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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Summer is a quiet time in the OperaWatch offices here at Northern Soul Towers. Much twiddling of ...

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 ...

What is love? In Ghislaine Howard’s exhibition of paintings at Manchester’s Contemporary Six Gallery, love is momentary and glimpsed, quick and immediate. The artist’s eye is the beholder of that love ...