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Review: Ramsbottom Festival 2016, Lancashire
Several years ago, I schlepped from festival to festival with my performance poet boyfriend who was performing at each one. My memory is one of wet tents, horrid Portaloos and fairly awful poetry.
Read the full story..A hairdresser with a difference: Bury’s Grönn Hair Salon
If you’ve bobbed about Bury recently, you might have seen an intriguing new shop front on Bolton Street.
Read the full story..Brew North: Silver Street Brewing Co, Bury
Bury is baking. On this Wednesday morning in late July, the sun has nudged aside the ever-present threat of showers and is doing its best to bring the red roses into bloom and give the town’s famous black pudding an even deeper tan.
Read the full story..Photo Gallery: The Northern Soul/Clarence Afternoon Tea, Bury
Brilliant do last week – the Northern Soul afternoon tea at The Clarence, Bury, where David Agnew, Artistic Director of The Met, chatted to the Editor of Northern Soul, Helen Nugent.
Read the full story..Olly Knights, lead singer of Turin Brakes, talks to Northern Soul
It’s been 15 years since an intriguing noise lulled soothingly out of my radio. It prompted me to obsessively listen to said radio until said song was played again and I could put a name to the tune
Read the full story..Julian Littman from Steeleye Span talks to Northern Soul
Longevity in the music business is rare, especially for bands. Fights over the lion’s share of the limelight and the inevitable ‘musical differences’ usually result in a shelf life of about 18 months.
Read the full story..The Forgotten Fifteen: Bury FC and football’s worst year
James Bentley is a lifelong fan of Bury Football Club. Now he’s published a book about the team’s extraordinary 1984/85 season and the state of British football in the 1980s. He writes for Northern Soul about how it all came about.
Read the full story..All aboard! Riding the rails on The Flying Scotsman
Ah, the golden age of steam. This phrase brings to mind the glorious engines that once choo-chooed across Britain.
Read the full story..Review: Homegrown Folk Festival, The Met, Bury
With a superb concert from Tom Russell filling the main hall just a few days before this invigorating festival and much more in a similar vein to follow (including the brilliant Sam Baker on November 1), Bury Met is showing absolutely no signs of surrendering its place as the premier venue in the North for music of the rootsy persuasion.
Read the full story..Seth Lakeman talks to Northern Soul
He’s a folk singer-songwriter and virtuoso fiddler whose music dwells on rural myths, eerie legends and sweeping landscapes. So it comes as some surprise to learn that the first album Seth Lakeman ever bought was Bon Jovi’s Slippery When Wet.
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