Monthly Archives: October 2015
OperaWatch: What’s on in Autumn
As mists gather, fruit mellows and the clocks go back, Autumn is with us.
Photo Gallery: Hadrian’s Wall, Northumberland
Northern Soul‘s Ian Cook takes some stunning photos of Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland.
Competition: Win tickets to Guys and Dolls, Manchester
Manchester Gets it First will see the highly acclaimed Chichester Festival Theatre sell-out production of Guys and Dolls arrive at the Palace Theatre for two weeks only (November 10-21, 2015) prior to a West End transfer to London’s Savoy Theatre in December for a strictly limited 13-week run.
Photo Gallery: Autumn Colours
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness….Northern Soul‘s Paul Hunter celebrates the colours of Autumn.
Fleetneedles Forage: Something Wicked This Way Comes
The notion of witches has always fascinated me. It began in childhood when I read books about witches such as Meg and Mog.
Review: Louis de Bernières, Manchester Literature Festival
I have some inexplicable form of amnesia when it comes to Manchester’s Portico Library and Gallery.
Blanche McIntyre on The Oresteia at Manchester’s HOME
With the benefit of hindsight, it looks as if theatre director Blanche McIntyre, the golden girl of the theatre world who is about to bring The Oresteia to Manchester’s HOME, might have been destined for her current job.
Photo Gallery: Weeping Window, Woodhorn, Northumberland
Poppies: Weeping Window is at at Woodhorn Museum in Northumberland until November 1, 2015.
Review: Homegrown Folk Festival, The Met, Bury
With a superb concert from Tom Russell filling the main hall just a few days before this invigorating festival and much more in a similar vein to follow (including the brilliant Sam Baker on November 1), Bury Met is showing absolutely no signs of surrendering its place as the premier venue in the North for music of the rootsy persuasion.
Black Swans, Cultural Vampires and Sanguinarians in the North
Somewhat aptly, very little natural light reaches the spot where I sit in a small shop in Stockport’s industrial Houldsworth Mill.
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