For the past few weeks, Manchester’s streets have been filling up with posters advertising the Manchester International ...

And so the advert for Dinosaur World Live, served up by a social media algorithm, should have set my eye twitching. Nope. I ...

Manchester has long been the locus of world-shattering political meetings, from Marx and Engels writing the Communist ...

Adam Farrer, author of Broken Biscuits and Other Male Failures, listens patiently and nods. I’m interviewing him about his ...

You can’t ask for a jacket potato in Scotland! Actor, writer and comedian Kieron Hodgson talks to Northern Soul's Drew Tosh.

In the end, the biggest act of the weekend wasn’t even on the bill. It just after noon on Saturday, as early arrivals milled around Liverpool’s Sefton Park or foot-tapped appreciatively to upcoming ...

Ink Spill: Short Stories and Poems from Manchester's Emerging WritersThere are no limits on style, genre, level of completion or polish, no pre-requisites except the willingness to hear open and ...

During lockdown, retail manager Aiden Ryan wanted to use his time constructively. Armed with only a whisk and a dream, first-time baker Ryan decided to try his hand at cake-making with a view to ...

Warrington Museum & Art Gallery, we salute you. The Worst Record Covers in the World may be the best exhibition ever. Thanks to Steve Goldman’s weird and wonderful record collection, which includes ...

Robert Hamilton is Northern Soul‘s Opera Correspondent and our man about town, Hamiltonic. He was born in Belfast and has lived and worked in Manchester for many years. Prior to retirement, Robert ...

Set in 1829, a new children’s book called Wrong Tracks centres on Edward Entwistle, a Lancashire lad from Tyldesley, Wigan, whose claim to fame is driving the famous Rocket steam engine on the railway ...