Is This Thing On? @ Contact Theatre review – raw, outstanding and heartwarming
Featured image: Aaron Shaw ‘Is This Thing On?’ is a unique debut show, a product of the…
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The FRESHERS Issue 24/25: Call for print submissions – Get involved with your student magazine
Featured image: aAh! In each print issue, aAh! Magazine explores one word which runs as its theme.…
Is This Thing On: Feminist theatre with a twist comes to Contact
Featured image: So La Flair Theatre Ellie Campbell and Megan Keaveney graduated last year from Manchester Theatre…
How music shaped last year’s stand-out cinema
It’s been just over one month since the Oscars marked the end of another awards season. Musical performances from all the artists nominated for this year’s ‘Best Original Song’ were interspersed throughout the show, including a moment of virality from a pink-clad Ryan Gosling and his vanguard of 65 Kens. From original scores to compilation soundtracks, 2023 saw the true matrimony of sound and vision. Here are a few of the highlights.
Pretty Woman @ The Palace Theatre – palm trees, leg warmers and curly perms
Photography: The Palace Theatre Based on one of Hollywood’s most beloved rom coms, the travelling tour of…
Peter Pan Goes Wrong @ Manchester Opera House – an awfully big adventure
Photography: Manchester Opera House Somehow, the Cornley Drama Society managed to book yet another production in Manchester,…
The LEGACY Issue: Danny Boyle works with SODA students – the next generation of digital creatives
Featured image: Bradley Sansom From hosting the 2023-24 Métiers d’art Chanel show, to being chosen as the…
The LEGACY Issue: Five alternative music venues that have left their mark
Featured image: Talk Show @ YES by Gracie Hall You know the larger venues, but Manchester’s live…
The LEGACY Issue: Exploring Sonny Angels, Tamagotchis and other nostalgic trends
Featured illustration: Snehal Dhanwate From fashion model and tiny toy collector Iris Law to singer-songwriter Beabadoobee leading…
The LEGACY Issue: A literary tour of Manchester
Featured illustration: Katelan Evans Manchester has given us many influential figures in literature and their legacies live…
The LEGACY Issue: A Home from Home: Hulme community garden centre
Featured image: Makenna Ali I stop before the entry sign and peek through the gate into the…
“We can bring the city to life”: The RHS Urban Garden show comes to Manchester with the Cloud Gardener
Featured image: Jason Williams Manchester Met students are collaborating with Jason Williams, aka the Cloud Gardener, to…
Paolo Nutini @ O2 Victoria Warehouse review – charismatic and beautifully crafted
Scotland’s finest, Paolo Nutini, performed a collection of his greatest hits from old to new, in front…
Sports Team @ Manchester Academy review – London six-piece wrap their audience up in gleeful chaos
Featured image: Lauren Maccabee Sports Team have always been a band whose music is designed to be…
Angel Olsen @ Manchester’s Albert Hall review and gallery – Big Time is where Olsen’s country yodel sounds most at home
Indie folk songwriter Angel Olsen performs a sentimental set full of mischief and intimacy at Manchester's iconic Albert Hall on her Big Time tour.