Kit Roberts visits Hawksmoor’s Manchester branch to celebrate their fifth birthday.

You can run. You can hide. But there is no escaping Lewis Capaldi. No matter how hard you might try.

The long hair and luxe vintage garms definitely made an appearance on stage on Friday night at Manchester’s Academy 2. Fortunately for Temples, when on stage their swoon-worthy style is met with equal substance.

Greed is definitely not about Sir Philip Green. Steve Coogan’s power-hungry, wealth-hoarding, egomaniacal, self-centred and image-obsessed character Sir Richard McCreadie is in no way, shape, or form similar to the Topshop tycoon.

On the evening of Valentine’s Day, Beans on Toast unashamedly championed the holiday by spreading love with his infectious – albeit ironic – musical optimism at Gorilla in Manchester.

It’s a story of the ages. The dangerous and tortured boy and the wild, indomitable girl, doomed by love and circumstance to their inevitable destruction.

Punk rock band Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes kicked off their short but sweet UK tour in Manchester on Wednesday.

Kirk Brandon made his long-awaited return to Greater Manchester, marking his first appearance in the area in … eight days.

Atlanta-born Algiers brought a taste of the seedy, gritty side of the American south to Manchester.

Charles Dickens semi-autobiographical David Copperfield is brought to life by Armando Iannucci for a contemporary and cosmopolitan audience.

Last night Manchester Arena welcomed American heavy metal band Slipknot for the fifth time in support of their much-anticipated album We Are Not Your Kind.