I can remember the very first time I saw Bernard Butler in concert as if it were yesterday, even though...
Welcome to Lau-Land, the Leeds edition. The music festival curated by the folk trio Lau has previously seen action last...
At last year’s GRAMMYs – the annual ceremony run by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognise outstanding...
Gavin Bryars turned 80 years of age in January. To celebrate the occasion, Phaedra Ensemble – the New Music collective who were founded...
Manchester Collective and Howard Assembly Room have now enjoyed a fruitful working relationship for a number of years. The innovative...
It is World Refugee Day. Each year on the 20th of June the world celebrates this event to honour those...
Human migration is the movement of people from one place to another, often for reasons of war, famine, economic necessity,...
I first caught Thea Gilmore in concert at Manchester University Union in September 1999. In what, on the face of it, was...
The last time I saw Lanterns on the Lake in concert was September 2021. The occasion was that of the Long Division...
For Manchester Collective collaboration is key. Much of this innovative arts organisation’s success over the past seven years has been...
With their huge sense of creative adventure and fusion of a wide range of musical styles, the French group Sarāb...
Sunday night at the Howard Assembly Room. It is always a special time and place. And the appearance here tonight...
“If it’s me and yer granny on bongos, it’s the Fall.” Thus spoke Mark E. Smith, singer and frontman of the Fall,...
Having boarded an aeroplane at Melbourne Tullamarine Airport on the 29th of February 1980 as The Boys Next Door the five...
It is exactly one year and one day since Colin Stetson last played in Leeds. Whether this scheduling has occurred by accident...
