‘a committed rawness’ Peter Hook & The Light, Albert Hall, Manchester
It is, to pilfer the most shop-worn of footballing clichés, a game of two halves. For the opening...
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Author: Desmond Bullen
Salford Lads’ Club: ‘When everything else was gone, you could still come back here’
It’s time that the tale was told. Not, on this occasion, the well-worn story of how a...
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Manchester Literature Festival: In Conversation…Eleanor Catton, Waterstones
In a literary sense, at least, Eleanor Catton is adept at shedding her skin. Each of her three...
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Theatre Review: Teechers Leavers ’22, Waterside, Sale
It’s the arts they come for first. Not just in the bright fictions of Ryan Murphy’s...
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Prostitution, Promiscuity and The Pox: William Hogarth, Chetham’s Library, Manchester
Sleet has ushered an audience layered to face its petulant chill into the blackened stone of...
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