Dodging between the torrential downpours that punctuate Manchester’s summertime we’re heading back to Gullivers for my first experience of the established annual event that is the Evil Hoof Picnic. The meeting of Evil Music and Horn And Hoof Records is now in it’s third year, this year the event features twelve bands, each of which gets an egalitarian short sharp half hour, over the course of a long day spent in the heart of Manchester’s Northern Quarter. After grabbing a swift beer sponge in burrito form the rain steadily gives way to a hot and humid day that promises that this years Evil Hoof Picnic will be sweaty and sticky day, and as you are greeted with a complimentary shot of Jägermeister on arrival you can probably add messy to that list as well. Stokes’s Only Strangers kick off th...
