our first release from the fantastic Narwhals “3310 & A Pterosaur” has been out for just over a month now!
we’re super stoked to have these guys on the label, expanding out our roster with their heartfelt and intimate music. Jacob’s songwriting here is exquisite, really bringing you into the story conveyed through the track. the instrumentation and production surrounding Jacob’s vocal is perfect, really expanding out the track and giving it so much room to breathe whilst guiding the song along in such an expert manner. so many fantastic releases on the label now from our artists, we’re super blessed.
what, two gig posts in two days?! it’s all going on over here! we’re super stoked to be able to announce our next “Toasted” band night down at the Grafton Arms!
we’ve got a top lineup for this one, with music from Liverpool-based Indoor Shoes and Manchester’s own Whatever The Weather and Monday Night Special! this one’s gonna be a belter, expect a whole load of indie goodness. with how amazing the last one was, we can’t wait for this one!
we’ll be down there on the Saturday 9th of April, starts up at 7:30pm – it’s free entry, award-winning pints at approximately three quid each, and pizzas served all day! so boss. find out more at our event TOASTED: Indoor Shoes / Whatever The Weather / Monday Night Special
oh man our first Toasted gig down at the Grafton Arms last Saturday was utterly unreal
we really brought it, with amazing sets from the formidable talents of INTERVENE The Sprats and The Distance it was a belter! big shout to these bands for coming down and starting off our band nights in the best way well worth checking them all out, huge things inbound for these!
keep your eyes peeled for our next one, we can’t wait to get on with these with how Saturday was! we’ll be announcing it in the next few days
our feature for today’s Just The Crust is the brand new tune from VALA “This Town”!
we’ve had VALA on our radar for a while now and they’ve put out some incredible releases, they’ve got such a lovely unique sound to their music and the Manchester-based band have only been going from strength to strength with each release and gig they’ve played – selling out shows across the country, how boss
this new tune is super lovely, a real indie-rock banger from the lads. the elements of lo-fi in the track really give it a personality and with lovely lyricism, a chorus that sticks in your head like glue, and string ensembles really complimenting the rest of the instruments, it’s one not to miss out on! we love the bridge too with that autotuned vocal, really gives the track an edge and brings it into a lovely breakdown. fantastic stuff from these guys and released with the class talents of Shoplifters Union!
you can find it on all streaming sites and that, on Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/artist/26tcWRMjTwUJks8fvo4JIs where you can also find the rest of their discography, and there’s a music video out soon on their YouTube! all going on, well worth a listen
as always, you can find all of our reviews, music, features and more on our website at www.breadrecords.co.uk
tonight marks the first of our brand new band gigs over at the Grafton Arms!
“Toasted” is our brand new monthly band night (can’t go wrong with a bread pun or seven) and we’re stoked to be able to bring these amazing bands to the stage tonight with The Distance The Sprats Band and INTERVENE! it’s gonna be a lovely night of madness, noise and good old unfiltered grungy rock goodness from some of the North’s best up-and-coming bands.
we’ll be starting up around 7:30/8pm or so, it’s free entry, one of our favourite venues around with bloomin’ three quid pints, food served til late, and best of all, free entry! come on down and have a good ‘un with us. find out more at our event TOASTED: Intervene / The Sprats / The Distance
may be a little bit of a late post but man we are so hyped to be able to announce the first of our BAND GIGS down at the Grafton Arms!
“Toasted” is our brand new monthly band night where we’ll be bringing you some of Manchester’s best in indie, rock and alternative, plus delving out a bit further to give bands across the North a chance to get heard here in the rainy city!
for our first one we’ve got a proper stellar lineup, with alternative-rock outfit The Sprats Band indie rockers The Distance and Sheffield’s very own INTERVENE! looks to be a reyt class one, these guys are incredible and it’s sure to be one not to miss out on.
come on down next Saturday 12th March from 7:30pm, it’s free entry, quality and very affordable pints on offer, new pizza menu just launched (served til late) and some of the North’s best up-and-coming talent performing! we can’t wait! find out more at our event TOASTED: Intervene / The Sprats / The Distance
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we’ve got our twenty-second episode of Grain Radio for you all! ☀️
it’s been a long time in the making, but we’re back on it now 🤘 been so busy with live stuff and the such but we’ll be doing our best to catch up with these, so much amazing music to show you all. this is a top one, so many fantastic tunes on it and such a great indication of how boss the music scene is!
check it out on the audio above, or head over to our YouTube at https://youtu.be/8mFIMX3LH3w (video embed at bottom!) 🙌
A big shout to each of the artists for letting us use their music for this – featuring music from:
we’re back with our next Knead To Know interview, with the amazing Manchester-based indie rockers Cottons! 🤘
we had Cottons perform for us down at The Old Abbey Taphouse here in Manchester back in 2019, and they absolutely smashed their set, it was a brilliant gig. since then, they’ve been releasing some proper bangers, we’re massive fans of their sound and they’re lovely chaps as well. 😊 one of our favourite tunes of theirs has to be “Disregard The Times”, it’s got a lovely groove to it, proper boss songwriting and the album art is simply gorgeous.
since then, they’ve put out a load of fantastic music, most recently their new single “Time To Leave” – continuing with their calming and mellow indie signature sound, but really moulding their style to create something really unique to them. it’s a lovely tune with their usual classic songwriting, definitely one to catch if you’re a fan of indie or alternative rock. ☀️ we’re proper delighted to be able to have been able to ask them a few questions about their music, find it below!
Tell us a bit about yourselves and what you guys do!
We’re a four piece band living in Manchester, playing a familiar indie sound with melodic verses & driven chorus’. Consisting of Ricky, Jasper, Jack and Charlie, Cottons began by meeting at Uni. We’re currently working on new music that we’re pushing to release throughout the year!
We had you guys perform for us back in like 2018 over at The Old Abbey Taphouse – feels like a lifetime ago now! How has it been over the years in the band?
That was a fun gig. It was Ricky’s first gig as part of the band so that definitely made it a memorable one! We’ve had a quiet few years due to the pandemic but we feel like we’ve developed our sound a lot, the next few songs will sound quite different to our previous releases so we’re excited to see how they’re received! I think Time To Leave has been the first song to move in that direction.
What are your main inspirations for music and creativity?
Lockdown gave us space and time to listen to new music and find new artists, when we all got back to Manchester we would listen together and share demos and ideas we had created. Change of environment is a big thing for us too, a lot of these songs reflect where we were and what we were doing at the time.
How do you write? Do you take a group approach to it, or do you have someone focus on lyrics, jam the tracks out to build them from ideas or otherwise?
Usually one of us will have a shell of a song that we take into a practice room to jam through, this gives us a basic idea then we can work on individual sections and parts. Lockdown forced us to become comfortable with logic, so we wrote a lot on there too and sent bits across to each other.
Did you find it difficult to work together as a band creatively during the lockdowns? Obviously it wouldn’t have been easy to practice together, or did you use other means such as video calls / streams?
We just focused on content really, we did a couple of lockdown covers remotely which did help us grow.
How have you been readjusting to gigging and post-pandemic music over the past few months?
We did a headliner in Manchester, Charlie was sick down an alleyway before we played so as a first gig back not the worst. In all seriousness It was quite nerve racking running up to our first gig back but as soon as we got on stage we remembered why we’re doing this.
When you’re performing live, what do you each find best about it?
Ricky – Jumping off stage
Jack – ‘I don’t know, I just find it fun init.’
Jasper – Riffin’
Charlie – Giving it large
How have your releases been going lately? You’ve been doing videos, putting out some top singles – what response have you guys got from audiences?
We filmed our first music video, we shot it in Derby whilst Boris was probably having a party. The response has been good to the video and helps put some faces to the name. We’ve had some recognition from Dean Jackson on BBC Intro East Mids which has been really encouraging.
Is there anything coming up we should know about?
Yes.
Have you got anything else planned for 2022?
We’ll be playing Bearded Theory in May, it’s our first festival so we’re very excited!
as always, it’s super lovely to be able to conduct these interviews with some of the best talent here in Manchester! we love hearing each artist and band’s unique perspectives and experiences, and Cottons’ here is really interesting in that they used lockdowns and pandemics to focus on themselves as a band, expand out their sound, try new things and it’s really worked out for them! 🙌 it’s a similar aspect to ourselves here at the label, in that we expanded out our online features, which in turn has worked out amazingly and we’ve seen some brilliant feedback from people and really managed to help push the musical community in a positive manner. great stuff! ☀️
brilliant to chat to the lads here, a massive shout to them for helping us with this. ❤️ we hope that you guys enjoyed this as much as we did! make sure you check out their tunes, we’ll pop some links below for you all to have a look at and let us know what you think! 🍞
we’ve joined forces with our good friends Farrow & Friends Promotions to bring you a new monthly event “Loafin’ Around” over at The Bread Shed Manchester! 
gonna be a boss one. 
get your tickets at https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Manchester/The-Bread-Shed/Farrow–Friends-and-Bread-Records-Presents-Loafin-Around-/36043720/ 
: Max Macmillan
Bread Records 