Author: Michelle Nicholson
Review: Football Writing Festival, National Football Museum, Manchester
I love being in a museum when it’s closed – there’s all manner of weird sights and sounds after hours.
Review: The Women’s Football Conference, National Football Museum, Manchester
When I was little, I played football for my primary school in North London.
Northern Soul heads to the Leesa North West Football Awards 2017
When the shiny invitation to the Leesa North West Football Awards dropped on the mat at Northern Soul Towers, I stepped forward.
Review: BBC Radio 2’s All Star Party, Manchester’s O2 Apollo
What would my 14-year-old self say? My most recent Saturday ‘big night out’ was spent with a 50-something gent at a 50th birthday party, with a playlist solely supplied by BBC Radio 2.
Review: Bittersweet: Legacies of Slavery and Abolition in Manchester, Portico Library
Bittersweet, the latest exhibition from The Portico Library, looks at the abolitionists and pro-slavery advocates in Manchester and the discussions that were taking place at the time.
“There’s more to life than football” Northern Soul meets Phil Neville at Cafe Football
Hotel Football and its new sibling Cafe Football are a marketing executive’s dream: a hospitality project backed by real life legendary Manchester footballers with football in the title and football memorabilia.
Review: Lucha Libre, Albert Hall, Manchester
It’s not every day you see Manchester’s Albert Hall transform itself into a retro Mexican wrestling ring, complete with Mexican street food and drinks.
Review: ∑(No,12k,Lg,17Mif) New Order + Liam Gillick: So it goes..
The first night of Manchester International Festival 2017 kicked off with a unique collaboration from New Order and visual artist Liam Gillick in the Old Granada Studios with So It Goes..
Review: Erasure, Albert Hall, Manchester
Erasure have a loyal following. I mean a really loyal following.
A trip out to see The Hillmen: Glossop North End v Colne
With the promise of a pie and a pint, we travelled to Derbyshire to watch non-league Glossop North End (GNE), arriving at the unexpectedly grand Glossop train station which, we found out later, was built and paid for by the 13th Duke of Norfolk – he even had his own private entrance.
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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