Issy Murray gives a comprehensive run down of Manchester’s greats and their music.
Manchester
Review: ‘Port’ @ Maketank
On the evening of the 22nd of March, Exeter was transported to Stockport, glimpsing into a world of Northern dialects, teenage anxieties and gritty drama. With a passionate and compelling cast from EUTC leading the show, the audience watched Billy and Rachel grow up in a town, a town that fills them simultaneously with joy […]
“Inspiration is everywhere”: An interview with Tom Walker
Ahead of the release of Tom Walker’s debut album “What a Time to Be Alive” on the 1st of March, I had the chance to ask him a few questions which brought interesting answers and an insight on the life of an artist with growing success and fame. So this interview is for the university […]
Apostasy: Review
What must it be like to renunciate your religion? This topic is explored in Daniel Kokotajlo’s harrowing and tragic debut feature ‘Apostasy’, a film based on his own personal experience of leaving the Jehovah’s Witnesses sect in which he was brought up. The story is centered around a mother and her two daughters living in […]
The Manchester Arena Attack: one year on
It is an inescapable truth of news coverage that events closer to home garner greater attention than those in distant lands. The comedian Simon Amstell once suggested that on the other side of the world news reports about a tragedy should conclude “but, you didn’t know any of them!”. For many, their first year of […]
Preview: Liam Fray @ Bristol Thekla
To make things clear, playing to 50,000 people at Emirates Old Trafford is pretty impressive. Having performed at the enormous venue earlier this summer, The Courteeners’ frontman, Liam Fray, is now stripping things back a bit and going it solo for a sixteen-day acoustic tour. It’s no surprise that these shows were just as popular […]
There’s A Honey: An Interview with Pale Waves’ Heather Baron-Gracie
Hailed as ‘your newest indie-pop sensation’ by The Fader, Manchester’s latest indie offering Pale Waves were one of this year’s highly acclaimed performers on the Reading and Leeds BBC Introducing Stage. Following their appearance earlier this year as special guest on The 1975’s sold out USA and Europe tours, and their music video for second […]
Live Review: Frank Ocean @ Parklife 2017
At 10:00pm on Sunday evening, the final night of Manchester’s Parklife festival, the enormous mass of people gathered outside the main stage was getting fidgety. Frank Ocean had been due on stage at 9:30, and I’d been waiting at the barrier with Matt for three hours to ensure a good spot for the show. All […]
Another Arrogant Wannabe: An Interview with Rory Wynne
The music industry is littered with mercurial characters. If nothing else it’s a way of creating a mystique and intrigue around your music and often makes for an entertaining read. Just look at the way NME have been living off soundbites from the Gallagher brothers for the last couple of years. They are journalistic gold. […]
Album Review: Elbow – Little Fictions
I first fell in love with Guy Garvey after being introduced to The Seldom Seen Kid by a dear friend in high school. I had joined his band as a secondary (and let’s face it, pretty shit) guitarist, and we practised in a decked out shed in the drummer’s garden. I loved it. “Let’s cover […]