The principle achievement of Rory Mullarkey’s Even These Things is that the play writes of both love and Manchester, and, on ...

Sex Pistols' legendary gig at the Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester, our Music Editor talks to people who were there.

At the Sir Stephen Hough piano recital at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall, I noticed a man in the interval. He was elderly and ...

There’s a reason why The Singing Mermaid is such a highly successful story for children, both in the book by Julia Donaldson ...

Lost Souls, the debut album by Cheshire trio Doves, was released 25 years ago. That quarter of a century has been a hell of a ride for the band, made up of brothers Andy and Jez Williams and frontman ...

The Floral Pavilion sits out on the edge of New Brighton, facing the Mersey with Liverpool’s docks looming across the water. Around it, the place holds that familiar seaside mix: arcades, food stalls, ...

There’s a painting at the heart of From Here To Here To Here, part way through a decade of Louise Giovanelli’s collected works, and it looks a lot like Blackpool. Light glistens across the liquid gold ...

There’s an episode of the 90s hit comedy Father Ted where the lads on Craggy Island are visited by Father Damian Lennon, a young Dublin priest and pound-shop Liam Gallagher, who you know is rebellious ...

Manchester Film Festival closes with exactly the right kind of film. Not something inflated for the sake of a finale, but a work that catches hold of one of the festival’s deeper currents. California ...

As war is a truth of common life, a museum on the subject of peace is always going to be relevant. If I try to think of what war looks like, I can quite easily paint a picture in my mind – of uniforms ...

It smells the same, but looks different. The famous Power Hall at Manchester’s Science & Industry Museum – that warehouse of steam-powered engines, heaving hydraulics and giant trains – has reopened, ...