Music Venue Trust, which works to protect, secure and improve grassroots music venues across the UK, today announces a list...
One of the final acts of this year’s MIF was billed as the coming together of five of the leading...
Whoa! As a humble music critic I’m getting out of my comfort zone with arty-farty ‘part-concert, part-performance’ events like Tao...
I’d bet my house and car that this is the first time a Sufi singer has been reviewed in GIITTV...
Going by the blurb in the handy, pocket-sized programme, Party Skills For The End Of The World could be awesome,...
An instant ‘good’ atmosphere – full of music and life – is always suspicious. There’s no build-up or warm-up, just...
Manchester International Festival 2019 (MIF19) is in its seventh year. It basically is – and does – what it says...
The second of three nights at the Manchester International Festival curated by David Lynch saw the return of the Texan...
When: 4th – 21st July 2019 Where: Various venues in Manchester (and Salford) The biennial Manchester International Festival, which focuses, in...
Probably not for the first time during MIF17, I found myself wondering “Is this it? This can’t be the right...
Unit 5 in the Great Northern Warehouse is something utterly unexpected. Despite the glitz of its surroundings, Unit 5 itself...
I don’t know how they do it, but somebody at MIF manages to book someone extra special. 2015 had Bjork;...
Oh what a circus, oh what a show. David Lynch has come to town. Actually he hasn’t, he’s still reclusing...
In what locals will know as Albert Square is what has temporarily been re-named as Festival Square. Inside you’ll find...
When Arcade Fire were announced as part of this year’s Manchester International Festival (MIF17) I was more than sceptical, having...