Halloween is right around the corner, and you can get the party started early at one of these ghoulishly-good themed brunches right here in Manchester.
They say the spooks come out at night, but why save your celebrations for after sunset?
Here’s five of the best Halloween brunches in Manchester this year.
Tuck In: Drag Brunch at PLY
Northern Quarter
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Sunday 31 October | 11:30am
Some of the UK’s best drag queens are ready to delight you with devilishly daring costumes, lip-syncing and all-round sassiness.
Enjoy delicious breakfast plates, prosecco and live DJ sets to start your Halloween right.
The Halloween special of Revolution’s famous Manchester brunch is set to be a boozy affair, with Aperol Spritz, Prosecco and Blood Mary cocktails all included in the bottomless drinks offer.
The brunch will feature classic Rocky Horror music and a quiz that’s sure to bring out the true fans.
The organisers will be awarding prizes for the best costumes, so don’t hold back.
When you think of Halloween brunches in Manchester, a round of darts may not immediately spring to mind – but the team at Flight Club is here to change that.
Add a competitive edge to your Halloween brunch with a game at the city’s favourite darts bar.
There’ll be a special Halloween cocktail on arrival and food and prosecco throughout the day.
The Rocky Horror: Sing-Along Brunch at Brickhouse Social
New Wakefield Street
Saturday 30 & Sunday 31 October | 12pm
Time warp your way through the Halloween weekend at Brickhouse Social’s Rocky Horror brunch.
Fill up on ‘franken-furters’, endless pizza slices, and specially selected horror cocktails before singing along and dancing to your heart’s content.
Costumes are highly recommended, and you can find more details and tickets here.
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The Miss Blair Witch Project Halloween Bottomless Brunch at On Bar
Canal Street
Saturday 30 October | 11am
Drag queens Miss Blair, Liquorice Black, and Banksie are getting ready to welcome you to a Halloween extravaganza where you can expect a delicious brunch, 90 minutes of bottomless bubbly, Halloween games, prizes for the best Halloween costumes, and four hours of party for the price of your ticket.
A DJ will play a monster mash up all afternoon to keep the party going.
Manchester music store Forsyth is giving away free music lessons
The Manc
Manchester music store Forsyth is giving away a host of free music lessons next month in a bid to inspire people to learn a new instrument, or pick up an old one.
The store is giving new and returning musicians a chance to receive a 10–15-minute free music taster session as part of its Music for All Learn to Play ’22 event.
Taking place across 8 and 9 October between 10am-5pm (8 October) and 1130am-30pm (9 October),short taster music lessons will allow all ages and abilities to have a musical experience that could turn into a lifetime of enjoyment, or even a new career.
Speaking on the free music lesson initiative, Emma from Forsyths said: “The past two years have shown how important music is to all our lives and how it can bring people together even in the most difficult of circumstances.
“We aim to help as many people as possible understand the unique joys and benefits of learning an instrument (or taking part in a choir).
“Anyone interested in learning to play an instrument or looking to pick it up again, should come and join us for this two-day celebration of music making.
“We’re delighted to be part of Music for All’s Learn to Play ’22 event, and we can’t wait to get started.”
OBE Jools Holland, Patron of Music for All, said: “Making music is very important to me. It’s my work, my pleasure, my friend, companion and therapist.
The charity Music for All believes passionately in the unique power of music to change lives and that is why it runs Learn to Play.
Music for All believes everyone should have equal access to music making.
The charity supports disadvantaged music makers by providing cash grants for tuition and instruments and by donating instruments directly.
The Learn to Play ’22 event is generously supported by the NAMM Foundation and other partners include Music Industries Association, Musicians Union, Making Music, Music Mark and Black Lives in Music.
Those interested in joining Forsyths for a free music lesson simply need to email [email protected] or pop into the Sheet Music department on the ground floor to register interest.
Celebrated author Dame Hilary Mantel has died ‘suddenly yet peacefully’ aged 70
Emily Sergeant
Dame Hilary Mantel has died aged 70.
The unexpected passing of the critically-acclaimed author whose celebrated career spans nearly five decades has just been announced by her agents 4th Estate Books and her publishing team at HarperCollins in two separate statements released this morning – who confirmed that she died “suddenly yet peacefully”.
The Glossop-born writer was famed for historical fiction work, and was most-known for being the author of the beloved Wolf Hall trilogy.
The statement by her agents confirming her passing reads: “We are heartbroken at the death of our beloved author, Dame Hilary Mantel, and our thoughts are with her friends and family, especially her husband, Gerald.
“This is a devastating loss and we can only be grateful she left us with such a magnificent body of work.”
We are heartbroken at the death of our beloved author, Dame Hilary Mantel, and our thoughts are with her friends and family, especially her husband, Gerald. This is a devastating loss and we can only be grateful she left us with such a magnificent body of work. pic.twitter.com/d8bzkBBXuH
Mantel’s publishers HarperCollins called her “one of the greatest English novelists of this century”.
The company’s statement reads: “It is with great sadness that AM Heath and HarperCollins announce that bestselling author Dame Hilary Mantel DBE died suddenly yet peacefully yesterday, surrounded by close family and friends, aged 70.
“Hilary Mantel was one of the greatest English novelists of this century and her beloved works are considered modern classics.
Mantel has twice been awarded the Booker Prize, the first time for the 2009 novel Wolf Hall, a fictional account of Thomas Cromwell’s rise to power in the court of Henry VIII, and secondly for the 2012 novel Bring Up the Bodies, the second instalment of the Cromwell trilogy.
She was the first woman, and fourth person, to receive the award twice.
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11th October 2021 
