Framed is a unique collection of photos (1988-1993) taken by Simon Taylor, a stalwart of the Manchester music scene, from the late 1980’s onwards. Amazing photos from some truly memorable gigs are intertwined with stories, insider tales and anecdotes from Simon…
Scratch the surface of the music demimonde today and you’ll find yourself entering a place to which you are very well accustomed. Despite the fresh gloss of the modern industry, there is still the stuff of old to get your…
A change in the season should spark a change in your listening habits, so you’re lucky we’ve put together a playlist to get you through those dark and drizzly November nights… The House Of Love – ‘Shine On’ The…
Few bands have such a documented, colourful past as that of Joy Division and New Order, and few people can say they have been in two of the biggest bands to come out of Manchester. Tonight can be seen as…
Nine years ago today (10/08/2007) we lost the man who had fronted the Manchester music revolution through the ‘70s and ‘80s. Tony Wilson’s life work reads as a precisely calculated pathway, leading Manchester towards the epicentre of pop culture. In…
Somehow, it’s been a week since that one crazy weekend in the year where seeing the Cool Runnings team propping up the bar of a cider bus, while a giant David Bowie slides past in the mud heading to hear…
Lust for Youth are Hannes Norrvide, Malthe Fischer and Loke Rajbek: a trio from Copenhagen proving for the umpteenth time this year exactly where in the world we should be searching for new music. Constantly exploring and expanding their sound,…
Rating: Hooky-less, but with a few famous faces to take the attention away, New Order return with their first album in a decade – and that’s not the only first. Their first collection without Peter Hook’s low-swung bass-lines is also…
Ah, the double-edged sword of The Best Of collection. To many they hold the ultimate in a band’s back catalogue – their Greatest Hits, the complete singles collection – and they’re not wrong; but anyone who really knows them knows that it’s…
As crowds in their thousands gather round PCs and iPads for the Glastonbury ticket resale tonight (and on Sunday, more info here), sweating as if their lives depend on this one transaction, we decided to take a trip down memory lane,…