Northern Soul

20/05/2026

'We should all slob out, as much as we can at least. It’s important for our health.'

Comedian Molly McGuinness talks to Northern Soul's Andy Murray about her Edinburgh Fringe hit Slob, growing up in Salford, and how, at one point, she was reckoned by doctors to be the most severely ill person in Manchester’s ICU.

https://www.northernsoul.me.uk/molly-mcguinness-interview/

(main photo by Drew Forsyth)

20/05/2026

Criccieth, North Wales.

20/05/2026

Wednesday larf.

18/05/2026

'It’s not really a Bob Dylan book, it’s a Manchester book. You can’t tell the story of Manchester music without this."

A reissue of C.P. Lee's classic book Like The Night offers Northern Soul's Music Editor Andy Murray the opportunity to reflect on Lee's legacy and the infamous Bob Dylan concert at Manchester's Free Trade Hall.

A reissue of C.P. Lee's classic book Like The Night offers Northern Soul's Music Editor the opportunity to reflect on Lee's legacy and the infamous Bob Dylan concert at Manchester's Free Trade Hall.

10/05/2026

'It’s not really a Bob Dylan book, it’s a Manchester book. You can’t tell the story of Manchester music without this."

A reissue of C.P. Lee's classic book Like The Night offers Northern Soul's Music Editor Andy Murray the opportunity to reflect on Lee's legacy and the infamous Bob Dylan concert at Manchester's Free Trade Hall.

A reissue of C.P. Lee's classic book Like The Night offers Northern Soul's Music Editor the opportunity to reflect on Lee's legacy and the infamous Bob Dylan concert at Manchester's Free Trade Hall.

10/05/2026

'their bruised lushness evokes a despoiled Eden more than a nocturnal Gethsemane'

Our Chief Arts Correspondent sees Michaela Yearwood-Dan: The Practice of Liberation at The Whitworth, Manchester.

Hannah Baxendale: Joy, Collaboration, and Bobbles. Northern Soul's Rowan Twine talks to Baxendale who is based in Manchester.

10/05/2026

We love the juxtaposition of old and new at John Rylands Library in Manchester.

09/05/2026

'their bruised lushness evokes a despoiled Eden more than a nocturnal Gethsemane'

Our Chief Arts Correspondent sees Michaela Yearwood-Dan: The Practice of Liberation at The Whitworth, Manchester.

https://www.northernsoul.me.uk/michaela-yearwood-dan-whitworth/

Art Review: Michaela Yearwood-Dan, The Practice of Liberation, The Whitworth, Manchester.

09/05/2026

'I remember looking at the example of a Listerine bottle. It’s made for men, that’s why it’s square. Women tend to like curvier and rounded things. So that’s maybe where the bobbles come in.'

Hannah Baxendale, a glassware maker based in Manchester, talks to Northern Soul's Rowan Twine.

Hannah Baxendale: Joy, Collaboration, and Bobbles. Northern Soul's Rowan Twine talks to Baxendale who is based in Manchester.

07/05/2026

'I remember looking at the example of a Listerine bottle. It’s made for men, that’s why it’s square. Women tend to like curvier and rounded things. So that’s maybe where the bobbles come in.'

Hannah Baxendale, a glassware maker based in Manchester, talks to Northern Soul's Rowan Twine.

Hannah Baxendale: Joy, Collaboration, and Bobbles. Northern Soul's Rowan Twine talks to Baxendale who is based in Manchester.

07/05/2026

Spotted in Chorlton, Manchester.