At last year’s GRAMMYs – the annual ceremony run by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognise outstanding...
Gavin Bryars turned 80 years of age in January. To celebrate the occasion, Phaedra Ensemble – the New Music collective who were founded...
Manchester Collective and Howard Assembly Room have now enjoyed a fruitful working relationship for a number of years. The innovative...
“We are attracted to doom.” Lisa Knapp lays Hack-Poets Guild’s cards firmly on the table before this recently convened collaboration...
Come Hell, high water, winter’s cold snap, and a national railway strike, the Opera North shows still go on. Eight...
I first caught Thea Gilmore in concert at Manchester University Union in September 1999. In what, on the face of it, was...
The last time I saw Lanterns on the Lake in concert was September 2021. The occasion was that of the Long Division...
For Manchester Collective collaboration is key. Much of this innovative arts organisation’s success over the past seven years has been...
It is the opening night of the tour. Ten further dates in this country will follow before the tour crosses...
The UK’s live music industry remains in a parlous state. Decimated by the initial impact of the coronavirus and the...
“If it’s me and yer granny on bongos, it’s the Fall.” Thus spoke Mark E. Smith, singer and frontman of the Fall,...
Having boarded an aeroplane at Melbourne Tullamarine Airport on the 29th of February 1980 as The Boys Next Door the five...
It is exactly one year and one day since Colin Stetson last played in Leeds. Whether this scheduling has occurred by accident...
First released in 2018, the documentary Arcadia is directed by the Scots filmmaker and BAFTA award winner, Paul Wright. Drawing upon a century...
“I don’t know? What do you figure? Are we the same? Or vastly different?” This is Jesca Hoop’s first direct...