Lydia Lunch, Inca Babies

Event information

This was going to be a Big Sexy Noise show but the bad news is that Big Sexy Noise have had to pull out because drummer Ian White has injured his hand.

Good news: Because we didn't want to disappoint both you and ourselves, we have taken up Lydia's offer of a solo show instead and we will be ploughing ahead with this line-up - Lydia Lunch instead of Big Sexy Noise and then Inca Babies, The Gilded Palace of Sin and No Womb as before.

Ticket price is now £10 and will be the same either in advance or on the door.
Anyone who has already bought tickets can either get a full refund if they don't want to attend or come down and we will give you £2 back on entry.

More details about Lydia's show as and when we get them on the venue website, www.newcontinental.net.

INCA BABIES

Sometime in 1982 or 1983 in Manchester’s Hulme district the Inca Babies were formed. Their music was a raunchy Death Ray twang from a punk-trash, Americana perspective. Shortly after releasing their first single, The Interior, they notched up their first (of 4) Peel Sessions and also quickly garnered two number one slots in the Indie singles chart and a top 5 album, Rumble. Tours of mainland Europe included Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Austria and Scandinavia. Three further albums (This Train, Opium Den and Evil Hour) and six more singles were released. During this time popularity was not a problem but keeping personnel was, and the end came when there were no more singers and no more drummers to accompany guitarist Harry Stafford and bassist Bill Marten.

Following a best of compilation in 2006, the band reformed in 2007 with Gold Blade drummer Rob Haynes the new occupant of the drum kit. A new album was midway through being written when the band were hit with the shocking news of the death of bassist Bill Marten. The band was put on hold while they came to terms with this loss, but it was eventually decided to keep Bill's legacy alive by continuing and finishing off the album they had started writing. Their old friend and former A Witness bass player Vince Hunt joined and made his live debut in Warsaw, Poland in late 2008, whilst latest album Death Message Blues was released in October 2010.

GILDED PALACE OF SIN

After a tremendous support slot at the aforementioned Lydia spoken word show last summer, we had to bring these guys back. Manchester's best kept secret, GPOS are accomplished purveyors of dusty noir Americana. Check out this praise for their debut album: "You Break Our Hearts, We'll Tear Yours Out"

"Percussion rattles and beats clatter like grit, as bar-room piano, acoustic guitar and twanging banjo abound on outlaw laments. This noirist trio kick up some quality dust." MOJO

"Like Mark E Smith having an Antichrist hoedown with the Bad Seeds." NME

"Its songs are grim, sometimes gallows-humored tales that work the gothic-metaphysical territory - death, violence, faith, despair, wandering, transcendence... The ingredients are distortion and percussion, texture and noise, stray drones and twangs, desolation and wreckage, a bluesy stomp about a serial wife killer and a list of someone’s transgressions intoned over glacially alternating guitar chords." New York Times Critics' Choice

"A captivating Gothic Americana creation exhibiting sharp as a buzzard’s beak lyricism. The Gilded Palace of Sin conjure dusty noir-rock anthems, the kind you’d hear in your mind’s ear when gazing out at some great Wild West vista." Clash Magazine

NO WOMB
You may have encountered drum/bass 2 piece No Womb kicking up a storm on adventurous bills in Manchester. The best description we've seen is "Uninhibited free vocal whirlwind vs. detuned punk". We're really pleased to bring them to Preston. Watch out Lydia!

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