Indigo Vs Kiss My Hac

Fifth Birthday Party

2005-12-11T13:32:00.000Z

IVKMH 5th Birthday / Christmas 'do' Friday 16th December Yes, unbelievably December marks 5 years of us playing the same records and to celebrate we have performances from... Temposhark Bringing grubby electronic noises Jim Muir Slideshow Playing acousticky prettiness I'm sure they'll be more than pleased to tell you about themselves at myspace.com/temposhark and myspace.com/jimmuirslideshow respectively. As it's our festive birthday thingie, we will be bearing gifts for the nicest and most glamorous people that turn up. (Somehow this seems like the wrong way round - no-one ever brings us presents, but still.) There will also be the best cake / mincepie type treats that Quality Save can supply. Not forgetting the Indigo residents upstairs (possibly playing the Girls Aloud Christmas album in full.) And the Kiss My Hac boys & girls downstairs being every kind of awesome. Ooh, and your chance to pick up the latest issue of the Indigozine, Manchester's premier listings guide...

November 14th, The Knife!

2005-10-27T17:19:00.000+01:00

Indigo vs Kiss My Haç

Star & Garter, Fairfield Street, Mcr
Friday 11th November 2005
9pm – 2:30am
£5 / £4

Featuring Exclusive DJ Set From:

The Knife

Plus Live Performances From:

The New shapes

Nursing Home

Yes, this is the one everyone’s been waiting for… For one night only you may think you’ve stumbled into Sankeys or one of those clubs that tries to make itself sound sexy by having a decadent trashy name and a playlist full of European electro bands you’ve never heard of. Yes, we have a proper pop star from foreign parts coming to play records for us. The Knife have been tearing up dancefloors for a couple of years now and we’re sure you’ll have thrown some shapes to "Heartbeats" before now. We’re not expecting gorilla costumes this time round, but Olof is flying into the country specially to DJ for us, so expect him to have made the effort. And of course we’d like the cowd to do the same…
But don’t worry we haven’t forgotten you guitar loving kids, for you we have a band travelling up from London – The New Shapes. These are doing it their way and getting acclaim from XFM (that’s radio down south readers) NME and a million internet people along the way.
But don’t think we’ve forgotten that there’s plenty of Manchester talent out there, oh no… Local band Nursing Home are an Indigo band in the classic sense, they’ve invited comparisons to Pavement, Teenage Fanclub and Elliot Smith. Now while we may not disco down to bands like that too often these days, it doesn’t they don’t still bring a smile to our faces. So, suffice to say, we have high hopes for this lot.

Downstairs, Kiss My Haç will be inventing new genres, probably including: BounceyCastleBass, BleepBleepRiddimz and GlitchPop. Plus some records you may have actually heard before played by DJs National Forest, Mildred Hubble, David Crayon and One BPM.

August Pics

2005-09-20T14:23:00.000+01:00

In two minds about whether to come to the next IVKMH? Well check out the photos from last month’s ‘do’, they make us want to go and it takes a lot to get us to leave the house….

Manchester Online Preview

2005-09-16T14:24:00.000+01:00

See what The Manchester Evening News website has to say about our next night here.

Ding Ding Round 4

2005-09-15T13:04:00.000+01:00

Indigo vs Kiss My Haç
Star & Garter, Fairfield Street, Mcr
Friday 14th October 2005
9pm – 2:30am
£5 / £4

Featuring live performances from:

Noblesse Oblige
&
We Start Fires

Refreshed from a month off (don’t suppose anyone missed us..?) IVKMH return having found some new records to play and hunted down some ridiculously good bands…
We’re normally sceptical about anything described as "art-rock" but there has to be an exception that proves the rule and Noblesse Oblige are it. Imagine if the Cold War was still raging and people were still making electroclash (remember that) records… now you’re nowhere near imagining what they sound like, but that’s the best we can do. Oh and NME don’t like them, so that’s reason enough to think they’re great!
Now imagine if people still made records with guitars on them… hang on, they do and just occasionally they’re great. We’re still quite partial to an old fashioned punky racket, so it’s just as well there are bands like We Start Fires around. We’ve nabbed them fresh from supporting old friends of Indigo Nine Black Alps on their UK tour (and we have it on good authority that those gentlemen are big fans.) So if you’re due a dose of eyeliner, stilettoes and noise, get down early to catch this lot.
Rounding off the evening upstairs, the resident Indigo DJs will be joined by Stewart TVOD of legendary electropop night fame who is leaving his self-imposed exile down South for one night only to bring the sleazy, synthy, mutant disco sounds of his new night Contact up from the capital to Manchester.
Downstairs, Kiss My Haç will be inventing new genres, probably including: BounceyCastleBass, GunShotRiddimz and MashCoreBreakz. Plus some records you may have actually heard before played by DJs National Forest, Mildred Hubble, David Crayon and One BPM.

THE KNIFE Exclusive UK DJ Set

2005-09-08T22:13:00.000+01:00

Friday 11th November sees an Exclusive DJ set from The Knife, who's single 'Heartbeats' has been filling dance floors accross the country for the past 12 months.

Next Up..

2005-09-03T21:50:00.000+01:00

DMX KREW Exclusive Live Date

2005-09-02T18:44:00.000+01:00

We can now reveal an exclusive Manchester live date for The Aphex Twin endorsed DMX KREW.

Indigo Vs. Kiss my Hac,
Friday 20th January 2006

Live: DMX KREW

Plus Support

& Guest DJ's

Indigo Vs. Kiss my Hac Press

2005-08-18T18:32:00.000+01:00

Read The City Life article here, and The Metro News article here.

City Life

2005-08-10T17:52:00.000+01:00

Check out this week's City Life Magazine for a full page feature on the next Indigo vs. Kiss my Hac.

Coming soon

2005-07-29T16:56:00.000+01:00

We've been scouring the country in a Simon Cowell kind of way, to bring you the best acts around:

October 14th:

Noblesse Oblige,

We Start Fires.

November 11th:

The Dawn Parade

December 16th: Indigo vs. Kiss my Hac 5th Bithday Special: Wow, can't believe Indigo is five years old this December, expect super sprcial guest!

More Details about Support Acts & Guest DJ's to follow.

Madonna - Get into The Groove (National Forest Spakup)

2005-07-28T14:43:00.000+01:00

Yet another Kiss My Hac exclusive, Madge gets the National Forest treatment here.

¿usted habla español?

2005-07-28T12:19:00.000+01:00

The Spanish MTV site reccomends coming to Indigo if you're visiting Manchester, read the article here. (It's in Spanish BTW!)

Hiem Remix Pink Grease

2005-07-28T11:39:00.000+01:00

Just a quicky to wet your appetite for August 12th. Here's The Hiem Remix of the new Pink Grease tune Superfool.

OUR NEXT NIGHT...

2005-07-26T23:06:00.000+01:00

Indigo vs Kiss My Haç
Star & Garter, Fairfield Street, Mcr
Friday 12th August 2005
9pm – 2:30am
£5 / £3

Featuring live performances from:

Hiem
No Arm
Sir Yes Sir

It’s all gone a bit electronic this month, but don’t be scared, at IVKMH we insist that you leave your haircuts at the door and be prepared to DANCE.
With that in mind, headlining this month we have yet more darlings of the Sheffield scene, Hiem. With the national press falling at their feet this duo, who are like Paddy and Marlon from Emmerdale if they knew how to make techno beats rather than fix cattle and sandwiches, are set to take over the world in the coming months. Not only do the NME and Steve Lamacq adore them, but the trendy dance press does too. This may be in part due to their associations with Sheffield legends – one sang with All Seeing I, the other a former bandmate of Russell Senior from Pulp – but however they garner the accolades they are definitely deserving of them and their live show alone will be well worth the £5 entry.
Before that we’ve got two delicious juicy slices from the indierock pie, namely Ashton’s No Arm and Manchester via Runcorn & Reading’s Sir Yes Sir. No Arm have been described as "like Pavement at warp speed with a Wire-like ability to blend spikey Post-Punk with slivers of tuneful hook" and who are we to argue? Although I will add the singer looks a little like Bobby Brown, which can only be a bonus. And rounding off the bill we present Sir Yes Sir. You may recognise the one on bass as he DJs downstairs as National Forest but don’t let that put you off. As this’ll be their first ever gig don’t expect much proficiency but DO expect a) fast guitar/bass/drum machine party indierock of the highest order; b) a couple of side partings [but none of yr silly Maximo Park nonsense]; and c) hordes of gals gaggling for autographs. Good times? Yes!
Don’t go home once the bands are finished playing, the kids will be playing records late into the night and this time it’s war. We need you to vote with your feet, as the busiest room gets to stay open latest around these parts… so if you like dirty quirky indie and shiny disco pop stay upside and party with the Indigo DJs, but if you like spazzamatazz, gay electro, g-funk and micropop the Kiss My Haç Djs [this time featuring a guest stint by Knickers’ Brady] will be stopping the staff from clearing out the bar downstairs. FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!

June Pictures

2005-07-26T21:01:00.000+01:00

Friend of IVKMH, Dave Crayon from Blunt Crayon came along to do some fancy DJing at our relaunch night in June. It seems that someone let him smuggle a camera in amongst his records, so it’s just as well that we’d all made the effort to do our hair. To see us and our guests looking not that bad at all click here.

Also, courtesy of Ged Camera, here are pictures of June's acts: Liam Frost, Loose Canon and The Harrisons.

If you’ve been along to any of our nights and taken pictures, send them to us, and assuming we were happy with our outfits that night, we’ll put them up here.

Manchester Online Preview

2005-07-26T20:09:00.000+01:00

Manchester Online have given the next Indigo Vs. Kiss my Hac a preview, check it out here.

June Liam Frost Review

2005-07-25T01:33:00.000+01:00

Click here to read what manchestermusic had to say about Liam Frost's performance at IVKMH in June.

1 Thing - National Forest Remix

2005-07-20T18:33:00.000+01:00

Remember that Amerie remix that was rocking last Friday's Kiss my Hac? Here it is in it's full glory.

Next Indigo Vs. Kiss My Hac

2005-07-19T14:38:00.000+01:00

Indigo Vs. Kiss My Hac returns to The Star & Garter, Manchester on Friday August 12th With special guests HIEM and support from Sir Yes Sir. More Details to follow...