Featured image: Press It’s been five years since Jorja Smith last played the Albert Hall, a former Wesleyan chapel-turned-gig venue that sits between bars and restaurants on the ever-busy Peter Street. Her growth is perhaps best reflected in the sheer number of people braving the freezing cold to pack the building out. Here to celebrate the…
Featured image: Minty Slater Mearns It’s almost impossible to imagine how large of a crowd a band with only three released singles can conjure up on a chilly Thursday evening until you see it for yourself. Manchester Academy 2 filled right to the back with 6 Music Dads and young women in billowing skirts and…
Featured image and Gallery: Georgina Hurdsfield It’s another Saturday night in Manchester and this time around the O2 Ritz is chock a-block with indie meme page admins and teenagers with bright shocks of hair eagerly awaiting the arrival of Alex Giannascoli, better known to most by moniker (Sandy) Alex G. He’s spent the last ten…
Featured image: Holly Whitaker Since their beginnings in the belly of the London post-punk scene (have you ever heard of The Windmill?), Shame have come a long way. All the vigour of 2018’s Songs of Praise remains within their music. They’re still overtly political like most of their peers on the scene but they’ve now stepped away…
Featured image: Press – Chuff Media “Manchester on a Friday night – this is going to be so fun,” gushed Florence Welch to a packed-out AO Arena. She’s not wrong of course, if there’s anywhere that knows how to bring the energy – Manchester is it. Surrounded by glistening chandeliers and bathed in white light,…
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