Manchester Soul Festival returns to The Printworks on Sunday 26 August for its fourth year of fun and nostalgia. Featuring a wide range of Northern Soul, motown, DJs and live acts, Manchester Soul Festival will be raising funds for The Christie. So far in three years, the festival has raised more than £65,000 and is…
A Nashville Honkytonk Live Experience is coming to Manchester with a full band show, DJ, American Food and Drink and a songwriter round featuring Live Manchester favourite Liv Austen. The Nashville Honkytonk Live Experience is presented by One Night in Nashville creators, UK Country Artist Maria Jordan and partner Dave Heyes who witnessed the buzzing…
Manchester-based genre film festival Grimmfest has revealed the first details of its upcoming 10th anniversary event programme. The organisers of the festival have announced the first three of many UK premieres lined up for the event. Whilst the full Grimmfest programme is set to be revealed on 3 September, an early sneak preview of three…
The Slow Readers Club have announced PINS and Liines as supports for their headline Manchester gig at the O2 Apollo. The announcement comes as the band unveil a new remix of Supernatural by Enter Shikari. Speaking about the remix The Slow Readers Club frontman Aaron Starkie says, “We’re keen to start exploring remixes a bit…
Manchester dance company, Company Chameleon, will perform a trio of pop-up dance performances in Manchester City Centre on Thursday 13 and Saturday 15 September. The trio of shows will include the UK premiere of a new male and female duet and will include a performance in The Foundation Coffee House as well as outside HOME…
Home, Manchester, will host the UK premiere of Mike Leigh’s Peterloo in October, with director Mike Leigh himself and members of the cast in attendance. The premiere will be followed by a Q&A with the director. The film tells the story of the Peterloo Massacre which took place 199 years ago today. Produced by Thin…
The Printworks, Manchester, is giving members of the public the opportunity to adopt their very own bee in aid of charity. Unbeknown to many people, The Printworks actually has four beehives housed in its roof garden. By offering members of the public the opportunity to adopt and name a bee, The Printworks is aiming to…
Richard Ashcroft has announced a run of UK dates in support of his fifth solo studio album Natural Rebel, with a Manchester gig set for the Albert Hall. The album is due for release on 19 October on his own RPA label and will be followed swiftly with five UK shows. Natural Rebel features ten…
Cotton Clouds Festival 2018 lands in Saddleworth this weekend and the set times and site plan have been unveiled. Cotton Clouds Festival 2018 runs from Friday until Saturday and features the likes of Lightning Seeds, Pigeon Detectives, Badly Drawn Boy, Starsailor (pictured, image courtesy Callum Baker), Toploader, Scarlet and The Orielles. Bands will perform across…
Arkells will release their new studio album Rally Cry on 19 October ahead of a Manchester gig at Manchester Academy. The band teased the long player in the spring with the release of politically charged People’s Champ. Speaking about the album frontman Max Kerman commented, “On Rally Cry, there’s an urgency to recording these songs…
