ArcTanGent 2015: Trojan Horse ArcTanGent Festival 2015 Photos by Ed Sprake and Magda Wrzeszcz

This weekend (31st Jan) sees the first Riffest at the fantastic Ruby Lounge in Manchester as part of Independent Venue Week. We thought it would be fun to get Riffest organiser Nike Duke and Ruby Lounge head honcho Jay Taylor together to ask each other a few questions.

In their infinite wisdom, E&D have decided I should be given another assignment, as I get the feeling they think I may be some sort of reporter in the field. Sadly I know nothing about reporting and I live in a heavily urbanised area miles away from any fields. Anyway, this time I get to interview the handsome Dan and Mike from Cyril Snear on video, because we thought you deserve to see their handsome faces move and have words come out of them as opposed to reading them on a page. We chat about some band history, and the excellent new Cyril Snear album ‘Riot of Colour’ which is out RIGHT NOW. By Nick Duke

2012 demo by From the Bark Recommended by occasional guest writer Nick Duke of Trojan Horse

Before we dear reader, go any further, I feel you should let me get this statement out of the way because it’s the crux of my whole review really, “I think this new release by Ninetails is incredibly brave”. I’m certain I’ll say various permutations of …

This would be the first time I’ve ever done anything like this before, writing an article. So essentially dearest reader, I am letting you be my first. Congratulations, you’ve taken my writing cherry. I’m in a band (Trojan Horse) and, as you’ll probabl …