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

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, ...

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 ...

Looking Up, a loop of Pat Flynn’s CGI-animated shorts, marks the opening of Wonderful Electric, the new digital installation space at Blackburn’s Fusebox. Designed to provide a secure berth for a ...

Enriqueta Rylands would have been proud. On the 125 th anniversary of the opening of the library she bequeathed to Manchester in her husband’s name, a glorious celebration of the requited love between ...

In the end, the biggest act of the weekend wasn’t even on the bill. It just after noon on Saturday, as early arrivals milled around Liverpool’s Sefton Park or foot-tapped appreciatively to upcoming ...

Theatre Review: Dear England, The Lowry, SalfordI know nothing about football. Actually, that’s not true. I have two sons who grew up in Manchester, one a City fan, the other, well, the other, and ...

Main image: Ali Cherri: How I Am Monument (installation view), Secession, Vienna, 2024. Photo: © Ali Cherri Studio, courtesy the artist and Imane Farès, Paris.

I moved house earlier this year. While my new place is what estate agents euphemistically refer to as ‘a fixer-upper’, in reality it’s a bungalow built in 1988 which has remained largely the same ...

Walking into How I Am Monument feels like entering the excavation site of a 21st-century technocratic pharaoh. In the soft golden light, mud and bronze sculptures are backlit by expansive screens ...

When you move house, especially during winter, the garden is full of surprises. What is lurking beneath the soil? What will poke its head out in spring? Will there be summer colour? I’ll be honest, I ...