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Spider King

Spider King has been played on NTS shows including Full House, with Animals first played on 29 June 2014.

An unknown pleasure torn out of Manchester’s lost DIY manual, Spider King (real name: Mike King) cast an almost invisible undetected web across the history of Manchester’s inner-city music scene which has trapped body parts of The Mothmen, Martin Hannett, Gerry And The Holograms, John Cooper Clarke, The Blue Orchids, Naffi Sandwich (The Naffis) and The Fates in its glue.

As a central mast to 1970s/80s Manchester’s “deserted” DIY era, spanning angular jazz funk, punk and sarcastic synth pop, Spider King has also played huge parts in…

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Animals
Spider King
Finders Keepers Records, Oi Polloi2012
Animals
Spider KingFinders Keepers Records, Oi Polloi2012
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C.I.A.
Spider King
Finders Keepers Records, Cache Cache2016
C.I.A.
Spider KingFinders Keepers Records, Cache Cache2016
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