The Shed Venture: Ghost City

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Prefer it’s 1981 namesake from The Specials, Ghost City is a tune a couple of as soon as vibrant, bustling city. A city primarily based round a area people with northern working class values which has seen higher days. 

Bolton was there on the start of the cotton business and formation of the soccer league. A city with a way of pleasure like no different; one as soon as wealthy in tradition, custom and household values. Bolton, like many different is now a sufferer of decline, poor investement and a sufferer of out of city retail parks. As with Dammer’s Coventry in 1981, the pubs and golf equipment are closing, the retailers are boarded up and most of the these introduced up within the space have moved away. it’s change into a magnet for beggars, the homeless and hungry. Because the title says, a Ghost City

Lyrically the observe displays the starkness of the  instances we live in earlier than reminiscent of the great outdated days, and ultimately earlier than pleading for a greater future. There may be additionally hope within the music, it’s fairly jaunty, with some refined Johnny Marr like guitar strains offering a melody beneath that are to die for.

Ghost City is lifted from their second album, Out Worry Is Their Energy, due November 2023. The debut album noticed the band sporting their influences on their sleeves, The Curious Thoughts Of A Widespread Man was very a lot a sequence of audio snapshots. The comply with up is a extra full piece with entrance man Roy Fletchers observations on the characters he’s coming throughout and the poitics which can be impacting most of us in 2023, however extra on that quickly.

The band have lately been spreading their wings additional afield and obtained rave evaluations for gigs in London and Glasgow. This night (in the event you’re studying this on twenty fifth August) they headline the Foremost Stage on the Bolton Meals & Drink Competition. Futher dates additionally embody and acoustic set at Wax And Beans, Bury in assist of Macmillan Most cancers Help (tickets right here) after which on twenty first October they make their reside debut in Liverpool on the Jacaranda (tickets right here).  

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