Monthly Archives: June 2022
Music review: The Eagles, Anfield, Liverpool
A warm summer’s evening, and Anfield is filling up. There’s a buzz of anticipation. I love this place, it is so full of memories for me. But this isn’t another of those high-tension nights of European football. This is about recapturing a peaceful, easy feeling.
Book Club: Northern Soul’s Right Good Reads
At Northern Soul, we can often be found with our nose buried in a book. As a team, we are notorious bookworms and are passionate about championing all things literary.
‘The financial return for every pound put into the arts is more than agriculture’
As a result of the pandemic, Manchester-based LGBTQ+ theatre company Green Carnation was on the verge of calling it a day.
Review: Power UP, Science and Industry Museum, Manchester
We’re now at the point where the video games age has accumulated a history that stretches back across generations.
‘Music has been a constant over the years, like a coloured thread woven into cloth’
Sometimes I think about how my life would be if I had made it as a hugely famous musician.
‘How I turned being hit by a ten tonne truck into a one-woman show’
Late Tuesday afternoon, October 7, 2014 and a 15-year-old Katie Damer is waiting at a red light on Bury’s Dumers Lane as she cycles home from school.
Theatre Review: CLASSIC!, Hope Mill, Manchester
‘All those writers all those pages
We’ve done it in a minute when it took them ages’
Review: Doctor Who – Worlds of Wonder, Liverpool World Museum
Back when Doctor Who was first heading to TV screens in 1963, there was a behind-the-scenes intention for it to provide improving, semi-educational content about science and history for young viewers.
Gardening is glorious
My Gran used to say that the best thing about gardening was the anticipation.
“Libraries are hanging on by their fingernails.” Author Patrick Gale talks to Northern Soul
The novelist Patrick Gale knows how to write an opening line.
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