Monthly Archives: May 2016
Review: Jackie The Musical, Opera House, Manchester
Jackie The Musical re-opens old wounds and places a plaster on your broken heart.
Read the full story..Chef Tony cooks Tomato and Goat’s Cheese Croquette
CHEF TONY SAYS: This week is National Vegetarian Week. It also coincides with one of my favourite times, wild garlic season.
Read the full story..Win tickets to RNCM Young Explorers Series, Manchester
Northern Soul has teamed up with the Royal Northern College of Music to offer five readers a family ticket to the first concert in their new Young Explorers Series for children.
Read the full story..Photo Gallery: Tour de Yorkshire
Northern Soul‘s North Yorkshire Photographer, Paul Hunter, shares a gallery of the Tour de Yorkshire race passing through Stokesley on Stage 3.
Read the full story..Photo Gallery: Bolton Castle, Yorkshire Dales
Northern Soul‘s North Yorkshire Photographer, Paul Hunter, shares a gallery of Bolton Castle in the Yorkshire Dales. The Castle is still privately owned and occupied, and the hamlet around the castle is named Castle Bolton.
Read the full story..Interview: Felix the Huddersfield Station Cat
It is a matter of general agreement that, in today’s world, instant fame is too often accorded to the talentless and undeserving – the ‘stars’ of reality television, the one hit wonders of social media, and the disgraced minor public figures determined to turn their shaming into a successful career.
Read the full story..Gentrification and the imagination
The last time I saw Penny Arcade perform she was regurgitating raw eggs on stage after recounting painful experiences from her youth, including a stint in reform school.
Read the full story..Win a Family Ticket to The Lost Carnival, Cheshire
WIN A FAMILY TICKET TO THE LOST CARNIVAL IN CREWE, CHESHIRE
Read the full story..Preview: Ground Control to Major Tim, The Late Shows, Newcastle
So far, 2016 has been a year of events with earth-shattering proportions, the kind of things that send you scurrying from your breakfast cereal and Louise Minchin’s solemn face in the BBC studios to the colossal global natter of the World Wide Web.
Read the full story..Review: Mamma Mia! at the Palace Theatre, Manchester
When I think about the music of ABBA it immediately conjures memories of a cheesy wedding DJ set, the kind where everyone from your great-grandma, with her skirt hitched up round her knees, to your ten-year-old cousin throw shapes on the dance floor to the soundtrack of Dancing Queen.
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