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Live review: Parklife Festival 2025 proves BRAT summer isn’t over

Live review: Parklife Festival 2025 proves BRAT summer isn’t over

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Parklife Festival returns to Manchester for its fifteenth edition with a stellar lineup featuring the world’s best electronic-adjacent acts
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Kesha live at Albert Hall: Seventeen years in and just getting started

Kesha live at Albert Hall: Seventeen years in and just getting started

Kesha makes her highly anticipated return to a Manchester stage after an eleven year vacancy and brings her array of hits with her
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Djo live in Manchester: Taking Trafford to ‘The Crux’

Djo live in Manchester: Taking Trafford to ‘The Crux’

Joe Keery, known on stage as Djo, makes his Manchester debut with a sold-out stop on his ‘Back on You’ tour
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Preview: Parklife Festival 2025

Preview: Parklife Festival 2025

Parklife Festival returns to Heaton Park for a stacked 2025 edition featuring the biggest and best names in electronic, dance, rap and R&B
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Manchester Thunder and London Pulse Battle for Super League Supremacy

Manchester Thunder and London Pulse Battle for Super League Supremacy

As the regular Netball Super League season comes to an end, top ranked teams Manchester Thunder and London Pulse battle it out at Belle Vue
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Netball’s struggle for success: how a lack of coaching has affected the performance team

Netball’s struggle for success: how a lack of coaching has affected the performance team

Netball’s nightmare season has led to fingers pointed in all directions, but without a coach on one of only two performance teams, can you blame them?
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Interview: Calum Hood on launching a solo career with order, chaos and a hint of boyband charm

Interview: Calum Hood on launching a solo career with order, chaos and a hint of boyband charm

Calum Hood discusses his upcoming solo material, its influences and the differences between being a member of 5 Seconds of Summer and going at it alone
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Wet Leg live in Manchester: An hour-long display of pure talent

Wet Leg live in Manchester: An hour-long display of pure talent

Wet Leg return to Manchester for their biggest ever headline show in support of forthcoming sophomore album ‘moisturizer’
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From 42s to 5ks: The decline of student nightlife

From 42s to 5ks: The decline of student nightlife

Much has been made of the recent decline in nightlife around the UK. How has this affected students in Manchester?
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Soccer Mommy live in Manchester: Not a football buff, but still a hit

Soccer Mommy live in Manchester: Not a football buff, but still a hit

Sophie Allison, better known as Soccer Mommy, returns to Manchester to promote their latest album ‘Evergreen’
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Ugly at YES Pink Room: Moving into yet another new era

Ugly at YES Pink Room: Moving into yet another new era

Ugly’s live show at YES Pink Room marks them out as an exciting new prospect in the world of folk-rock
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Kylie Minogue at AO Arena: Breaking records and smashing expectations

Kylie Minogue at AO Arena: Breaking records and smashing expectations

Australia’s finest pop-star brings a career-spanning live set to Manchester in her 33rd show at AO Arena
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Live review: Bradley Simpson and Nieve Ella take over O2 Ritz Manchester

Live review: Bradley Simpson and Nieve Ella take over O2 Ritz Manchester

Bradley Simpson proves his stardom to 1,500 dedicated fans at O2 Ritz Manchester after the release of his debut solo album
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“Wake up!”: In conversation with the organiser of Hulme Park Eco Fest May 2025

“Wake up!”: In conversation with the organiser of Hulme Park Eco Fest May 2025

I spoke to events organiser Dan Graham about the Hulme’s eco festival happening later this month
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WWE Vault YouTube channel releases previously unseen footage of WCW house show in Manchester’s G-Mex Centre

WWE Vault YouTube channel releases previously unseen footage of WCW house show in Manchester’s G-Mex Centre

WCW in Manchester: A rare look at the forgotten UK tour of 1993
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Live review: Viagra Boys prove they’re one of the best live bands going

Live review: Viagra Boys prove they’re one of the best live bands going

Viagra Boys brought an energetic show to Manchester’s Victoria Warehouse that barely left a moment of respite for a crowd that proved easy to incite
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Greentea Peng live in Manchester: The ultimate listening experience

Greentea Peng live in Manchester: The ultimate listening experience

In a performance that was nothing short of sunny, Greentea Peng provided soothing beats and uptempo breakdowns that melted swimmingly into the warmth of the night
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Live review: Black Country New Road at Stockport Plaza

Live review: Black Country New Road at Stockport Plaza

Black Country, New Road’s album launch show in Stockport Plaza’s grand auditorium proves to be a masterclass in avant-garde folk-pop
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Interview: Antony Szmierek

Interview: Antony Szmierek

From Fallowfield to Parklife, Antony Szmierek is rewriting what it means to sound like Manchester.
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Live review: Sorry at Band on the Wall

Live review: Sorry at Band on the Wall

Sorry bring their indie-rock experimentalism to Band on the Wall in a live show previewing new material
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