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‘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


‘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


'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


‘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


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


‘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


‘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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