Johnny James

Gothic country ballads, psych-folk drones and pedal steel drawn long and slow. Ora Cogan brings her witchy country to Now Wave’s new (old) pub.

Sarah Frankcom returns to the Royal Exchange with a Tony Award-winning musical about queer lives and the costs of keeping family secrets.

One of Manchester’s essential indie bookshops launches its new gallery with an emerging painter working in the shadow of the Beat Generation.

Paintings, installations and 500 years of Sikh wisdom are brought together in the service of personal and collective healing.

Ground Control to Manchester: A landmark immersive film reminds us that beneath all the mythology, Bowie was gloriously human.

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.