An instant ‘good’ atmosphere – full of music and life – is always suspicious. There’s no build-up or warm-up, just...
In what locals will know as Albert Square is what has temporarily been re-named as Festival Square. Inside you’ll find...
Music Venue Trust, which works to protect, secure and improve grassroots music venues across the UK, today announces a list...
The second of three nights at the Manchester International Festival curated by David Lynch saw the return of the Texan...
Oh what a circus, oh what a show. David Lynch has come to town. Actually he hasn’t, he’s still reclusing...
Manchester International Festival 2019 (MIF19) is in its seventh year. It basically is – and does – what it says...
Going by the blurb in the handy, pocket-sized programme, Party Skills For The End Of The World could be awesome,...
She really is one in a million - nobody can match her and, quite frankly, she can do whatever she bloody well pleases.
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 don’t know how they do it, but somebody at MIF manages to book someone extra special. 2015 had Bjork;...
When Arcade Fire were announced as part of this year’s Manchester International Festival (MIF17) I was more than sceptical, having...
I’d bet my house and car that this is the first time a Sufi singer has been reviewed in GIITTV...
Probably not for the first time during MIF17, I found myself wondering “Is this it? This can’t be the right...
When: 4th – 21st July 2019 Where: Various venues in Manchester (and Salford) The biennial Manchester International Festival, which focuses, in...
One of the final acts of this year’s MIF was billed as the coming together of five of the leading...