Often referred to as a barefoot performer, 26-year-old Benjamin Clementine is an enigma.

Cocktails in the City returned to Manchester for a showcase of mixing, swirling, and sipping, exhibiting the newest talent from bars across the city.

Maccabees fans have been eagerly anticipating this UK tour to get a flavour of their upcoming fourth album, but on last night’s evidence at the Manchester Ritz, it is hard to gauge whether the record will match their previous efforts.

Five down five to go. Monday’s episode might be a tad slow for some but the episode strikes it just right by pairing down the storylines allowing them to pick up momentum.

King Lear – the tale of a monarch’s decent into madness after he attempts to secure an early retirement – is perhaps Shakespeare’s finest tragedy. And it is done a great justice by the Northern Broadsides troop at The Lowry.

Sons of the Harpy begins to get to the nitty gritty as the plots are in motion and the ride is about to begin.

Tonight is a big night for a small group of Mexican musicians who’ve just arrived in the city – that’s because they’ll be playing Latin American Morrissey covers to a packed out Gorilla crowd in the Smiths’ frontman’s home city.

The third hour of season five delves deeper into the mechanisms of Kings Landing and The House of Black and White.

Sandwiched next to a Ladbrokes and a Dixy’s, Elixir is a bar that you’ve probably seen but not heard. But you need to get acquainted – last week it played host to Manchester’s latest supper club, the three-night-only excellent pop up dining experience Underground Paris.

Forget the election. The return of the Avengers is the most exciting thing happening this summer.

As with episode one there’s an awful lot of exposition due to the vast number of storylines.