Jun 2

Ibiza proms at Manchester Cathedral

Sum­mer car­ries on a lit­tle longer – through to Sat­ur­day Octo­ber 12th as it hap­pens. An evening of Ibiza clas­sics per­for­manced by a 40-piece live orches­tra at Man­ches­ter Cathe­dral. The show starts at 6pm on Sat­ur­day Octo­ber 12th from 6:00pm til 11:00pm (Per­for­mance starts 6:00pm). Buy tick­ets for Ibiza Proms in Man­ches­ter Cathe­dral at Manchester…

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May 29

Bearded Theory 24 Sunday photo gallery

Sun­day: One­da, My Bad Sis­ter, Clara Mann, Kather­ine Prid­dy, Eng­lish Teacher, The Orb, Dry Clean­ing, Bode­ga, Fero­cious Dog, Dinasaur Jr.,Big Spe­cial, Des­per­ate Jour­nal­ist, Amyl and the Snif­fers all played. The Beard­ed The­o­ry ‘fam­i­ly Sun­day’ tra­di­tion lives on, and those in fan­cy dress gath­er around the main stage for the judg­ing (win­ners are award­ed two tickets…

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May 28

Bearded Theory 24 Saturday photo gallery and review

An ear­ly high­light of the day was the set by BDRMM. They announced they were from ‘Sun­ny Hull’. Not Soli­hull as my friend mis­heard. Shoegazey and dreamy yet retain­ing an ener­gy and mus­cu­lar­i­ty, their set drew you into a hyp­not­ic state. Watch­ing BDR­M­M’s cre­ative process unfold, and on the bril­liant­ly acces­si­ble Mead­ow stage too, was…

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May 27

Bearded Theory 24 Friday photo gallery and review

Ist Ist, LIINES, Bob Vylan, Bis, Jane Weaver, Meryl Streek, Pip Blom, The Big Moon, Chameleons, Mari­ka Hack­man, The Bar Stool Preach­ers, Dexy’s and Future Islands made Fri­day a very full day of great music. All the stages opened and the weath­er was look­ing promis­ing. Man­ches­ter band Ist Ist were a high­light – Adam Houghton’s doomy…

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May 27

Bearded Theory 24 Thursday photo gallery

Beard­ed The­o­ry 24: Thurs­day with Bat­tlesnake, Dut­ty Moon­shine, Bleach Lab, Soft Play. It feels great to be back at Beard­ed The­o­ry for anoth­er year of music and the most friend­ly crowd I’ve come across at any fes­ti­val. There’s a few tweaks evi­dent on that first stroll around the site: for a start, where’s the Some­thing Else…

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May 20

Forwards new headliners Underworld; The Rising Festival adds accommodation

We’re adding some wel­come fes­ti­val news updates… For­wards Bris­tol There’s a new head­lin­er at Bris­tol’s For­wards fes­ti­val. FORWARDS has revealed that UNDERWORLD has been added to the Sun­day bill for the 2024 fes­ti­val line­up fol­low­ing their inter­na­tion­al tour. This will be UNDERWORLD’s only Bris­tol per­for­mance for 2024. A replace­ment for Mari­bou State is soon to be announced…

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May 7

Chris Cohen’s long-awaited return with new album track

Paint a Room is LA artist Chris Cohen’s first album in five years, a 10-track record that sees him up the jazz cre­den­tials. Chris is prob­a­bly best known for his stint with indie out­fit Deer­hoof; there’s also his art-rock act The Cur­tains, pre­ced­ing pro­duc­tion and ses­sion work for the likes of Weyes Blood, Kurt Vile,…

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Apr 30

We Invented the Weekend free festival, Salford

We love to bring you fes­ti­val news – espe­cial­ly free ones that also ben­e­fit their local com­mu­ni­ty. We Invent­ed the Week­end, tak­ing place on Sat­ur­day 15th and Sun­day 16th June, returns to MediaC­i­ty and Sal­ford Quays. High­lights include North­ern Music Awards’ Best DJ DJ Paulette, Sacha Lord, Zed Bias, LIINES and a Sounds from The Oth­er City takeover. We Invent­ed the Week­end● The…

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Apr 19

Joe Goddard shares a track from his upcoming album “Harmonics”

There’s a new album called Har­mon­ics on its way by Hot Chip front­man Joe God­dard. It’s still a while till the release date of July 12th but there’s a tasty morsel just dropped in the form of a track and video to pique our inter­est – pre­vi­ous­ly shared is the track New World with Fiorious.…

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Apr 5

The Chameleons winter tour now includes Membranes for two shows

Mem­branes added to Chameleons tour. Look­ing way ahead, if you can bear to think of it, there’s the per­fect oppor­tu­ni­ty to leave pre-Xmas mania aside and dip into the warm cocoon of a local venue to see The Chameleons plus – for Lon­don and Man­ches­ter only – Mem­branes. Pio­neer­ing post/punk band – CHAMELEONS – will…

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