• Music

    Review: Goldfrapp @ Manchester Academy

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    By David Keyworth “You’re in for a really amazing show,” Catherine Pockson the lead singer of Alpines tells us, during their impressive support slot. Is this an opinion based on the previous two shows of this tour or just a showbiz platitude? At 9pm, musicians dressed in black take the stage. Alison Goldfrapp soon follows…

  • Music, News

    Preview: Goldfrapp Silver Eye UK Tour

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    By David Keyworth After a packed a hectic summer on the festival circuit, Goldfrapp start their eight-date UK tour in Glasgow on Halloween and head to Manchester Academy on Friday 3rd November. The tour will promote Goldfrapp’s seventh studio album,  Silver Eye, which was released in March this year. ‘Anymore’, the opening track and first…

  • Manchester, News

    Poet Michael Symmons Roberts launches Mancunia at Manchester Central Library

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    By David Keyworth Shortlisted for the prestigious T.S. Eliot Prize, Manchester Met Professor of Poetry Michael Symmons Roberts’ seventh collection Mancunia is about Manchester, or at least a version of Manchester. The title takes inspiration from the satirical Utopia by Thomas More, first published in 1516. The collection was recently launched at an event hosted by…

  • Manchester, Politics

    5 things I learnt at the Conservative Party Fringe meetings

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    By David Keyworth Photography: Nguyen Bui Vu When I heard that the Conservative Party Conference was coming to Manchester Central, I felt a bit like a life-long vegan, told that McDonalds was holding a burger festival in Whitworth Park. Having previously done freelance reporting at the Labour Party Conference fringe, I was offered the same work…

  • Film, Review

    Review: Detroit

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    Photograph: Anapurna/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock Humanity Hallows Issue 6 Out Now Pick up your copy on campus or read online By David Keyworth In the mid-1990s trial of OJ Simpson, one of the most unsettling episodes was when tapes came to light of a Los Angeles police department detective called Mark Fuhrman. He boasted of planting evidence and…

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