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Gig Review – Beyond the Music

Eleven venues across the Northern Quarter hosted three nights of brand-new talent from across the world, as part of the festival portion of Beyond the Music, a conference focussed on gathering key music industry change-makers and influencers to discuss the future of the music industry and giving a…

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Review | Benidorm Live | Palace Theatre Manchester

Review written by Keith Adams 26 November - 1 December at Manchester Palace Theatre Benidorm is one of those much loved, slap-happy, fun, close-to-the-bone TV series which ran for ten series between 2007 up to as recently as 2018. It won a string of comedy awards including a BAFTA for the Best…

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Review: Mike Leigh's Peterloo

By Simon Donohue Image credit: Simon Mein A battle weary and bewildered British soldier makes his way home from the fields of Belgium, where Napoleon’s forces have finally been defeated by Wellington’s men at Waterloo. Drunk through sheer exhaustion and all he has seen, Joseph collapses into his…

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