Author: Chris Park
Craig Charles talks scary fairies and funk and soul with Northern Soul
What do you get if you take Craig Charles, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Hansel and Gretel and shake them all up together? You get an invitation into the world of the Scary Fairy.
Review: To Walk Invisible, BBC, Hebden Bridge Picture House
It is a cold, wet and windy night in Hebden Bridge.
Review: Sorrento, Italy
It was almost complete. We’d spent two art lessons perfecting our papier mâché Vesuvius with chicken wire and a few card houses to represent the ill-fated Pompeii.
Review: London Road Fire Station Tour, Manchester
Let me take you back a couple of years. I was a nervous new writer and had just received my first assignment for Northern Soul.
The day I met Bet Lynch in a bathroom showroom
I’ve learnt many things in this life, one of them being this: if you get an email from your editor asking if you’d like to join Julie Goodyear for some Corrie-related gardening, you say yes.
Lisa Stansfield talks to Northern Soul
“I’ve been dossing around. Well, I’ve been dossing for a bit but not most of the day.”
Review and interview: The Museum of Water, Lake District
“Water is the mosaic of the universe,” says artist Amy Sharrocks at the opening of her art installation, Museum of Water, held appropriately enough in a boat house on Lake Windermere.
Review: The Herbal Bed, The Lowry, Salford
As the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death draws closer (April 23 in case you didn’t know), every theatre in the land is doing its utmost to find a different angle with which to pay homage to the great wordsmith.
Liverpool Pride: back for 2016 and better than ever
“This year we are bouncing back.”
Tarn Hows: heaven on earth
It’s Summer 1980 and Bodie and Doyle of Professionals fame are stalking out potential bandits.
The Northern Travel & Tourism Show, February 25, 2020
The Northern Travel & Tourism Show on February 25, 2020 is the perfect place to find great ideas for future leisure visits and experiences, and enjoy the amazing Monastery host venue in Manchester.
You’ll meet over 45 exhibitors from lake and river cruises, steam railway trips and stately homes and gardens to themed Beatles heritage discovery in Liverpool, and the James Herriott All Creatures Great and Small story in the Yorkshire Dales.
There will also be tours around the wonderfully restored Pugin-designed monastery building.
The Northern Soul Poll
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