Northern Music Awards 2024: Celebrating breakthrough acts, chart-topping superstars, and the people behind the scenes
Celebrating northern music in all of its charm, Nordoff and Robbins host the 2024 Northern Music Awards in Manchester’s city centre
Vampire Weekend: Indie experimenters push the boundaries on exceptional new release
Vampire Weekend continue to cement a legacy and New York indie royalty with their newest offering, ‘Only God Was Above Us’
DIIV live in Manchester: Shoegaze stars promise enlightenment
Misspelt shoegazers DIIV took to New Century Hall, with special guests in Hull’s bdrmm
Thundercat live in Manchester: Bassist of all time?
The man that changed how hip-hop sounds forever brings improvisational, progressive jazz to roaring crowds in Manchester
Everything Everything live in Manchester: I’m a Mountainhead too
Everything Everything bring their Mountainhead tour to New Century Hall for a triumphant hometown outing
Yard Act live in Manchester: An unforgettably ace headline at the O2 Apollo
Yard Act return to the Manchester stage with new album, ‘Where’s My Utopia?’, in a night of dance-party celebration
Sea Girls begin ‘Young Strangers’ tour in Manchester: “It means a lot when people connect to our music”
Sea Girls kick-off their ‘Young Strangers’ tour with rapturous artist-audience synergy
Chrysalis Records live in Manchester: Marika Hackman and Gia Ford take Gorilla
The London-based independent record label Chrysalis Records put their best foot forwards at Manchester’s own Gorilla, with rising starlet Gia Ford and the brilliant Marika Hackman
Tom Odell live in Manchester: A triumphant return to the O2 Apollo
Armed with a newfound sense of freedom, ‘Another Love’ star Tom Odell returns to Manchester with an electric display of his latest album Black Friday
The Smile live at BBC Radio 6 Music Festival: Contagious follow-up project impresses Manchester
Fans gather to see the much-anticipated Radiohead follow-up project The Smile headlining the Radio 6 Music festival in Manchester’s O2 Victoria Warehouse
Liam Gallagher and John Squire live in Manchester: ‘Growing old disgracefully’ in the best way possible
Oasis’ Liam Gallagher teams up with boyhood guitar hero John Squire of The Stone Roses to deliver psychedelic raucousness in Manchester
This Feeling live in Manchester: Rivia, The Stride, and Kyris take Off the Square
META – This Feeling’s latest Manchester outing showcases three guitar bands with big futures
86TVs live in Manchester: Headline debut in the city lights up the Deaf Institute
86TVs made their Manchester headline debut at The Deaf Institute, showcasing their new EP and unreleased material
Master Peace live at Night and Day: How To Make a Tour
The genre-bending, ‘indie sleaze revivalist’ brings his electrifying ‘How to Make a Tour’ set to Manchester’s Night and Day
Liam Gallagher and John Squire: Not quite a match made in Britpop Heaven
After the much anticipated collaboration between Oasis’ Liam Gallagher and John Squire, of Stone Roses fame, the LP ‘Liam Gallagher and John Squire’ ultimately falls flat
International Women’s Day at Radio 6 Music Festival: Gossip headline CMAT and Afrodeutsche
Artists Gossip, CMAT, and Afrodeutsche were on the line-up at BBC 6 Music Festival for a musical celebration of International Women’s Day
Young Fathers bring community together at 6 Music Festival
Young Fathers, Hak Baker, and Sherelle launch the first day of 6 Music Festival, situated for a second year in Manchester
Snow Strippers live at The White Hotel: The industrial EDM future is in good hands
The Florida duo Snow Strippers are successfully reviving a lost EDM sound which infected pop music throughout the late 2000s and early 2010s. Here they came to Manchester to showcase this new, revised sound in the dark, dingy White Hotel in Salford