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Cult gig of the month - October: Glisten Trick, Gullivers, Manchester.
Neo-psyche. Cult drone. Garage. The multi-genre sound of Glisten Trick.
Jools Taylor
1 hour ago4 min read
‘There I was trying to get Cheryl Cole into this drawer in a mortuary...’
Something kinda boo happened when Girls Aloud went ghost hunting. TV producer Helen Tonge was there so see it all unfold...
David Nolan
2 days ago6 min read
Exclusive: this is Manchester, we do things in front of a blue screen… 24 Hour Party People unseen.
Exclusive - unseen footage of 24 Hour Party People form 25 years ago.
David Nolan
5 days ago2 min read
Cult comedy pick of the month: October. Stuart Goldsmith - Fairfield Social Club.
Climate comedy? Stuart Goldsmith is the ultimate warm-up man.
Andy Murray
7 days ago5 min read
‘I want those human stories of what it meant to them… and how it changed their lives.’
Pips - the legendary nightclub that was 'behind the cathedral' in Manchester - never got the credit it deserved. Until now.
David Nolan
Sep 204 min read
‘I don’t think enough people talk about how much work happens around being an artist that has nothing to do with physically making art.’
'Making a living? Honestly, I'm still working this one out...' Meet the artists drawn together by the 1838 Collective.
Katherine Macfarlane
Sep 188 min read
‘I can’t think of anyone better to show me around Manchester than Funky Si…’
Funky Si shows us the way with his walking tours of Manchester... but mind the cobbles.
David Nolan
Sep 156 min read
‘If real cool is achieved by not trying to be cool at all, Kingbee is really, effortlessly cool...’ Cult consumers - Kingbee Records, Chorlton.
John Coltrane? No problem. Van Dyke Parks? Easy. Brainticket? Step this way... a day in the life of Kingbee Records.
Andy Murray
Sep 115 min read
‘I could see Patsy Kensit dancing away at the side of the stage.’ Cult thing of the month: free residents' ticket to see Oasis at Maine Road, 1996.
Imagine... a FREE Oasis ticket. Here's one from 1996. What's the story?
Katherine Macfarlane
Sep 92 min read
‘When you tell people the story it still sounds unreal…’
The return of Joanna - you couldn't make it up, as they say.
David Nolan
Sep 75 min read
Cult gig of the month. Mahogany at Café Blah, Wilmslow Road, Manchester.
US duo Mahogany are now a trio - so that's 33.3 per cent more Mahogany for your money at their upcoming gig.
Jools Taylor
Sep 62 min read
Cult comedy pick of the month: Sam Nicoresti - XS Malarkey, Manchester.
'I used to worry more about being accessible, but then I realised accessibility is defined in relation to straightness.'
Andy Murray
Sep 54 min read
Hallé-lujah! Hanley on the Free Trade Hall.
'The very ground the Free Trade Hall is built on is woven into the fabric of Manchester history.' Paul Hanley on the Free Trade Hall.
Paul Hanley
Sep 56 min read
Cult book event of the month - David Gedge in conversation with Iain Key at Fountain Records, Stretford.
David Nolan talks to Iain Key about talking to David Gedge talking about his book...
David Nolan
Sep 12 min read
'Do you know how hard it is to be yourself?'
Graham Fellows: 'It's so easy to be John...'
Andy Murray
Aug 307 min read
Cult Manchester exclusive: ‘There was some sadness attached to those records…’
Looking though Ian Curtis’ record collection with Kelvin Briggs.
David Nolan
Aug 287 min read
‘It's the newness and optimism of it. Then it starts going grey and rainy and decaying.’
Grief, coincidence and Asterix the Gaul - how artist Michael Cooke became the go-to illustrator for the Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan electronic music project.
David Nolan
Aug 285 min read
‘In 1994, I was doing Top of the Pops - by ‘95, I was signing on…’
Clint Boon: 'I think a lot of people, when they come to write a book, they'll do it as revenge - I'll get you, you bastard...'
David Nolan
Aug 258 min read
The Tale of Harvey’s Rabbit.
'Morrissey walked into the pub, heard us and walked out.' Harvey's Rabbit tell their tale to Cult Manchester.
Andy Murray
Aug 229 min read
God-box documentary…
'Well, that’s ruined my opening sequence, hasn’t it?' Film editor Gareth Davies on rock doc cliches, goodwill and the DIY approach for his new Fall documentary.
David Nolan
Aug 215 min read
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