LIVE: GroundCulture / Black Coast / Starved / Cut Short @ Satan’s Hollow, Manchester
Manchester, like most major cities, has its fair share of venues scattered across the city, with many doubling as pubs, clubs, cafes, and student unions. None, though, have quite the same impact as Satan’s Hollow; there’s a reason so many bands make reference to it on later tours, helped by the fact that this distinctive room is often the first introduction many touring metal bands have to the city (and to be fair, what more accurate representation of this damp, dark city is there than a giant Satan grinning down from the corner?). The downside of this particular venue, with its popular club nights, is a fairly early start to proceedings – and getting anyone out in the rain at 6pm on a Saturday is, as could probably be expected, a bit of an impossibility. Liverpool’s Cut Short do their bes...
