Manchester's transantlantic alliance

When Mercury prizewinners Elbow toured the US, they chose a hugely talented but unknown American singer/songwriter to support them. Now Jesca Hoop has followed them home to Manchester… and it's a musical marriage made in heavenIt's one of those listless, drizzly, grey Mancunian days when the weather, if not exactly having much to answer for, certainly has little to offer. One of those days when there are few better places to be than sitting by the open fire in the back room of the Briton's...

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