Manchester run extended by three weeks The Manchester Opera House run of Jim Steinman’s Bat Out Of Hell – The Musical has been extended by three weeks, now running until 29 April 2017. The additional run of dates follows overwhelming public demand for the show, directed by award-winning theatre and opera director Jay Scheib. Jim…
WorldWired tour coming to Europe Metallica have announced a European leg of their WorldWired Tour in support of their new album Hardwired…To Self-Destruct. Hardwired…To Self-Destruct was released on 18 November 2016 on Metallica’s own Blackened Recordings record label and debuted at No. 1 around the world, selling over 800,000 copies worldwide in its first week….
Engaging visitors with contemporary issues at Manchester Museum. Manchester Museum has acquired a refugee’s life jacket, which is now on display in the entrance to the museum. In doing so, Manchester Museum is seeking to engage visitors with one of the major issues of our time, migration, which has been cited as a major factor…
Just days after the release of his new album Ready The Horses (10 March), Texas born, Brooklyn resident Jarrod Dickenson will perform at Manchester’s Deaf Institute. Storytelling is something of a Texas tradition. Tall hats and even taller tales are woven into the fabric of The Lone Star State, and Jarrod Dickenson can spin a…
The full programme for Sounds from the Other City 2017 has now been revealed. Sounds from the Other City (SFTOC) returns on Sunday 30 April, showcasing music, performance and art and taking over several venues in Salford’s Chapel Street area, including churches, warehouses, pubs and social centres. There will be gigs galore, after-parties and special…
UK pop rock band Club Drive head to Manchester’s Sound Control this weekend during their first national headline run which also takes in London’s The Garage and a sold-out show in Birmingham. The Hertfordshire four piece have certainly been making a name for themselves, with their pop rock (with a touch of funk) catching the…
Home in the City, Bombay 1976 – Mumbai 2016 Sooni Taraporevala’s first UK solo exhibition has launched at The Whitworth in partnership with Sunaparanta, Goa Centre for the Arts. The photographer, screenwriter and filmmaker’s exhibit forms a part of the 2017 programme of events for New North and South a new major contemporary art network…
Pulled Apart By Horses are set to play Manchester’s Sound Control after the release of their forthcoming album The Haze (due out 17 March). The Haze was written at the beginning of 2016, when the members of Pulled Apart By Horses, Tom Hudson, James Brown, bassist Robert Lee and new drummer Tommy Davidson, an old friend…
Experimental hip hop artist DJ Shadow (Josh Davis) has announced a UK headline tour for October 2017 to follow a run of festival appearances across the globe including Coachella, Sonar Festival, Bestival and Sziget. The dates come off the back of a stellar year for DJ Shadow, with the summer 2016 release of his critically…
The Royal Exchange’s spring/summer 2017 season marks the second half of the theatre’s anniversary and sees the company taking inspiration from its own beginnings. In 1976, during a time of huge social and political upheaval, from the advent of Punk and the uncompromising activism of art, a radical group of theatre makers reclaimed Manchester’s vast,…
