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Eighties Matchbox

The limited amount of tickets for Eighties Matchbox have now all been sold. There are still tickets left on the door so please arrive early to ensure entry. This night will sell out.

Theer are still tickets on sale for the other nights.

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Full Schedule Announced

We are pleased to be finally announce the full Glasswerk and Vman In The City Showcase schedule. Barring one or two additions to be confirmed and full details of the other events we are hosting downstairs in the vault, this is it. So go look. Admire and then buy tickets to go.

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65 Days Of Static Join The Party

Wow. I mean WOW. Glasswerk and Vmanevents In The City showcase just gets better and better and better. Latest additions to the already heaving bill of pure musical indulgence are the much feted and wildly pleasing 65 DAYS OF STATIC. Monday night (3rd October) sees Mark Morriss of Bluetones fame headlining with a solo set upstairs @ Dry Bar while downstairs in ‘The Vault' 65 Days play an intimate gig in what promises to be a sweaty affair.

65 Days sold out Manchester Academy 3 only 5 months ago and will surely sell it out again next month – so this is a rare opportunity to see them play a truly intimate performance.

Glasswerk and Vmanevents In The City Festival runs from 30th Sept – 3rd Oct @ Dry Bar, Manchester . Other acts playing the four day In The City event are Eighties Matchbox B-line Disaster, Fleeing New York, A Cult Called Karrianna, Mistys Big Adventure, Hot Club De Paris, Seachange, Cherubs, Young Offenders Institute, White Rose Movement, Laruso, The Common Redstarts, Trap2 and many more.

65 Days of Static:

Despite what some would have you believe, it isn't 1981 anymore. While many lesser artists are content in their desperate scramble to relive the glories of a distant era some of us demand more from our 21st century rock ‘n' roll. Something more relevant. Something to truly call our own. It's been long overdue, but finally two of Britain 's quintessentially futurist acts join forces for one of this year's most essential doubleheaders.

Formed in Sheffield in 2000 65 Days of Static have dragged post-rock kicking and screaming into the 21st century. Electronic music has always been tentative in its absorption of live instruments. Similar rock music has been similarly conservative or unsuccessful in expanding into an electronic field. 65 Days of Static are among the first to convincingly fuse and balance intelligent dance music with the most leftfield of avant-guitar music. Their current long player ‘The Fall of Math' (Monotreme) is one of the few records that could genuinely be described as a successfully adventurous crossover bearing equal resemblance to the glitch noodlings of Aphex Twin and the expansive and schizophrenic landscapes of Godspeed You! Black Emperor. With much of the national media united in its praise as well as play on MTV and Radio 1 this could be the last chance to witness 65DOS's stunning live show in such intimate surroundings.

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The Eighties Matchbox B-line Disaster at In The City
August 20th 2005

Glasswerk.co.uk and Vmanevents are proud to announce the headliner for the opening night at their annual new music festival during In The City at Dry Bar, Manchester. Yes, fresh from touring Europe with System Of A Down on an exhausting five week soiree, and now headlining the opening night for Glasswerk and Vman In The City, it is…. THE EIGHTIES MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER .

Kicking off a weekend long plethora of new music, breaking bands and established stars 80's Matchbox are going to launch the weekend into oblivion with their hard hitting rock-a-billy, distorted, sleazy pychosis. Expect much – you won't be disappointed.

Singer Guy Mcknight states, “Great things come from reverse approaches. We try hard to get the wrong end of the stick.”

While the press say things like this:

“Iggy Pop, At The Drive In, Black Francis and '65 era Jagger joyriding round Dead Man's Curve at midnight with the lights off screaming ‘I WANNA FUCK YOUR MOTHER!!!' before ramming headlong into a tree. Fucking incredible.”
NME

“If Playlouder was a band, it would be the Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, and there is no higher compliment we can offer.”
Playlouder

Head promoter of Glasswerk.co.uk, Mat Ong, made the following statement, “Excellent”.

Support on the opening night comes from Fleeing New York, A Cult Called Karrianna, The Research, A Boy Called Roy, The Alpha Western, Granby Row and Fletchs Corner with indie DJs, Dance She Said, playing indie pop and rock till the early hours.

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