A reissue of C.P. Lee's classic book Like The Night offers Northern Soul's Music Editor the opportunity to reflect on Lee's ...
On a gloomy Sunday in Sale, south Manchester, Hannah Baxendale opens her front door in a red gingham top and polka dot socks.
It seems in keeping with the Catholic iconography that Michaela Yearwood-Dan has cited as one of the organising principles of ...
The concept is a half or whole rotisserie chicken served with flavoured butters and some sides and a glass or two of Crémant, ...
The Floral Pavilion sits out on the edge of New Brighton, facing the Mersey with Liverpool’s docks looming across the water. Around it, the place holds that familiar seaside mix: arcades, food stalls, ...
Relax. You know the song. And you probably know the band, Frankie Goes to Hollywood. But can you recall who sang lead vocals on the 1984 track? Top pop points if your answer was Holly Johnson, the ...
Manchester Film Festival closes with exactly the right kind of film. Not something inflated for the sake of a finale, but a work that catches hold of one of the festival’s deeper currents. California ...
There’s a painting at the heart of From Here To Here To Here, part way through a decade of Louise Giovanelli’s collected works, and it looks a lot like Blackpool. Light glistens across the liquid gold ...
Talking to Anna Appleby, the creative force behind Norrisette, is a giddy delight. Arguably Manchester’s most distinctive electronic pop artist, her conversational synapses trigger firework ...
In a world brimming with artificial intelligence, the internet is awash with claims that 2026 is the year of ‘going analogue’. But what’s the evidence? Well, sales of physical media have surged (for ...
Perhaps the greatest difficulty facing any reviewer of the poetry of John Cooper Clarke is resisting the temptation simply to quote all the best bits. The difficulty is further compounded by there ...
Curtain Up at Lowry in Salford: our chief arts correspondent visits a new exhibition about the communal experience of being in an audience.