For many people, it’s a certain song. For others, a familiar place, a type of drink or a favourite dish. For lots of us, it’s absolutely nothing at all. Grief, that unwelcome companion, unbeckoned and unwanted, yet...
Read MoreBridlington, once a forgotten East Yorkshire coastal town, has had a new lease of life thanks to David Hockney, one of the UK’s greatest modern artists, who now lives there. The town, in collaboration with tourism agency Welcome...
Read MoreI know I’m not on my own when I say that I’ve always found puppets scary. I trace it back to watching a black and white film from 1945 called Dead of Night. It’s the classic ‘scary dummy’ tale, where you’re not quite sure if the...
Read MoreJust about the closest cinematic parallel to Richard Linklater’s ongoing story of Jesse and Celine, as chronicled at roughly nine-year intervals in Before Sunrise, Before Sunset and now Before Midnight, is the late Francois...
Read MoreWe like our colloquialisms and slanguage here at Northern Soul and, to be frank, the more vernacular the better. Happily, some experiences lend themselves to such vocab, and none more than a meal at Byron, Manchester’s...
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