Links

Blue Cat Music
...the label responsible for Asylum. Both the single and the album are available to pre-order direct.

Skidmark Multimedia
...A website dedicated to the promotion of new, unsigned bands and solo artists. Desolation Angels are featured artist of the month for September 2002.

Gigs Unlimited
...Promoting fresh new talent.

manchestermusic.co.uk
...Manchester based site, full of information on local bands.

BBC Manchester Music - (Desolation Angels page)
...information on local bands, plus a download of 'Behind Closed Doors' in realaudio or mp3 format.

Glasswerk Media - (Desolation Angels page)
...a site selecting and promoting good bands and music over the internet.

UK Record shop directory
...a good Starting point if you are looking for British pressings.

The Original Sin
...a real undergroundzine featuring lots of small and unsigned bands.

Organ
...great London-based music magazine.

BURBs
...a site dedicated to new unsigned british talent.

Jatagi Software
...producers of this very website.

manchesteronline.co.uk
...everything on the city, online.

Music Photographers

Tamzin Forster
...talented local photographer and friend. She took many of the pictures of the band on the site.

Tony Smith
...a freelance music photographer who worked with the angels at their EP launch party.

Ged Camera - (Desolation Angels page)
...is to be found at nearly every gig in Manchester. This site is an invaluable record of local bands and music events.

Tina McLelland
...a professional photographer with an interest in the local scene. there are some shots of the Angels in her unsigned section.

Venues

Night & Day cafe
...new website for the perennial Manchester favourite with great ambience and expensive drinks.

Blue Cat Cafe
...charmed Stockport venue with candles, music, poets, and comedians.

The Roadhouse
...contains listings and other information.

Bands We Like

Anna Kashfi
...local alt. country band members of whom played strings at the 'Rocks in her Pocket' EP launch party.

The Sonar Yen
...the sonic equivalent of nuclear fallout; "I believe I can move forward" - you will be compelled to follow.

Tsuji Giri
...gut-churning anthems and distorted dissonance from these avatars of the antiguitar-christ.

The Obsession
...a sublime fusion of FIRESOULSPEED delivered with a funk hustle and soaring rock & roll power.

Bone-box
...laidback, slingback Rock'n'Roll Americana from the Bone-Box crew... Funky, sleazy, low-down and chilled out...

Jackie O
...their aim - to kill all of the dominant forces with BIGFUNKINNOISEBEATINNUSOULBLOOZESEXMUSIC until the screaming guitars are pried from their cold, dead fingers.

Aqute Couch
...these people are not normal.

Narcissus
...wiping away stodgy mediocre indie rock in a trail of glitter and kohl.

Carolgees
...or so they were before they became Computerman...