If you’ve been to a show recently, you’ll have experienced that many of your fellow gig-goers will feel the need to chat throughout a band’s...

Of Montreal hit Manchester Academy 2 on the 7th October for what was a colourful showcase of their extravagant neo-psychedelia, funk and in...

It barely feels like summer has ended thanks to the unexpected burst of sunshine lately, but here we are with mid-October fast approaching. ...

Australian music hasn’t given anyone much to shout about in recent years - obviously discounting Rolf Harris and Kylie - but it’s with open ...

Now Then’s early October forecast Yup, means pretty much everything is going on again now the students are back. SO now we’re safely in our ...

What do you call something that hangs around with musicians? No, I don’t mean the one about the drummer. For a start Josh Wells’ thumping ti...

Prior to last weekend’s local history fair , volunteers at Victoria Baths received the portrait of one of Longsight’s most famous sons – an ...

It’s a shame that this Now Wave / WOTGODFORGOT show falls during the sleepy summer gig months. The crowd is healthy enough and Silver Appl...

It’s easy to associate September with a new influx of freshers, who line the streets with the flyers they’re bombarded with, blissfully unaw...

In Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange music is wrongly considered by Alex’s captors to be nothing more than “a useful emotional heightene...