Young Knives
- Sobota, listopada 28
- 19:00-23:00
- Band on the Wall 25 Swan Street, Manchester M4 5JZ, Wielka Brytania
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Young Knives play at Band on the Wall in Manchester on 28 November 2026 at 19h.
Formed in the mid-1990s in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, Young Knives originally coalesced around brothers Henry and Thomas Dartnall with drummer Oliver Askew, before continuing as a duo from 2015. Based in Oxford in the early 2000s, the band established itself in the wake of the British indie rock scene with a taut, nervous sound at the crossroads of post-punk revival, indie rock and an experimental strand that grows across their records. Young Knives drew attention with the EP The Young Knives... Are Dead in 2002, then with the single The Decision in 2005, ahead of the releases of Voices of Animals and Men (2006) and Superabundance (2008).
The band followed with concerts and tours, notably alongside The Futureheads, Hot Hot Heat, The Rakes and Dirty Pretty Things, and appeared at SXSW. After Ornaments from the Silver Arcade (2011), recorded with Nick Launay, Young Knives emphasised dissonant textures and more oblique constructions on Sick Octave (2013), then returned with Barbarians (2020) and Landfill (2025). Their music remains marked by dry or abrasive guitars, angular rhythms, often contrapuntal vocals and a taste for melodic displacement.
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Band on the Wall
25 Swan Street, Manchester M4 5JZ, Wielka Brytania