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ROCKING quintet The Rumble Strips are hitting the road to treat fans to tracks from their new album “Welcome to the Walk Alone”.

The band will play Manchester’s Club Academy on Monday.


LOVE him or hate him, there’s no denying Mika’s power to write songs that crawl into your head and refuse to budge.

His latest album, “The Boy Who Knew Too Much”, sold one million copies worldwide in its first week of release.

Mika has been working with top show producer Es Devlin to make sure Friday’s show at the Manchester Apollo is nothing short of amazing.

From humble beginnings doing gigs in pubs to headlining a circus spectacular for 65,000 Parisians at Parc de Princes last year, Mika has developed a huge live.




DANISH perky popstrels Alphabeat will share the stage with one of their idols when they support Lady GaGa on her UK tour.

New single “Hole In My Heart” is out next week followed by the second album, “The Spell”, in March.

The six-piece are planning on outrageous costumes for the Monster Ball tour, which visits the Manchester Arena on Thursday, to compete with the notoriously outlandish Lady GaGa.


BOSTON rockers Boys Like Girls credit their fans for helping them to progress as a band after three years on the road.

And to show their gratitude, the band will take to their tour bus once more for a new run of gigs showcasing their new album “Love Drunk”.

Boys Like Girls are at the Manchester Roadhouse on Thursday.



JONATHA Brooke’s beautifully crafted songs have the power to melt hearts across the globe. The past 12 months has seen Jonatha’s star rise rapidly as she wrote the theme for American show “Dollhouse” and a track for Hollywood flick “Tinkerbell”. Boston-born Jonatha is at Band on the Wall on Saturday.