808 State announce homecoming Manchester gig


808 State




808 State have announced a homecoming gig at the O2 Ritz in Manchester for December 18th.

It comes after the release of Graham Massey and Andrew Barker’s Transmission Suite album last year – one displaying ‘serious music for happy people’ according to Live4ever’s review:

“In tone, Transmission Suite has some similarities to Cabaret Voltaire’s pioneering, sample heavy work of the early eighties but without the menace; the tribal drum fills of Ujala hint are almost Balearic, while Trinity is a flashback to the sleek patterns and optimism of the era in which the band were born, a rolling knot of melodies with a TV theme aesthetic, perhaps inspired by the pair’s new surroundings.”

“Like digging through the old tapes they might’ve found, there’s an endless, almost childlike sense of discovery; on The Ludwig Question a diva chirps into the void before a scale ramps up and down like a fried circuit, the fizzing Angol Argol sounds fresh like the Bellville Three have just got to work in 1987, while the apex moment is surely Carbonade’s irresistible pulsing back and forth.”


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