CityLife

TO a new generation of Manchester clubbers The Brickhouse probably doesn’t mean very much tucked away as it is in an archway down the less than glamorous end of Whitworth Street West. Read more…

CLUB Brenda may be super-hip, but they're also super attuned to the sounds of the Manc DIY underground. Read more…

TIME was when you couldn’t move for soul, funk and hip-hop influenced nights in the city fuelled by urban culture taken one step further. Read more…

LIKE no other night in the city Micron represents clubbing rebooted and made good again in 2008. Read more…

DESIGNER Magazine (the reputable webzine/gig promoters) are one of the few promoters in Manchester who recognise the needs of all those starved indie-mad teenagers who are too young to 'legally' attend gigs. Read more…

SEAN Rowley’s Guilty Pleasures has come along way since first launching on an unsuspecting London audience all those years ago. Read more…

SPAWN of Bavarian brilliance Roland Appel, emerged from the shadows of his previous, and critically acclaimed, leftfield funk project, Trüby Trio. Read more…

DJ and producer Tim Sheridan is a bit of a livewire and a restless one at that. His CV over the years has included working for MTV, the BBC, Kiss FM as well as being an original member of Utah Saints. Then there's his str... Read more…

AHEAD of their fourth birthday, CityLife writer David Sue give us the rundown on this much-loved indie institution. Read more…

It's an exciting time for music in the city. In the last few weeks alone new and passionate clubs have set up in and around the metropolis tapping into the splurge of new students running riot and promoting live and club ... Read more…

Informed by the post punk No Wave music scene that briefly set the New York alight in the late 70s, Benjamin Perry's Contort Yourself night has achieved at least one thing that the fertile art and music movement never managed to do. And t... Read more…

GETTING one of the hippest dancefloor crossover acts in music to come and DJ at your night surely must take some cool friends in high places. That’s what CityLife thought when presented with the fact that Lovefoxx, from Brazilian outfit CSS, is set to DJ at Clique on Friday. Read more…

On the eve of their gig at hip night Bring on the Dancing Horse, Dan Nolan catches up with spiky six piece DANANANANAYKROYD. Read more…

ON the quiet Rob Da Bank is quite the influential chap. You wouldn’t necessarily think so as the quietly spoken father of two takes time out to speak to CityLife one evening having just put his two kids to bed. Read more…