Dixie Ernill - Features


Popguns

Popguns - (With Davey Woodward and The Winter Orphans and Oliver Winder), Peer Hat, Manchester, 18/10/2019

Dixie Ernill reflects on our recent sold-out gig at the Peer Hat in Manchester with the Popguns, Davey Woodward and The Winter Orphans and Ollie Winder.


Popguns

Popguns - (With Davey Woodward and The Winter Orphans and Oliver Winder), Peer Hat, Manchester, 18/10/2019

We profile our next Pennyblackmusic Bands' Night which will take place at The Peer Hat in Manchester and, a night of indie pop, which we are promoting with our writer Dixie Ernill, will feature sets from The Popguns, Davey Woodward and The Winter Orphans and Oliver Winder.


Robert Forster

Robert Forster - Ten Songs That Made Me Love...

Dixie Ernill, in 'Ten Songs That Made Me Love...', writes of his ten favourite songs by Australian singer-songwriter and Go Betweens co-founder Robert Forster.


Chesterfields

Chesterfields - (With Karen and Charlie Big Time), Gullivers, Manchester, 19/2/2017

Dixie Ernill declares our recent Pennyblackmusic Bands Night, which featured performances from the Chesterfields, Karen and Charlie Big Time, the gig of the year


Chesterfields

Chesterfields - (With Karen and Charlie Big Time), Gullivers, Manchester, 18/2/2017

We profile our next London Pennyblackmusic Bands' night which will take place at Gullivers in Manchester, and will feature sets from The Chesterfields, Karen and Charlie Big Time


Brilliant Corners

Brilliant Corners - Ten Songs That Made Me Love...

In our series, in which our writers write about ten songs that made them love a favourite band or artist, Dixie Ernill writes about his favourite songs by recently reformed 80's indie pop act the Brilliant Corners, with additional comments from their front man Davey Woodward


Brilliant Corners

Brilliant Corners - (Gig of a Lifetime) Popfest, Madrid, March 2014

In In our 'Gig of a Lifetime' series, Dixie Ernill writes about seeing reformed 80's indie pop act the Brilliant Corners earlier this year at the Madrid Popfest


Miscellaneous



Dixie Ernill looks back on our first Pennyblackmusic Bands' Night in Manchester which saw sets from the Experimental Pop Band, Brilliant Mind, Becca and The Broken Biscuits and Davey Woodward


Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - Profile

We profile our next Pennyblackmusic Bands' night which will take place at Gullivers in Manchester on November 19th, and will feature sets from the Experimental Pop Band, Brilliant Mind, Becca and The Broken Biscuits and Davey Woodward


Experimental Pop Band

Experimental Pop Band - Summerseat, Bury, 20/3/2009

Pennyblackmusic writer Dixie Ernill is putting on for the second time his own gig in Bury near Manchester with Bristol indiepop group, Experimental Pop Band. More details for what promises to be a truly great night can be found here


Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - 10 Songs

In the latest in our 'Soundtrack of Our Lives' series, in which our writers tell of the personal impact of music on their lives, Dixie Ernill writes about the effect of music at several pivotal moments in time over a 20 year period


Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - Feature

Dixie Ernill recently brought his favourite group the Experimental Pop Band up from Bristol to play his local cricket club which is based in a small village just outside Manchester. He writes about his past and present experiences of putting on gigs


Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - August/September/October 2005

In the latest in his 'Confessions of a Vinyl Junkie' series Dixie Ernill reminisces about spending more money than he perhaps should in Manchester's Vinyl Exchange, and reflects on going to see Broadcast for the first time


Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - June/July 2005

In the latest instalment of his 'Confessions of a Vinyl Junkie' series Dixie Ernill writes about attending his first Trash Can Sinatras concert, and another busy but costly two months of record purchases


Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - April/May  2005

In the latest instalment in his 'Confessions of a Vinyl Junkie'series, Dixie Ernill writes about the joys of compilation tapes at work and summer vinyl purchases


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Miscellaneous - February/March 2005

In the latest in his occasional 'Confessions of Vinyl Junkie' series, Dixie Ernill writes about all his latest musical purchases and resuming gig-going after a long absence


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Miscellaneous - December 2004/January 2005

In the latest in his 'Confessions of a Vinyl Junkie' series, obsessive record collector Dixie Ernill writes about his latest musical finds, including records by the Kitchens of Distinction, Gene and the Wedding Present


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Miscellaneous - October/November 2004

In a new occasional column vinyl junkie Dixie Ernill explains, why having bought records for the best part of 20 years, record shopping continues to excite him