This was a homecoming gig (of sorts) for Manchester-based Everything Everything. They gave their all – and it showed. Firstly, we were spoilt with the support bands on offer. All We Are have described themselves as “the...
Read MoreFollowing Terence Blanchard last month, Band on the Wall has excelled again, attracting yet another jazz legend to the North West’s Best Small Venue (I’m with the NME on this one). Lonnie Liston Smith earned his chops playing in...
Read MoreLaugh Local, the funny younger brother of Bop Local, has been a strictly South Manchester affair since the first one was staged in November 2012. Until now. On Saturday a packed Heaton Park Sports & Social Bar saw four top...
Read MoreNearly ten years to the day that Manchester’s Victoria Baths was voted winner of BBC’s Restoration, on a rainy Thursday evening I found myself sitting in the deep end of a 107-year-old swimming pool, drinking a pint...
Read MoreI noted the Stone Roses (Mani), Oasis (Bonehead) and New Order (Stephen Morris) among the bands with representatives at Tim Burgess’s solo gig at Band on the Wall – all supporting an old mate in an intimate setting,...
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