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Brute Strength: Why Our Northern Concrete is Worth Keeping
Wander through the gift shops of Sheffield these days, lockdown permitting, and you could be forgiven for thinking that colossal cliffs of concrete were always among the city’s most beloved landmarks.
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On the face of it, beer and music seem like natural bedfellows.
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British culture can offer few positions more indicative of popular, mainstream acceptance than an afternoon guest slot on BBC Radio 2.
Read the full story..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.
Read the full story..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.
Read the full story..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.
Read the full story..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.
Read the full story..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.
Read the full story..Big ideas, big jokes, big songs. Northern Soul talks to playwright Robert Farquhar about Peer Gynt
“I hate Peer Gynt. Why should we do it?”
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- “The need for us is still there.” Junior Akinola, Chair of the Board of Trustees at Manchester’s Contact Theatre
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