Entertainment

Manchester ensemble X England Managers are looking to score with Brazil or Bust ahead of the 2014 tournament which kicks off next week.

Coronation Street has opened its doors to its 100,000th visitor after just two months of launching the tour of the nation’s favourite cobbled street.

Up-and-coming Manchester band Sixty Minute Man made the walls shake on Saturday at the Deaf Institute when they wowed the crowd with their original songs.

British boyband One Direction thrilled thousands of screaming fans as they made their way to the Etihad Stadium to take Manchester – and Twitter – by storm.

Blair Dunlop has returned two years on with his edgier album House of Jacks.

The laugh-a-minute show last trod the boards in London back in 2010 but now it’s back for a UK tour.

What Have We Become, the brand new tour from The Beautiful South’s dynamic-duo Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott, took Salford’s Lowry by storm.

Former X Factor star Max Vickers has secured a weekly spot at Piccadilly’s B-Lounge.

Jason Donovan stars in Annie Get Your Gun

Today, Parklife announced Kendrick Lamar would no longer be in attendance, though New York rapper A$AP Rocky has been confirmed as his replacement

Manchester will play host to a brand new immersive pop-up cinema with an exclusive preview of independent thriller Keeping Rosy, starring Shameless actress Maxine Peake and Inbetweeners’ star Blake Harrison.