Blasts from the Furnace
Reviews, features and hot air by Damon Fairclough, a writer based in Liverpool via a long lost Sheffield of the soul.
Theatre Review: Sleeping Beauty, Everyman, Liverpool
Regular Everyman panto-goers could be forgiven for thinking they’re stranded in an endlessly recurring dream.
Let’s Not Die a Young Man’s Death: Northern Soul talks to Roger McGough
British culture can offer few positions more indicative of popular, mainstream acceptance than an afternoon guest slot on BBC Radio 2.
Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories: Northern Soul talks to playwright Ian Salmon
Like at least 50,000 other Liverpudlians, the writer Ian Salmon recently went on an impromptu holiday to Madrid.
Beautiful, fruitful, peaceful: discovering Ruskin in Sheffield
Back in mid-80s Sheffield, I was heading towards A levels, my cranium crammed with a hair-gel-scented hotchpotch of concerns both large and small: reggae, The Stranglers, communism and females galore.
Review – Fernand Léger: New Times, New Pleasures, Tate Liverpool
If you go to art galleries for the silence, you may have to think again before visiting Tate Liverpool’s excellent new show devoted to Fernand Léger.
Theatre Review: To Have To Shoot Irishmen, Everyman, Liverpool
Lizzie Nunnery’s new ‘play with songs’, To Have To Shoot Irishmen, has been touring since the beginning of October.
Theatre Review: Long Joan Silver, Hope Street Theatre, Liverpool
Think of fringe theatre and you might imagine dangerous theatrical adventures at the edge of good taste, the brave and risky heading inexorably towards the outer limits of self-indulgence.
Review: i Shout For The Fall! – Pictures of Words by Mark E Smith, Bury Art Museum
Every Fall fan’s story has a different beginning, but sadly they all have the same ending.
Food Review: Peaberry Coffee House & Kitchen, Liverpool
Everyone agrees that saving Liverpool’s Albert Dock was A Good Thing.
Theatre Review: Those Two Weeks, Gladstone Theatre, Port Sunlight
For people in tragedy’s shadow, ‘normal’ life can seem like an irrecoverable paradise.
Is your organisation interested in supporting quality journalism about culture, life and enterprise in the North of England?
The Northern Soul Poll
Loading ...