Lonely The Brave gave their fans an intimate, personal show at The Ruby Lounge

Samuel Ward chats with Alex Westaway about the future of Fightstar

Samuel Ward gets lost in the falsetto dreamscape of All We Are

Transmission Funk enlist a threesome of djs to fuck with your mind

This Is The Kit’s gentle folk rock makes for an intimate, friendly peformance

With a new album finally under her belt, Neneh Cherry brings her live show to Gorilla with backing from RocketNumberNine

Spectres aren’t making noise for the sake of noise

Will Ellis delves into the world of vintage samples and innovative live shows

The stadium giants to bring the noise to Manchester Academy

Midland’s outstanding, genre-bending set proves you don’t need bells and whistles to have a good time

Working for a world where hearing loss doesn’t limit or label people

Patrick Hinton speaks to Bicep about the musical culture of Manchester, being labelled 90s house revivalists, and who can bench more

Kril performed honestly and their records worked well in the setting of Gullivers

Great music is lost on an abrasive crowd

It felt like the overriding theme of the night was some sort of bizarre dream

Galvin has deftly produced an album that feels very much at home amongst other contemporary offerings

The Chief of Seattle are surprisingly, bafflingly good

These Leeds boys know how to get people going

Will Ellis chats to the Chicago garage rockers about their origins, their relationship with drugs, and living the dream

Ben Sutton quizzes the rock ‘n’ roll masters about their new album