Few can claim a lifelong pedigree in the world of music that compares with Joe Boyd. There’s also that ‘world music’ tag, ...

Rogue Women 3 is at Rogue Studios in Openshaw, Manchester until October 27, 2024. It is open Saturdays and Sundays from ...

Reading from the Burgess Foundation’s pulpit-like lectern, in a sustained act of imaginative empathy founded on his research ...

First up, an invitation to the launch of the Royal Northern College of Music’s new season pings in our inbox, followed by the ...

So it goes with the Peterloo Massacre, adopted son Alan Turing, and the collective trauma at the heart of what remains of ...

Liverpool author Jeff Young, who was shortlisted for a Costa Award, writes for Northern Soul about his new book, Wild Twin.

For Liz Flanagan, award-winning children’s author and writer of the Wildsmith series, that walk was the inspiration for a ...

Cats get such a raw deal in Martin McDonagh’s bloody farce The Lieutenant of Inishmore that they’re mentioned in the show’s trigger warning. The poor felines are daubed with shoe polish, shot, bashed ...

Anyone who has seen the work of circus companies Ra-Ra Zoo, Nofit State and Cirque du Soleil will know that, for the last 50 years or so, since the advent of ‘cirque contemporain’ or ‘new circus’ ...

It requires a careful approach. To say too much about Joy Unspeakable – a theatre piece with music that takes the words of four women, each diagnosed with an eating disorder, and makes them ...

Every day is the anniversary of something. When Northern Soul speaks to legendary ...

It requires a careful approach. To say too much about Joy Unspeakable – a theatre piece with ...