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How Sushil Nash’s photography project captured human connection during lockdown

By: Carina Simi 11th November 202024th January 2021
PhotographyBehind the Lens

Usually, we only know a moment is important after it has passed. We rarely understand the sheer weight of an event while living through it.

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PhotographyBehind the Lens

How lockdown has impacted Manchester’s iconic clubbing scene

By: Rob Day 4th November 202024th January 2021
MusicDeep Dive

The world of strobes, sticky floors and ecstatic crowds seems a million miles away. In its place is Tier 3, an uncertain arrangement in which already mounting pressures on the nightlife industry have increased.

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MusicDeep Dive

Frog and Bucket deemed not ‘culturally significant’ enough for emergency funding

By: Ahisha Ghafoor 2nd November 202024th January 2021
ArtsStage

When Jessica Toomey, Director of the Frog and Bucket Comedy Club, submitted an application for a share of the Arts Council England’s Cultural Recovery Fund back in August, she was fairly confident.

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ArtsStage

Artist Steph Leighton on moving to Manchester and the challenge of lockdown

By: Ayo Okojie 31st October 202024th January 2021
ArtsGallery

Playful colours, larger than life characters, and unusual scenarios appear in the work of Steph Leighton, the third artist in our series exploring how Manchester School of Art students reacted to the early months of COVID-19 and lockdown.

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ArtsGallery

Sounds of the City: A guide to the music of Two Tail

By: Will Seth-Smith 25th October 202024th January 2021
MusicSounds of the City

Not much insight can be gained from looking at the Macclesfield-based producer Two Tail’s Soundcloud profile, aside from the 24 year old’s commendable desire to “make music for your dog”.

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MusicSounds of the City

Meekz, Manchester and modern masculinity

By: Joe Ronan 22nd October 202024th January 2021
MusicDeep Dive

Manny Meekz’s debut EP Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop, inhabits a dark world of gritty alienation. The Gorton MC has delivered a project full of sober bravado, compulsive violence and forensic self-examination.

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MusicDeep Dive

The Sunday Scene

By: Misha Notley 19th October 202024th January 2021
PhotographyPhoto Essay

Misha Notley presents a photo series exploring electronic dance culture and freedom in Manchester, influenced by 90’s rave culture.

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PhotographyPhoto Essay

United We Stream and the uncertain future of Manchester’s nightlife

By: Joe Ronan 15th October 202024th January 2021
FeaturesLong Read

The last few months have seen innumerable upheavals in the cultural sector. Culture was once centred on shared spaces: clubs, galleries, theatres, community buildings and city centres. Memories of such hustle and bustle now seem increasingly distant.

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FeaturesLong Read

Review: Boston Manor – GLUE

By: Cameron Bryan-Smith 11th October 202024th January 2021
MusicAlbum Reviews

Blackpool-natives Boston Manor paint an Orwellian picture with strokes of anger, desperation, and vengeful indignation in their third album, GLUE.

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MusicAlbum Reviews

‘Back to Our Roots’: The fight to keep grassroots venues open in Manchester

By: Louis Holbrook 1st October 202024th January 2021
FeaturesLong Read

Passport: Back to Our Roots initiative was devised to support independent grassroots venues that are the lifeblood of the UK music scene.

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