Touching down in Liverpool’s Sefton Park for its 2025 edition, BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend was guaranteed to be the north-west’s music event of the year. Branded “scousechella” by attendees and ...

Calum Hood is best known as the bassist of 5 Seconds of Summer, the Australian boyband who broke into mainstream popularity after being invited on tour with One Direction in 2013. As he gears up for ...

Since launching in 2010 at Platt Fields Park with a lineup featuring Calvin Harris and Friendly Fires, Parklife Festival has been a staple in the calendar of many a Manchester student.Filling the void ...

Words by James Hills Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon (1975) follows the journey of Irish outsider Redmond Barry, who, through chance and cunning, navigates the glittering yet treacherous world of ...

It had just begun to drizzle, some of the first Ardwick had seen for a couple of unusually sunny weeks, outside over Manchester’s O2 Apollo. Inside though, under the looming golden gild of the ...

Words by Hannah Eldon Renowned for their melancholic indie rock discography, Sophie Allison, better known as Soccer Mommy released their debut album Clean in 2018 at only twenty years old. With New ...

It started in 2019. Since then: 209 fights. 418 fighters who undergo an eight-week intensive experience, culminating in a night of crowds and sweat. On March 27, I became one of them as I fought in my ...

Words by Harriet Curzon Rising singer-songwriter Chloë Wilson is already attracting a buzz.Her husky voice and mellow sound falls somewhere in the space between Kate Bush and Fleetwood Mac.But it ...

A shared student experience: the inevitable empty fridge by mid-second semester, with only the remnants of few wilted lettuce leaves, questionable condiments and a single, sad-looking carrot. More ...

Having risen to fame as ‘Eleven’ in Netflix’s hit show Stranger Things, Millie Bobby Brown has established herself as an A-List Gen Z celebrity, recently coming to the fore again on her press tour for ...

Talking about university life with my older sister, who went to University in the early 2000s, made me feel like a bit of a square, and like my social life at Uni has been pretty tame in comparison.

Released on May 9 th 2025, A Deeper Life is the debut album from Chaos in the CBD, brothers Ben and Louis Helliker-Hales. Despite their light-hearted wingdings-fuelled social media presence, they have ...