It looks set to be a sensational few days for dance fans as a series of stunning events are due to take place in Manchester, which will leave dance fans pirouetting in delight. So what’s on? First off is the Northern Ballet School’s Musical Bites. Taking place at The Dancehouse Theatre from Thursday 26th March…
Having performed two excellent gigs in Manchester over the last twelve months, UK Country Album of the Year award winners Ward Thomas had already set high standards. Their performance at The Castle in July was an intimate affair featuring just the twin sisters and their guitarist Dan in a largely acoustic set, whereas their more…
Two days of dance at Manchester’s Contact Theatre. Manchester’s Contact Theatre is set to host Turn for the fourth year. The two-day micro-festival of new dance will take place on Friday 27th and Saturday 28th May from 7.30pm featuring fifteen new works, which will take over the whole building. Turn 2015, presented by Word of…
LA punk band Bad Religion have announced a return to the UK this summer with a five date tour, which will see the hugely influential band perform at Manchester’s The Ritz on 3 August 2015. The news comes after the recent announcement that the group will soon be recording a new album, with full details…
It was the opera ‘they tried to ban’. Verdi’s work, based upon the play Le roi s’amue by Victor Hugo and with an Italian libretto written by Fransesco Maria Piave, caused no short amount of outrage when it originally premiered. Thankfully, it has survived to become regarded as the first of Verdi’s operatic masterpieces. Rigoletto…
Frank Turner in conversation English folk/punk singer-songwriter Frank Turner is set to take part in a public conversation with author/journalist Ian Winwood at the Bridgewater Hall, where he will also read extracts from his new book The Road Beneath My Feet and take questions from the audience as well as throwing in a few songs…
MOBO nominee launches second album Paint A Brighter Day in Manchester MOBO nominated singer Kristyna Myles is set to launch her second album, Paint A Brighter Day, at the Ruby Lounge in Manchester on Monday 23rd March. The 11 track album is the follow-up to 2014’s magnificent debut Pinch Me Quick, and was recorded with Mercury Prize…
As the 1956 Theatre gets ready to launch it’s latest production, Mamet’s Sexual Perversity in Chicago at Salford Arts Theatre, we speak to Amy-Jane Ollies, Artistic Director of Manchester’s 1956 Theatre about their latest work and the company itself. You launch your new production Sexual Perversity in Chicago at Salford Arts Theatre next week, can you…
The Quays Theatre at the Lowry is sold out and walking into the venue, it’s a noticeably mixed crowd – from glammed up teenagers through to some who could pass for Nathan Carter’s grandparents – well in actual fact it turns out his grandparents are at the venue, along with his parents, as well as some…
Manchester’s own Girl Friend have announced a run of UK tour dates which will see them performing at The Ruby Lounge on 11th April. The tour dates are set to come just weeks before their new EP Arrive Alone, Leave Alone which is due out on 27th April via Tri-Tone. Described as ‘honing in on…
