In its fifth year of existence Carefully Planned has perhaps reached its optimum form. Spread across eight locations in Manchester’s...
Jostling for position in Manchester’s Ritz on Friday night it is clear that Blossoms have come on leaps-and-bounds. This debonair...
Engineers by name, engineers by nature, ‘Always Returning’ being a superbly crafted slice of neo-shoe gaze. Surprisingly, even after ten...
Parklife Festival made its grand return to Manchester last weekend, with over 80,000 people having descended onto Heaton Park for two days of live music.
Gentrification is a scary thing when you see it in action. On Saturday the second Fair Play Fest took place...
The horrific events following an Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena last night have deeply shocked and saddened everyone....
As Calexico take to the Albert Hall stage tonight a little after 9 o’clock, and with the sun having just...
2014 was not an ordinary year for Jonathan Higgs and his Manchester art rock band Everything Everything. Observing the terrorism,...
I thought it best to let this performance sink in for a day before writing about it, for it is...
From a small DIY event in a dilapidated mansion in Rusholme to a major festival in Manchester’s Victoria Warehouse, Cosmosis...
There are live bands and there are studio bands. Then there are those like Alex Rex’s which perform both roles...
Wearing his regulation blue Vietnam Vet-style combat helmet and decked out in a red cardigan and white T-shirt with vintage...
As indie-rock continues to plod through its landfill quagmire and dance music seems stuck between EDM trash and inconspicuous electronica, the psyche and shoegaze scene is thriving, vibrant and necessary. Cosmosis 2016 proves that looking backwards while simultaneously moving forward is absolutely possible, and with the scene in such rude health, Manchester should be proud to have an event capable of highlighting such incredible music.
“Hello Manchester, we are Highasakite, thank you for coming to our ‘Uranium Heart’ tour” intoned Ingrid Helene Håvik in her...
With release of new single ‘Thunder‘ and after seeing the band perform a storming set on the last night of...