“Oh no… this phone thing makes me cry!” Out of the darkness of Manchester’s AO Arena, near 21,000 glittering flashlights flicker in perfect harmony with the delicate, twinkling ivories of ‘The Last Man on Earth’. A pure, surreal, written-in-the stars moment in which the arena evolves into the enchanting midnight…

Loyle Carner’s return to Manchester for a second sold-out night at the O2 Victoria Warehouse felt less like a concert and more like a communal exhale. From the second the lights dropped, the crowd’s roar hinted that this was going to be one of those rare shows where artist and…