Monthly Archives: April 2013
Abigail’s Party at The Lowry, Salford
Last night I stepped back into my childhood when I walked into The Lowry’s Lyric Theatre with my mum to watch Abigail’s Party, which has been revived 36 years after Mike Leigh’s play was first performed.
Michelangelo Drawing Blood, RNCM, Manchester
Of all the arts, contemporary dance is perhaps the most abstract and least understood.
Don’t Shoot the Messenger! Mikron Theatre, Huddersfield
Mikron Theatre is celebrating its 42nd year. Based in Marsden, near Huddersfield, the theatre tours on a narrowboat in the summer and by road in the autumn.The company has performed in every kind of venue from pubs and village halls to the inside of a tunnel.
A Midlander’s odyssey from South to North West
There was one aspect of moving to Manchester that came as a complete surprise to me: the difficulty in spending any significant length of time without hearing the dulcet tones of Ray Winstone.
The literary loop
It’s a view that is widely held: printed books are doomed and ebooks and self publishing are the only way forward. If you’re out of London well gosh, poor you, you’re in the provinces. You might as well as be on Mars.
Temples and Drenge at Night & Day, Manchester
When ‘The Chief’ speaks, the Manchester masses normally listen. So Noel Gallagher’s recent verbal crowning of Temples as “the best new band in Britain” could perhaps at least part-explain the impressive mid-week turnout down Oldham Street for an otherwise relatively unknown duo of bands.
Gorton Monastery
I grew up in the shadow of Gorton Monastery. Gorton was home to a vibrant Irish community and so the church followed the people.
Blond Bombshells of 1943, Oldham Coliseum
Blonde Bombshells of 1943 taps into the nostalgia for the Second World War with its lively and upbeat production at the newly refurbished Oldham Coliseum.
Rutherford & Son at The Lowry, Salford
It’s hard to be critical of a play that includes the phrase “nobbut a lad” four glorious times.
Edwyn Collins at Hebden Bridge Trades Club
There are all sorts of reasons to celebrate why an Ivor Novello award-winning musician and record producer is playing the Hebden Bridge Trades Club.
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