Writing

"We haven't got anyone to sell our teeshirts," jokes singer Sonya Madan. Cue half a dozen middle-aged indie 'kids' to volunteer as stand-in merch sellers for returning indie Gods Echobelly.…

On first inspection it looks like a regular map of Stretford. But look closer to see how streets are named after Smiths songs. There’s The Queen is Dead Road, Cemetry…

“I might buy the duvet with Morrissey’s face on it,” says 44-year-old dad Joe. Then he has second thoughts. “But I’m not sure what my wife would say…” It’s 10am,…

Damien Dempsey releases a new album which sways and surges in the Dublin sun. Ten-track Soulsun sees one of the most important artists of our time in the form of…

A good year is like a good album, it soars to unimaginable heights and lives on for eternity. Ladies and gentlemen, let me describe what life looked and sounded like…

Mexican Blood Manchester Heart   "Today we are so proud to be Mexican" is the defiant statement from Mexrrissey's main man.  Top-hatted poet Camilo Lara has a tremendous command of…

Cate le Bon appeared from behind the Science Fiction and Fantasy section at Kendal Library. But her magical music is probably best placed somewhere between non-fiction and mountaineering. For the…