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Around our NYE house party; inbetween the awesome free clothes, beer, pizza’s and pineapple & cheese cocktail sticks you might’ve also found something very exciting. It’s about 10 inches in diameter, black, plastic and came in a beautiful gatefold parcel. It was the ‘Love and Disaster 1′ vinyl, of course. Packing the uprising Manchester zeitgeist onto the music lovers’ favourite format. Including tracks from  Airship, Dutch Uncles, Jo Rose and an Everything Everything remix of Delphic – this is the first essentail compilation of the year.  

We at Same Teens hooked up with the artists featured to get in on this homeground talent and asked them some questions. Catch ‘em while you can.

Delphic

What would you say was the love of your life?
If music wasn’t the love of your life, then there is no way you could do it at a professional level as it is completely all-consuming.

What’s the biggest disaster you’ve been involved in?
As Delphic, we haven’t experienced a disaster as of yet, but we don’t like getting on small planes…

What was the highlight of 09 for the band and what’re your hopes for 2010?
In terms of 2010, our history has, in a way, already been written. The album comes out at the start of January and then we go off on tour for about 8 months. We want to do this album justice as we put a lot of work into it, but we will also be looking forward to the next Delphic record.

If the track on the EP was a film what would the tagline for it be?
‘Being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven.’

What 3 ingredients do you think Manchester gives to musicians here?
A passionate local scene, something to live up to, and people are always looking for the next good thing coming out of a city that has produced so much.

Dutch Uncles

What would you say was the love of your life?
Depressing questions would be our first love, but as a band we share a mutual appreciation for the compositions of steve reich. The biggest disaster we have been involved in would be our upbringings, naturally.

What was the highlight of 09 for the band and what’s the hopes for 2010?
Our Highlight of 2009 was opening for Maximo Park at the Manchester Apollo in October. It was the first time we’d all been nervous in a long time, and felt like our first gig again.

If the track on the EP was a film what would the tagline for it be?
Five bands. One cup. 

What 3 ingredients do you think Manchester gives to musicians here?
A dash of feudalistic heritage with a spoonful of decent venues and a light sprinkling of impossible standards.

Everything Everything

What would you say was the love of your life?
The biggest loves of our lives are our friendships (with each other and with others). And music, inevitably.

What’s the biggest disaster you’ve been involved in?
The Biggest disaster we’ve been involved with is NOW; being alive at a Fairly Bad Time For Humanity

What was the highlight of 09 for the band and what’re your hopes for 2010?
Reading Festival was great. We did a stripped-down set at Union Chapel in London for Mencap with a string quintet that was genuinely special. We wrote the arrangements and string parts ourselves which felt like an achievement. 2010: A great record is paramount, plus lots of fun touring in exotic places.

If the track on the EP was a film what would the tagline for it be?
I would like to quote my favourite ever tagline from universally-panned and instantly-forgotten Marky Mark Wahlberg vehicle ‘The Event’: “An Event appears to be happening.” Glorious in its total meaninglessness.

What 3 ingredients do you think Manchester gives to musicians here?
A sense of community that can make you feel quite safe and valued. A thriving and cooperative infrastructure. A gradually emerging scene that acknowledges the city’s many past glories but doesn’t rest on those laurels. I think that the scene has been neatly encapsulated by Love & Disaster on this 10″.

Jo Rose
My cat.

What would you say was the love of your life?

What’s the biggest disaster you’ve been involved in?
My cat running away.

What was the highlight of 09 for the band and what’s the hopes for 2010?
The highlight of 2009 was my cat, but he ran away. I hope he will come back in 2010.

If the track on the EP was a film what would the tagline for it be?
“IT was a west-coast american state, overused as a symbol for the prospect of absolution and peace. HE was an excessively introverted romantic who wrote a song employing this symbol. THEIRS was a relationship that would…. somethingorother”. 
I can’t finish that.

What 3 ingredients do you think Manchester gives to musicians here?
Sand, sun and surf.

Airship

What would you say was the love of your life?
I would say the love of my life is the art of great LP Record.

What’s the biggest disaster you’ve been involved in?
The biggest disaster I’ve been involved in is the decline of the Record and pop music as a whole.

What was the highlight of 09 for the band and what’re your hopes for 2010?
I would say my biggest highlight of 2009 was playing Leeds festival and expecting about 10 people and walking out to see thousands that totally blew me away.  My hopes for 2010 are to make the best and exciting album we can possibly make at this time and take it out to explore the world.

If the track on the EP was a film what would the tagline for it be?
“The Younger The Better”

What 3 ingredients do you think Manchester gives to musicians here?
Rain, Trains and Automobiles