Author: Lyndsey Skinner
“I was writing, somehow I was writing.” Northern Soul’s Lyndsey Skinner on winning the Sid Chaplin award
On the wall above my desk is a quote from Virginia Woolf.
Read the full story..Bedrooms, Bus Stops and Boredom: Remembering Pete Shelley
It’s the coy half-smile. The knitted jumper.
Read the full story..The media’s fascination with Theresa May’s dancing is a fig leaf for the government’s incompetency
Another day, another bone-scorchingly uncomfortable video of the Prime Minister doing the rounds.
Read the full story..Youth unemployment in the 80s: remembering Tyneside photographer Tish Murtha
Amid the clouds of smoke, dust and ash of the photograph are two partially obscured figures.
Read the full story..Review: Wildflower, Newcastle
Newcastle’s vegan and veggie community has been spoilt for choice over the past couple of years. For the discerning herbivore, the options just keep multiplying.
Read the full story..“I was determined not to wee in a bush”: Northern Soul’s Lyndsey Skinner tackles the Great North Run
“To be honest, I’m knackered.”
Read the full story..Tall Ships Regatta, Blyth 2016: Northern Soul finds its sea legs
I’m the first to admit that I know very little about ships.
Read the full story..Preview: Ground Control to Major Tim, The Late Shows, Newcastle
So far, 2016 has been a year of events with earth-shattering proportions, the kind of things that send you scurrying from your breakfast cereal and Louise Minchin’s solemn face in the BBC studios to the colossal global natter of the World Wide Web.
Read the full story..Review: Murder on the Nile, People’s Theatre, Newcastle
Crimes of passion. Glamour. Menace. Intrigue. Slim cigarettes, cocktails and pussy bow blouses. Exotic-sounding European names, dubious French accents, Lords, Ladies and business tycoons.
Read the full story..Review: Mog on the Tyne, Newcastle
As the 21st century gets into its stride, it seems that cafés serving merely coffee and cake no longer cut the mustard.
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