The Longcut
Open Hearts

You’d be entirely forgiven for not recalling Manchester indie electro trio The Longcut and their excellent debut album A Call and Response. It’s been ...

When Arctic Monkeys first proved that histrionic guitars could indeed look good on the dancefloor, lots of people thought that Manc alchemists The Lon...

Nine Black Alps guitarist David Jones produces the Mancs' second album, a marked step up from last year's debut.Whereas that record seemed bes...

The second album from the Manchester trio is a superb collection of distorted, techno-tinged guitar epics that needs to be played through speakers the...

Music, to some it's an ineffable experience, to others, attempts are made to distil it down to something easily palatable in the written word (i.e. us...

Everything, according to Lauryn Hill among others, is everything. That's a mantra that Manchester-based trio The Longcut seem to abide by, worrying no...

“Put on those dancing boots, we’re gonna tear this poison right out at the roots” drumming singer Stuart Ogilvie howls on opener ‘Out At The Roots’, p...

I remember getting rather excited about The Longcut after first seeing them in 2004 on a bill with the almost-as-unknown Nine Black Alps and Bloc Part...

The Longcut were once tipped to be the next darlings of Manchester. Formed in 2002, the trio leaked a slow trickle of records beginning with Transitio...

You cannot say we didn't warn you, you should have listened when you could" spits Stuart Ogilvie in the opening line of 'Out At The Roots'. It's as ca...