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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How lockdown has impacted Manchester’s iconic clubbing scene
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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Frog and Bucket deemed not ‘culturally significant’ enough for emergency funding
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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Artist Steph Leighton on moving to Manchester and the challenge of lockdown
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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Sounds of the City: A guide to the music of Two Tail
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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Meekz, Manchester and modern masculinity
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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The Sunday Scene
Misha Notley presents a photo series exploring electronic dance culture and freedom in Manchester, influenced by 90’s rave culture.
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United We Stream and the uncertain future of Manchester’s nightlife
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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Review: Boston Manor – GLUE
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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‘Back to Our Roots’: The fight to keep grassroots venues open in Manchester
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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