Potentially, at least, the author is a time traveller, and the novel their time machine, one which – Tardis-like – contains the whole of their fixed point in history while being simultaneously their means of stepping outside of...
Read MoreThere have been considerable developments since The Psychedelic Furs last commanded a Manchester stage. Pandemic and other issues aside, the band have found it within themselves to birth an album’s worth of new material (after a...
Read MoreIt is hardly unusual these days to find that the protagonist of a widely admired paperback is a writer. Nor is it uncommon to discover that the same rhapsodically reviewed novel takes as its theme the stuff of Saturday magazine...
Read MoreHard though it is to credit, Manchester’s Castlefield Gallery is fast approaching its ruby anniversary. Such landmarks can often provide the pretext for cheap nostalgia, the reassuring equivalent of a clip show on BBC...
Read MoreThe anglicised title of Explota explota, a generous-spirited jukebox musical about Francoist Spain and dancing, is an irresistible invitation to declare, almost without shame, that the ¡Viva! 28th Spanish & Latin American...
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