- Interview with Boyzone's Shane Lynch
- Blackdog Ballroom's Ballroom Launch
- Electrik at one: the pictures
- A chat with comedian Stephen Lynch
- The Blind Side review
- The Chris Addison interview
- Swan Lake review
- Pick a duck
- Barge parties
- Don't try this in Tesco's
- ¡Viva! Film Festival
- MEN Arena listings
- 1984, The Royal Exchange review
- Theatre review: Cirque Du Soleil's Varekai/The Tra...
- 10 years of Melodic Records
- Heroes in free for all at Zaika
- Manchester Apollo listings
- Band on the Wall listings
- I Ought To Be In Pictures
More tunnels of the city
Thursday 25 March
We delve deep into the tunnels once again to uncover, unravel and decipher the dark underground places of Manchester. This will take in different underground locations in the city from those tackled last time around. You'll be surprised about what lies beneath the city, but we're not going to tell you where we are going? It's a magical murky mystery tour into the bowels of the city.
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Tour times 5pm, 5.30pm, 6pm, 6.30pm, 7pm, 7.30pm, 8pm, 8.30pm. Each tour lasts around an hour and finishes with a Confidential gathering in a drinking den. Price £10.
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The April Fools Day Absurd tour of Manchester
Thursday 1 April
Manchester's stupid side revealed in a series of daft diversionary tours where the crazy stories, madcap behaviour and general lunacy of Manchester is revealed. This tour will make your eyes roll and your belly chuckle with the foolishness of your city. Each tour will include some very odd interactivity in which astonishing prizes will be given out. It'll be a ball. It'll be just, every-so sightly disturbing. There will be pubs too. And alleyways.
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The Towers of Manchester
Thursday 29 April
We're taking in three towers from three ages and we're conquering them. This will reveal the city from odd angles, tell stories of how it grew, and should chime well with those with a good head for heights and a sense of adventure. For access reasons these tours take place earlier than others. By the way you'll probably end up ascending (with some assistance from lifts) around 700ft all told.
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West side city centre modern architecture
Saturday 8 May
Last year we ran a two hour tour around the eastern half of the city centre looking at Modern Architecture particularly post World War 2 Manchester architecture. Our clever readers wanted more, they wanted it longer with more explanation. So this time we're going to take a whole afternoon, starting in a public house function for a presentation and a bite to eat, then perambulate the western side of the city finishing off in a special guest star of a building. So not only will you learn to distinguish your International Modern from your Brutalist and your (yuck) Post-Modern but you'll get fed and have a laugh too.
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City ghosts, chapter two
Saturday 22 May
After the successful ghost tours in the Cathedral and Central Salford areas, it's time to do the spooks in the back alleys of the Northern Quarter and inside its pubs. On this tour you'll get loads of tales plus guaranteed encounters with 'the other side', as well as all the fun and knowledge the guides bring to the stories of the dead revived in Manchester.
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Dark underbelly: the crimes of Manchester
Saturday 5 June
Hey did you know that Manchester had its very own Sherlock Holmes, Jerome Caminada, only this man was fact not fiction? Have you ever been on the Jack the Ripper walk of London? Well this is Manchester's version replete with foul deeds, murder, dark tales, public hangings and poignant lovers skipping through fields of daisies. Actually forget the latter part of that sentence, we just thought it was all sounding a bit dark. Because it is. But it's thrilling too.
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Radical Manchester
Saturday 10 July
Manchester is the centre of radical British political thinking from Peterloo, through the Free Trade Movement to the Suffragettes via vegetarianism, Trades Unionism, Chartism and the work of Engels and Marx in Manchester. This tour underlines that role, has fun with it and shows where British and sometimes world history changed in Manchester.
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Out in the Past, Gay and Lesbian Heritage Trail
Monday 30 August
To coincide with Manchester Pride, Confidential is offering a fascinating, tragic and fun overview of the city's 'queer' past. This is a tale of isolation, struggle for identity and hope. Which all sounds a bit Hollywood, a bit like something with Tom Hanks in – it isn't. This is tour that deals in a hard reality which had some outrageously light moments.
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Halloween Tours
Sunday 31 October
Ah yes the big ghost tour, the main spooky event, the chance to dress up as your favourite skeleton, laughing cavalier or dead witch and lurch around the city streets. Last time we took you into tunnels, this time we're taking you for a walk along the canals to find dirty deadly secrets, and strange lurching figures of drunkards...er, we mean spooks...come to worry our twenty-first century city. It'll be the best event this Halloween you can do with your clothes on.
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