City Centre
The Gaslamp
Subterranean bar in Manchester and home to folk and acoustic night, The Folk Cellar.
Written by Julia Coulton
Manchester Theatre Review: The Birthday Party
Harold Pinter’s play about a sinister seaside boarding house is running at the Royal Exchange Theatre – but just what is it all about? It’s great to see a play...
Preview: new music
at Sounds from the Other City
at Sounds from the Other City
Salford’s festival of new music returns to the other city on Bank Holiday Sunday– we highlight what’s on. Salford may be the “other city” in question here, so often sitting...
Manchester photography: Red Saunders’ digital “tableaux” of a political past
A new exhibition at the People’s History Museum uses digital trickery to recreate democratic trouble. Red Saunder’s new show at the People’s History Museum may have more of an art...
Manchester Music: Gabriel Minnikin brings Americana to a church in Whalley Range
The critically-acclaimed Canadian singer on the making of Parakeets with Parasols. Canadian singer and songwriter Gabriel Minnikin may have lived in Manchester for nine years, but home is most definitely...
Strike a pose: 50 years of football & fashion
at the National Football Museum
at the National Football Museum
From mods to Rooney, this is a show about a fashionably beautiful game. If you haven’t visited the National Football Museum since it relocated from Preston North End’s ground to...
Imperial War Museum North’s take on frontline medicine
War art so often focuses on the battlefield, but how about an exhibition that looks at the aftermath? All armed conflict demands that medical personnel put their lives at risk,...