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30 years after the legendary record company closed, Radio X looks at some of the best tracks to come from the Manchester label.

The legendary Manchester brand are offering an expanded version of their iconic Greatest Hits collection - including the first vinyl edition for over 30 years.

Let's celebrate the greatest music city in the world with some of its finest music.

Re-imagining the Rite of Spring and re-defining the boundaries of circus. Dance review by Katie Colombus

Review: Humans 2.0, directed by Yaron Lifschitz, Circa at Sydney Festival The black circular stage is lit by small towers of side-lights. Lights fade to black before suddenly revealing ten humans. The haste of this image elicits gasps. Each body is frozen in a parallel plank position, twisted with one armpit raised towards the crowd. Another blackout. The bright light returns: a soft strobe pulsing in tempo with the bodies, twisting in and out. Circa’s Humans 2.0 is mesmerising. The show is d...

Diana Payne-Myers Credit: family Diana Payne-Myers, the dancer and actress, who has died aged 92, had a 70-year stage career of phenomenal variety, beginning in the postwar music hall boom, continuing through the heyday of West End revue, and rising to an unlikely burst of stardom in her seventies and eighties in cutting-edge contemporary dance. Her ballet skit supported Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis on their British tours, she danced with Sadler’s Wells Opera Ballet, and she spe...