After two standout performances at this year’s Country2Country festival, singer/songwriter Sasha McVeigh is set to perform in Manchester at The Roadhouse on 15 April as a part of her UK and Ireland tour, which is being co-headlined by American singer/songwriter Sonia Leigh. Both the British and American singer songwriters have been making an impact on…
James Bay has celebrated the release of his debut album Chaos and the Calm by announcing a UK tour this September/October which will see him performing at Manchester’s O2 Apollo on 23 September 2015, the opening night of the tour. The artist is also set to appear at Manchester’s Parklife Festival on 6 June. The…
Billed as a sumptuous selection of showtunes and dance including excerpts from Sweet Charity, The Wiz, Godspell and Cats, Musical Bites by Jazzgalore (the production company of the Northern Ballet School) had quite the billing to live up to. And bearing in mind the quality of previous productions such last year’s Evolution of Dance and…
Sunday 29 March: Bridgewater Hall – The Halle. Karl-Heinz Steffens conducts and Denis Kozhukhim is featured on piano as the Halle performs three magnificent pieces – Tchaikovsky’s majestic and awe-inspiring Swan Lake Suite, Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No 1 and Sibelius’ Symphony No 1. Tickets £39-£13. 7.30pm.. Monday 30 March: Royal Northern College of Music – Laura Wright. Soprano Laura Wright…
Saturday 11 April, 7.30pm Pops: Singin’ in the Rain: A Tribute to Gene Kelly Join Broadway maestro Larry Blank and a trio of star vocalists in a tribute to Hollywood’s greatest song and dance man, Gene Kelly. Performed by the full forces of the Hallé, these orchestrations and arrangements are some of the best ever…
The Moscow City Ballet has built itself a sterling reputation through strong performances of some of the world’s most popular ballets and is currently in the UK presenting four of the most popular – Swan Lake, Giselle, The Nutcracker and Romeo and Juliet. On the second of a three night residence at Manchester’s Opera House…
Manchester’s own Patterns are set to perform in their home city again. And this is one for the eyes as well as the ears as the astral-psych/shoegaze pop four-piece gear up towards their second album, a follow-up to 2013′s Walking Lines After selling out St Philip’s Church in Salford last year they’ll be playing The Deaf Institute….
Brighton’s finest new purveyors of raucous off-kilter garage rock, Demob Happy, follow their triumphant 2014 debut single ‘Succubus’ with powerful new cut, ‘Young & Numb’. Due for release later this year via the bands own Milk Parlour Records. Fusing their natural affinity to relentless chord-thrashing with a fondness for melodic undertone and bold dynamic shifts,…
Taking on a production such as Mamet’s Sexual Perversity in Chicago is a brave decision. It’s a work which can easily go wrong –the chemistry between the characters is essential, there’s a danger that it could come across as crass and will the audience take away from it the humour which it contains? Having already…
Legends of rock Def Leppard and Whitesnake have announced a joint headline UK and Ireland tour which will see them performing at Manchester Arena on 15th December 2015. The two icons of rock will also be joined by Black Star Riders. Formed in Sheffield, Def Leppard have been hailed as the greatest-ever arena rock band…
