The French electro-swing band surpassed the expectations of even long-term fans as their astounding live performance in Manchester made the Ritz swing.

Meat Wave is an extremely hard band to pin down.

First, a confession: I am a diehard Enya fan. So if you were hoping for a cynical, cocked eyebrow account of this new age album then you will be sadly disappointed.

Blinking into a glare of neon mist​, synth-man Tommy Grace was the first member of Django Django out on stage.

British electropop singer-songwriter Aleksandra Denton , known as Shura, has come out as gay for the first time in an interview with MM ahead of her recent gig and Manchester’s Gorilla.

“It’s good to be home,” Shura yells to a clamouring, packed crowd.

As Storm Desmond raged outside, a close to capacity o2 Apollo was teaming with jittery teenage girls, undeterred by the gale force winds blasting the North of England.

The lights drew down on tightly packed, cosy concert hall; all for but one solitary trickle which caught by the glinting steel bar stool which stood in isolation.

Matt Corby had been billed to me as ‘Sam Smith meets James Bay and Ed Sheeran’. Matt Corby – with all due respect – is none of those things.

As Manchester prepares for the homecoming of Courteeners in early December, the band have released a charity Christmas single and an expanded edition of 2014 album, Concrete Love.

I experienced heartbreak for the first time aged nine.