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The Warehouse Project has revealed its full lineup for 2022 – how to get tickets

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Manchester party The Warehouse Project has revealed its full lineup for 2022 as it returns to its home at Depot, Mayfield for another star-studded season.

As the city’s ravers gear up for an action-packed four months of unmissable moments, we take a look at the full roster of artists confirmed for this year – with line-ups spanning a host of genres, from DnB and tech house to industrial techno, disco, classic house and dub reggae.

From in-demand global tastemaker Peggy Gou, who comes to Manchester to play her only UK Gou Talk show of the A/W season, to a headline set from techno legend Michael Bibi (also the only opportunity for fans to see him in the north this year), as ever, there is a lot to get excited about.

The Hacienda also returns, celebrating forty years of FAC51 on Saturday 12 November – marking its largest ever club event across four rooms. This very special party will see electronic groups Orbital and Happy Mondays performing live, with Inner City and 808 State also headlining the show amongst other legendary acts.

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Speaking on the new season’s line-up, which sees the party series return free of restrictions for the first time since Covid, Co-Founder Sam Kandel said: “We can now concentrate on delivering the best WHP season to date.

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“Musically we’ve cast the net even wider this year and so far the response has been incredible.

“We all know that Depot Mayfield is the dream location for The Warehouse Project and it’s just fantastic to be involved whilst this corner of Manchester continues to transform before our eyes.”’

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Peggy Gou will land at Depot Mayfield on Friday 21st October for her only show in England after the summer – bringing her Gou Talk event series to Manchester for the very first time.

The global tastemaker has carefully curated a unique blend of artists to deliver stunning musical and cultural visions – with Laurent Garnier, Robert Hood, TSHA, Saoirse, Anz and more joining her on the night.

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Following the success of their previous Manchester parties, one of the UK’s finest House & Techno labels Solid Grooves will welcome Michael Bibi on Friday 28 October for what will be his only UK date in the North this year. The label showcase will also be joined by musical legends including Sven Väth, Skream, Hot Since 82 and more.

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On Saturday 29 October, a Halloween special will bring some very familiar faces and sought-after names – amongst the headliners, former BBC Radio 1 legend Annie Mac, Patrick Topping, Special Request and more.

The following Friday 4 November will see a huge Worried About Henry showcase, taking over the full expanse of Depot Mayfield with an array of world-class artists from the DnB scene for what will be the final drum n bass show of WHP22. Another huge line-up featuring the likes of Sub Focus, Shy FX, Netsky, Inja and more.

How to get tickets

With the WHP22 drawing closer in time, The Warehouse Project is delighted to bring in another season of spectacular shows throughout the Autumn/Winter season.

Pre-sale tickets will be available on Thursday 28 July from 10am, with ticket prices starting from £29.50.

General sale tickets will then become available on Friday 29 July from 10am.

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Tickets can be purchased via The Warehouse Project website.

New shows announced for The Warehouse Project 2022

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Friday 21 October – Gou Talk

Times: 20.00 – 04.00

Depot

Peggy Gou  

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Dixon

Job Jobse

 TSHA 

 Hiver 

Concourse

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Laurent Garnier

Robert Hood & Lyric Hood Presents Floorplan

Chaos In The CBD

 Saoirse 

 Archive 

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Ryan Elliott

Josey Rebelle 

Anz

Mogwaa

Brain De Palma  

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Solid Grooves – Friday 28 October

Times: 20.00 – 04.00

(A-Z)

(A-Z)

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Bassel Darwish

Dennis Cruz

Hot Since 82

Ilario Alicante

Lauren Lo Sung

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Lindsey Matthews

Mason Collective

Michael Bibi

Pawsa

Rossko

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Skream B2B Jackmaster

Sven Väth

Sweely

Toman

Traumer

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Saturday 29 October – Halloween At The Warehouse Project

Full Halloween Production Across All 3 Rooms Of Depot Mayfield

Times: 19.00 – 04.00

(A-Z)

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Annie Mac / Patrick Topping

Ammara | DJ Boring | Emerald

Ewan Mcvicar | Hammer | Jaguar

Jordan Villa | Junior Simba | KETTAMA

LF System | Prospa – Live | Nia Archives

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Sarah Story | Special Request | Tibasko

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Friday 4 November – Worried About Henry

Times: 20.00 – 04.00

(A-Z):

Hybrid Minds & Tempza

Netsky

Sub Focus & Id

A-Z:

Bou & Haribo

Charlie Tee

Critical Soundsystem XX: Enei x Halogenix x Kasra Ft GQ

Mollie Collins B2B Kleu

Rob Rinseout B2B Ezair

Special Guest:

Bru-C

Concourse: Shy Fx Presents

Shy Fx

David Rodigan

Voltage

Dj Marky 

Clipz

Breakage

Mungo’s Hi Fi Ft Gardna

Chimpo

Salo

MC’s: GQ, Stamina & Dread MC

Archive: Hospitality (A-Z)

Camo & Krooked

Etherwood B2B LSB 

Flava D

Kings Of The Rollers & Inja

Metrik

S.P.Y

Solah (Live) Feat Emma B

Unglued B2B Mozey 

MC’s: Daxta, Ruthless, MC AD & Lowqui

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Saturday 12 November

Haçienda 40

Times: 14.00 – 02.00

Saturday 12 November – Haçienda 40

Times: 14.00 – 02.00

Orbital [Live]

Happy Mondays Kerri Chandler

David Morales

Kenny Dope Grandmaster Flash

Inner City [live]

808 State [Live]

Marshall Jefferson

Todd Terry

House Gospel ChoirCe Ce Rodgers [Live]

Greg Wilson

Peter HookJustin Robertson

K Klass

Graeme Park

Jon Dasilva

Dj Paulette

Kath McDermott

Tom Wainwright

Russ 

To see the full WHP 2022 lineup, visit the website here.

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Inside the underground Manchester noodle bar serving Chinatown’s spiciest scrans

Georgina Pellant Georgina Pellant noodle alley

Over in Chinatown, there’s a relatively new little noodle bar that’s been making a big, spicy stamp on the city’s dining scene.

Its owner, Wendy Ren, hails from the Chinese province of Sichuan – a region that’s home to giant pandas, traditional Sichuanese opera, and some of the spiciest food going, thanks to its famous Sichuan pepper.

Also known as the Chinese prickly ash, the citrus-like peppercorn leaves a tingly numbness in the mouth and on the lips that you’ll either love or hate.

It’s an acquired taste, by all accounts – but those who love it can’t get enough. In fact, on my visit during a packed-out Wednesday lunch service, Wendy stopped to chat with an Italian family holidaying in Manchester who had been in to eat three days in a row. Now that’s an endorsement if I ever heard one.

She’s opened the restaurant alongside her Cantonese husband, Ken Chen, but the recipes are all hers – and on our visit she laughs with us about how it has taken him some time to get on board with her spicy food, saying: “he found out pretty quickly that he either eats it or he doesn’t eat at all.”

For big fans of spice, this is fast becoming the absolute go-to spot in Chinatown – and for those who aren’t so tough, don’t worry, because Wendy’s put some things on the menu for you too (and possibly, also, for Ken).

Just taking a moment for the hand-rolled pork dumplings with sweet and spicy chilli oil and minced garlic. / Image: The Manc Eats
Noodle Alley is beautifully decked out in red and green with little nods to the famous wide and narrow alleys of Chengdu. / Image: The Manc Eats

Called Noodle Alley, the restaurant is tucked away underground on Faulkner Street and beautifully decked out in red and green with little nods to the famous wide and narrow alleys of Chengdu.

Formerly home to China City, a real old-school Chinatown legacy restaurant, the space has a special place in Wendy’s heart.

She tells me that she and her husband used to come and eat here “all the time” when they first started dating, so the location really means a lot to both of them.

Chinatown restaurants aren’t exactly known for their glamorous interiors, and China City, Wendy jokes, was one such place – with the same old carpet, and the same old tables that had been used for the past twenty years.

Now the space is her own, though, it’s markedly different – lovingly decked out in cheerful colours, with little green windows, hanging lanterns, and bamboo rattan paneling on the walls.

Hand-rolled dumplings stuffed with mince pork on their way to the kitchen at Noodle Alley. / Image: The Manc Eats
The end result – drenched in homemade chilli oil and topped with crispy garlic. / Image: The Manc Eats

Her story of getting into the restaurant business is something of an unusual one. Prior to opening Noodle Alley, she tells me, she spent nearly two decades working at The Marriott Hotel.

After seventeen years of service and the birth of her second child, she asked to go part-time but her request was refused – so she quit the very next day, and began building her own route to independence.

It was during the Covid lockdown, she says, that she really got into cooking group meals – making meals for her friends and spending hours in the kitchen busying away happily over her stove.

A friend with several restaurants in Chinatown suggested she start her own business, and the rest – as they say – is history.

Dan Dan noodles are out, apparently, and Su Jiao Mian are in. / Image: The Manc Eats
Burning noodles with preserved vegetables and crushed peanuts. / Image: The Manc Eats

Dish-wise, her menu spans a mouthwatering selection of dry noodles, soup noodles, street food, and small plates, including the likes of deep-fried wavy potato chips with chilli and Szechuan pepper and steamed beef strips wrapped with chilli paste, numbing Sichuan pepper, and five-spiced rice powder.

Dan Dan noodles, the Sichuan dish we probably all know the best, don’t feature – they’re a bit old news now, apparently, and Wendy has some cooler alternatives for us to try.

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One is her Su Jiao Mian, a mixture of minced pork, sesame sauce, and house chilli oil, the other is the Wan Za Mian, a fiery mixture of spices combined with minced pork, soft yellow peas, and more chilli which Wendy says is “one of the most popular noodles in Sichuan.”

Apparently, if you’re eating with the cool kids in Sichuan, you should order this. Not one to argue, I dig in – and it’s safe to say her food is pretty damn exceptional. Almost immediately, I’m planning my next trip back.

Two of Noodle Alley’s signature dishes: Steamed beef strips wrapped with five spiced rice powder (back) and ‘saliva chicken’ served cold with special chilli oil, peanuts, and cucumber. / Image: The Manc Eats
Pork knuckle with butter beans in an umami-rich pork bone broth. / Image: The Manc Eats

Other signature dishes here include Wendy’s steamed beef strips, which can be eaten alone or dipped into one of her noodle soups, and a dish of ‘saliva chicken’ – a crunchy, cold, textural dish with steamed chicken, fresh chillis and ribbons of cucumber that sit swimming in a bath of homemade Sichuan chilli oil, so named because it literally makes your mouth water.

We also opt for a dish of pork knuckle with butter beans in an umami-rich pork bone broth. Not one for the faint-hearted, even Wendy seemed a little cautious to recommend this one, but as fans of ‘the weird stuff’ we insist – and it really ends up being a highlight of the meal.

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We end up needing a little help with it. It’s a slippery bugger and I end up wearing a fair bit of the broth. before she returns with a knife and fork to cut it up properly for us.

That broth it’s in, though, is so beautiful I could happily bathe in it. Some might say I did, to be fair. As for the soft, succulent pork meat? When sliced into tiny morsels and dipped into an extra special Sichuan chilli oil she retrieves from the kitchen, is something else entirely.

If this is Sichuan heaven, then I’ll happily stay here forever. From plump hand-made dumplings stuffed generously with flavourful pork and drenched in chilli oil, to chicken giblet soup noodles, there’s so much on the menu I will be coming back for.

And for those who really can’t handle the spice, I guess I’ll be recommending the scallion oil noodles with soy sauce and crispy egg. No matter what you order here, I don’t think you can go too wrong.

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Kellogg’s introduces domestic abuse support policy for its Greater Manchester staff

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Kellogg’s has just introduced a new support policy for its Greater Manchester staff who are sadly victims of domestic abuse.

The company‘s pioneering new support policy means any one of its more than 1,360 employees across the UK who are suffering from the impact of domestic abuse will be entitled to an additional 10 days of paid leave.

On top of this, they’ll also be provided with financial help for an initial legal support meeting, and a one-off payment for expenses and costs incurred for setting up a new bank account, or any other activity that provides employees suffering domestic abuse with financial security.

The support package will be available to all Kellogg’s staff in its Manchester HQ, and those working in its two factories in Trafford Park and Wrexham.

This additional support for those impacted by the devastation of domestic abuse also comes on top of the access to a free 24-hour confidential counselling service and flexible working arrangements that Kellogg’s already offers.

The Kellogg’s factory in Trafford Park / Credit: Kellogg’s UK (via Instagram)

A Kellogg’s employee, who wishes to remain anonymous’, has welcomed the new policy after describing their experience with domestic abuse as “completely isolating”.

The decision by Kellogg’s to introduce the new support measures has also been welcomed by charities.

Michelle Hill, who is the chief executive of the charity Talk, Listen, Change, praised the company for creating “a supportive policy” that comes with a number of “key elements” to enable its staff to feel safe and confident in disclosing domestic abuse.

She added: “The new domestic abuse policy not only commits to supporting employees, but also to increasing awareness of domestic abuse through resources.

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“We know that the stress and trauma that come with domestic abuse have a profound effect on victim-survivors [and] Kellogg’s has demonstrated, as an organisation, that they are committed to supporting victim-survivors to the best of their ability.”

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