Sir Charles Halle has been honoured with an archive exhibition in Central Library.

As I made my way out of the Apollo on Wednesday evening, the delighted guy walking in front of me declared to his friend that ‘I am gonna buy a ticket for the arena tour when I get home’.

Lucy Rose’s gig last night was certainly one to remember, including a subdued encore amid a musical hypnosis, followed by a win for authenticity, friendship and loaves of bread.

Modern day electro-pop is sometimes accused of being empty and forgettable – such descriptions cannot be applied to the genre’s latest sensation Years & Years.

If all of Spector’s songs are, essentially, cries of existential angst from frontman Fred MacPherson, they are more fun than most.

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.

I’m not a fan of Major Lazer, even less so after their newfangled irony Peace Is The Mission, but they thrillingly entertained last night, albeit a show filled with blood, sweat, and musical lobotomy.

As the London four-piece come to Manchester to play Gorilla on Saturday, MM spoke to frontman Fred MacPherson, who says that although the band comes from London they’re happy to be get outside of the capital for a UK-tour.

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.

Rushing past hoards of teenagers adorned in Fall Out Boy merch and through the doors of the Manchester Arena, it occurred to me that playing support for these pop punk veterans was no mean feat.

Metric used a plethora of digital tools to let Manchester know that the fusion of man and machine, if done right, can put on an incredible show.