Stages & Sounds
Culture & Music
TODO — what culture & music in Manchester are actually worth the time.
3 placesSt John's
Aviva Studios
A £242 million arts building that came in at more than twice its budget, and is nonetheless the most ambitious venue built in Britain this century.
Barbirolli Square
Bridgewater Hall and the Hallé
Britain's oldest professional symphony orchestra, in a concert hall that floats on two thousand tonnes of springs.
Chorlton-on-Medlock
Victoria Baths
A 1906 water palace in stained glass and tilework, saved by a television vote and still, twenty years on, not a working pool.