This week’s Northern Soul Podcast is a biggie as we chat to festival favourites and all-round brilliant band Everything Everything. Formed in 2007 by Salford University and school friends Jonathan Higgs, Jeremy Pritchard,...
Read MoreThe crowd here at Manchester’s Ritz is a right old mix – there are your 17-year-old girls obviously (and no shortage of 17-year-old boys, I have to say) but also folk old enough to be Jake Bugg’s grandparents....
Read MoreIn the mid to late 90s I must’ve seen just about every indie band going, but for some unknown reason I had never managed to catch Primal Scream live. This gig at Manchester Academy, their last of the year, showed me just...
Read MoreAs Michael Nyman silently took his place at the piano stool, any notion of an amiable saunter through the composer’s back-catalogue with cosy anecdotes about Peter Greenaway or Jane Campion had already been dispelled. I...
Read More“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, And live like it’s heaven on earth.” This (now, somewhat clichéd) sentiment by...
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