text: What's on in Manchester today: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - Manchester Evening News
  What's on in Manchester today: Tuesday, September 30, 2014
  ALL the talk this morning is about last night's Manchester Food and Drink Festival awards. We won't spoil the suspense for you here, but if you don't know the results, we have all the winners and losers and what they had to say about it.
  Elsewhere there's the chance to relive Eric and Ernie's glory days, and students can save a few quid at special shopping events tonight. Here's our pick of what's happening today.
  THEATRE / Eric and Little Ern
  Relive some of Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise's funniest moments in this affectionate homage to the greatest comedy double act Britain has ever produced. The show, created and performed by Ian Ashpitel and Jonty Stephens, mixes the pair's original comedy skits with newly-written material inspired by the duo, as well as taking a look at the real men behind Eric's glasses and Ernie's giggles.
  Manchester Opera House / 7:30pm / From £16.90 plus booking fee / 0844 871 7615
  SHOPPING / MCR Student Takeover
  Shops across Manchester will be luring in the city's new influx of students tonight with big discounts, later opening hours and in-store entertainment. Highlights include the Arndale's Big Student Night In, a catwalk show hosted by Love Fashion: Manchester, model scouting, style-spotting, street food and music from DJ collective Drop the Mustard.NUS card holders can expect to save up to 30 per cent on their favourite brands to make their student loans stretch further. And the first 1,000 students through the door at the Arndale will bag a £5 gift card.
  Various locations / 4-9pm / Free / Pre-register at manchesterarndale.com
  BEER TASTING / An Evening with La Trappe
  Northern Quarter craft beer mecca Port Street Beer House starts its Euro-Tober-Fest as it means to go on tonight with a event hosted by Dutch brewery La Trappe. Guests will get to try five different ales while learning about the brewery, which has been based at a Cistercian abbey in Koningshoeven since 1884, from expert Dieter Lauwers.
  Port Street Beer House / 7pm / £14 / 0161 237 9949
  TOUR / Unlocking the Anthony Burgess Archive
  Take a look inside the Clockwork Orange author's personal collection of books, manuscripts, compositions, photographs, paintings, drawings and correspondence with contemporary writers and artists including Stanley Kubrick, Graham Greene and Angela Carter. The journey begins with stories of Burgess's early life in Manchester, to Gibraltar during the Second World War and the final days of colonialism in Malaysia, and onto his illustrious international career.
  Anthony Burgess Foundation, Cambridge Street / 6pm / Free / 0161 235 0776
  GIG / The Besnard Lakes
  Hailing from Montreal and fronted by a married couple, The Besnard Lakes have raised inevitable comparisons to the Arcade Fire. But the Quebecois collective has more in common with the psychedelic pop hooks of the Dears and the languid space rock ambience of early Broken Social Scene than any of their other Canadian counterparts.