Touching down in Liverpool’s Sefton Park for its 2025 edition, BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend was guaranteed to be the north-west’s music event of the year. Branded “scousechella” by attendees and ...

Massachusetts-born singer-songwriter Joe Keery, known on stage as Djo, made his Manchester debut last week in a performance that was nothing short of spectacular. Keery’s ‘Back on You’ Tour, in ...

Since launching in 2010 at Platt Fields Park with a lineup featuring Calvin Harris and Friendly Fires, Parklife Festival has been a staple in the calendar of many a Manchester student. Filling the ...

Since 1988, Kylie Minogue has been a titan in pop music across the world. After the release of her 2010 album Aphrodite, however, subsequent releases failed to spawn top ten hits; that is, until ...

On a sunny Saturday in mid-May, Bradley Simpson touched down at Manchester’s O2 Ritz, greeted by early queues that seemed to hold the venue’s entire capacity, wrapping around onto Oxford Road and ...

The US pulling out of The Paris Agreement has now made an already ‘challenging’ target to keep global temperature well below 2℃ above pre-industrial levels ‘very, very unlikely’, according to ...

Isle of Wight five-piece Wet Leg returned to the streets of Manchester this week for a sold-out show at the O2 Victoria Warehouse in Trafford, in support of their forthcoming album moisturizer, which ...

Ugly have had a turbulent career thus far. They originally emerged in the mid-2010s producing indie-rock that built them a following, but grew too close to the sounds of King Krule for comfort or ...

Amber has long captivated public imagination, especially after its portrayal in the 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park, where dinosaur DNA extracted from amber brought extinct creatures back to life.

Words by Hannah Eldon Renowned for their melancholic indie rock discography, Sophie Allison, better known as Soccer Mommy released their debut album Clean in 2018 at only twenty years old. With New ...

After a turbulent eviction in October 2024, Café Blah is set to reopen in a new location on 24 May, participating in the free Withy Weekender festival. The much-loved European-style art café, run by ...