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There was chanting on Mersey waterfront. Chanting and stomping of feet.

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Relax. You know the song. And you probably know the band, Frankie Goes to Hollywood. But can you recall who sang lead vocals on the 1984 track? Top pop points if your answer was Holly Johnson, the ...

You know the kind of thing you’re getting with a Shakespearean comedy. Lovers falling out with each other amid some crossed wires. Someone (usually a hapless male) dressing up in ridiculous fashion.

It’s certainly easy to see why Boys from the Blackstuff has been adapted for the stage. Alan Bleasdale’s 1982 TV serial made an almighty impact and is still remembered today as a vivid portrait of ...

If you should see Count Arthur Strong live on stage – and you definitely should – Stockport Plaza is the perfect place to do so. OK, so the sound system might not quite be up to the standards of a ...

I think it may have been end of year school trip night at the Palace Theatre for the Leeds Playhouse production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It was teeming with big groups of kids having a ...

Outside The Lowry in Salford, visitors are greeted by a 7ft tall wood carving of the Gruffalo, complete with black tongue, orange eyes and a purple, spiky back. The figure makes a fitting start for an ...

Flickering on the screen of an old BlackBerry, its landscape display diminishing them in scale, they could, at first glance, be part of any number of blazing bodies – logs burning with homely warmth ...