Sounds from the Other City: Confidential Guides

Sounds from the Other City

Salford Festivals

Salford is doomed to be the other city, standing in Manchester’s shadow when it comes to name recognition and cultural...

Prestwich Festivals

It's the big one, at least for the under-25s amongst us. Parklife is a huge two-day music festival held every...

Manchester City Centre Festivals

Manchester Jazz Festival brings the best new emerging jazz artists, homegrown talent, and living jazz legends to the city centre...

Manchester City Centre Festivals

Manchester Psych Fest certainly packs it in. It's a one-day deep dive into the alternative music scene that marks the...

Prestwich Festivals

Festwich is the music festival with all the biggest names, from Elvis to Amy Winehouse. Ok, so they’re not the...

Gay Village Festivals

Held annually over the August Bank Holiday weekend, Manchester Pride is a joyful, loud and proud celebration of queer identity...

Liverpool City Centre Bars

Oxford Road Bars

O’Connell’s is a new Irish bar which has opened on the site of the former Thirsty Scholar. This area just...

Piccadilly Restaurant - British

Loom & Ladle Bistro is the restaurant in Manchester Marriott Hotel Piccadilly - and a destination in its own right.

Worsley Restaurant - Italian

Leopard Pie is a lockdown baby. The pizza, with its slow-fermented 3-day dough, was perfected when everyone else was messing...

Ancoats Restaurant - American

American Pies in Ancoats serves deep-dish pizzas when everyone else seems to be all about the slow-proved Neapolitan style. Sometimes...

Chinatown (Liverpool) Restaurant - Chinese

Man Tsuen Ho’s may be a relative newcomer to Liverpool’s Chinatown but you wouldn’t know. Everything about it looks like...