Entertainment

Move over U2 – the Emerald Isle’s biggest new band has plans for a British takeover.

A gadget that controls TV as you sleep has been developed by a pair of tech-savvy teenagers from Ancoats.

Ryan Oliver, 15, and Jonathan Kingsley, 14, have teamed up with Virgin Media to create ‘KipstR’.

Manchester dance institution The Warehouse Project have teamed up with MM to sort one lucky reader out with a memorable New Year.

The nine-piece Mouse Outfit created a Kickstarter project following the financial burden of having to hire their own transport – the idea of band member James Defty.

A pioneering music and film project has been created by users of mental health services in Manchester to help with therapy.

World-famous trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth will join Manchester Camerata in a celebration of Christmas music at the Albert Hall.

Sankeys have announced they will be giving all unclaimed lost property away to Barnabus, a local homeless charity, with those on the streets set to pick up some designer goods next week.

A tour van containing £25,000 worth of ‘irreplaceable’ equipment was stolen from a Manchester band this morning.

Southampton singer Foxes reveals the ins and outs of her ‘whirlwind year’
after Manchester Academy gig

Sir Bob Geldof has revealed to MM that this year’s Band Aid song will be his last, while at Asda in Trafford Park yesterday, where he was purchasing the first four copies of the new Band Aid 30 single, Do they know it’s Christmas?

The Homeless Film Festival is launching a wintry fundraiser featuring creative talents from across the North West at Manchester’s Antwerp Mansion next week.