Apparently audience participation – shouting often-rude, always-hilarious lines in appropriate places in the shows – started for the movie version back in the 1970s in the US and made it to our shows a few years later.

Manchester is a city that’s second to none – but you can’t beat a good trip to the Land of Oz.

Hits Radio Live returned to Manchester Arena for the second time this year, bringing eight superstar acts along with them.

Motown hit Manchester on Tuesday as the Four Tops and the Temptations brought their catalogue of classic tunes to Manchester Arena.

With talks about gender equality, the housing situation and new performing acts, Off The Record provided a powerful connection to the world of music this month.

A triumph of comedy borne out of tragedy, Gary Barlow and Tim Firth’s Calendar Girls is the perfect remedy to the dark winter nights approaching.

The 44 days Brian Clough took charge of Leeds United in 1974 were a spectacular failure, immortalised in a best-selling book by David Peace and a blockbuster film by Tom Hooper.

Bringing Beatlemania back to Manchester for a few days only, Let It Be began its eight-show run at the Opera House last night.

Mahalia played a sold-out gig in Gorilla on Wednesday – and what a show it was!

Like a kind of LGBT time-warping Howard’s End, The Pride shows how relationships, sex, self-worth and fate are intricately entwined with the society and period we live in.

At the start of a career-high breakthrough tour, it is natural for an artist to have butterflies in their stomach.