Live music is well and truly back, and this show proved it as a sold-out Deaf Ivwnstitute hosted Hands Off Gretel’s return to Manchester five dates into their long-delayed “Still Angry” tour. This, in all honesty, is THE show I’ve been waiting for since the pandemic stopped everything. They were one of the last bands I saw before it hit and every time I see a Hands Off Gretel show I want to see another. Feisty rockers Scarlet opened the show, their first in 18 months, with a riotous set that included two new songs written in lockdown. They didn’t look or sound like they’d not played live in a while and they seemed to enjoy it as much as the audience did, and the audience LOVED it. Manchester’s The Empty Page brought a fuzzier and harsher sound to the stage with a more in-your-face approach...