The People’s Stage: bidding for City of Culture at Blackpool Opera House
The Tower has always been a compass, pointing North with something of the same self-assurance that...
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Category: Music
‘I want it to be normal for people to go to the opera’ Robin Norton-Hale, artistic director of English Touring Opera
“I really want it to be normal for people to go to the opera.” These are the words of Robin...
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The complexity of class: artist Jamie Holman’s red glass and resistance
Driving into Blackburn in May, the election aftermath still spills from the airwaves, the tremors...
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The Surge – An Ode to Sinéad O’Connor, Factory International/Aviva Studios, Manchester
The late Irish singer, songwriter and activist Sinéad O’Connor was, and remains, a heroine to...
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50 years on: Sex Pistols at the Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester
Back in early 2001, David Nolan was enjoying a decent career as a documentary producer for Granada...
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