As a man who, throughout my teens and student years in Manchester, argued passionately that The Who were simply the best live ...

Theatre Review - Love’s Labour’s Lost (more or less), Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot.

A dreamy window in a dreary January: Northern Soul's Nancy Collantine chills out at Crewe Hall in Cheshire.

Book Review: Precipitation by Ailsa CoxWhen the city’s fluorescence, its frenetic denial of night, has started to lose its fascination, there will always be those who take flight to the imagined ...

Music Review: Bonnie Raitt, 02 Apollo ManchesterWhen Bonnie Raitt was a young girl, she was enthralled by the power and charisma of such blues and folk greats as John Lee Hooker and Sippie Wallace, ...

If you should see Count Arthur Strong live on stage – and you definitely should – Stockport Plaza is the perfect place to do so. OK, so the sound system might not quite be up to the standards of a ...

The landscape of Manchester city centre is filled with reminders of the industrial revolution, of Arkwright and cotton, of trading and trains, of the spoils of empire. But peer closer and there are ...

She was lauded as an exceptional painter. Now a new exhibition highlights something entirely different: rag rugs. Tullie House in Carlisle is hosting Winifred Nicholson: Cumbrian Rag Rugs. Revealing ...

The Holly Johnson Story at the Museum of Liverpool: Northern Soul's Steve Slack enjoys a new exhibition.

Up beyond the old Lancashire mill towns of Nelson and Barrowford is a simple single-storey clubhouse. It is an extraordinary survivor, the last Clarion House of its kind in Britain, part of an ...

There are many things that regular attendees expect the Everyman Theatre’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Panto to be, but a satirical commentary on the resurgence of toxic masculinity is probably not one of them.

This book won’t change your life. It probably knows a book that says it can, though. Or an evening class. Or a retreat. Zena Barrie’s terrain is dotted with the illusory pyramids of self-improvement ...