Everything happening in Manchester,
in one place.
Independent. Editorial. Not algorithm-driven.
- We pay for what we review.
No freebies, no press dinners, no comped tickets. If we review it, we bought it ourselves - so the opinion is ours, not the venue's.
- We do not publish PR fluff.
Press releases get recycled. We write from experience, not from copy-and-paste press packs. If it's not worth saying properly, we don't say it.
- If we don't like it, we say so.
Honest reviews only. A four out of ten is as useful as a nine. The people reading this live here - they deserve straight talk.
- Every imported event is human-checked.
We pull from Skiddle, Ticketmaster and Eventbrite every night. Every single listing is reviewed before going live. Duplicates, miscategorisations and dead events get pulled.
Overnight feeds from Skiddle, Ticketmaster, Eventbrite and direct venue submissions are pulled into a moderation queue.
Humans check for duplicates, wrong dates, bad venue tags and missing images. Nothing broken gets through.
Events are tagged by category and neighbourhood - Ancoats, Northern Quarter, Didsbury, City Centre and beyond.
Live by 7am every morning. Readers wake up to a fully updated calendar for the day, the week, and the month ahead.
Gerald covers food, drink, and restaurants across Manchester. Northern Quarter regular. Prefers a flat…
Sophie writes about nightlife, music, and culture in Manchester. Has been to more gigs…
Marcus covers sport, fitness, and things to do across Greater Manchester. Runs the canal…
Lucy writes practical guides and neighbourhood features. Moved to Manchester from London in 2019…
Jake is MCR resident music and nightlife editor. Former promoter. Still goes to Warehouse…
- Honest reviews, always paid for by us
- Local voices - writers who live here
- Human-checked event listings daily
- Paid editorial staff, not just contributors
- Corrections published openly when we get it wrong
- Clearly labelled advertising and sponsored content
- Pay-to-play disguised as editorial
- Auto-generated or AI-written reviews
- Scraped review copy from third parties
- PR copy dressed up as journalism
- Undisclosed sponsored content
- Churnalism from press releases
- Audio reviews and neighbourhood podcasts
- Short-form video for every venue page
- Expanded neighbourhood coverage
- Reader-submitted photography programme
- Community event submissions (free, moderated)
- Multi-city network rollout across the UK
Press mentions and media coverage will appear here. If you've written about MCR or the dotcity network and would like it listed, get in touch via the editorial address below.
Press enquiries and interview requests:
hello@mcr.cityManchester's independent city guide goes live with a daily events calendar, venue directory and editorial stories. First home: a studio above a pub in the Northern Quarter.
The listings calendar crosses 1,000 live events. Neighbourhood guides launch for Ancoats, Didsbury, Chorlton and the Northern Quarter. The MCR TV video channel launches.
The dotcity network expands beyond Manchester. Liverpool, Sheffield and Newcastle are in build. The same editorial standards, applied to every city in the UK.
Every major UK city gets a proper independent guide. Not a clone - a real local product with its own team, its own voice and its own standards.
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