Happy Mondays singer Shaun Ryder is to cameo in Shameless.

Among the most globally recognized names in an increasingly fractured electronic dance music scene, Booka Shade return with their third studio album, a record that finds them determinedly pursuing the home-listening audience. read more

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Manchester will celebrate the life of one of its most famous sons this weekend, as some of the UK music scene's biggest names join in the Tony Wilson Experience.

Call it hubris or a lack of imagination: some bands feel compelled to cover other artists' songs. Regrettably, the results are, more often than not, appalling.

February 15, 2007 -- Anthony Wilson, 56, the impresario who co-founded Manchester's Hacienda Club and managed bands such as Joy Division, New Order and Happy Mondays, is...

June 10, 2005 -- Manchester is to get a radio station that plays the kind of music for which it became famous, from New Order to Oasis. Xfm Manchester saw off the...

March 25, 2005 -- With four studio albums, a record-label bank-ruptcy and an immeasurable amount of drugs behind them, Shaun Ryder and Mark Berry - better known as Bez...

August 11, 2007 -- Tony Wilson, the record label supremo, broadcaster and ultimate son of "Mad-chester", has died after a battle with kidney cancer. The pop...

May 22, 2004 -- PLANS TO mark Manchester's integral role in British music over a period of 150 years were revealed yesterday as the city prepares for the return of...