One Direction fans were left devastated when Zayn Malik announced he was leaving the world-famous boyband yesterday afternoon.

Few British punk bands as confrontational and bolshy as The Stranglers have been able to survive four decades and still manage a sell-out 16-stop nationwide tour.

Rose by name Rose by nature. An unassuming star in the making took to the stage of Gorilla last night to deliver a pitch perfect set to reams of loyal fans.

Before Sam hit the stage, you couldn’t help but digest the fact that you were about possibly hear one of world’s most prolific male voices of recent years, however, the 90-minute show didn’t live up to expectation.

Now, after a two-year hiatus, the blue-eyed hearttrob is back with a new sound and MM caught up with the singer to discuss his new track, the sun-soaked Miami video and the brand new album that is on its way.

Iconic Manchester music venue The Roadhouse will be closing its doors indefinitely on June 1.

The basement club located on the corner of Newton Street has been a live music favourite since 1992.

MM caught up with supergroup McBusted to talk about boobs, teen crushes and touring before they’re Most Excellent Adventure Tour brings them to the Manchester Arena on Saturday March 21 and Sunday 22.

With the banding planning to visit Manchester for the first time later this month, MM posed Pete from The Devil Makes Three some questions.

Placebo’s Manchester O2 Apollo set-list of oldies-but-goodies like Infra-Red and Every You Every Me and soon-to-be classics from their 2013 album Loud Like Love was never going to disappoint.

Nina Simone once said that it was an artist’s responsibility to ‘reflect the times’. There’s no denying that George the Poet represents this models perfectly.

Organisers are renaming the festival Beacons Metro and swapping the rustic Yorkshire Dales for gritty Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool.