Hurts (6/9/10) and Everything Everything (30/8/10) HMV Arndale Centre Manchester

The past two weeks I have taken full advantage of living in Manchester by witnessing two pretty amazing HMV instore performances by two pretty amazing Manchester bands. Namely Hurts and Everything Everything.

 The Everything Everything set was last Monday, they played I think five or six songs to a crowd of 150 people maximum in the HMV basement. I didn't even know the gig was happening until I checked twitter at work around 3pm. Made sure I was down there as soon as work finished. They were excellent.

Had a little extra warning for the Hurts set, an whole 24 hours extra. They played to around 200-250 people, bit larger audience, and I fear there were a fair few people who weren't allowed in as the queue was pretty long. They played a similar length set to Everything Everything. Have a feeling I was quite lucky to catch them in such an intimate venue, they're going to be pretty massive pretty quickly.

Short but sweet. Expect gushing posts about the new Manics and Weezer albums soon.