Following its inaugural event in May featuring Swans, The Fall and Royal Trux, new concert series Transformer returns – this time, to Albert Hall – for a second major outing.
Promising a line-up that ‘positively disregard genres altogether’, Transformer 2 boasts a rare Manchester outing for Canadian post-rock collective Godspeed You! Black Emperor, plus LA’s Liars and Philadelphia psychedelic rock band Bardo Pond.
Manchester Psych Fest, the UK’s trailblazing psychedelic music and arts festival has announced a massive bill for its 2025 edition.
from £44.80
Fancy your Sunday roast with a hint of the Germanic? Head to Albert’s Schloss.
NQ64 Peter Street is the latest venue from the team behind the original (and excellent) NQ bar, offering up video games, high-quality drinks and a great, friendly atmosphere.
Right next to Manchester’s Albert Hall, Sakana is a casual Japanese restaurant downstairs, with a fancier Pan Asian on the first floor.
Rudy’s Neapolitan Pizza serve up pizza which has received worldwide acclaim and now have six branches across the UK including this on Peter Street.
Deansgate bar and barbecue restaurant
A elegant restaurant and bar attached to the former Free Trade Hall
Grand steakhouse in the centre of Manchester. High-end cuts of meat in elegant but dynamic venue.
Converted Free Trade Hall, now a luxury hotel in Manchester city centre.
The French is one of Manchester’s most highly regarded restaurants. Head chef Adam Reid has a real grasp on what makes Manchester tick. A less fussy, more relaxed, and, at times, gloriously silly restaurant.
Forty-Seven is a luxury boutique hotel on Peter Street in Manchester city centre, above the high-end Indian restaurant Asha’s.
Asha’s serves modern north-west Indian cuisine in luxurious surroundings.
The Allotment Vegan Restaurant is an award-winning vegan restaurant, formerly based in Stockport and now in the heart of Manchester’s city centre.
Join Joe Feeley a Mancunian through and through, who guides you into Manchester’s two pillars of cultural excellence with his Rock and Goal tour.
from £9.99
Get priority booking on the best seats, special discounts, invitations to exclusive events and much more. Are you in?
from £45.00
Band on the Wall bring people together to make, as well as watch, music. Join them to learn folk tunes from all over the world.
The Bridgewater Hall’s flagship concert series brings the best international orchestras, celebrated recitalists and world-renowned choirs to Manchester.
from £8
Leeds International Concert Season is on a mission to push boundaries, expand horizons, and ask the question: ‘What haven’t we heard?’ as it presents its city-spanning Sound Out Leeds series.
from £10.00
Through a treasure trove of concerts, the RNCM’s initiative Dance:Music explores the symbiotic relationship between music and dance.
from £0.00
Playable art installations, Shakespearean adaptations, contemporary cabaret, hip hop and live photography, Factory International bring another electrifying Spring Season.
Open-air club Progress scales up to 5000 capacity and launches a spring/summer season of forward-thinking electronic music and grassroots culture.
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Electronic music features heavily in our latest round-up of gig highlights across Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool.
Willow weaving, textile collages, digital arts and ecology - all this and more in our exhibition top picks this month
Spring is here and the North is buzzing with must-visit new restaurants and bars.
Vintage Alfred Hitchcock and a family friendly film festival are amongst our highlights this May.
We've got many a good time in store this month as we round up the best walking tours, cultural classes and makers markets in the land.
Dynamic dance, party-performance, high-energy stand-up and a site-specific show set in a pub. All this and more in our newest theatre guide.
Crocodile-themed Easter egg hunts, sense-sational museum trips and more this Easter!
If it's inspiring, inclusive events and avant-garde, experimental afternoons you're after, look no further than live literature this spring – we've got you covered.