Monthly Archives: June 2016
Fleetneedles Forage: The Poison Garden
I recently discovered the existence of Alnwick Castle and The Poison Garden. Needless to say it is now on my top ten list of places to go.
Read the full story..Review: Fazenda, Manchester
I like old things. I prefer the charms of Manchester city centre to the high gloss fakery of the Trafford Centre. I like antiques rather than Argos, and I like eating in old, bespoke, establishments rather than shiny glass restaurants.
Read the full story..Review: The Pete Williams Band, Gullivers, Manchester
Soon enough, when you’re discussing Pete Williams’ music career, the subject of Dexys is going to crop up.
Read the full story..“Plans for the future have been shattered overnight”
Isabel Webb is 19-years-old. She’s from Manchester and is one year into her degree at UCL in London. In her latest blog for Northern Soul, she writes about her reaction to the vote for Brexit.
Read the full story..Reader, I went to Haworth: following in the footsteps of the Brontës
I have loved the Brontë sisters since I was a teenage bookworm.
I spent a great deal of my young life swooning over the brooding characters of Heathcliff and Mr Rochester while reading dog-eared copies of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre liberated from the school library.
Read the full story..Review: Artisan, Spinningfields, Manchester
The last time I visited Artisan, shortly after this Manchester eaterie opened, the city was holding its breath over the first restaurant to be awarded a Michelin star. Three years on and there are loads of puce faces out there.
Read the full story..Olly Knights, lead singer of Turin Brakes, talks to Northern Soul
It’s been 15 years since an intriguing noise lulled soothingly out of my radio. It prompted me to obsessively listen to said radio until said song was played again and I could put a name to the tune
Read the full story..Review: A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
That Walter M. Miller had a unique perspective on monastic life is hardly surprising given he gained it one bright February morning in 1944 from the rear gun turret of a B-25 bomber.
Read the full story..Review: On Corporation Street, HOME, Manchester
When I worked as a Saturday girl for Boots in the early 1990s, part of my job was looking for bombs.
Read the full story..Lisa Stansfield talks to Northern Soul
“I’ve been dossing around. Well, I’ve been dossing for a bit but not most of the day.”
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