Basia Bulat is due to play YES on 26 September. In this subject-to-change world we currently live in, it is to be hoped that this Manchester date doesn’t get cancelled indefinitely. The verve and assuredness of the singer-songwriter’s fifth studio album – Are You In Love? suggests that it will translate well from recording to…
Featured image: Paul Shoul Lloyd Cole was due to call at Manchester on 19 April, as part of the tour to promote his latest long-player Guesswork. The Albert Hall gig has now been rescheduled for Sunday 13 September – see Lloyd Cole tickets. It gives us more time to get better acquainted with the new album, …
“I will draw a picture,” intones Roddy Woomble on the closing track – ‘RW OC Cuttup’ – of his new EP. If the record did have a dedicated artist it might have been Edward Hopper. The ambience overall is something like Nighthawks – Hopper’s 1942 painting of a downtown diner with the customers absorbed in…
By David Keyworth The Chemical Brothers are back on the decks in Manchester to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of their album Surrender. They will play the Arena on 22nd November. The 1999 number one disc was their third studio album and they visited Manchester as part of their pre-millennium tour to promote it. Surrender featured guest vocals…
By David Keyworth Maxine Peake enters Stoller Hall through one of the oak-panelled doors, to the side of the audience. She is wearing a long black coat. When she walks on stage she seems to have forgotten her lines and she speaks in her natural Lancashire accent. The stage is full of wind and string instruments…
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