A successful Manchester DJ is finalising plans to launch his next ‘celebration’ themed club night with a twist.

The biggest celebration of home-grown talent is coming to Manchester next month, as the Red Bull Academy and Manchester Carnival unite for the city’s wildest party of the year.

Manchester’s most loved club nights, The Warehouse Project, have announced their 10th anniversary season schedule – and it looks like it’s going to be as raucous as ever.

MM speak to buskers, city councillors and the passing crowds to get their views on street performers along with industry experts who gave us an insight into how busking can be the platform for success

‘What a waste’. That’s what they say whenever anyone speaks about the late Amy Winehouse. Only two albums in and she was snatched from this world continues the lament.

In a quirky fusion of science and music, the ‘composer in residence’ of Manchester’s National Graphene Institute will unveil her testament to the wonder material that’s got everyone talking.

In the 22 years that have passed since RNCM graduate Tim Benjamin – adopted northerner, entrepreneur and musical prodigy – won the BBC’s coveted Young Musician of the Year Composer’s Award at the tender age of 17, everything has changed.

A compilation of forgotten songs from Manchester’s Industrial Revolution will be revisited and re-mastered on a night that will pay homage to the city’s historic music publishing industry next month.

The name of Fleetwood Mac’s current UK tour ‘On With The Show’ almost seems ironic now as the rock legends have had to cancel their Manchester Arena gig ‘due to illness’. And Twitter users aren’t too pleased about it.

It’s no secret that rock music is on the decline in Britain. Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Radiohead – they are legends of our time, and could fill out a football stadium with their holograms.

Hozier filled Manchester’s Albert Hall with his soulful melodies and smooth melancholy performance on Bank Holiday Monday.