Isolation Blues #3
Welcome to the latest edition of our new regular feature 'Isolation Blues' whereby we post a playlist of some tracks we've been listening to in the last week that have helped to navigate through this strange ne... Read More...
Interview // Soweto Kinch On Returning To Theatre, Don’t Flop & A Panoramic View Of Jazz
Soweto Kinch's creative CV reads like a series of success stories in whichever field he explores. Since learning the saxophone and piano from an early age and going onto earn recognition from the MOBOs, Mercury... Read More...
Interview // Bellatrix On Beatboxing, Crowdfunding And Candlelit Jams
In a relatively short music career to date, West Country vocal sculptor, beatboxer and double bassist Bellatrix has explored more individual styles and embarked on more collaborations than many will attempt acr... Read More...
Event News // Soweto Kinch And Bellatrix Give Hip Hop Feel To Next Pen:Chant Show
Following a packed Gullivers show in July, Manchester bi-monthly cabaret show Pen:Chant sees out the summer in style by welcoming a stellar cast to Gorilla.
There's a hip hop feel to the line-up, with Bellat... Read More...
Music News // The Natural Curriculum’s New Single Filmed At Take Back Our World Festival
Manchester hip hop group The Natural Curriculum's new video, 'Middle', has landed on YouTube ahead of their fifth LP on wax.
The video, predominantly featuring Chalk, with appearances by the other member... Read More...
Weekly Preview // AI, Music And Vampires // 01.08-07.08
This week, August's opening gambit into 2016, we write to you from a laptop. In an office. Between physical worlds via a digital one. Within the next decade, such words might be penned by a form of AI, as a res... Read More...
Weekly Preview // Manchester And Beyond // 25.07-31.07
There's an abundance of jazz in town this week thanks to Manchester Jazz Festival, whose central pavilion stage on Albert Square features plenty of free events (check out our shortlist here or the full programm... Read More...
Interview // Harry Baker And Ben Mellor On Slam Competitions, Rap Battles And Performance Poetry
Despite the divisive pigeonholing of our current curriculum, mathematics and wordplay aren’t entirely separate bedfellows. Even the Greek polymath Pythagoras could vouch for that. He’s been accredited plenty of... Read More...
Weekly Preview // 04.07-10.07
The various summer sporting tournaments are hotting up and reaching the business end of their programmes, so this week is the final countdown, as Europe once sang. It's an appropriate song in other ways, of cou... Read More...
Weekly Preview // 20.06-26.06
It's Glasto week, hence the heavens have heaved open. Yes, you heard it here first, we can blame the Eavises for the meteorological state of affairs. But for us mere mortals unblessed by their ticketing system,... Read More...
Competition // Win Tickets To Saul Williams @ Band On The Wall
The poet, innovator, thinker and hip hop whirlwind Saul Williams is set to stop at Manchester's Band on the Wall on his 2016 headlining tour.
A fine example of his incisive wordplay is the title for his sixt... Read More...
Music Photography // The Other Side of Midnight @ Old Granada Studios
Manchester's music wouldn't have half the legacy without its visual memoirs, a fact recognised and celebrated by a forthcoming photographic exhibition being displayed at Old Granada Studios.
Its iconic image... Read More...
Weekly Preview // 06.06-12.06
This northern heatwave may be a cure for the rainy city blues, but our inclination is still towards the cooler climes of cultural venues. Hermits we may be, but after digesting the below Manchester events highl... Read More...
Weekly Preview // 31.05-05.06
You might be aware that we recently launched this brand new website design, courtesy of the creative paws of Fris Design and OH Digital. As well as comprehensive listings neatly compiling all the shows you need... Read More...
Weekly Preview // 23.05-29.05
The Great Manchester Run saw an excellent turnout yesterday, with the Cookie Monster, Teletubbies and various comic book superheroes all represented. With half the city either still panting or experiencing ache... Read More...
Review // Sounds From The Other City 2016
Words and Photos by Ged Camera
For those people who get frustrated when they hear about a superb event that took place nearby but they missed it, you’d best prepare to feel frustrated. To avoid it next year,... Read More...
Weekly Preview // 09.05-15.05
It was David Attenborough's 90th on Sunday 8th, an indirect purveyor of music in its most natural form through birdsong, grasshopper choruses and uninhibited mating cries. If you unplug those earphones and list... Read More...
Weekly Preview // 25.04-01.05
If there's a form of transport that's often pervaded lyrical content, it's aviation. From BB King's aviation history to the McCartneys' backing band, Wings; from the DJ known as Aeroplane to Lenny Kravitz's 'Fl... Read More...
Competition // Win Tickets To Sounds From The Other City 2016
When Sounds From The Other City first started up as a May bank holiday celebration of the area’s nascent musical talent, it was based around the four corner pubs where Chapel Street is dissected by Bloom Street... Read More...
Weekly Preview // 11.04-17.04
Where and how do you listen to music these days? If it’s anything like our embedded videos below, it’ll be via YouTube or perhaps Vimeo – a fact which the major labels are still coming to terms with. Aside from... Read More...
Weekly Preview // 04.04-10.04
In a particularly high-brow move, we're introducing our latest weekly Manchester music and events preview by wading into the latest barely beliebable fashion faux pas by pop music's second-favourite Justin. Are... Read More...