Monthly Archives: May 2015
Hotel Football: all to play for?
Walking into Hotel Football, you could be forgiven for thinking you’ve stepped onto Wonder Woman’s island.
Review: Beating Berlusconi! at the Liverpool Everyman
Ten years on from Liverpool FC winning the Champions League comes this timely revival of a ballsy play.
Facial Attraction – a beard-based dating app (yes, really)
Transport yourself back through the mists of time. Way, way back, to October 2014, and picture this scene.
Matthew Bourne talks to Northern Soul
“Make sure you ask him about Swan Lake,” says my Editor ahead of my interview with choreographer Matthew Bourne. “I saw Swan Lake at the Palace Theatre in 1996 and was mesmerised.”
Review: The Funfair, HOME, Manchester
In any given situation, there’s a certain pressure and a weight of expectation that comes with being the first up to bat. In this instance, The Funfair is the first theatre production at HOME, Manchester’s shiny new arts venue.
Review: Constellations, Liverpool Playhouse
Almost 20 years ago, Pulp released their career-defining album Different Class. Along with the Yanis Varoufakis-approved anthem Common People, it also featured a song called Something Changed. In the song, which is a delicate strum-a-long until some easy-listening strings send it soaring, St Jarvis of Intake ruminates on the temporal singularity around which a relationship was once conjured into existence.
Review: The Car Man, The Lowry
Dripping with sex and throbbing with violence, yet blessed with humour, The Car Man is far and away the most adults-only of Matthew Bourne’s many successful shows.
The Northern Soul Podcast: Affairs
Hurrah! It’s May’s Northern Soul Podcast.
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Don McLean talks to Northern Soul
American Pie and Vincent are about as far as most Don McLean interviewers get.
Johnny Marr on Manchester, architecture and his autobiography
Of The Smiths’ many fine attributes, there’s one which sometimes tends to get overlooked: their strong sense of place.
Freerange Comedy Festival at Brewery Arts Centre Kendal
Comedy fans who can’t make Harry and Meghan’s big day at Windsor Castle can experience a ‘Royal Wedding’ with a difference in Kendal this May at Freerange Comedy Festival, hosted by Brewery Arts Centre.
The Northern Soul Poll
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