Sunday 21/05/06 Battle, Humanzi @ The Academy, Manchester

On a dreary Sunday night, with only a handful of spectators, one of Manchester’s coolest new venues, the recently refurbished cellar of the Academy, welcomed two of Britain’s hottest new bands. First on the bill, Humanzi, or to those in the know ‘The Manzi’, are here to deliver their hedonistic punk rock thrombosis, and are ****ed if they are going to let a piss-poor turnout stop them pulsating their romp rock through the cellar walls.  Forthcoming single ‘Diet Pills and Magazines’ opens the show, ripping the seams from your slender jeans, the sleazy guitar waves meander through the reverberating baselines.  With only 2 singles to their name, The Manzi are hot off the blocks, culminating a myriad of sounds ranging from dark goth-punksters Eighties Matchbox Disaster. the more familiar punk territory of the Sex Pistols, to the arrogance Oasis.  Sound like a tall order? Check out ‘Long Time Coming’, as the keyboard synths and stomping disco tempo are like Franz Ferdinand with a skewer through their balls.  Get your shit together and join the conspiracy.