Gene Simmons has his striking make-up. Freddie Mercury was an onstage extrovert. David Bowie had extravagantly dressed alter egos. The Leisure Society’s Nick Hemming needed none of this.
If you want army combat gear, trance music, bloodshed and humour, Manchester’s Macbeth is for you.
Dolly Parton’s musical has tumbled out of the West End and stumbled straight into Manchester.
Mercury Prize Winners Elbow have curated an album as part of an exclusive artwork exhibition heading to Manchester this week – Sounds of the North, in town from September 19-30.
Cornwall is always forgotten. It’s a holiday destination for some, a topless Aiden Turner for others, but for a minority, it’s their home. The forgotten people are the subject of Mark Jenkin’s arresting and jarring first feature, Bait.
Brit Award winner Emeli Sandé is performing in Manchester next week to celebrate the release of her hotly-anticipated album, Real Life.
Manchester isn’t just a city with two huge football clubs and a reputation for producing iconic music bands. Visit and you’ll find it’s got a thriving gaming scene, with no fewer than 11 land-based casinos.
A French crime drama centring around the murder of an elderly woman in a poor commune in France sounds like it has all the right threads to make a compelling story.
Two years ago, the Netflix show 13 Reasons Why took the internet by storm.
Manchester is notorious for its incredible art scene, including three different galleries and even art painted over walls in places like the Northern Quarter.
Casinos are now a staple of British cultural life with the doors open to all – and Manchester can boast some of the land’s finest establishments.
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