DOORS 7.30PM-11PM

(PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SHOW WILL NOW FINISH AT 11PM AND NOT 12 AS ORIGINALLY PLANNED)

PLUS DJ SET FROM CLINT BOON (INSPIRAL CARPETS, XFM MANCHESTER)

We're the Alabama 3. We make Sweet Mutha Country Acid House Music. All night long. We're not from Alabama, and there's not three of us. We're from Brixton, London. We're the fellas that did that Soprano's theme tune. That tune bought someone a swimming pool, but it sure wasn't any of us...

Alabama 3 is a pop band. A punk rock, blues and country techno situationist crypto-Marxist-Leninist electro pop band. We never went on X Factor or Pop Idol or Stooge Quest. We did it the old fashioned way; Back in 1996, we threw a big old party, invited all our friends. We took a fistfull of blotters and half a dozen disco biscuits and then made it up as we went along. Geffen records bought it! for half a million dollars! We never needed a self-appointed quango of jaded vampires to tell us how to sing the blues...we got the power to raise the dead.

We spent half of our advance from Geffen on various contraband items and with the rest we made an over-produced, brilliant situationist masterpiece called 'Exile on Coldharbour Lane'. Ever since then we've been preaching our Gospel all over the world. We've got into a whole bunch of trouble and met a whole bunch of nice people. We make friends where ever we go. They've tried to stop us. Many, many  times. They say we were degenerates, corrupters of morals, they say we were too political, too contrived, too ugly. We've been in and we've been out. In and out of the charts, in and out of fashion, in and out of rehab. We've been skint and we've been minted... and you know what? It makes no difference to us. Because we're never gonna stop. We're gonna just keep on putting out records and putting on shows.

We want to make you feel good. We know you've had trouble in your life, real bad trouble. We know you've got debts. We know you've had your heart broken so many times you're still finding pieces of it in your pillow. Maybe you've done some good things in your life, maybe you've done some bad things. We forgive you. Forgive yourself. Then dress up real sexy and come and party with us sometime. We'll look after you. That's a promise.

Alabama 3 will be performing live at Manchester Academy on Friday 12th December. They will be performing tracks from past albums along with music from their most recent release ‘M.O.R’. The album, which was released on September 10th 2007, includes a cover of Jerry Reeds 1970’s hit ‘Amos Moses’ and also includes a collaboration with The Proclaimers on the track ‘Sweet Joy’.