Cleft reveals all at Kraak

Event information

Cleft presents a night of seriously high quality music at Kraak in the Northern Quarter of Manchester.

We are honoured to have three incredible bands joining us for this, and you can check them all out below.


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VASCO DA GAMA (Liverpool)
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Time-twisting riffs, fantastic song writing and a band so tight you couldn't fit a gnat in between them on stage.

"jerkily ace post-hardcore" - The Fly

https://www.facebook.com/vascodagamalive
Listen: http://vascodagamalive.bandcamp.com/

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TROJAN HORSE (Manchester)
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Schizophrenic rock, prog and pop all rolled into one big sack of musical puppies.

"Taking genres and cutting them up with a musical talent that seems to be making them into a post punk prog enigma that has a flavour all of its own." - Chris Hughes, Goldflakepaint

https://www.facebook.com/trojanhorseuk
Listen: http://trojanhorse.bandcamp.com/

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THUMPERMONKEY (London)
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Thumpermonkey make heavy progressive music. They're also amazing musicians and clearly know how to write a well-crafted song, just check out 'When Scouts Go Bad' from their Sleep Furiously album.

"...their often bewildering mastery of everything - King Crimson like angularity and dissonance, the blissful pop dynamics of the Cardiacs, and the esoteric post-hardcore audacity of Shudder to Think - amount to a sustained victory for intuitive cross-pollination...most importantly, Thumpermonkey's music is ridiculously exciting; the blazing light of punk rock filtered skilfully through the cerebral prog prism..." - PROG MAGAZINE

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Thumpermonkey/18593072451
Listen: http://thumpermonkey.bandcamp.com/releases

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CLEFT (Manchester)
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Cleft make massive, dirty, instrumental music using a guitar and some drums. Imagine a machine that compresses 14 minute songs down to 3 minutes.

https://www.facebook.com/cleftband
Listen: http://cleft.bandcamp.com/

Doors at 7pm, first band on at around 7:15pm.