Since 2010, Parklife Festival has brought Manchester a mid-June weekend of music, mixing a heavily electronic-based lineup with pop, rap and indie rock headliners.

The Manchester-based bakery Half Dozen Other has been serving up delicious bakes for years now, but for the first time ever they are giving you an even more compelling reason to indulge, with a pastry ...

Massachusetts-born singer-songwriter Joe Keery, known on stage as Djo, made his Manchester debut last week in a performance that was nothing short of spectacular.Keery’s ‘Back on You’ Tour, in support ...

The University of Manchester is an institution recently blessed with success across its sports department. The university, often praised for its academics, saw its Netball team promoted during the ...

Saturday 7 th June marked one of the Netball Super League’s biggest showdowns between the 2 nd and 3 rd placed teams, London Pulse and Manchester Thunder. The fixture was Thunder’s last home game of ...

Touching down in Liverpool’s Sefton Park for its 2025 edition, BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend was guaranteed to be the north-west’s music event of the year.

Across Viagra Boys’ latest album, frontman Sebastian Murphy’s newfound introspection is noticeable, alongside the band’s ability to sound foolish while demonstrating truly intelligent ...

Since forming in 2018, Dublin five-piece The Murder Capital have established themselves as one of post-punk’s forerunners, entwining dynamic, brooding instrumentation with the introspection and ...

Manchester Oxford Road station will be closed for the next two years as remodelling work takes place. The station building is a Grade II listed building, meaning that it is of “special interest” and ...

In The Mancunion’s Music Section, we are always listening to what is going on in Manchester’s local music scene. Artists of every kind come and go – as do many events – and this city, in many ways, is ...

On Wednesday 26 February, at the heart of a teeming Oxford Road, groups of people gathered round the Palace Theatre. Some were dressed in red three-piece suits covered in little cartoon meatloaves, ...

We’ve all been there: you went a little too hard. Perhaps you’d gone out for a big post-exams bash with all your mates. Perhaps you said you would only go out for “one” and it turned a little ...