Review: Belle & Sebastian, The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
The joy of pop can be as brief as its three-letter onomatopoeia, the giddy thrill of its first...
Read MorePosted by Desmond Bullen | Mar 14, 2018 | Bands & Gigs, Music
The joy of pop can be as brief as its three-letter onomatopoeia, the giddy thrill of its first...
Read MorePosted by Matthew Connolly | Mar 1, 2018 | Bands & Gigs, Music
For such a towering musical icon he looked small, but anyone would from the back row of the upper...
Read MorePosted by Andy Murray | Feb 26, 2018 | Bands & Gigs, Music, Northern Electric, Northern Soul writes...
Would that he was still with us, Jake Thackray would have turned 80 on February 27 this year. In...
Read MorePosted by Emma Yates-Badley | Feb 8, 2018 | Bands & Gigs, It's Not Grim Up North, Music, Northern Soul writes...
Few musicians can capture – and critique – what it means to be human as beautifully and...
Read MorePosted by Damon Fairclough | Feb 3, 2018 | Bands & Gigs, Blasts from the Furnace, Music, Northern Soul writes...
Only one record mattered to me in 1977. Tightly coiled within the grooves of a treasured seven...
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