I’m getting quite a few hits from people searching for ‘Kimya Dawson Manchester’ or similar. Kimya is an anti-folkster who, when not recording solo albums or looking after her new daughter Panda Deliah, works with Adam Green in the Moldy Peaches. Have a listen here.

Anyway, for all you people desperate for information, she’s playing the Burlington Rooms on the University of Manchester campus next Wednesday, June 27. It’s £5 entry on the door (£2.50 for under-16s) and the venue is a cafe next to the John Rylands Library. Email humey@riseup.net if you need more information.

Further down Oxford Road, the team behind Gorillaz will be offering up their rather ambitious Monkey: Journey to the West opera project at the Palace Theatre. All tickets for this preview night cost £10 and, while Ticketmaster claims there are none left, I understand there are some available at the venue itself. Don’t quote me on that though.

I hear sales for the Damon Albarn-penned opera have been slow generally – prompting Manchester International Festival’s media partner, the Guardian, to give it plenty of coverage in the paper of late. I hope for everyone’s sake that the end product is half as good as the hype has been.