MANCHESTER Confidential's coverage of Manchester International Festival (MIF) was extensive. 

Below you'll find links to some of the best, most insightful reviews, written on the Festival and its shows, complete with some silliness in Sleuth.

As a magazine for Manchester we love MIF and immerse ourselves totally in the celebration.

MIF is one of the city's most distinctive festivals placing us in the cultural sun - and this year in the real sun too.  

Read on and see what we've enjoyed. And what we haven't.

Mogwai

Goldfrapp

Masque of Anarchy

The Machine

Despacio

Delphic

The xx

Are We Powerless

Martha Argerich

Jamal Edwards and SB

John Taverner

The Old Woman

Sleuth: Nikhil Chopra, The Old Woman, Biosphere

Rob Da Bank

Macbeth

Adam Curtis v Massive Attack

Money

Michelangelo Sonnets

do it 2013 exhibition

Fish&

BangWok TukTuk