Two 4 star reviews of Corgan and co. Just because.
This overlooked British outfit still know how to produce some of the most gutsy and infectious rock music around.
Remember Hulme estate’s torrid to tepid past? Well if you don’t (or you do), read on. Because we couldn’t resist asking the resident lens-witness of those ebbs and flows a few questions on what he remembers from those years – Manchester’s loyal-est photographer Al Baker. October 2011 PC: Where and when did you live in […]
Described by the Daily Telegraph as ‘Britain’s funniest women’, Lady Garden are five girls who have been working their bums off climbing the ladder to comedy genius status. Since graduating from our very own University of Manchester back in 2008, they began their journey Edinburgh Fringe and have this year set up their […]
Richard Crook looks at the origins of our building names. Who are the people being honoured by Manchester and why?
With show proposals swamping the studio and scheduling in full swing the Fuse team are eagerly awaiting getting back on the airwaves 9th October when we’ll be broadcasting for ten weeks. We’re going to be training all week, so if you’ve been lucky enough to bag yourself a show prepare to be amazed. Fuse has […]
The battle for the Republican presidential nomination is shaping up to be the most error-strewn campaign in political history
Review: Edward II at the Royal Exchange
There isn’t a hustler in the world who can steal this diamond.
As a plethora of female artists dominate the charts, another joins the party in the form of Jessie J and her recently released debut, Who You Are. Much like everything else in the music world, it’s divided our writers into opposing camps where, on the one hand, this new pop sensation deserves the ever-expanding success thrown her way. On the other, Who You Are is a painful attempt to be different, rendering her another generic pop princess.
Build a Rocket Boys! is Elbow’s fifth album and follow up from their 2008 Mercury award-winning The Seldom Seen Kid. The Brit-Rockers still pedal their guitar-orientated brand of melancholy, but this time have swapped cynicism for nostalgia.
Of all the film scenes throughout history, nothing has ever matched the simplistic chill of Jurassic Park: A single coffee cup, shot up close as it ripples with the heavy footsteps of the approaching T-Rex. Why does this single image continue to instill so much dread in the general public? Because monsters are big. Really big.
If the day ever comes when hundreds of zombies come crashing through your window, well, then, at least that means there’s an afterlife.’
Each day opens slowly | but the nights are folded up | and concentrated.
James Blake’s self titled debut album is under scrutiny this time around as Sophie Donovan and Phoebe Hurst
Gerald Brent muses on whether or not the closure of public libraries marks a wider trend towards the marketization of education.
The proud former leader of a hashish trafficking empire talks about legalising cannabis and eating dog food
Student Direct: Mancunion, as The Mancunion was known last year, was awarded runner-up in the Guardian Student Media Awards. The River, a Kingston University publication, took first place.
The Edinburgh Fringe – what it is, who it’s for, and one Manchester University student’s experience of it.
Terry Pratchett is a man of many thousands of words, hundreds of which are wittily twisted into the nonsensical phrases that make up the fictional Discworld series, and fifty-plus other collaborations that span across a 30 year career as a novelist.