Johnny James

Now Wave’s newly revived Hulme pub opens its doors with an ‘art pop picnic’ from London’s 1000 Rabbits.

Victory lapping the best album of their career so far, there hasn’t been a better moment yet to catch these North Carolina rockers.

Heavy music stripped to its essence, SUNN O))) arrive in Leeds with doom metal drones, monk robes and overwhelming physical force.

RNCM students perform new music inspired by Manchester’s protest history, after hours at the national museum of democracy.

This Lankum offshoot treats Irish mythology not as inspiration but as raw material for drone and industrial noise.

For the four artists in texture’s reopening show, redaction is not absence but method – a way of exploring what’s been officially ignored, coded or suppressed.

Julia Cranney’s one-woman show takes a hard look at adoption, the care system, and our assumptions about those who adopt.

Many LGBTQ+ people who lived through criminalisation are still here, and photographer Steve Reeves is recording their stories.

Three electronic duos bored to tears of pristine laptop sets descend on The White Hotel, led by DFA’s Mermaid Chunky.

An electronic auteur, a veteran of the world’s major clubs, and the man who named electroclash – playing a pub in Todmorden.

A record that began with rice cookers and an easel is now coming to Salford. Trust the process.

Sir Stephen Hough returns to Manchester, where his musical life began, with a recital built around a deceptively simple idea: the piano miniature.