Manchester music fans were left disappointed last night after The Libertines pulled out of tonight’s scheduled gig at The Ritz.

Don’t underestimate the vocal capabilities of 15,000 teenage girls. That’s the first lesson.

Taylor Swift is creating quite the stir in Manchester and she’s not even taken to the Arena stage for her gig tonight.

Manchester gig-goers are in for a treat tonight with taxi app Uber giving music aficionados the chance to see an intimate secret gig somewhere in the city.

A compilation of forgotten songs from Manchester’s Industrial Revolution will be revisited and re-mastered on a night that will pay homage to the city’s historic music publishing industry next month.

The name of Fleetwood Mac’s current UK tour ‘On With The Show’ almost seems ironic now as the rock legends have had to cancel their Manchester Arena gig ‘due to illness’. And Twitter users aren’t too pleased about it.

After spending time in the US in the wake of their extraordinary success with 2012’s Bones, Young Guns had returned to Manchester as part of their UK tour – in philosophical, yet emphatic style.

When Brand New first announced they were to land on UK soil this month for four unusually intimate performances, we knew we were in for something quite special.

We’ve barely clipped our wristbands and found our way to the VIP stands before we are greeted into Lancashire County Cricket Club by Dave Grohl titillating a sea of 50,000 adoring faces.

Let’s take a closer look at chart music. Popular tunes with lyrical content concerning personal experiences we might relate to as an audience. Love, sex and fun.

Her debut album The Longest River blends classic old-world sounds from traditional sources with confident vocals that reminds you that the broad umbrella of folk branches far beyond pop beatniks Mumford and Sons.