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MIRRORS

We need more arty, overambitious young men with preposterous ideas, issuing pompous pronouncements through sucked-in cheeks. We need promotional videos featuring shameless allusions to the German expressionist cinema of the 1920s, all dry ice and long overcoats with the collars turned up in the middle of summer. Enter Mirrors and what they call “pop noir.” Their influences include all manner of barely pronounceable 19th and 20th-century foreign authors, directors, composers, poets and philosophers. Think Tears for Fears’ Mad World and those formerly frilly-shirted funsters Depeche Mode who, in 1982, dramatically turned into solemn synth-rockers with Leave in Silence. This is Mirrors’ terrain.
myspace.com/mirrorsmirrorsmirrors

RUN TOTO RUN

A Manchester based three-piece electro pop band. The band rapidly experienced successes, playing their third gig at Glastonbury, achieving national radio play before they’d played their first gig and getting on the In The City industry list within a few months of becoming a band. They received press coverage from the Guardian and NME, radio play from BBC 6 Music, Radio 1 and XFM. They’ve been XFM’s artist in residence and are getting live reviews from the likes of the NME and News of the World and have had hypemachine hits with various remixes and a cover of Passion Pit’s ‘Sleepyhead’, which reached the number one position as well as gaining national radioplay. They’re currently working on a new album and their second single Catch My Breath again received play from XFM, Radio 1, 2, BBC 6, Galaxy and Absolute Radio. Run Toto Run are on XFM’s list of artists to watch in 2010.
myspace.com/runtotomusic

THE WHIP (DJ SET)

The Whip is an electronic rock band from Manchester. They have released several singles on record labels such as Kitsune. Their tracks “Trash” and “Divebomb” were featured on the Kitsune Maison Compilations 3 and 4. They have also been commissioned to do remixes for bands such as Editors, Hadouken! and The Courteeners track ‘Fallowfield Hillbilly’. Their track ‘Muzzle No. 1’ appears in the soundtrack for the FIFA Video Games 2009 video game.
www.myspace.com/thewhipmanchester