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HowTheLightGetsIn Reveal Comedy Line-Up

Knock knock...

"Who's there?"

The Comedy Line-up for HowTheLightGetsIn 2018, including some of the biggest names and hottest rising stars on the UK comedy scene. Leading the bill will be the “blissfully funny” Mock The Week star James Acaster (Time Out), whose shows have earned him an unprecedented five consecutive nominations for Best Show at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards.

As night begins to fall, the Ring turns from a hub of intellectual activity into a den of hilarity and mayhem. But of course the jokes are smart too. With an indecently funny comedy line-up, curated by the critically acclaimed comedian Alex Kealy, the laughs are (almost) guaranteed to drown out the party next door.

He'll be joined by “Britain's greatest living anti-comedian” Ed Aczel (The Guardian), award winning actor-turned-comedian Brett Goldstein, Russell Brand prodigy Lou Sanders and, “one of his generations most eloquent comic voices”, Ahir Sha (The Telegraph), alongside many, many more standout comedians throughout the festival weekend.

You can book headline sets individually, or enjoy the entire line-up with a Festival Ticket.

 

 

 

The Mu-Tones Debut Single

The Mu-Tones release their debut single 'Slab City Records' on June 30 through Ugly Man Records. The North West trio are a noisy garage pop band forged of three talents and a desire for direct communication, led by former Marion guitarist/songwriter Anthony Grantham and joined by Alex Redhead (bass) formerly of Amplifier and Peter Gray (drums) who used to play with Letters to Fiesta. The Mu-Tones manifesto is direct and to the point: short, sharp songs crammed full of loud, angry, weird magic. Anthony says "Some of them are about how I feel, and some of them show how I feel without making a lot of sense"

Their debut single is a bruising distillation of the Mu-Tones sound, filthy basslines, scorched riffing and railroading drums, it's flying across the rails into a sizzling crescendo, think The Pixies or Husker Du reassembled through Grantham's imagination. This urgent noise pop is laced with an insurgent ode to a forgotten area of the US: "Its an area in America not even on the map, run by solar power, apparently they have gigs on there, it's something I'd love to do." says Grantham. “Also it DOES sound like the sort of thing you'd hear Lux Interior saying, which is kind of what the second verse is about.” Anthony Grantham was the guitarist and one of the songwriters in revered ‘90s band Marion until they disbanded. “When I left we had stopped writing, at least together, and writing has always been a great joy of mine”.

 

Mu-Tones launch their debut single 'Slab City Records' at Jimmy's Northern Quarter on the June 30.

 

 

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