Monthly Archives: July 2015
The Northern Soul Podcast: Miriam Jones
It’s time for another great Northern Soul Podcast!
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Read the full story..Scone or scern? Poet Ian McMillan talks to Northern Soul
In South Yorkshire, four miles outside Barnsley, there’s a small village called Darfield.
Read the full story..The Drifters talk to Northern Soul
If I was to say, what’s your favourite song by the The Drifters, what would you say? Saturday Night at the Movies? Up on the Roof? Under the Boardwalk?
Read the full story..Keep on keeping on: 24:7 Theatre Festival
“We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.”
Read the full story..Review: Neck of the Woods, Manchester International Festival
If you go down to the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise…at least if you had high hopes of this Manchester International Festival show living up to the high standards of some of its other bold experiments in sound and vision.
Read the full story..You know you’re an exiled Geordie when…
You know you’re an exiled Geordie when…or as Northern Soul’s Stephanie Alderson prefers to call it, Geordies on tour.
Read the full story..A blast from the past: Jurassic Park’s World
When I was 17, I discovered who I wanted to be. I wanted to act and that was that.
Read the full story..The Greater Manchester Fringe Festival
Four years ago a small team of committed individuals, who at the time each operated venues in Greater Manchester, came together and set up The Greater Manchester Fringe Festival.
Read the full story..Review: Bjork at Castlefield Arena, Manchester
Bjork’s first European gig since the release of her latest album, Vulnicara, is a curious affair.
Read the full story..Editor's Picks
- “The need for us is still there.” Junior Akinola, Chair of the Board of Trustees at Manchester’s Contact Theatre
- Brute Strength: Why Our Northern Concrete is Worth Keeping
- Writing a novel in 2021? Tips and guidance from a successful 2020 debut author
- “We’re a resource for the whole of the North of England.” Kenn Taylor, Lead Cultural Producer North at The British Library North
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