Christmas is just over eight weeks away, and so I’ll be thinking about which festive films to stream on Netflix pretty soon. Right up there on the top of my list is the 2000 movie How The Grinch Stole Christmas, starring Jim Carey opposite a seven-year-old Taylor Momsen.
Now twenty-two years on, Cindy Lou Who isn’t so little anymore - and instead of saving Christmas, she’s saving rock and roll as the powerful female lead of The Pretty Reckless.
Heading into their sold out show at Manchester Academy, a queue snaked all the way down Oxford Road for as far as I could see - inside was packed already, with a number of fans having already made a trip to the merch table and swapped out their shirts.