Monthly Archives: March 2019
Opera Review: The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky; Gianni Schacci by Giacomo Puccini, Opera North, The Lowry
It’s the end of a fantastic spring season by Opera North at Salford’s Lowry.
Read the full story..“I don’t hanker for being chased round the Arndale Centre by Norwegian schoolgirls anymore.” Nik Kershaw talks to Northern Soul
Nik Kershaw was everywhere in the 1980s.
Read the full story..Photo Gallery: The Slow Readers Club, Fibbers, York
Northern Soul‘s Marc McGarraghy sees The Slow Readers Club at Fibbers in York and takes some brilliant images.
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..“We like to think of it as clever pop.” Smoove & Turrell chat to Northern Soul
North East soul and funk band Smoove & Turrell have been creating big banging dance tracks for more than a decade.
Read the full story..Opera Review: Katya Kabanov by Leoš Janáček, Opera North, The Lowry
About a third way of the way through Opera North’s Spring season we moved away from the 18th Century absurdism of late Mozart to the early days of the 20th Century, and three works made in the shadow of the First World War.
Read the full story..Travel: 100 Years of the Bauhaus, Berlin
As if you needed another reason to visit Berlin. Throughout 2019, Germany is celebrating 100 years of the Bauhaus, and Berlin is putting itself centre stage.
Read the full story..Hamiltonic: Time for a Tanqueray, International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester
One of the great pleasures of this job is the occasional invitation to evenings such as this.
Read the full story..Theatre Review: Barber Shop Chronicles, Royal Exchange, Manchester
Written by poet, playwright and performer Inua Ellams, Barber Shop Chronicles comes to Manchester’s Royal Exchange where it’s co-presented by Contact and credits Fuel, the National Theatre and Leeds Playhouse as co-producers (that being the nature of theatrical productions these days) following not only two sell-out runs at the National but also a world tour.
Read the full story..Book Review: An Otley Run – A Verse Novella by Joe Williams
There are a number of (in)famous pub crawls to be enjoyed around our beautiful island.
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