Author: Lucy McNamara
The New Year Northern Soul Podcast
So, Christmas Day has been and gone. We’re all a few pounds heavier and yet still scraping the bottom of the Quality Street tin.
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Read the full story..The Northern Soul Podcast: a month on
Christmas hurrahs! The Northern Soul Podcast celebrates its month anniversary today.
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Read the full story..The Northern Soul Podcast: Week Three
Where does the time go? It’s already week three of the Northern Soul Podcast. This week Lucy McNamara chatted to Glastonbury hit Turrentine Jones.
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Read the full story..The Northern Soul Podcast: Week Two
Here it is – week two of the new all singing, all dancing Northern Soul podcast.
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We came, we saw, we launched a podcast.
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Read the full story..No Tantrums, No Tears
Parlour Flames is a musical collaboration between former OASIS rhythm guitarist Bonehead [aka Paul Arthurs] and the Manchester-based singer songwriter & poet Vinny Peculiar [aka Alan Wilkes]. Lucy McNamara caught up with them at the recent Ramsbottom Festival.
Read the full story..There’s a club, if you’d like to go
He’s the former drummer with The Smiths, a Manchester DJ and lover of new music. Mike Joyce talks to Lucy McNamara
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