As part of the city’s annual Wonder Women season, which runs every March to shine a light on the incredible, creative and campaigning women working in and from Manchester today, Manchester Museum presents Written in the Margins on 10 March. This live music event and panel discussion celebrates and explores female writers across the spectrum – from songwriters and journalists to…
Grammy Award winners Pantatonix are set to continue their world tour with a run of dates through Europe and the UK including a performance at Manchester’s Albert Hall. This will be the first time the group will headline shows since their 2015 sold out On My Way Home Tour. The group will be touring in…
Gossip Girl actor Penn Badgley (Margin Call, Easy A, Greetings from Tim Buckley) is set to take a break from his European tour with his band MOTHXR and attend Manchester Film Festival 2016. Along with Director, Nicholas Gray and writer Katharine Gray Clark, the US actor and musician will be taking part in a free…
Following the critically acclaimed In Your Prime EP, multiple sold out European tours and a number one in France with Open Season – the track now with over 5 million combined views – songwriter and performer Josef Salvat has now revealed his much anticipated debut album Night Swim. The album, which was released on 19 February 2016,…
On the back of Field Music’s latest release Commontime (their first since 2012’s Plumb), Sunderland siblings Peter and Davis Brewis return to the live arena, with a gig at Manchester’s Band on the Wall. Written and recorded in spontaneous bursts over six months in their Wearside studio, Commontime is built around the brothers playing, writing…
Manchester two-piece The Hyena Kill are set to return to The Deaf Institute on 20 May. The gig marks a return for the band who last year sold out the venue. The Manchester-based hard rock two-piece, comprised of Steven Dobb (Vocals and Guitars) and Lorna Blundell (Drums), are experts in crafting huge, powerful music with…
Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte is RNCM Opera’s Spring production, with performances in the RNCM Theatre between Wednesday 9 and Saturday 19 March. First performed in 1790, Così fan tutte is set in the bay of Naples where sisters Fiordiligi and Dorabella are engaged to Guglielmo and Ferrando. The men trust their fiancées’ faithfulness implicitly but…
Writer director Shamim Sarif will be attending the UK premiere of Despite the Falling Snow at the Manchester Film Festival on Friday 4 March. The screening of the film, which is the first time the new cut of the film will be seen, is at 7:30pm at the Odeon Printworks. Shamim will also be taking part…
Expecting a completely stripped back stage from Frokedal, it’s a little surprising to notice a set of drums on stage, albeit very much a reduced set of drums. It turns out the set isn’t going to be quite the minimalist folk gig many had expected. But what does follow is an hour of brilliance. An…
Welsh songwriter Cate Le Bon is set to return to Gorilla after a sold out show in 2014 with new album Crab Day and a new show including a visual concept from a short film she has been working on. The artist will release her fourth album, Crab Day, on 15 April via Turnstile on LP, CD and download….
