Kat Dibbits

DAVID Thacker has built his reputation at the Octagon with American classics.

WITH GALLERY: Thousands of fans flocked to Ramsbottom Cricket Club over the weekend for the town’s first music festival.

DECKED in rhinestones with the sort of blonde curls that would make any Essex girl jealous, the Queen of Country Dolly Parton could never be described as understated.

OUT Of Joint's latest production at the Octagon certainly starts with a bang - a harrowing experience that gets the adrenaline levels rocketing and the audience well and truly paying attention.

IS science the new rock and roll?

HE might be busy filming scenes for The Hobbit in New Zealand, but that doesn’t mean Sir Ian McKellen couldn’t find time to be involved in a low-budget film with a little more bite.

GIGS in theatres are always slightly odd. The natural urge is to be somewhat reverent in such a grand setting, and so there’s little singing along and even the end-of-song applause is always polite.

IF the screams of nearly 3,000 teenage girls are to be believed — and having heard them it is difficult not to — The Wanted have made it into the big time.

For 20 years, Guy Garvey and his band have sung hymns to the rainy streets of Manchester, and to lovers and friends found and lost there.

SEX. The attraction which Newton left out. And one of the driving forces for Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia, which is being produced by the Library Theatre Company at their temporary home at The Lowry.