The Wants

Support:The DirtThe Dirt are an Anglo-Japanese duo based in Mossley, on the Manchester side of the Pennines, made up of spoken word artist Jack Horner - better known on the Manc circuit as Leon the Pig Farmer - and his wife, multi-instrumentalist Sachiko Wakizaka. Their sound welds psych and shoegaze guitar loops to electronic rhythms and abrasive spoken verse, with Sachiko building walls of fuzz and feedback from a small mountain of pedals while Jack fires off rapid-fire verse on mental health, politics and the state of everything. Louder Than War made their 2023 debut album Agitator Album of the Week, and 2025's Monkeypunch - recorded with Jason Shaw at Fuzz Face Studios in Scotland - pushed the anger outward into a call to arms. A third album, An Iridescent Dream, followed in 2026. Comparisons run to The Fall, Suicide and Spacemen 3; live, they're a genuinely uncompromising DIY proposition.[slab]Cinematic Manchester post-rock with a shoegaze punk bite. Debut album Taut - Louder Than War Album of the Week, 5 stars, and No.8 in their albums of 2025. Guy Garvey calls them one of his "favourite power trios.""A masterpiece" - Andy Cairns, Therapy?