There are certainly much worse ways to spend a Thursday night in Manchester.

This down to earth starlet performs effortlessly yet impeccably.

This is about as blistering a live show as you’re going to find in 2012.

With no Glastonbury this year, maybe smaller festivals like this one will get a bit more attention.

If you want a week in the sun, away from the pilled up Eastern European destinations, Optimus Alive must be the choice.

A small, tight-knit festival where, if you like the music, you’re bound to run in to somebody you know at every turn.

One thing’s for sure, FestivalRepublic know how to throw a scintillating party.

Hop has taken things back to basics, making the festival experience all about the fans.

With the hype of a Vans Warped Tour date being so high, the tickets, on sale now, are bound to be like gold dust.

Only a few weeks left now until what will most likely be the third-annual sold out Parklife Weekender.

Curtis McLellan looks at the proposed boycott of Habima, the Israeli national theatre company.

Review: Stewart Lee at The Lowry

Forget partying with the post-AS level results crowd at Leeds or trawling through the routine Glastonbury mud, make your festival experience this year Benicassim.

As the Beach Boys celebrate their 50th anniversary tour, trawling the length and breadth of America and Europe off the back of their 30th studio album, one must hark back to pop music’s golden age. The Beach Boys were once part of one of pop music’s most notorious duels, in constant competition with four mop-haired […]

New albums just don’t have the same impact anymore because the music is all too easy to come by.

It’s nice to hear from a band that are capable of putting their own stamp on current trends rather than merely diluting them.

You’d be forgiven for thinking that the majority of this gig was spent waiting for ‘that song’.

Machine Head is a heavy rock milestone that should be in everyone’s collection.

This review is a response to recent complaints regarding a previously published review of Anya 17, performed at the RNCM. I was at the event, and felt as though the opera might benefit a fresh review. The concert marked the penultimate night of the North West New Music festival, with the professional musicians Ensemble 10/10, […]

If you are reading this article and thinking “what does Niagara Falls have to do with Manchester?” all that has to be said is: you can take the girl out of Manchester but you can’t take Manchester out of the girl! Even one on exchange all the way out in Canada. During my stay here, […]