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>Live at the Fargo VFW, 7.29.05
>Live at the Fargo VFW, 9.8.05
>Live at the Red Raven Espresso Parlor, 12.31.05
>Live at the Red Raven Espresso Parlor, 4.25.06
>Live at the Fargo VFW, 5.18.06

>Discography
>Tapes (image heavy)


Manchester Bulge has been around since 2002. They played their first
show as a duo at a concert to benefit the Moorhead State Painting
guild, and went on five minutes before the bar closed, hiding behind
a table stacked with effects pedals, tape machines and a small practice
amp plugged right into the PA. It took them two minutes to clear the bar
of everyone except a tiny group of stunned art students and sound man
>Mike Dagen. Mike liked their stuff so much he asked them to play more
shows in the future and ended up getting the Bulge 95% of their shows
over the next three years, earning him the title "Nicest Guy in the Fargo
Music Scene".
These shows included the First Annual Fargo Winter Carnival, which was
to prove pivotal to the development of the Manchester Bulge sound. Mike
had asked if they could play a quieter set for the Carnival; the group had
already been considering incorporating more acoustic elements and
traditional instruments and therefore decided to make the Winter Carnival
performance as acoustic as possible. Using scrap metal, contact mics,
acoustic guitar, violin, recorder and organ, the group got their most positive
crowd response yet, and through a fluke involving a panicked reporter who had
slept in, made it onto the six o'clock news. After the show they once again
picked up their tape machines, effects pedals and amplifiers, but a lasting
change was made upon their compositional style. Their pieces became more
dynamic, incorporating sparser passages juxtaposed against the traditional
noise freakouts. Which brings us to the Manchester Bulge sound of today.

Full Roster of past and current members:
Edwin Perry Manchester
Chip Remington Bulge I
Chip Remington Bulge II
Enid Boring
Loren del Beaumont
Geoffrey Grinney
Lindsey Schmidt
Joe Curry
Chris Martini
Jeff Zens
Nick Grant
Paul Kvamme
Adam Mickelson