Category: Live

Manchester loves making claim to the nation’s best nightlife. Soon, the city will be revived with students returning to or starting their degrees mid-September and will be throwing parties all over the place to take care of this fact.

The Buzz Roundup: the best London gigs this week, featuring Thee Oh Sees, Juanita Stein, Anna Burch, Ezra Furman, St Vincent, Matt Hollywood, The Lemon Twigs, Incubus, Titus Andronicus, Arctic Monkeys, Du Blonde and more.

There are few pop stars who can not only boast a career spanning almost two decades but still have the washboard stomach of their teenage years. After a 4-year residency in Las Vegas and a record-breaking sell-out performance at Brighton Pride, Britney Spears ‘Piece of Me’ tour came to London’s O2.

On Pride Weekend, there are only a few places in Manchester that are not in full party mode. One of those is Gulliver’s pub in the Northern Quarter. For a few hours on Saturday, the bijou upstairs space accommodated the tame, folky sounds of The Weather Station.

Our Girl live in-store at Brighton record store to support debut album. “And they wait for the guitar tuning …” Lauren Wilson joked from behind her drums as Our Girl took to the stage, well in front of the counter, at Brighton’s Resident Music.

When the long-running V Festival bowed out last year, Essex needed a new festival and Rize Festival stepped in to fill those shoes at the Hylands Park site in Chelmsford. Line up features Liam Gallagher, Bastille, Jake Shears, James Bay and Rita Ora.

Day two of any festival usually brings the day crowds and with it, a sense of anticipation that the line up should step up a gear from opening day. This is evidenced by the jam-packed line up of brilliant and diverse artists set for Saturday at Green Man 18.