After signing a major record deal with Virgin EMI, the self-confessed working class Stockport five-piece are now in the process of recording their debut album.
Inherently bold in nature, a ballet adaptation of Orwell’s classic Nineteen Eighty-Four is extremely courageous and venturesome to say the least but translated into a huge success for the Northern Ballet.
If all of Spector’s songs are, essentially, cries of existential angst from frontman Fred MacPherson, they are more fun than most.
Don’t Miss A Beat is here to recommend five tracks a week. Rather than being a standard ‘five new tracks you must hear’ it will comprise a selection of music that fall into five categories.
I’m not a fan of Major Lazer, even less so after their newfangled irony Peace Is The Mission, but they thrillingly entertained last night, albeit a show filled with blood, sweat, and musical lobotomy.
Ahead of British singer songwriter Lucy Rose’s show at Manchester Academy on Monday, the 26-year-old from Warwickshire chatted to MM about her new album, refugees and Jeremy Corbyn.
As the London four-piece come to Manchester to play Gorilla on Saturday, MM spoke to frontman Fred MacPherson, who says that although the band comes from London they’re happy to be get outside of the capital for a UK-tour.
Manchester cultural commentator CP Lee will provide a special introduction of the film tomorrow night as part of Manchester Literature Festival.
Small World, thought to be the world’s first deaf sitcom series, is a comedy about a group of deaf flatmates and has been devised and performed entirely in British Sign Language
In 1955, at the Six Gallery in San Francisco, Allen Ginsberg gave the first public reading of his epic poem Howl.
Don’t Miss A Beat is here to recommend five tracks a week. Rather than being a standard ‘five new tracks you must hear’ it will comprise a selection of music that fall into five categories.
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