We're really in the thick of it now, aren't we? Venues are well and truly in the first of their two annual three-month gigging seasons, making hay while the sun shines.
Nights have started getting shorter, an indication that summer - and festival season - is just around the corner. And it looks like that festival season isn't around the corner - it's here.
We've already had 6Music Festival, and now Fair Play, spread across several Northern Quarter sites, kicks off April, before Sounds from the Other City rounds it off around Chapel Street in Salford. READ MORE: “There's no other place in the world like it”: DMA’s discuss new album and their love for Manchester In between that, we've got 28 days packed full of musical goodness.
Singer songwriters are jetting in from the US to play to Mancs, and we have modern-day indie heroes coming in from even further afield - Australia.
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