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A beginners' guide to UK 80’s indie in five essential albums

The 1980s were a hugely fertile period for free-thinking, boundary-pushing British 'indie' bands. Here is the story of the genre via five essential albums

Louder · Jun 17, 2023

Five new bands you need to hear if you love The Fall

With a whopping 31 albums in their back catalogue, it figures that cult favourites The Fall have influenced a legion of fearless, boundary-pushing bands in their wake – here, five of the best

Louder · Jun 10, 2023

'I tried the award-winning chippy that has queues around the corner'

Chips @ No. 8, reviewed

Manchester Evening News · Apr 1, 2023

The Horror Show! review – the bands, TV shows and artists who revealed Britain’s sinister psyche

Slicing into the nation’s dark side, this excellent show is full of phantoms ranging from Rachel Whiteread’s spectral House to the gothic terror of Inside No 9

The Guardian - UK · Oct 26, 2022

Rock snapper Kevin Cummins: ‘I still leave space for the NME logo in the corner’

The man who created more than 250 cover images for the rock weekly has put together a book of almost 40 years of photographs of the Fall. ‘We put Manchester on the map,’ he says

The Guardian - UK · Oct 13, 2022

‘My life would be very different without the Fall’: Stewart Lee’s honest playlist

The comedian is still inspired by Mark E Smith but has finally fallen out of love with Morrissey. But whose sandwiches did he once steal?

The Guardian - UK · Sep 5, 2022

Yard Act: ‘There were a lot of good reviews for our debut that we disagreed with’

The Leeds-formed band are up for this year’s Mercury Prize with their bristling first album, ‘The Overload’. Frontman James Smith and bassist Ryan Needham meet with Roisin O’Connor to talk about playing with northern stereotpyes, songwriting, and how they wrong-footed the music industry

The Independent UK · Sep 4, 2022

'Race against time' to save items belonging to The Fall's frontman Mark E Smith

“It’s a race against time to save this material"

Manchester Evening News · Sep 2, 2022

The landmark which paid tribute to Manchester Arena victims and Mark E. Smith - and the mystery surrounding its unusual name

The White Nancy overlooks the village of Bollington, but mystery surrounds its name

Manchester Evening News · Aug 29, 2022

‘Sit down and shut up’: my lunchtime ordeal at Karen’s Diner

The Australian chain with deliberately rude staff has arrived in the UK – but is bad service funny?

The Guardian - UK · Jul 24, 2022