The fact that Dum Dum Girls are playing the Roadhouse in Manchester is simultaneously absolutely perfect and completely wrong. Perfect, because their garagey sound – thunderous drums, squalling guitars and gorgeous harmonies –...
Read MoreIn St Ninian’s United Reformed Church in Chorlton, there’s a stained glass window high above the altar bearing the legend ‘I am the Resurrection and I am the Life’. It’s a phrase which already has a...
Read MoreElbow played Manchester’s Phones 4u Arena on Wednesday night to a crowd of almost 20,000 and pulled off a spectacular trick. They made it feel like an intimate gig. On the back of their first number one album in the UK (I...
Read MoreA few weeks ago, Spiers & Boden played at the Royal Northern College of Music as part of their final tour as a duo. As ever, it was a heartfelt and hugely-entertaining show. But Bellowhead, the frankly rather unlikely...
Read MoreLast week’s Manchester Arena gig by Gary Barlow was a first for me. Photographing from behind the mixing desk, it was difficult to make out the Frodsham frontman without a telephoto lens. However it was a good opportunity...
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