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

When Bonnie Raitt was a young girl, she was enthralled by the power and charisma of such blues and folk greats as John Lee ...

Zena Barrie’s terrain is dotted with the illusory pyramids of self-improvement fads, her audience whichever arbitrary ...

Looking Up, a loop of Pat Flynn’s CGI-animated shorts, ran to mark the opening of Wonderful Electric, the new digital ...

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 ...

Gardening: spring has sprung and summer isn’t far behindHelen Nugent is the Founder and Editor of Northern Soul. A Northern lass, born and bred in Manchester, Helen has been back in her home town for ...

Up beyond the old Lancashire mill towns of Nelson and Barrowford is a simple single-storey clubhouse. It is an extraordinary survivor, the last Clarion House of its kind in Britain, part of an ...

Review: Krapp's Last Tape, York Theatre RoyalThis is as fine a production of Krapp’s Last Tape as you are ever likely to see, which is quite a feat when you know it was designed, directed and ...

Gardening: a new beginningMoving house is a bag of mixed emotions. There’s the anticipation of a fresh start, the lure of unfamiliar surroundings, and a chance to make your mark on a new home. But if ...

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 ...

Ben Nicholson, Birch Craig, Summer c.1930 (left), oil on canvas. Private Collection on loan to the Middlesbrough Collection at MIMA. Ben Nicholson, Cumberland House, 1920s (right), wood and paint.

Re-contextualised, partially defused behind the unbroken glass of a gallery display case, it sets the opening scene of Perretta’s A Riot In Three Acts, a work which gives pause to that outpouring, and ...