Review: Manchester Collective ‘Heavy Metal’. The White Hotel, Salford

After what can only be described as a terrific year for the Manchester Collective people, they bring 2021 to a close with their ‘Heavy Metal’ tour – which through December has already received rave reviews in London, Leeds and Bristol. The penultimate show in the run saw the Collective – and friends, deliver a culturally …

Review: Manchester Collective Voice of the Whale. Hallé St Peter’s, Manchester

Journalists sometimes get it wrong. In 1849, a chap by the name of Angus Reach wrote in The Morning Chronicle about the Ancoats district of Manchester: “A more perfectly ugly spot you shall not find between sunrise and sunset”. Reach was describing the very epicentre of the Industrial Revolution. While there was muck and misery …