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Cult comedy pick of the month: Molly & Paul Try Heron Foods. Various venues - Manchester and Edinburgh.
Molly & Paul. Off their trolleys, aisle have a bit of that etc etc...

Andy Murray
2 days ago3 min read


‘Whenever I see things that have got a cult following, I look around at the audience and I'm like… oh, I think you'd like my stand-up.'
Manchester-based comic Hannah Platt's new show is called Cult Classic. With a title like that we had to speak to her about it.

Andy Murray
6 days ago8 min read


Cult gig of the month: Second Idol at The Peer Hat, Manchester.
Second Idol singer and guitarist Kate Farquharson on the band's upcoming gig at Manchester's Peer Hat.

Jools Taylor
Aug 74 min read


‘Johnny Rotten wiped his nose on the curtains…’ Exclusive: the Pistols at Piccadilly in pictures.
Sex Pistols unseen! The day the band came to Piccadilly Radio by the people who swear they were there.

David Nolan
Aug 69 min read


‘You deal with it by taking better photographs than they do...’
Women down the pit. What's it like taking photos down the front at a huge show? We ask three of the best.

Katherine Macfarlane
Aug 57 min read


He's seen the light... Paul Hanley's Top Ten Manchester music venues.
Lost in music (venues). Author, drum botherer and ex-Fall guy Paul Hanley on his favourite Manchester gig venues.

Paul Hanley
Aug 47 min read


‘We're a group of film fans putting on films for film fans - by any means necessary!’
What's next for CULTPLEX? We talk to Rob Jones, boss of Manchester's coolest cinema.

Andy Murray
Aug 37 min read


'Manchester music doesn't need a documentary, it needs a saga!'
‘I’m French,’ says filmmaker Sébastien Faits-Divers. ‘Sorry about that…’

David Nolan
Jul 305 min read
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