Pavilion Theatre, ManchesterOther Manchester international festival acts may push back more boundaries, but for sheer enjoyment it's hard to look further than Candi Staton. After beginning her visit by performing gospel for free in Manchester churches, here the veteran singer invests a secular set with such booty-shaking abandon it's hard to believe she is 71 years old. "You may think I'm silly, to love a man twice my age," she sings in 1969's I'd Rather Be An Old Man's Sweetheart (Than A Young ...
Guardian Music — Pavilion Theatre, ManchesterOther Manchester international festival acts may push back more boundaries, but for sheer enjoyment it's hard to look further than Candi Stato... more info