We should all slob out, as much as we can at least.' Comedian Molly McGuinness talks to Northern Soul's Andy Murray.

A reissue of C.P. Lee's classic book Like The Night offers Northern Soul's Music Editor the opportunity to reflect on Lee's ...

Manchester Film Festival closes with exactly the right kind of film. Not something inflated for the sake of a finale, but a work that catches hold of one of the festival’s deeper currents. California ...

The Floral Pavilion sits out on the edge of New Brighton, facing the Mersey with Liverpool’s docks looming across the water. Around it, the place holds that familiar seaside mix: arcades, food stalls, ...

In a world brimming with artificial intelligence, the internet is awash with claims that 2026 is the year of ‘going analogue’. But what’s the evidence? Well, sales of physical media have surged (for ...

Words are not the only language. At best, they’re only half the story, the part which can be reduced to the calculus of thought. The strength of Marina Abramović’s artistic practice is her fearless ...

My first visit to Shakespeare North in Prescot felt oddly close to home. It’s not far from where I grew up, though Prescot itself always felt like another world. Jim Cartwright’s Two has also ...

‘The scene is the blue and white room in the house of the Misses Susan and Phoebe Throssel in Quality Street; and in this little country town there is a satisfaction about living in Quality Street ...

Most people already know this story, or think they do. The history of Joy Division and New Order has been told so often that it’s hardened into one of Manchester’s defining narratives, both a starting ...

There’s an episode of the 90s hit comedy Father Ted where the lads on Craggy Island are visited by Father Damian Lennon, a young Dublin priest and pound-shop Liam Gallagher, who you know is rebellious ...

The first time I went to the Manchester Literature Festival, I bumped into Lady Antonia Fraser coming out of the toilet. That was 14 years ago, but you don’t forget meeting a literary icon in the bogs ...

You know when you read something and think, ‘damn, I wish I’d written that’? Well, that’s how I feel about Burnt Ice Cream by Candi Martin. I loved this collection of poetry. In fact, it feels like I ...