Manchester Soul Festival 2019 has confirmed the line up for the fifth annual event at Manchester’s The Printworks. Manchester Soul Festival will take place on Sunday 25 August, featuring a huge line up of soul, Northern Soul and Motown. The event will include Stax of Soul, Babalola, the Rumble Fat Band, Soul Temptations and singer Ben…
Michael Kiwanuka has confirmed that his third album Kiwanuka will be released in October followed by a UK tour in March 2020. The tour includes a Manchester gig at the O2 Apollo. Kiwanuka will be released on 25 October 2019 through Polydor Records. The album marks the follow up to his number one album Love…
Babybird release new album Photosynthesis on 16 August ahead of a run of UK tour dates in November culminating in a Manchester gig at the Deaf Institute. Photosynthesis arrives just months after the critically acclaimed Happy Stupid Nothing compilation. Although many people weren’t aware he was even still making music, throughout this decade creative force…
A new country music night comes to Gullivers on Thursday courtesy of UK Country Live. The Company You Keep is all about bringing great artists and the country family together to celebrate the genre. Currently running bi-monthly, The Country You Keep opens on Thursday 15 August at Gullivers, featuring four UK country artists – Jade…
No Hot Ashes are set to release their long awaited debut album Hardship Starship ahead of a huge Manchester gig at the O2 Ritz.
After revealing their latest single Body & Soul, Black Futures will perform a run of in-store shows including HMV Manchester. The in-store performances come in the week of the release of their new album Never Not Nothing. Black Futures then return to Manchester a month later to perform at Gorilla. Body & Soul witnesses Black…
Pizzagirl has announced a new tour of the UK and Europe including a Manchester gig at YES. The Manchester gig will follow the release of his debut album first timer, which is due for release on 11 October. In anticipation of the album, Pizzagirl has released new single ball’s gonna keep on rollin’. The track…
North Manchester’s Aitch has announced a tour of UK and Ireland including a hometown date a Manchester Academy. The British rapper and songwriter started his musical career freestyling with freidns on the school yard, before releasing a freestyle on YouTube which went on to generate more than 1 million views in just weeks. Aitch has…
Manchester Pride has announced the release of a limited number of tickets to the sold out Afro Eden Presents Black Pride Vogue Ball. The party takes place on Saturday 17 August and is put together by the Queer People Of Colour event organisers Afro Eden. The Black Pride Vogue Ball is modelled on the 1980s…
Honeymoan are set to bring their cross continental project to the UK as they headline at Manchester’s The Castle in November. The Manchester gig follows the release of their latest EP Body in June. Body is the EP which almost never was. When vocalist Alison Rachel moved from Cape Town to Amsterdam at the end…
