Author: Paddy Wells

"Smoke, bubbles, multiple confetti cannons, pool rings, a giant inflatable spaceman, an even bigger mechanical hand, and that’s not even the half of it." @BethCMJourno sees DPR Regime Tour, Manchester Academy. northernsoul.me.uk/music-revi… #DPRRegimeTour pic.twitter.com/hzRyVGxNJf

"her vocal vibrato resonated like a dragonfly wing flutter, vibrating the surrounding air" @BLCharlesworth sees Jarboe and Jozef Van Wissem at Soup, Manchester. northernsoul.me.uk/music-revi… @soupmanchester @jarboe_living #gig pic.twitter.com/83mHVbNjM4

"A musical climax worthy of Joan’s martyrdom." @heribo1954 sees Dreyer’s 1928 The Passion of Joan of Arc with a new score by Julia Holter at Huddersfield Town Hall. northernsoul.me.uk/review-joa… @HuddsTownHall @JULIA_HOLTER pic.twitter.com/yGDnQDADx0

"the elisions between the subjective and the objective, the dreamed and the actual, are handled with all the disquieting precision of David Lynch’s Lost Highway" @desmondbullen sees the #anime classic Perfect Blue at Manchester Animation Festival, HOME. northernsoul.me.uk/manchester… pic.twitter.com/E3VWqifNfO

"accessible, contemporary and enormous fun" Review: A Christmas Carol, Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot northernsoul.me.uk/christmas-… ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @ShakespeareNP #christmas #theatre pic.twitter.com/mVYczssg9J