Simon Joyner is someone who has been critically acclaimed by the likes of John Peel and Conor Oberst, yet has a relatively low profile in t...

Outside of their annual Sounds From The Other City stage shares, the last time the Mind On Fire and This City Is Ours music promotion squ...

How ironic that the organisers are titled the Swing Dance Collective, conjuring up images from the ‘30s when a band was more likely to compr...

It’s a homecoming of sorts for a band whose lifespan has predominantly been lived on the internet. When the second date of this tour creaks ...

Since interviewing The Electronic Exchange at the end of 2010 they’ve grown a lot; in numbers, in recognition, in cohesion and in understa...

No Womb at the Kraak Inn Memories of Christmas are receding fast but some people still appear to be playing with their toys. No Womb is usi...

It can’t just be the mere proximity of Hallowe’en on the Gregorian calendar that has ushered in a cluster of emergent recording artists opti...

Now Then almost doesn’t make it to this show. Distractions are lurking on the streets of the Northern Quarter as on my way to the venue I am...

Beyond another Bank Holiday, we’re now knocking on the door to summer. And in Manchester’s own meteorological way, its showers and sunshine ...

We’re now deep into festival season with Sounds From The Other City and FutureEverything (look out for our Steve Reich review in the next f...

I dislike introducing these with a comment about the weather, but often the temperature does correlate with event attendances. The clear blu...

Your teeth are iced together, you can see your exhalation condensing, your gas bill is going to be astronomical, but the length of this city...