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Samuel Chamberlain

Samuel Chamberlain


An autumn of music in Manchester: Five first semester gigs you can’t miss

An autumn of music in Manchester: Five first semester gigs you can’t miss

Music fans are being treated to a stacked schedule of unmissable gigs this autumn, as a genre-spanning array of artists are due to perform across Manchester’s many venues

Live review: The Warehouse Project returns with Annie Mac’s Before Midnight

Live review: The Warehouse Project returns with Annie Mac’s Before Midnight

Annie Mac’s Before Midnight opens The Warehouse Project’s 2025 season in style and ushers in a no-phones policy for concourse-only shows

Preview: Dom Dolla returns to The Warehouse Project

Preview: Dom Dolla returns to The Warehouse Project

Australian Grammy-nominated producer and DJ Dom Dolla is due to make a grand return to The Warehouse Project this October

Leeds Festival 2025: All back to Bramham Park

Leeds Festival 2025: All back to Bramham Park

Leeds Festival 2025 closes out this year’s festival in style with an array of upcoming artists and huge name headline performances

The Warehouse Project preview: Unmissable moments of this year’s season

The Warehouse Project preview: Unmissable moments of this year’s season

Here’s what to expect from the return of The Warehouse Project as the biggest names in electronic music return to Manchester

Album review: Wolf Alice contemplate life’s complexities as they reach ‘The Clearing’

Album review: Wolf Alice contemplate life’s complexities as they reach ‘The Clearing’

Wolf Alice’s highly anticipated and much-welcomed return brings both pensive thoughtfulness and plenty of enjoyment

Billie Eilish at Co-Op Live: Alt-pop mega-star hits Manchester hard and soft

Billie Eilish at Co-Op Live: Alt-pop mega-star hits Manchester hard and soft

Alt-pop sensation Billie Eilish brings her Hit Me Hard and Soft tour to Manchester’s Co-Op Live in the last of four exceptional performances

Festival Preview: Reading and Leeds 2025

Festival Preview: Reading and Leeds 2025

Reading and Leeds returns for a 2025 edition promising a variety of exciting musical performances spanning genres and stages

“Being in a band is never straightforward”: hard life’s Murray Matravers on music, lawsuits, and ‘onion’

“Being in a band is never straightforward”: hard life’s Murray Matravers on music, lawsuits, and ‘onion’

hard life’s Murray Matravers returns with a new album and opens up on the troubles and triumphs of the past two years

Live review: Lucy Dacus proves ‘Forever is a Feeling’

Live review: Lucy Dacus proves ‘Forever is a Feeling’

Lucy Dacus delivers an engaging performance at Manchester Academy in support of her recent album Forever is a Feeling

Japanese Breakfast live: For melancholy Mancunians

Japanese Breakfast live: For melancholy Mancunians

Michelle Zauner’s Japanese Breakfast stun a Manchester crowd on the first night of a UK tour in support of new album For Melancholy Women

Live review: Parklife Festival 2025 proves BRAT summer isn’t over

Live review: Parklife Festival 2025 proves BRAT summer isn’t over

Parklife Festival returns to Manchester for its fifteenth edition with a stellar lineup featuring the world’s best electronic-adjacent acts

Interview: Calum Hood on launching a solo career with order, chaos and a hint of boyband charm

Interview: Calum Hood on launching a solo career with order, chaos and a hint of boyband charm

Calum Hood discusses his upcoming solo material, its influences and the differences between being a member of 5 Seconds of Summer and going at it alone

Live review: BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Liverpool kicks off the north-west’s festival season

Live review: BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Liverpool kicks off the north-west’s festival season

BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend brings huge names, secret sets and new artists to four stages across Liverpool’s Sefton Park

Kylie Minogue at AO Arena: Breaking records and smashing expectations

Kylie Minogue at AO Arena: Breaking records and smashing expectations

Australia’s finest pop-star brings a career-spanning live set to Manchester in her 33rd show at AO Arena

Live review: Bradley Simpson and Nieve Ella take over O2 Ritz Manchester

Live review: Bradley Simpson and Nieve Ella take over O2 Ritz Manchester

Bradley Simpson proves his stardom to 1,500 dedicated fans at O2 Ritz Manchester after the release of his debut solo album

Live Review: Greentea Peng provides the ultimate listening experience

Live Review: Greentea Peng provides the ultimate listening experience

Greentea Peng soothes and stuns at sold-out Albert Hall show

Live review: Sorry at Band on the Wall

Live review: Sorry at Band on the Wall

Sorry bring their indie-rock experimentalism to Band on the Wall in a live show previewing new material

The Murder Capital and Cusk live in Leeds: Revelling in ‘Blindness’ at Brudenell Social Club

The Murder Capital and Cusk live in Leeds: Revelling in ‘Blindness’ at Brudenell Social Club

The Murder Capital’s second night at beloved Leeds venue Brudenell Social Club juxtaposes vigorous catharsis with melancholic introspection

Live review: Divorce take a transfixed Manchester crowd to ‘Goldenhammer’

Live review: Divorce take a transfixed Manchester crowd to ‘Goldenhammer’

Divorce’s first Manchester show since the release of their debut album testifies to their excellence, entrancing a crowd at Gorilla