Rock of ages.
An exhibition at The Lowry features Harry Hammond’s images from the dawn of rock ‘n’ roll. Dan Feeney applauds a simpler, more innocent time in popular culture. ‘Showbiz.’ What a...
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Increase the peace.
At Imperial War Museum North, Gerry Judah’s new sculpture celebrates peace and life, not war and death, discovers Dan Feeney. Meanwhile, the museum itself witnesses new life at Salford Quays...
Memory and myth.
Dan Feeney is unsettled by the ‘cold abandoned buildings, populated by cold abandoned people’ at the Chinese Arts Centre ‘Memory is the diary we all carry about with us,’ observed...
From such great heights.
Some of the best shots of Manchester can be taken from the most unconventional of locations. So, despite his fear of being collared as a terrorist (more on that later),...
Cupcakes and contemporary craft.
At Spinningfields, The Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair enters its third year. Dan Feeney gets crafty The recent boom in cupcake makers is surely the gastronomic equivalent of displacement activity....
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 In the City, Manchester’s...