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.
Review: The Tin Drum, Everyman Theatre, Liverpool
I’ve never attempted to adapt a novel for the stage, but if I did, I can tell you a few things I’d look for when choosing a suitable book.
Review: The Dinner Party, Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead
Much has been made of The Mersey Sound poetry anthology in Liverpool this year.
Review: The Damned United, Unity Theatre, Liverpool
There’s no doubt about it, it’s an inspiring story.
The Lighthouse Invites the Storm: Malcolm Lowry’s Wirral
It’s strange how some artists become inextricably linked with specific locations while for others, a sense of place is a more nebulous affair.
Portraying a Nation: Germany 1919-1933 at Tate Liverpool
Classification is a useful technique to employ if you are responsible for arranging the contents of a library.
Architecture for Life: A New Home for RIBA North
When the architectural historian, Joseph Sharples, first visited Liverpool as a student in the 1980s, the city made an indelible impression.
Review: The Sum, Everyman Theatre, Liverpool
At last, this is the one. This is the play the Everyman company has been waiting to reveal, the one that helps its pioneering rep project make a brilliant kind of sense.
Review: The Story Giant, Everyman Theatre, Liverpool
You can’t escape from stories these days.
OK – The Musical: Northern Soul meets Christopher Kline, creator of Tate Liverpool’s new show
Back in a time before touchscreens and Tinder, there was Tiswas. Innocent, inexplicable Tiswas. At the turn of the 1980s, this Saturday morning TV chaos-fest was the hectic, hydrophilic yang to Multicoloured Swap Shop’s somewhat less water-logged yin.
Review: The Conquest of the South Pole, Everyman Theatre, Liverpool
Now that the Ukrainian dust has settled on the Everyman rep company’s rousing season opener – their powerful take on Fiddler on the Roof – where is this exciting band of performers taking us next?
The Northern Soul Christmas Charity Appeal: raising money for Alzheimer’s
The Northern Soul Christmas Charity Appeal: raising money for Alzheimer’s.
There are 23 amazing prizes on offer which you can win by bidding in our online auction.
Our two nominated charities are the Alzheimer’s Society and Alzheimer’s Research UK. They both do amazing work and we are hoping to raise lots of cash for them.
Go on, you know you want to!
The Northern Soul Christmas Charity Appeal: raising money for Alzheimer’s
The Northern Soul Poll
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