LIVE: DJANGO DJANGO – 23/05/2015

– MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL, MANCHESTER – Tonight’s show does nothing but confirm that Django Django entirely deserve the unexpected (by them) hype currently surrounding them. They arrive on stage soon after 21.30, facing a seriously raving crowd. I had a feeling they were popular, but not that they could cause a Beatles effect, with ultrasound screams […]
Manchester band The Slow Show will release their epic new single Dresden on December 15. The track is taken from White Water, the newcomers’ debut album which is set to be released in March next year. It is inspired by the time that the five-piece recently spent in the German city while on tour. The […]

MANCHESTER NEWCOMERS THE SLOW SHOW PREVIEW FIRST SINGLE FROM DEBUT ALBUM

SHARON VAN ETTEN PREVIEWS NEW VIDEO AHEAD OF MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL SHOW

Sharon Van Etten has unveiled a new video ahead of a date at Manchester Cathedral on November 24. The video for Your Love is Killing Me, taken from her album Are We There, was directed by Sean Durkin, and features Swiss actress Carla Juri. The American singer-songwriter will head to the UK for three dates […]
– MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL – A couple of tracks into the set and it strikes me there are many intriguing things about watching a gig in a cathedral, this breezy, boxed-in assemblage of air in the heart of Manchester. Firstly, when attempting to order a drink at the impromptu bar in the corner (even if it’s […]

LIVE: BELLE AND SEBASTIAN – 28/10/2014

LIVE: 65DAYSOFSTATIC – 29/10/2014

-MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL, MANCHESTER – Tonight is a special night. It’s ten years since Sheffield post-rockers 65daysofstatic released their debut album The Fall of Math, and tonight they are playing it in full in the magnificently moody surroundings of Manchester Cathedral. It couldn’t be more perfect for them, the grandeur of the venue matching the scope […]
– MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL , MANCHESTER –  Manchester Cathedral plays host to the debut performance of Bill Ryder-Jones’s excellent debut album If…, recorded in 2011 as a hypothetical film score to the novel ‘If on a Winters Night a Traveler’, by Italo Calvino. The book itself is an experimental work, featuring ten chapters each of two […]

LIVE: BILL RYDER-JONES WITH MANCHESTER CAMERATA – 09/10/2014

LIVE: JESSIE WARE – 03/10/2014

– MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL, MANCHESTER – This is first time I’ve ever stepped foot in Manchester Cathedral full stop, never mind stepping in whilst drinking cans of Red Stripe and watching a gig. For tonight we are all here to worship at the alter of Jessie Ware, the sultry London songstress who first bewitched us with […]
– MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL, MANCHESTER – Yann Tiersen must have taken quite a fancy to Manchester Cathedral. 3 years after his Dust Lane tour, he has returned to the enchanting venue that befits him so perfectly. His latest album Infinity, has been labelled an experimental ‘mini masterpiece’ and whilst at first listen it may seem sporadic […]

LIVE: YANN TIERSEN – 24/09/2014

LIVE: THE AFGHAN WHIGS – 17/07/2014

– MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL, MANCHESTER – I arrive at Manchester Cathedral tonight very much in the dark about Afghan Whigs.  I’m aware of their music only from older friends’ enthusiastic recommendations, who champion them as soul and blues infected hangers-on of the sub-pop generation, related to – but not of – the grunge movement,  and as […]
– MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL, MANCHESTER – I love Cathedrals. I love their vastness and echoing potential for magnitude and sound. A reverence for something higher and benevolent. You’ve got to hand it our our own Manchester Cathedral for their welcome of the secular. This 1421 building appears regularly on our list of gigs to enjoy. A […]

LIVE: CHERRY GHOST – 25/06/2014