Monthly Archives: October 2016
Northern Soul chats to arch-drude, Julian Cope
Ah, Julian Cope, arch-drude and all-round bluddy fantastic musician.
Read the full story..Vera, Shetland and the North: Ann Cleeves talks to Northern Soul
“She’s driving from her home towards Newcastle but that’s the Holy Island causeway and that clearly isn’t right.”
Read the full story..Review: Manchester Museum, Extinction or Survival?
The first two objects in Manchester Museum’s new exhibition Extinction or Survival? are a model of a dodo and a stuffed panda. One is extinct, of course. And the other has been brought back from the brink of extinction, thanks to the efforts of conservationists across the globe.
Read the full story..Fleetneedles Forage: The Magic of the Elder Tree
A few weeks ago I bought a copy of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales.
Read the full story..Win tickets to the Fizz Festival, Altrincham
WIN A PAIR OF TICKETS TO THE FIZZ FESTIVAL IN ALTRINCHAM
Read the full story..The Northern Soul Podcast: Manchester Literature Festival
Ah, the Manchester Literature Festival. It’s proper good.
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Read the full story..Taking on Toad: Rufus Hound talks to Northern Soul about Wind in the Willows
By any standards, launching a big-budget musical is a huge risk. Nor do you make it any easier for yourself by basing said musical on a much-loved property (mess with cherished notions or characters and you can come a cropper).
Read the full story..Breaking the Code: we talk to Daniel Rigby about playing Alan Turing
In the summer of 1997, Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre staged a new adaptation of Pierre Corneille’s 17th century comedy The Illusion, starring Trevor Baxter and Julia Sawalha. One entranced young audience member was 15 year-old Stockport lad Daniel Rigby who was making his first ever visit to the venue on a college outing.
Read the full story..Yves Klein at Tate Liverpool: we talk to curator Darren Pih
It seems obvious to me now that Yves Klein‘s Leap into the Void was a fake.
Read the full story..Where’s Whaley? From Manchester to North Shields to Amsterdam – and back again
As a young boy visiting my grandparents in Perthshire, I was told the story of a white rabbit which supposedly lived wild in a small glen just outside Gleneagles.
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“Where language is beyond some individuals, music becomes that language.” Helena Bull, Project Manager at Manchester Camerata's Community Team, writes about its dementia programme. northernsoul.me.uk/where-lang… @MancCamerata @TheMonasteryMcr #DementiaActionWeek @alzheimerssoc pic.twitter.com/rI5TQdE8jd
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“I feel like an imposter waiting to be caught out by other writers.” Writer and composer Tim Firth talks to Northern Soul's Carole Baldock as Now is Good opens at Chester Storyhouse. northernsoul.me.uk/i-feel-lik… @StoryhouseLive pic.twitter.com/dLmUrzYCV1