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Single Cell is a collective of musicians and artists based in Manchester, UK. We make music, play gigs and take part in larger projects. Visit our MySpace page here.

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28.06.10

Single Cell T-Shirts

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Single Cell T-Shirts are now available, priced £8 we have 'Single Cell', 'Hulme Grown' and 'Free Music' versions, place your order here. Plus read our July update here.

18.03.10

Finding Zion: Update

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Check out news of the Finding Zion festival. Click here for news and pictures. Full details of Finding Zion can be found here.

26.02.10

Finding Zion: Critical Mass Comes to Hulme

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Check out news of the first Finding Zion event, Critical Mass comes to Hulme. Click here for news and pictures. Full details of Finding Zion can be found here.

06.02.10

Finding Zion news

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Running from 26th February to 27th March 2010, Finding Zion is a month long festival of events taking place in and around Zion Arts Centre, curated by Single Cell Collective.

We've chosen to stage events that promote the creative talent of Hulme while exploring the politics and culture of this unique area. There's plenty of opportunities to get involved, whether it's bringing your bike to the critical mass, siting down for a meal at the People's Kitchen or taking a walk through Hulme's psychogeography. The events culminate with Hulme Busking, a day of incredible musical performances throughout Hulme, ending with a special event at Zion Arts Centre. More information on the Finding Zion web page and here.

01.10.09

Single Cell October update

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News on a special Haloween fundraiser as well as upcoming gigs from Caulbearers, Phil Davies, Badger the Hermit, Air Cav and more. Further information here.

18.05.09

Single Cell takeover at Eurocultured

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1pm-9pm, Bank Holiday 25th May, 2009, Single Cell colonise the cafe area in Space Bar on New Wakefield Street at the Eurocultured festival.

Live acts include Caulbearers, You and Boo, Julie E Gordon, Honeyfeet, Invertor, Phil Davies and Defunkles. DJs comes from Dom Blood and Fire and DJ Faceplant. More information here.

16.05.09

Guerrilla Busking - many thanks

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Many thanks to all the people who turned out for the Guerrilla Busking gigs yesterday - 17 gigs over 20 acts in 8 hours, ending under the Betham Tower with spoken word poems and a group sing along. Keep an eye on our YouTube channel as videos are posted and an ALL FM show in full here. You can see where we went on the map here.

Full line up here and the story of the day can be read on our twitter here.

15.05.09

Guerrilla Busking - locations and times

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Full list of locations, times and a map can be found here.

First location for Guerrilla Busking, midday, Friday 15.05.09, Market Street with African drumming band Tanante, second location 12.30pm, Cup Cafe, Thomas Street with Julie E Gordon.

Full line up here. Forecast is for heavy rain to clear early afternoon.

More info here.

07.05.09

Badger the Hermit comes out of hibernation...

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Badger the Hermit (a.k.a. will lenton) is heading out on a little tour with his band. Check them out at Kim by the Sea tonight; Lloyds Hotel in Chorlton on Friday 8th May; the Bull's Head in Tintwistle on Saturday 9th; the Sparrow Hawk Hotel in Burnley on Sunday 10th (afternoon); and the Hillary Step in Whalley Range on Sunday 10th (evening).

More info here.

30.04.09

Guerrilla Busking at Futuresonic 2009

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Midday-8pm Friday 15th May 2009. An eclectic series of impromptu musical performances in secret locations around Manchester City Centre. Raising money for destitute refugees in Manchester. Featuring over twenty Manchester acts including John Robb, John Fairhurst and poet Mike Garry.

More info here.

03.03.09

Single Cell in the news

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Since the launch of the Six Rivers album we've had a fair amount of press coverage. You can listen to a selection of tracks and read an interview on the Hey! Manchester music blog. Meanwhile Brocken Bow are featured during BBC Radio Lancashire's On the Wire new music show.

26.02.09

Caulbearers play Ship Ahoy! at Islington Mill

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8pm-1am, £3-5 sliding scale, all proceeds go to Gaza Aid Appeals www.avaaz.org. Line up includes live music, DJs and more.

More info here.

20.02.09

Six Rivers available now

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Copies of the Single Cell compilation album Six Rivers, are available from 19th February 2009. The album features 14 tracks from Single Cell artists including You and Boo, Caulbearers, Mel Uye Parker.

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A limited run of handmade CD albums are available directly from Single Cell. Designed by Because Studio and featuring exclusive inlay photography from Andrew Brooks the albums are priced at £8.

Click here to purchase a copy of the album.

Download
An mp3 version of the album is available to download for free, just visit this link and follow online instructions.

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12.02.09

Welcome to Single Cell Collective

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Welcome to the new and updated Single Cell website, online from Thursday 12th February 2009 and featuring an exclusive preview of the new compilation, Six Rivers.

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08.02.09

Single Cell - Six Rivers launch

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Single Cell Collective launch their 14 track debut compilation: 'Six Rivers'.

7.30pm - 2.00am, Thursday 19th February 2009, The Ruby Lounge, Manchester

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You and Boo

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"You and Boo is proper folk, as wonderfully gentle and whimsical as it comes. Akin to Vashti Bunyan, it has a joyful innocence and a tender humour." - Chris Long, BBC

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Caulbearers

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"Crazed in its magnificence" (Doug Weir, Solid Earth). Archaic funk fables and dub migrations. Bittersweet songs of the self, soul and society played by a ten-piece heavy groove orchestra, conducted and improvised on the night.

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Brocken Bow

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A brocken bow is your own shadow cast on cloud, often mistaken for a demon or angel. Brocken Bow play magic realist, magpie pop - a mixtape from somewhere just out of sight, where the everyday meets its myths...

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Phil Davies

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Phil Davies is a singer songwriter who's bittersweet melodies and wry lyrics are guaranteed to make you happy for the rest of your life. And taller. Enjoy odes to love, travelling tales, garden centre folk pop and venetian punk murder waltzes here

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Mel Uye Parker

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Reggae-soul infused rhythms... pin-down bass... precise latin-tinged groove... whiskey drenched harmonies elevate Mel's soaring choruses.

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Defunkles

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Defunkles make magnetic dance music fusing live guitars, flutes and percussion with found sounds and samples, vintage synths and broken drum machines. Their sound shifts from epic space funk to chilled, beautifully layered balearica in the original sense of the word.

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Badger the Hermit

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Tenor saxophonist and composer. Guitarist. Rhodes enthusiast. Writes sketches of music in biro.

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Stefan

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Trained classically, straining towards blues and earnest folk, and exposed reluctantly to jazz... He believes that music is all about transformation - that it should not be afraid to take on the world, and at very least take a good aim at oneself.

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I-Mitri

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Conscious roots reggae and dub from prolific multi-instrumentalist based in Athens and Leicester.

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Julie E Gordon

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Singer/Songwriter/Producer/Composer has performed and recorded extensively over the course of 8 years touring Japan, Europe and the UK with bands such as the Happy Mondays. A host of collaborations are in the pipeline, and also her interest in developing her solo experimental, vocal set ensued in which she calls ‘‘The Yellow Brick Road’’.

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Invertor

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Insistent, guitar driven music... a response to Manchester, a city in transition, in the thrall of fat bellied developers, self obsessed yuppies, bent politicians and blank faced shoppers.

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Beachowl:Discospring

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DIY electronica from Levenshulme made using chance, mistakes and psychogeography. Playful, sometimes daft, often moving. From the album Discospring about Anglesey's springtides.

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Andrew Mucha

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Cross over harp sounds played with two capo's although due to time the twiddly bits have been left out.

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