WIN A PAIR OF TICKETS TO SOUNDS FROM THE OTHER CITY MUSIC FESTIVAL ON MAY 1, 2016, AT VARIOUS VENUES ON CHAPEL STREET, SALFORD Northern Soul has teamed up with Sounds From The Other City Festival to offer one lucky reader a pair...
Read MoreThere’s no big eggstravaganza (sorry) for April this year but there is plenty of comedy in Manchester. Knock yourself out with this eggsciting (I just can’t help myself) lot. Comedy @ Chorlton Irish Club, Fri April...
Read MoreThis time last year, few music fans knew the name Julia Holter. She’d already released three beautiful, acclaimed and highly idiosyncratic albums (she started recording the first, Tragedy, at home using the free software...
Read MoreYou might need to brace yourself at the thought, but The Hour of Bewilderbeast – the debut album by Badly Drawn Boy, aka Damon Gough – recently celebrated its 15th birthday. To mark it, Gough has been playing the whole...
Read MoreThere have been few places that, just by stepping over the threshold, have felt like coming home. When I was a teenager it was the John Bull pub in Wigan, followed later in the evening by head-banging rock nights at Maximes....
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