Imagine if you will that Quincy Jones, Marcus Miller and every member of Snarky Puppy slapped Mac DeMarco round the chops and told him to put some effort into it. The result of such an intervention would be Cousin Kula.

With an audience full of young teenage girls, as an adult it is easy to feel out of place at a Shawn Mendes concert at the Manchester Arena.

American rockers Panic! at the Disco exceeded ‘high hopes’ on Saturday night on their first UK arena tour to promote their most recent album Pray For The Wicked.

Fans filled Manchester Arena on Tuesday night to see one of hip-hop’s biggest names perform and they, including myself, were not disappointed.

Stockport’s own Blossoms finished their sell-out weekend at the Victoria Warehouse in style on Sunday.

“We always got told we’d struggle here, but no. As soon as we walk through the door, football is out the window and we’re f***ing cousins,” Courteeners frontman Liam Fray affirmed to the room.

Florence + the Machine wowed those in attendance at Manchester Arena on Friday as they demonstrated their talent to connect people through music while promoting their newest album High as Hope.

Rocking his dishevelled chic, Lewis Capaldi played his biggest ever headline show at Manchester’s Albert Hall on Tuesday.

Ahead of their hugely anticipated third album Toast to our Differences, Rudimental took to the stage at Manchester’s O2 Apollo to liven up people’s Tuesdays.

Tom Odell brought passion with his piano to the O2 Apollo last night, which he labelled “one of his favourite venues in the world”.

Jorja Smith brought an array of soul, blues and jazz as she touched down for her first of two dates at a sold-out Albert Hall in Manchester.