Catsuits, hair and rock signs – The Darkness reach Manchester on their Let Them Eat Cake World Tour

One Direction’s ‘extremist’ fans, medieval tweets and Taylor Swift’s boyfriends

Norman Cook talks to The Mancunion about feeling old, rocking weddings and bucket lists

Manchester Academy 1 26th September 2012 8/10

The movement which brought Black American Soul to the music halls of 1960s North England.

X-Factor has returned, as predictably as the annual bout of the common cold, turning sensible people (me) into snivelling addicts.

If you fancy veering away from the Fresher pack, there’s a lot more on than you may think

Scuba vs SCB, Dark Sky, Pangaea, Instra:mental, XXXY Sankeys 11th March 2011 4 stars

James Blake’s self titled debut album is under scrutiny this time around as Sophie Donovan and Phoebe Hurst