manchester music
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Sound barrier. Music and the Mill.
Luke Bainbridge goes to Salford and finds a city remarkable for its new music and outsider art
Salford Rocks. Sounds from the Other City returns.
DPercussion might be dead, but good new music certainly isn’t. Music blogger Matthew Britton rounds up the best of this year’s Sounds from the Other City acts
All together now.
Kate Feld talks to Nitin Sawhney about Aftershock, a live music performance and club night staged at Manchester music venue Band on the Wall later this month.
Shining bright.
Manchester music venue Band on the Wall brightens up Manchester nightlife – with a new light installation that acts as a giant graphic equalizer
Why The X-Factor Sucks.
In the run-up to The X Factor final, Andrew Shanahan goes off on one about the Manchester musicians who would have failed the first auditions: Mark E Smith, The Smiths, The Stone Roses, The Ting Tings…
If you go down to the woods today.
Club Brenda celebrates a decade of art club antics with the publication of limited edition book, Strange Trees – launched tonight at Urbis. We catch up with the brains behind one of Manchester’s most eclectic music ventures
Free jazz (and more).
Chris Horkan delves uncovers the credit crunch side of music in Manchester

The temple of 1,000 bells.
The unrealised interviews.
A thoroughly modern woman.
Dark Horse. Simon Patterson Q&A.
To bee, or not to be?





