
LIVE! Of Monsters and Men – Manchester Albert Hall, 15th February 2026
Reading time: 4 minutesIt’s 13 years almost exactly to the day since Of Monsters and Men (OMAM) first played Manchester, riding high on the success of 2011 single

Reading time: 4 minutesIt’s 13 years almost exactly to the day since Of Monsters and Men (OMAM) first played Manchester, riding high on the success of 2011 single

Reading time: 3 minutesOne of the reasons I decided to give Match of the Day a miss along with the rest of Saturday night’s TV viewing is that

Reading time: 4 minutesSo many releases, so little time, so it’s a case of another Potpourri of tracks, this time kicking off with Vanina, a singer and songwriter

Reading time: 2 minutesBack in June Carmie was singing about ‘Things I no longer do’ as she flew back into the nest with mum and dad after breaking

Reading time: < 1 minuteIt’s always good to feature a new band and a new face and this one is Peder Olsén, out of Bollnäs, a town in central

Reading time: 2 minutesJohan Hoffman was here with us last October, with a song, ‘Not safe (not sound)’ that I introduced as being a little ‘edgy’, bracketed in

Reading time: 2 minutesMental health is a big issue right now in the music business. Only yesterday I wrote about a conference being held in Manchester in October