Entertainment

It might yet be a good week away, but the spirit of Halloween is already looming over the darkening skies of Manchester.

Mancunians have taken part in a mad dash to get hold of tickets to see The Courteeners.

Light rather than dark, good beating evil, knowledge winning against ignorance or hope triumphing over despair. In one word, Diwali.

Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show will return to Manchester with both S Club’s Paul Cattermole and The Voice’s Liam Tamne reprising their roles.

Jenny Hval brings her unique brand of experimental electronic pop to Manchester’s Soup Kitchen this Tuesday, as she tours her new album Blood Bitch.

Manchester has a righteous tradition of insisting on being the UK music capital but the old city has been a little quiet of late.

“It comes through the window, it comes through the floor, it comes through the roof and, it comes through the door…”

Folly and the Hunter are a band who sit somewhere between Sigur Ros and Frightened Rabbit in terms of sound.

How can the 1966 World Cup, cancer, and gambling addiction combine to create a coherent 70-minute one-man play?

Creative women are gearing up for the north’s biggest celebration of females in music, film and other artistic industries.

The gripping tale of the rise and fall of Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie is brought to life in this stunningly simple stage adaptation of the novel by Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuściński.