Monthly Archives: February 2019
Theatre Review: Tea and Two Sugars, 53two, Manchester
Making theatre is hard. Making good theatre is even harder.
Read the full story..Review: Manchester Collective, Black Angels, Leeds Town Hall
Leeds Town Hall has seen its fair share of excitement since Cuthbert Brodrick first laid out his plans for the building in the 19th century.
Read the full story..Theatre Review: The Lady Vanishes, Floral Pavilion, New Brighton
A new genre: thriller-farce?
Read the full story..Win tickets to see Mancunian indie/hip-hop duo Prose and acclaimed chamber orchestra Manchester Camerata in Manchester
Win tickets to see Mancunian indie/hip-hop duo Prose and acclaimed chamber orchestra, Manchester Camerata at Manchester Academy 2 on March 23, 2019.
Read the full story..Midnight and Closedown: Northern Soul chats to multi-award winning folk trio Lau
“In a way it’s been quite exciting to keep getting asked if calling this album Midnight and Closedown means it’s going to be our last album,” says guitarist and singer Kris Drever, one third of the multi-award winning folk-and-far-beyond trio Lau, along with Martin Green (accordion, piano, electronics) and Aidan O’Rourke (fiddle).
Read the full story..Photo Gallery: GinnelWatch – time to show us your ginnels!
We love a good ginnel at Northern Soul. But, depending on where you’re from, there are all sorts of words for what essentially amounts to an alleyway, including jennel, snicket, vennel, gennel, jitty, jetty and our new favourite…a weind.
Read the full story..Win a pair of weekend tickets to the Haydn-inspired Chamber Music Festival at Manchester’s RNCM
Win a pair of weekend tickets to the Haydn-inspired Chamber Music Festival at Manchester’s Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM).
Read the full story..Book Review: Julie Hesmondhalgh – A Working Diary
Have you ever read a book and thought, ‘wow, this came at exactly the right time?’
Read the full story..Theatre Review: The Life I Lead, The Lowry, Salford
I am told that as a very young boy I was obsessed with the film Bedknobs and Broomsticks, so much so that I demanded to see it at least five times.
Read the full story..Hamiltonic: Arbikie Gin
In a new series called Hamiltonic, Northern Soul’s Gin Correspondent Robert Hamilton samples the best gin and talks to the people who make it. This week, he chats to the good folk at Arbikie Gin and sips a few samples.
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