Author: Desmond Bullen
Review – Drawing The Modern: The Work of Gordon Hodkinson, Manchester Metropolitan University
Over the past decade, there’s been a parabolic swell of a very particular appreciation for modernist architecture, best exemplified by Manchester’s (and now Sheffield’s) Modernist Society.
Review – William Kentridge: Thick Time, The Whitworth, Manchester
Crossing the threshold into William Kentridge’s puzzle box of a touring exhibition, presently awaiting discovery at the edges of Manchester’s Whitworth, is a subtly, if pleasurably, disorientating experience, as though its terrain was the lens of a kaleidoscope at the moment a determined shift of the instrument brings the same fragments into a different focus.
“If the city had a voice, where would you hear it?” Northern Soul chats to author Ben Webster
Ben Webster finds himself in a curious position.
Book Review: We Were Strangers – Stories Inspired by Unknown Pleasures edited by Richard V. Hirst
Viewed decades later, the sleeve of Unknown Pleasures anticipates the after-effects of the vinyl it enfolds: its image the radiation signature of a star long dead, its transmissions still detectable by those with ears to hear.
Book Review – Hometown Tales: Lancashire by Jenn Ashworth and Benjamin Webster
Like Dial-a-Disc or foil disposable ashtrays in takeaways, the cinema double bill has receded into the lint of a barely conceivable past yet to be reappropriated by the stylists of today’s lazy nostalgia.
Review: Madagascar The Musical, Palace Theatre, Manchester
The kids love it. They shriek, they cackle, and – to the insistent cue of I Like To Move It – they dance in their seats.
Review: Playing For A Draw, National Football Museum, Manchester
A minnow with ambitions.
“Morrissey chose it. Morrissey chose everything.” Northern Soul talks to photographer Stephen Wright
Neither of us intend it, I’m sure, but our conversation circles back time and again to a once-forgotten corner of Ordsall on a bitter December day in 1985.
Review: The Smiths 1984–1986, Stephen Wright, Central Library, Manchester
Like the contents of a can of pop, pent-up and shaken, The Smiths fizzed dramatically if briefly, upending the charts for fewer than five years, before going flat in misunderstanding and acrimony.
The Northern Soul Awards 2018
Are you an individual or an organisation based in the North of England? Why don’t you come to this year’s Northern Soul Awards? It’ll be a brilliant evening – 15th November at Manchester Cathedral. Tickets available here: https://awards.northernsoul.me.uk/buy-tickets/
The Northern Soul Poll
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