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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..Food Review: Peaberry Coffee House & Kitchen, Liverpool
Everyone agrees that saving Liverpool’s Albert Dock was A Good Thing.
Read the full story..Theatre Review: Those Two Weeks, Gladstone Theatre, Port Sunlight
For people in tragedy’s shadow, ‘normal’ life can seem like an irrecoverable paradise.
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?”
Read the full story..Egon Schiele and Francesca Woodman at Tate Liverpool: Northern Soul chats to curator Tamar Hemmes
I remember my first trip to Liverpool well.
Read the full story..Review: Ken’s Show, Tate Liverpool
It’s 30 years since I first came into contact with the work of Ken Simons at Tate Liverpool and I must have been witness to his handiwork many times since then.
Read the full story..Quality Control: Mobile phone gaming – exploitation or excellent?
Mobile phone gaming is often accused of shallow gameplay designed to consistently extort money from gamers’ wallets in the guise of ‘free to play’ – which is anything but. However, as phone technology moves inexorably forward, is this attitude outdated? Northern Soul gamers investigate.
Read the full story..Review: Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols
Only one record mattered to me in 1977.
Read the full story..Review: Baskerville, Liverpool Playhouse
Every generation, it seems, has its own Sherlock Holmes.
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