The thing with shrews is this: no matter how piercing or shrill, they’re very clever. Shrews know, y’know. They know they’ve been given a raw deal and instead of hiding it, it’s vividly there, in...
Read MoreIn the first of our tributes to the comedian, writer and actress Caroline Aherne, who died earlier this month, Northern Soul’s Gerry Potter writes about a very special person. I think more than anything I want to thank...
Read MoreBonfire Night, or ‘Bommy Night’ as I’ve always known it, is incredibly special. I’ve always loved it. The incendiary anarchies historically igniting it, the malformed maladjusted tellings ‘n’ re-tellings, its...
Read MoreI’ve been trying to work out why I was terribly moved by the death and subsequent tributes to Anne Kirkbride. I could only come up with this: I felt like I knew her. Of course I didn’t know her, never met. Apart from rare...
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