Monthly Archives: April 2022
Northerners: A History, from the Ice Age to the Present Day
We all know that Northern England, home to the Industrial Revolution, has been a land of great engineers. Does that mean it must be second rank when it comes to poets, musicians and artists?
Read the full story..Film Review: The Batman
In this latest iteration of the Batman story, which nods heavily to acclaimed comics stories such as The Long Halloween, Robert Pattinson plays Gotham City’s brooding billionaire orphan-cum-masked avenger, who has forged an alliance with veteran police office James Gordon (Jeffrey Wright) in following the trail of a deranged serial killer known as The Riddler (Paul Dano) blah blah blah…
Read the full story..Music Review: Red Guitars, Night & Day, Manchester
In 1983, the last time the Red Guitars performed in Manchester, they played at The Haçienda.
Read the full story..Theatre Review: Electric Rosary, Royal Exchange, Manchester
In these tentative, post-lockdown times, many theatre venues tend to programme safe, obvious, well-known shows, those crowd-pleasers that will guarantee them an audience.
Read the full story..Food Review: Luciano by Gino D’Acampo, Alderley Edge
As I travelled to Cheshire’s Alderley Edge to sample the new spring menu at Luciano by Gino D’Acampo, my mind turned to Valentina Harris.
Read the full story..Festival Preview: Underneath the Stars
Underneath the Stars festival will return this summer (July 29-31, 2022) with an all-female headline bill to Cinderhill Farm, Barnsley.
Read the full story..Book Review: Deceit by Yuri Felsen, translated by Bryan Karetnyk
Potentially, at least, the author is a time traveller, and the novel their time machine, one which – Tardis-like – contains the whole of their fixed point in history while being simultaneously their means of stepping outside of it and into the future.
Read the full story..Book Review: 100 Voices edited by Miranda Roszkowski
Like many women I know, there have been times when I have struggled to voice my achievements. Perhaps this is because they haven’t seemed big enough or the right sort of accomplishment.
Read the full story..Music Review: The Psychedelic Furs, Manchester Academy
There have been considerable developments since The Psychedelic Furs last commanded a Manchester stage.
Read the full story..Exhibitions: Martin Grimes’ Fault Lines and Paula Chambers’ Working Girls, The Whitaker, Rossendale
As The Whitaker Museum and Art Gallery in Rossendale approaches its first birthday since reopening, it continues to share the best emerging and established contemporary artists in its visual arts programme.
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