Breakdance Championships @ Contact. We sent our newest recruit Air Adam down with his camera. Check out his wicked collection of B-Boy shapes & feel the energy in that room. Next event is at Contact.... TBC

Lots of bands.... errrr I'll change this later today

Hip Hop Royalty rolls into Manchester: BlackStar (Mos Def & Talib Kweli), Rakim, Murkage @ Mcr Academy. Gary Brown was there. Read his review in Features section

Eurocultured Festival Closing Event: Hit-&-Run bring you Karmic Evolution, Michael Parkinsun & JEHST!! Read Gary Browns' review in Features section

Bank Holiday Monday @ Eurocultured: Example photographer Gary Brown gets to spend a day with a host of illustrious UK emcees: Karmic Evolution / Skittles / Michael Parkinsun / Jehst / Sleeping Giants (Zed Bias, Rodney P & Fallacy) / Strategy / Fox

Intrepid Example man-about-town Gary Brown heads down to this years' Eurocultured Festival to check out their massive programme of events: Balkan Beat Box / The Cold One Hundred / Django Django / Slagsmalklubben / Kydro & Strategy / HotMilk DJs / Murkage DJs / Baba Israel

MCs Strategy & Chunky host the 2nd mammoth session at the Ritz for PROBLEM CHILD: ft. James Blake, Kromestar, Synkro & Indigo, Rich Reason with live p.a. from Broke'n'English & Chimpo, and D Double E!! All with the extra-added scotch bonnet oomph of Mungo's Hi-Fi. FEEEL THE BASS WOBBLE PPL!!

Tremble with fear for tonight is the PYMWYMI FINAL! MCR clublands best-kept secret notches up a gear as 6 heat winners go head-to-head! Only 4 were brave enough to turn up for the weigh-in: Chimpo (BOAB) vs Ed Speed (Dub Smugglers) vs Bobby Irish (Hotmilk) vs Deval (HeavyFeet). Calm before the storm: King Bee. Referee & host: Mikey DON. Live P.A. from a guy called SKITTLES!

Final SoundClash: DEVAL vs CHIMPO. Even-handed anthems apiece but Chimpo won it outright with plenty of dubplate ‘specials’ courtesy of Sizzla, Fallacy, Strategy & Fox. CHIMPIONIE!!

Double Header tonight: as if COMMIX (Metalheadz) and MARCUS INTALEX (Soul:R) wasn't enough we also have the DnB legend DOC SCOTT! Hosted by MC Strategy

Secret Wars #3 another intimate audience an outstanding leftfield music producer. Tonight presents COSMIN TRG (Hotflush, Tempa, Rush Hour) neatly bookended by former Open Plan residents Swimfingers and Node

FutureEverything finishes its festival with a fantastic line-up at Jabez Clegg where local promoters DrumClinic present KYLE HALL (Hyperdub, Wild Oats), DAEDELUS (Ninja Tune), & MARTYN (Tectonic, Warp, his own 3024) in the main room. In the back room Selective Hearing present Acre, Bambobooman, Shadowfax & Versa, Now Wave present MC Chunky alongside Chicago DJs Rashad & Spinn!!

JustSkank pick a less rowdy & more mature musical line-up than their usual mad scientists of noise, and you just can't fault quality! Digital Mystiks! MALA + COKI w/ Sgt Pokes. PINCH + Compo in heavyweight support. Hosted by competition-winners MC K Danger (main-stage) & MC Eva (back room)

Covering FutureEverything festival for us Example photographer Gary Brown heads down to its final event: MARTYN, DAEDELUS, KYLE HALL, SPINN & RASHAD

Gary Brown takes his pick from the FutureEverything festival diary of events: Das Racist @ the Roadhouse, Handmade @ Victoria Baths, Warpaint @ the Ritz and Martyn, Kyle Hall & Daedelus @ Jabez Clegg

Not been down to this night in absolutely ages. Steppahs, Konny Kon & Chimpo play all-sorts & Broke'n'English host but tonight it's all about the live p.a: Homemade hip-hop SPARKS & Ellis followed by SKITTLES with full band! Joining our favourite prodigal mancunian son on-stage LowRyders brass section, BrickTop, Fox, Chunky, Sparks & Strategy