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The Urban Insider: Salford and The Quays
Think you know this city? The secret of Salford is it’s not as hard as all that.
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In The City has always been a big deal for the music industry & for Manchester. But has it lost its way?
Norse to see you.
Any ideas our man Matthew Hull might have had of introducing the NICE Festival of Nordic Arts with a cheap joke about a Viking invasion of the North West was immediately deflated once the Director imparted his name…
Salford and The Quays
Mark Addy was a Victorian hero who saved more than fifty souls from drowning in the Irwell. His memory is worthily honoured by the Salford pub that bears his name, The Mark Addy (below). Renovated from a passengers’ waiting room for the packet boat that departed from a nearby landing stage in the early 1800s, [...]
Fancy a brew?
Laura Mansfield investigates the art of domestic revival with Salford designer Megan Price, AKA Mr. PS
Sound barrier. Music and the Mill.
Luke Bainbridge goes to Salford and finds a city remarkable for its new music and outsider art
Stomach Pump: typos and rusty nails at Islington Mill.
Neil McQuillian enters the murky world of the fanzine, as a new art exhibition opens in Salford’s edgiest art gallery, Islington Mill
Welcome to Twin Peaks, Salford.
Kate Feld hears about a TV tribute night where the audience are the actors, and where the town of Twin Peaks is recreated – in Salford
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Outsider art
Artists Ford Madox Brown and Adolphe Valette were two visitors to the city who made a lasting impression on Manchester. Jessica Lack investigates.... More -
Old traditions, new blood
A flurry of new arrivals, relocations, and enticing performances add up to an embarrassment of riches for classical music lovers in Manchester, Femke Colborne finds.... More -
Drawing outside the lines
Ben Luke gets a first look at Asia Triennial Manchester 2011 and the Whitworth’s Dark Matters, two exhibitions in which art does no less than transcend borders and conquer time.... More -
Fest in show
While the Weekender brings together the best of Manchester over three days, it wouldn’t exist without four of the amazing annual festivals that arrive in the city each October. Matthew Hull takes a closer look at their programmes... More
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