March 2011: MischiefMakerPhotoTaker: As the bleak financial winter which was January finally gave way to a new year in February & March: Valentines’ Day; and Spring is on its way!! New nights to check, familiar favourites to attend, as well as DrumClinic’s 1^st Birthday @ Jabez Clegg, Ex:ample 2^nd Birthday @ the Roadhouse! Photos from all that messy mayhem up now! James Blake on tour to promote his debut LP/CD at Band On The Wall! Plus! The last OpenPlan @ Jabez Clegg! AND! The very first (and very good) Problem Child event at the Ritz!!

Before that our continuing favourite, Manchester social on-a-regular, Monday night like no other, Hit-&-Run. After my NYE/NYD washout, combined with an unexpected Religious excommunication, Engine Earz w/ Jenna G was a great way to get back in the chair! MischiefMaker was back again at Mint Lounge only a fortnight later for Canadian dub-step don DZ, as well as it being MC Tonn Piper’s homecoming gig following European tour dates with Tek One and SWR (that’s “Shaun William Ryder, lie down beside ya, fill ya full of junk!”) with Hit-&-Run returning Slovakian maestro B-Complex, (set which I enjoyed so much I totally missed MC Sin-Seer with Young Turks JustSkank in the back room! Sorry boys!

His big-tune ‘Beautiful Lies’ picked up & pushed by Hospital Records, was simply HUUGE. If you were at WHP last year, you heard it. Simple as:

(Also you should check out lovely epic B-Complex ‘Girl With Flower’ (Dysfunktional Audio)

At both of these nights was new Manchester photographer Gary Brown, putting himself out & about town; and now resident photographer at the mighty Metropolis events on both sides of the Pennines! We thought we’d take him under our wing at Ex:ample Magazine and let him escape Hollyoaks nazi-blondes lining up for the titillate.com photo-factory! We sent him along instead to DrumClinic’s 1^st birthday bash @ Jabez Clegg. Read his review & view his photographs, talented boy.