Echoes of the North: Four Chapters in Time, The Stoller Hall, Manchester
Picture the scene: a gloomy Saturday evening in Manchester and the rain pours down like shoals of...
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Category: Music
Alison Goldfrapp, The Hall, Aviva Studios, Manchester
However compelling the present, it’s hard to put the past entirely to one side. Tonight, in...
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John Grant sings the songs of Patsy Cline with The Richard Hawley Band
Many years ago John Grant nodded off on my sofa AND he bought me devilled eggs in a restaurant in...
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‘Bravi tutti’ RNCM: 50th Anniversary Opera Gala, Manchester
A sense of joy pervaded the building when the Royal Northern College of Music, as part of its 50th...
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Keeping Control: Independent Music From Manchester 1977-1981
Towards the tail end of the 1970s, John Reed was a young Mod growing up in Shoreham-by-Sea on the...
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