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Grand Central - Alt Bar & Live Music Venue - 80 Oxford st Manchester
Midland Hotel Manchester
Sinclair's Oyster Bar
The Ivy Spinningfields Manchester
Proper Manchester
I Love Manchester
The End of 2022
All photography by Shots By Sarah
Single Artwork by Crossfade Productions
Stranger Than Chaos poster by Harry Warren
So let's round up. We've supported one of our biggest influences and dream bands to support, made our first ever venture into London, dropped two of our best performing songs courtesy of Cain Audio toured the country twice, played Stranger Than Fiction in its entirety, released a song every two months all the way up to October, built some extraordinary relationships had our stuff nicked and STILL pulled off a headline show a week before Christmas, supported GAMA BOMB Absolva Official Blaze Bayley Reprisal Thrown Into Exile and several other exceptional acts, played several phenomenal festival bills, lined ourselves up for five more terrific ones this year, and developed one of the most closely knit communities of fans and friends we could possibly have asked for. That about catch us up?
Some of the promoters we've worked with this year: LKmusic Promotions North East Wales Metal Productions Tapestry Promotions Unearthed Music The Black Heart Grand Central - Alt Bar & Live Music Venue - 80 Oxford st Manchester and plenty more.
This has been, without question, our best year yet. We are so proud of everything we've done thus far and this year looks to be even stronger. Thank you endlessly for your support across 2022 folks, it has been a HELL of a ride. This year will be spent working on something that has been a LONG time coming. We're gonna take a couple more weeks before we get back into action again for the few gigs we have kicking around in Feb and March. Until then, the best wishes to you all for this year. Let's be havin' ya, '23!!
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And so, we have reached the end of 2022! It has definitely been a year of ups and downs. We would like to do customary roundup of the year and thank all the people who helped us put on our gigs and shows throughout the last 12 months.
In October, we played our biggest show to date when we opened for Red at the Manchester Academy. Playing at Manchester Academy has always been a dream and we would like to sincerely thank Dan and Tapestry Promotions for booking us to play there!
To all the bands we have played with this year – it has been a genuine pleasure and we hope to share the stage again with you soon! If you haven’t already, please do check them all out:
The Fallen State / Keith Wallen / RED / Karma's Puppet / Severenth / I Am The Wreckage / Thrashatouille / Asylum City Zoo / Barbarian Hermit / Daywalkers / Deified / Apparitia / Cadence Noir / OATHS / Unknown Refuge / 4GEN7 - Agent47 / Ventures / Nebulesse / Aleya / Deus Mori / BAD EARTH / Repulsive Vision / Dislocator / Red Rum / Vulgore / ODYSSEUS / Dire Thorns / Blood Church / Dirty Vertebrae / Bloodmores / Five Past Midnight / Mad Spanner / Dimensions / Idio + AJYR / Luv13y
We could not have played all the shows we did this year without all the promoters, photographers, sound engineers and bar staff who work tirelessly to put on gigs, all dayers and festivals all throughout the year! While there are far too many people to name, we wanted to do a shout out to a few who we have worked with this year:
Robin Plumley and Grand Central - Alt Bar & Live Music Venue - 80 Oxford st Manchester / James, Jayne and the 0161 Manchester Underground Metal Community / And Heavy Metal For Wigan / JTR Metal Productions / Rik Hunter and all involved with SummerSlammer / The Swan With Two Necks / Drew Scott Photographic / Rich Price Photography / Dan Frith – Manchester Photographer & many many more
We would also like to say a special thanks to Thomas Legerton for being an absolute gentleman as he ran and organised our merch stall for us throughout the year!
We hope you all have a fantastic New Year’s Eve and we will see you all in the New Year!
Much love,
Rick, Joe, Harry, Paul and Nips
We would like to thank everyone for their support this year
all the bands who it was great to share a stage with and you should check out !
Some are Kringer Friends
others it was the first time playing and they were awesome Portrayal Of Ruinn , Killa Nova , Cast In Tephra , I Am The Wreckage , Making Blind Eyes See , Thrashatouille , Betray The Throne , Eye Licker , Beyond Grace , Karma's Puppet , The Machinist UK , The Island - Band , Mexican Painkiller , Technologist , Casket-MBD, 4GEN7 - Agent47 , Bloodyard Wolfbastard , Petrol Hoers , Chimps, Saurr
The venue's The Swan With Two Necks , Bank Top Tavern , Club Asylum Warrington , The Spinning Top Grand Central - Alt Bar & Live Music Venue - 80 Oxford st Manchester , Hoochie Coochie
And of course the promoters 0161 Manchester Underground Metal Community Promotions , JTR Metal Productions , Lickerish Records
The togs for the amazing photos of us and everyone
Rich Price Photography , Drew Scott Photographic
This year has been great for us live
We got to play with so many great bands played to some insane crowds and just had a blast!
We could not have done this without you and your support 😊
We will be working on our new EP next year but we are also available for live dates.
Thank you all so much!
We hope you have an amazing NYE whatever you do stay safe here's to
2023
❤️ Lunatic Fringe, Battle Kath, Mr Kris, Man Slug and Sgt Stiltz 🎉
A fine night had at Grand Central - Alt Bar & Live Music Venue - 80 Oxford st Manchester 🤟
Much ❤️ for a fabulous evening 🥰
CN xX
I'll be pulling double duty this NYE!
You can find me repping Deadbolt Club at Central - Alt Bar & Live Music Venue - 80 Oxford st Manchester 9-10:30, then at The Font Manchester doing something very different for Teenage Dream. Variety is the spice of life.
Catch us at Grand Central - Alt Bar & Live Music Venue - 80 Oxford st Manchester on NYE at 9pm for a guest DJ set!
The team at Grand Central - Alt Bar & Live Music Venue - 80 Oxford st Manchester have kindly asked us to do a DJ set at their big NYE party on the 31st.
Catch us at 9pm on the night!
Manchester! WHAT. A. NIGHT. 🔥👏 Big love to Square Wild, Second Sun & Reaper UK who played absolutely INCREDIBLE sets ❤️ Of course a HUGE thank you to the wonderful Grand Central - Alt Bar & Live Music Venue - 80 Oxford st Manchester for having us, and finally YOU LOT!! Thank you for coming down and helping us finish the year on a high note 🎉🙌 We've got so much planned for next year - gigs to gig, new songs in the works...So 2023? Let's be having you 👊⚡🔥
Thanks to everyone who has shown us their support over the past year, to Daniel Moran Music for dealing with us lot for this long and to Unearthed Music !!!
Massive thank you to Shots By Sarah for these photos, and the many photos shot this past year!!! 😍❤️💯
YOUS ARE ALL BOSS OK!!!
So, from us mad kids at Spitfyre, we wish you the happiest of holidays 🎄and we will be seeing you in the new year 🔥🔥🔥
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THAT'S A WRAP
GC on Sunday was a wonderful way to wrap the year up!! Thanks so much to everyone who came out, massive ups to Spitfyre Square Wild and Second Sun who smashed their sets, the wonderful Grand Central - Alt Bar & Live Music Venue - 80 Oxford st Manchester venue and Robin Plumbly for hosting, and to everyone who has supported us this year. Big soppy post coming in before the end of the year but, for now, we're gonna hang back and enjoy our run up to Christmas :) have a wonderful week folks, we'll check in before the big day ❤️❤️
Unearthed Music
The fantastic Reaper UK were on fire at GCLive, a brilliant set of Thrash Grand Central - Alt Bar & Live Music Venue - 80 Oxford st Manchester
Spitfyre Getting in the Christmas Spirit at GCLive
Grand Central - Alt Bar & Live Music Venue - 80 Oxford st Manchester
I really enjoyed Square Wild and their very festive set including pass the parcel at GCLive Grand Central - Alt Bar & Live Music Venue - 80 Oxford st Manchester really had the crowd in a Christmassy mood, plenty of fun.
Second Sun opening up the last GCLive of the year with a fantastic set of seventies rock
Grand Central - Alt Bar & Live Music Venue - 80 Oxford st Manchester
