Featured image: Flow4Equality Manchester Met student Hannah Smith is launching Flow4Equality, a new social enterprise dedicated to fighting period poverty in the city. Their first event is a pop-up festival called ‘Painting Manchester Red’, which aims to support and empower women, with a focus on feminism and menstruation. The project was created as part of…
Featured image: Johan Persson Future-hit Burlesque The Musical dazzled Manchester with its world premiere this week, bringing new life to the 2010 cult classic. Lining the Manchester Opera House with a hot pink carpet, the gala night saw glitz and glam like never before. This new adaptation is littered with an all-star cast, showcasing the…
Featured image: Benjamin Kelm Benjamin Kelm explores the highs and lows of migration in his uplifting one-man play, Far From Home, Close To Love. Following the bold move of leaving his home in Germany to pursue a career in acting in New York, Benjamin experiences the full breadth of loneliness in the city. The show…
Based on Douglas Day Stewarts’ hit 80s romance, An Officer and A Gentleman takes to the Manchester Opera House stage to transport us into a timeless story of love, courage and redemption. This Curve production is a neon sensation of retro hits and escapism.
Liverpool-based quartet, Courting, are one of the most exciting new names on the scene. Merging hyper-pop with post-punk (and really anything else they feel like) provides limitless potential to their sound and following the release of second studio album, New Last Name. It seems there’s no stopping the outrageous theatrics of Courtings’ cinematic universe. We caught up with lead singer and creative director, Sean Murphy-O’Neill, to discuss the New Last Name record, tour, and more.
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