Entertainment

Everyone and their mother knows that children can be famously impressionable.

Viral internet sensation Walk Off the Earth will be playing the Manchester Academy on Friday October 2 in what promises to be an exciting new spectacle for the YouTube generation.

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.

MM caught up with Kiri Pritchard about the importance of honesty, prejudice, and her fear of the forever-ness of the internet ahead of Laughing Cows comedy night at Northern Quarter’s Frog and Bucket.

The festival, which is organised by founder Dr Jill Adam and award-winning music journalists John Robb and Simon A. Morrison, focuses upon the age-old relationship between music and the written word.

David Cameron was the target of a political rant from the stars of Kneehigh theatre company’s musical Dead Dog In A Suitcase in the post-show talk at Manchester’s HOME yesterday.

James Bay performs at the O2 Apollo in Manchester and aside from his soppy compositions and repetitive choruses, there aren’t many singer-songwriters I’ve seen at close quarters that have fully convinced me that they’re born rockstars.

The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra are starting a brand new series of concerts at Salford University, which hope to widen the audience for classical music – both new and old.

Applying the perspective of an Alzheimer’s patient is a bold move, and something that proves to be incredibly unique, dark and intense experience.

Have you ever questioned why we do the things we do? Manchester based M20 Collective are holding an exhibition doing exactly that, called Paradise Now.

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.