Arts and Culture

Before she became the Lizzo we know and love – a four-time Grammy winner and figurehead for body positivity –

A new music collective founded and run by young creatives from mostly ethnic minority backgrounds and queer identities has been

Black Mirror episodes usually contain an element of truth but push it to ridiculous extremes – but the new episode

Joe Leather’s one-person play, Wasteman, draws upon his real-life experiences as a refuse worker during lockdown – while performing drag

Ever not had the words to say to someone and wished somebody could write them for you? Well, Isabella Dorta’s

Parklife demonstrates why the North is setting the benchmark for UK festivals this summer. Held in Manchester’s Heaton Park, this

As he touched down at the Etihad stadium on 10 June to embark on the second leg of his After

Square Wild are a difficult band to describe. Pinning down their eclectic, diverse sound is a task that is too

A recent study from Betway has named Manchester the second most alternative city in the UK, with northern cities dominating

Square Wild have won the coveted Manchester ‘Metal2TheMasses’ (M2TM) competition in front of a crowd of more than 500 people.

A Manchester-based landscape artist has taken on the challenge of painting a music tour of the UK. Ben Rock, known