Goes The Beam, out on 4 April via Tough Love.
In this post Sounds world, the boundaries of Post Punk have not only broadened but splintered. And over the course of (now) four releases, Index For Working Musik have seen to using the sprawling boundaries to great effect, flexing a polyglot of styles to convey the language of the moment.
‘Their sound brings to mind John Cale’s drone effects on the early VU albums and the pink noise of the Jesus and Mary Chain‘ – Louder than War
Support comes from Plastic Gift.
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