Manchester Pride adds Yungblud as this weekend’s surprise headliner
Manchester Pride say that Yungblud is the 'final piece of the puzzle' in their 'boldest, queerest, most diverse and inclusive Manchester Pride Festival yet'.
Manchester Pride has announced that Yungblud will headline this weekend’s festival.
The award-winning singer will play Saturday and joins Sigala, Example and Annie Mac on the first day of the live music event. Zara Larsson, Gabrielle and Sophie Ellis-Bextor will play Sunday.
Manchester Pride say that Yungblud is the ‘final piece of the puzzle’ in their ‘boldest, queerest, most diverse and inclusive Manchester Pride Festival yet’.
🌈 ARTIST REVEALED 🌈
We’re THRILLED to announce that LGBTQ+ singer songwriter @Yungblud will be performing at MCR Pride Live!! We CANNOT WAIT for Yungblud to bring that pansexual, alt rock, pop punk representation to Manchester Pride Festival! ⚡
Pride wrote: “We’re THRILLED to announce that LGBTQ+ singer songwriter @Yungblud will be performing at MCR Pride Live!!
“We CANNOT WAIT for Yungblud to bring that pansexual, alt rock, pop punk representation to Manchester Pride Festival!”
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Dominic Harrison (Yungblud), 24, has won Attitude magazine’s Gamechanger Award as well as an NME Award, and a BRIT Award nomination.
He credits his queer fans with helping him discover his own sexuality.
Manchester
Music TV show Spill The Sound has announced a brand new series
Thomas Melia
Manchester-based music TV show, Spill The Sound, is back with its latest series filmed at The Yard, featuring plenty of exciting indie and alternative music faces.
Hosted by Louise Schofield and, Spill The Sound evokes the good old days of music TV shows incorporating styles from Popworld, Snub TV and Granada TV’s ‘So It Goes’.
The series itself is produced by Laura Graham of StreamGM, Greater Manchester’s multi-award streaming and media platform, who create and broadcast the show.
As an official partner with Audio North, this brand aims to spotlight creative voices across Greater Manchester and helped launch an industry careers podcast just last month.
Throughout March, the latest season of Spill The Sound (STS) will be bringing three episodes centred around some independent artists with very unique styles.
Listeners will be able to hear the likes of Andrew Cushin, The Guest List, Dirty Blonde and Megan Wyn, all of which have achieved incredible things while on the rise.
Another big get for the show is Andrew Cushin, who’s been mentored by none other than Noel Gallagher and already appeared on the bill as a supporting act for the likes of Paul Weller, Louis Tomlinson and many more.
Alt-rock duo Dirty Blonde are also featuring in this latest series and it’s no surprise either as they’ve already seen a buzz in the UK airwaves with praise from BBC Radio 1 and Radio X.
The latter of the newest lineup isn’t one to ignore either as Megan Wyn has been hailed as the ‘woman to watch’ by Clash Magazine and is set to support Alanis Morissette.
The Guest List playing hook-a-duck throughout their interview.Credit: Spill The Sound (supplied)
Every episode has been filmed at local music venue, The Yard Manchester, which provides the perfect space for these lighthearted interviews and spectacular pared-down performances.
This music platform has hosted and promoted lots of local talent including Antony Szmierek, Red Rum Club, The K’s, Hi Sienna and Seb Lowe, just to name a few.
The latest series of Spill The Sound kicks off with Andrew Cushin on Wednesday, 19 March with the remaining two episodes released in three-day instalments.
You can give it a watch when each episode goes live exclusively on StreamGM HERE or via the STS YouTube channel down below:
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Local artist Michael Browne unveils striking new piece after controversial Donald Trump portrait
Danny Jones
Local artist Michael Browne recently debuted another striking new work in central Manchester following his much-talked-about Donald Trump painting.
And if you’ve seen that one, you’ll know that’s quite the statement.
The 62-year-old Moss Side-born artist has enjoyed an increased level of popularity since and his statement piece and de-facto political cartoon following the result of 2025 US presidential election popped up centre-stage in a window on the corner of Deansgate earlier this year.
Now, just a couple of months on from his piece’s debut, Browne is back with another painting loaded with historical and social material that serves as a commentary on contemporary UK culture.
Taking a rather stark look not only at the British Empire and global politics – subjects he’s already flirted with plenty in the past – this towering new painting is entitled Sovereign Servant.
Designed to be a thought-provoking reflection on the legacy on the Empire and its impact on modern UK society as we know it today, it takes stylistic inspiration from Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’ The Apotheosis of Homer, as seen at the Louvre.
Reimagining Britain’s colonial history, controversial impact across the globe; economic exploitation and ever-evolving national identity in a vibrant and truly eye-catching multi-character portrait.
Several faces can picked out from the crowd, including two very obvious royals smack back in the middle of the picture, but other standout aspects include Big Ben and the Palace of Westminster as the backdrop, as well the high contrast colour palette.
All set on the deck of a ship in the most obvious nod towards the nation’s naval fleet and centuries colonialism, not to mention a swirling stormy sky, there is a real sense of the movement to the image even with so many figures standing straight towards the the viewer.
Credit: Supplied
Unveiled to the public in a special event featuring a live Q&A at the museum, as well as series of drop-in sessions with Browne himself last week, his latest neo-classical creation certainly left an impression.
Speaking on its reveal, Browne said: “As a mixed heritage man from the North, I have often compared London’s royal heritage and standing as the centre of the British Empire with Manchester’s working- class heritage born out of industrial hard labour.
“I couldn’t resist juxtaposing these themes within one visual arena, contrasting the British desire for one overarching identity and the reality of a thriving multicultural society. I wanted to revisit those triumphant depictions of Empire to present a vision of how it appears to me today.”
Now on public display, it’s certainly something worth seeing up close for yourselves.
The Manc -
27th August 2021 
