What happens when the DIY underground collides with one of Manchester’s biggest, shiniest arts spaces?

Happening as part of MIF25, Blackhaine’s world premiere performance promises to be one of the most compelling and emotionally charged experiences of the festival.

Festival Square is the beating heart of Manchester International Festival 2025.

One of the most arresting offerings at MIF25 – a haunting, meditative journey through abstraction, perception and performance.

Babies and parents – get your dancing shoes on!

Buxton International Festival rips up the rulebook with Shorts, a punchy programme of 4 brand-new 20-minute operas.

The White Hotel loads the booth with serious weight, as four of the scene’s most uncompromising figures bring a night of industrial techno, electro and scorched circuitry.

Still brilliant. Still weird. Still moving forward. Deerhoof return to Brudenell with their most abrasive album in years.

Back for 2025, Trafford’s flagship arts festival returns to Waterside for six days of experiential performance and cultural delight.

A quietly radical force in contemporary club culture, John Talabot returns to The White Hotel for one of his signature all-night sessions.

Somewhere in Trafford, behind an unmarked gate, a former garden centre hosts one of Greater Manchester’s most original festivals.

Once a post-rock collective, now something closer to a live techno machine, Leeds band vessels bring it home to the Brudenell.