And so to the hottest dining ticket in town, Bangkok Diners Club, upstairs in the Edinburgh Castle pub in Manchester’s ...

It’s July 2025, the hottest day of the year, and I’m clearing out my desk in the OperaWatch office at Northern Soul Towers.

is the newly established restaurant attached to the Treehouse Hotel at the northern end of Deansgate. The latest creative ...

I never feel that summer has really started until I’ve been to the outdoor show in Lancaster’s Williamson Park. The Dukes have been producing a family show in these bucolic surroundings almost ...

I loved every second of this. Imagine a couple of hundred 50-somethings watching a very funny play and leaping to their feet ...

The Perspectivists is the latest exhibition to make full use of the modernist shop's modest wall space in Manchester. We take a closer look.

As a man who, throughout my teens and student years in Manchester, argued passionately that The Who were simply the best live band in the world and that their 70s’ albums were pretty close to perfect ...

For the past few weeks, Manchester’s streets have been filling up with posters advertising the Manchester International Festival (MIF25). Northern Soul took a scoot around the art shows to pick out ...

Review: Dinosaur World Live, Sheffield LyceumI have come to the realisation that I’m suffering from Stockholm syndrome. I love dinosaurs, but I never wanted to love dinosaurs. In fact, I went through ...