Two-time MOBO winner for ‘Best Jazz Artist’ YolanDa Brown takes the time to chat to Kizzy Bray about her new album, tour and how her double life as a musician and business student at uni made her passion into a success story

Sophie Billington is blasted into space as she reports from Sun Ra Arkestra’s tenure at Band on the Wall

Oscar Talbot covers a night of music so overtly druggy that Theresa May wants to ban it under the Psychoactive Substances Act

Rapper, spoken word artist and political activist George the Poet displays his skill with words in a charming performance

George the Poet brings his search party to Manchester’s Band on the Wall

Every month Mr Scruff hosts a party with tea, cakes and records – and you’re all invited

Kawabata Makoto and co’s daring, unorthodox Japanoise is all the more bewitching in a partly improvised live performance

Nubiyan Twist shone in Manchester

Captain Beefheart’s cohorts brought his rock n’ roll spirit to a legendary Manchester venue

A gig so bad, you have to question why anyone bothered to turn up. Ouch.