Kristian Matsson – aka The Tallest Man on Earth – described performing a solo show in Manchester as “like a stress dream”.

Charly Bliss provided a night of emotional lyrics overpowered with electrifying rock when they performed at the Deaf Institute in Manchester on Thursday.

In April 2015, 27-year-old Hanna McGrath, who was 23 at the time, was working as a nurse on the Acute Spinal Cord Injury in Sheffield when she lost use of her left hand and arm after taking the Rigevidon pill.

Marillion with Friends from the Orchestra electrified Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall with the third gig of their tour celebrating forty years together as a band.

Manchester has a history of musicians whose skill became overshadowed by their ego. It seems barely a day goes by without some petty new controversy from the Gallaghers or fresh outrage from Morrissey.

Is anyone ever really gone? Denis Côte poses this question with his adaption of Laurence Olivier’s (no, not that one) novel, a glacially paced gaze at a community’s grief following an untimely death.

The world-renowned Marillion will be celebrating 40 years of music with a huge UK tour spanning 13 different venues – including a date at Manchester Bridgewater Hall next month.

Everybody’s talking about Layton Williams, but last week it was my chance to chat to the versatile actor and bonafide West End star.​

Standing around on a rainy Saturday afternoon outside HOME, a group of people dressed in brightly coloured raincoats and carrying umbrellas seem little out of the ordinary. That is until the song Singin’ in the Rain begins to play and they all burst into dance.

Two years ago, Catalonia’s bid for independence plunged Spain into a huge political crisis when the autonomous Catalan government held an independence referendum.

Class is a hard-hitting performance of raw storytelling that interrogates the disparity between Britain’s haves and have nots through the experiences of Scottee, the show’s writer and sole performer.