📢 HUGE NEWS: Greater Manchester is to become the UK’s first Centre of Excellence for Music and Dementia hosted by Manchester Camerata!

💘 Over £1million raised from The Power of Music Fund (The National Academy for Social Prescribing, Arts Council England, The Utley Foundation) + NHS Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham.

🤝 Working…

Enjoy your week!

NEW // IST IST will release their new album, 'Light A Bigger Fire', in September and support it with a UK tour in October.

Tickets go live at 10am this Friday 🎟️tinyurl.com/49w4rmj6

It’s a serious issue across the North too. You never had to worry about getting back from Leeds, Liverpool, Preston, Blackburn, Sheffield or Huddersfield. Now it’s a lottery

Emily Blunt says instead of recording a new album that nobody particularly wants, perhaps Kasabian should do something useful like picking up litter in their home city of Leicester

The Price of Music: Sour Grapes Records on the vital role of independent labels today faroutmagazine.co.uk/?p=494351&utm_…

Extra tickets have been added! Go! Go! Go!
soundsfromtheothercity.com/tickets/
(on sale 'til 12pm with extremely limited tickets on the door)

What the pubs next to Co-op Live think about its arrival... and those £8.95 pints. Great read from Damon Wilkinson manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/food-…

The side of the Co-op Live fiasco noone seems bothered about. The workers in the venue - bar staff, security, operations - losing income and being in the front line on Wednesday.

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-689549…

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rachel - Manchester Academy 3

“Her songs achieve the mean feat of being deeply personal to her but which make universal connections - they provide the same release for her as they do for her audience.”

eventhestars.co.uk/2024/05/rachel…

Less than 3 in 10 voting is pretty appalling. Apathy leads to a lack of accountability

Five years since first seeing The Murder Capital in the basement of SOUP

eventhestars.co.uk/2019/05/the-mu…

Today we are sharing an archive of live recordings from gigs and what-not. We aim to continue to add to this with both old and new live recordings #BandcampFriday

lanternsonthelake.bandcamp.com/album/live-arc…

This is the full video for our new single 'The Kiss'.

A perfect document of some amazing nights spent together, it was filmed at the four Netherlands shows on our recent European Tour.

New album 'Light A Bigger Fire' is out 20th September.

Pre-order: ististmusic.com

In April we enjoyed a colourful collection of new releases, with music from Euan Blackman, IST IST, Blair Davie, David C Clements, Queen Cult, Bad Nerves, ivies, Ceremony Shadows, and Make Friends!

musicforthemisfits.com/2024/04/15/apr…

Well that was rather stunning and an absolute treat as White Flowers unleash some new songs in YES Basement.

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Beautiful stripped down set at Academy 3 from rachel ahead of the launch of her What A Devastating Turn Of Events debut album that’s out at midnight

AN IMPORTANT UPDATE FROM OAK VIEW GROUP