Robbie Davidson reviews ‘Obama The Mamba’ at the Lowry Theatre

The best of theatre for the week ahead.

Harry Smith finds an impish vitality in Micachu & The Shapes’s Islington Mill performance

Sound Control Saturday 20th October 2012 6/10

Art History lessons with Lucy J

Clayton Fuller vists the Whitworth to check out the latest exhibition from Turner-prize nominated duo Jane and Louise Wilson

Nottingham’s premier purveyors of indie-pop brought the curtain up on their UK tour

McFly talk to The Mancunion about pop, strings and pseudonyms

Josephine Lane finds the personalities of the two performers gel perfectly.

Wakefield’s finest speak to music editor Joe Goggins about touring, recording and the essence of punk.

HMV Ritz 4/10 25th October 2012

Kidnap Kid talks to The Mancunion about Sheffield’s musical heritage and spreading the love.

Jessie Cohen reviews ‘Mother to Mother’ at the Contact Theatre

Hannah Lawrence reviews Sarah Frankcom’s latest production at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Orpheus Descending.

Josephine Lane previews ‘American Idiot: The Musical’ and interviews it’s stars Trent Saunders and Alyssa de Palma

A ‘live’ conversation with Book Club turns from fantasy to the very real threat technology poses to reading

In the wake of Skyfall’s release, Joelle Jefferis pits two British literary espionage incarnations against one another

3/10 Soup Kitchen, November 3rd 2012

Tom Ingham looks at the latest viral sensation to take over the web

The most thrilling Canadian two-piece since Death from Above 1979 doled out a dose of rock n’ roll euphoria