Monthly Archives: October 2015
Win Tickets to The Ideal Home Show at Christmas, Manchester
Mistletoe and wine and a good ol’ time…the Ideal Home Show at Christmas is the place to be. And we’re giving you the chance to win a pair of tickets.
Read the full story..Review: Verdi’s Requiem, Hallé Orchestra, Manchester
Earlier this month a full house at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall was treated to a night of high drama and fine performances as the Hallé Orchestra performed Verdi’s great and glorious Requiem Mass.
Read the full story..Loud and Proud: the Rochdale Literature Festival
“‘Shhh, it’s a library’ is so yester-year,” Punam Ramchurn, director of the Rochdale Literature & Ideas Festival, tells Northern Soul. “We have music gigs, computer classes, children’s sing-a-longs.”
Read the full story..Review: Kate Mosse, Manchester Literature Festival
I am sitting in the spectacular Living Worlds gallery in Manchester Museum. It is one of those cold autumnal nights where darkness is drawing in, winter coats have come out of hibernation and everything is a little bit eerie.
Read the full story..The Northern Soul Podcast: Easy Kill
This month Lucy McNamara chats to Easy Kill, a four-piece alternative rock band from Manchester, over a cuppa in The Art of Tea, Didsbury.
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Read the full story..Win tickets to The National Wedding Show, Manchester
Win tickets to The National Wedding Show at Manchester Central this Autumn
Read the full story..Judy Collins talks to Northern Soul
It’s a little bit funny, is it not, how so many of the 60s and 70s artists supposed to have been left choking in the dust of punk’s storm-troopers have turned out to be producing some of the best music of their lives right now, and doing really quite nicely, thank you, in the concert halls of the world?
Read the full story..Photo Gallery: Squirrels
Who said squirrels were shy? Northern Soul‘s Head Photographer Chris Payne gets up close with Autumnal squirrels.
Read the full story..Review: St Mary’s Inn, Northumberland
One day last month I woke up in an asylum.
Read the full story..Review: 1984, Northern Ballet, Palace Theatre
Not long ago Northern Ballet’s artistic director David Nixon told me during rehearsals for this production that “it promises to challenge the idea of what stories can be told through dance”.
Read the full story..Editor's Picks
The Northern Soul Christmas Charity Appeal: raising money for Alzheimer’s
The Northern Soul Christmas Charity Appeal: raising money for Alzheimer’s.
There are 23 amazing prizes on offer which you can win by bidding in our online auction.
Our two nominated charities are the Alzheimer’s Society and Alzheimer’s Research UK. They both do amazing work and we are hoping to raise lots of cash for them.
Go on, you know you want to!
The Northern Soul Christmas Charity Appeal: raising money for Alzheimer’s
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