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May days and Jubilee holidays

May days and Jubilee holidays

Your guide to two long weekends full of festivals, exhibitions, music, dance and kitsch happenings

The ultimate Manchester playlist: Thirty One.

The ultimate Manchester playlist: Thirty One.

A music album that’s little short of a love song from the city.

Top five Manchester record shops

Top five Manchester record shops

Need some new sounds? Step right this way for our guide to the city’s best independent music retailers.

It’s my party. Deaf Institute celebrates four years of music in Manchester.

It’s my party. Deaf Institute celebrates four years of music in Manchester.

Help blow out the candles during the Boutique Weekender.

The Urban Insider: Northern Quarter & Cathedral Gardens

The Urban Insider: Northern Quarter & Cathedral Gardens

Side by side: avant garde and (very) old school Manchester

The Northern Quarter

The Northern Quarter

It’d be just plain silly to try and list off all the bars and restaurants in the leisuretastic Northern Quarter, so we won’t try. But we’ll happily share our favourites (with the caveat that they’re lots of other people’s favourites too – it’s always good to have a plan B when heading out for an [...]

Pay to play.

Pay to play.

In The City has always been a big deal for the music industry & for Manchester. But has it lost its way?

Sing it back. In The City is open for business.

Sing it back. In The City is open for business.

New music shindig In The City is back this week. Dan Feeney applauds its move to the Northern Quarter – and to Manchester’s best-loved music venues