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Club: Road to Ibiza presents Sidney Charles b2b Santé b2b Darius Syrossian

Unfortunately, Brotherhood alone doesn’t guarantee a good set

Live: Stornoway

Stornoway engage with the audience with their heartfelt connectivity blended with just a hint of Southern-English polite humour

Live: Super Furry Animals

Super Furry Animals showed their musical depth

Club: High Hoops presents DJ Sprinkles

Sprinkles inspires an atmosphere of joyous community with some achingly beautiful deep house sounds

Live: Flo Morrissey & Tobias Jesso Jr.

It was refreshing to see two solo singer songwriters captivate the audience

Occupation begins in Harold Hankins building

Free Education protesters have begun occupation of the University of Manchester in protest of further cuts to higher education and bursaries

Live: Public Service Broadcasting

Rather than subscribe to the overdone 4 piece rock band, Public Service Broadcasting have taken an idea and run with it

Feature: Dice launches in Manchester

Is Dice the future of ticketing?

Live: Mounties

Mounties fail to catch the attention of the crowd for long spells

Live: Bipolar Sunshine

Bipolar Sunshine does little to stir the audience to any higher echelons

Live: The Leisure Society

The Leisure Society call us into welcoming arms with tune after tune of harmless and sunny bliss

Live: Karnivool

Karnivool don’t quite recover from playing their energetic songs early

Live: John Cooper Clarke

John Cooper Clarke – you either love him, or you have probably never heard of him

Club: Daniel Avery

Avery’s lack of charisma is more than made up for by his music

Live: Jam City

Jam City’s live show feels undercooked

Club: Selective Hearing presents Robert Hood & Sunil Sharpe

Robert Hood is everything a DJ should be

Club: RBMA presents Zed Bias & Friends

RBMA present a fantastic night of local talent, each able to headline in their own right

Club: RBMA presents Industrial City Sounds

Derrick May is not your ordinary 50 year old

Live: James Bay

The combination of venue with artist could not have been more perfect

Live: Kwabs

Kwabs’s support slot is rather too mysterious for impatient fans