Secret Machines: Ruby Lounge, Manchester
Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 16 February 2009
IN AN IDEAL WORLD, the Secret Machines would be playing in a volcanic crater at Pompeii, or taking the stage in the Rocky Mountains as the sun goes down. As it is, their epic, skyscraping sound is crammed into a venue so overcrowded that to get a glimpse of the band would require the assistance of machinery.
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