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Britpop reunions continue at pace

ACOUSTIC SET: Echobelly's Sonya Madan

WITH Britpop kings Blur recently in town for a triumphant date at the M.E.N. Arena, news is reaching us here at CityLife Towers of two more acts from the 1990s music explosion clambering aboard the reunion bandwagon.

As in July both Echobelly and Cornershop will both play low-key dates at the bijou Moho Live live.

Bursting onto the pop scene in 1994 with the acclaimed Everybody's Got One album, Echobelly’s combination of spiky-pop and photogenic frontwoman Sonya Madan made for a heady combination.

Expect to hear acoustic versions of lost classics like King Of The Kerb and Great Things, plus some new material, when Sonya and guitarist Glenn Johanssen take to the stage on July 9.

Roll forward to July 27 and one of the author’s of one of THE Britpop anthems (thanks in part to Fatboy Slim’s party remix), Cornerhouse will drop by.

The Leicester-formed collective hit pay dirt in 1997 when their tribute to Bolllywood icon Asha Bhosle, Brimful Of Asha, topped the charts.

Tjinder Singh, Avtar Singh, David Chamber, and Ben Ayres have now crafted what they hope will be another summer smash, The Roll Off Characteristics (Of History In The Making).

Boasting big street-party horns, a genteel breeze of piano, and the psychedelic sounds of the sitar - it promises to take you back to the sun-soaked summers of your youth.

Lifted from their download-only new LP, Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast, it should go down a treat in the sweaty surrounds of the Northern Quarter hangout.

Echobelly play Moho Live on Thursday, July 9. £7. Cornershop play on Monday, July 27. £12. Call 0161 832 1111.