Articles relating to: Desmond Bullen
Review: Brett Anderson, Manchester Literature Festival, The Dancehouse
Suede doesn’t fit the story.
Review: Neil Tennant in conversation with Andrew McMillan, Manchester Literature Festival, RNCM
For Neil Tennant, it’s been a pop life. From writing pop into his personality, to writing his personality inextricably into pop, music has been at the heart of his biography.
Review: Open Music Archive, Eileen Simpson and Ben White, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
It all changed with the gramophone.
Book Review: The Disappeared by Amy Lord
As the dominoes continue their haphazard topple in the wake of the EU Referendum, as a blowhard struts vaingloriously in the Oval Office, and as right-wing populism slithers out of its bunker and back into the daylight, it’s difficult to discount the disquieting suspicion that these are dystopian times.
Film Review: Charlie Bubbles, HOME, Manchester
More than half a century after its partial release, it’s difficult to prise Charlie Bubbles apart from the cultural resonances that have aggregated limpet-like to its slender framework over the intervening decades.
125-years-old and still going strong: Blackpool Grand Theatre
Set back from the Golden Mile, whose sand-blasted buildings break the winds that sweep in from the Irish Sea with the fury of banshees, the Grand Theatre has weathered much in its 125 years.
Great Northerners: Frank Randle
In this series, we celebrate Great Northerners. For Northern Soul‘s Desmond Bullen, it’s comedian and actor Frank Randle. Who gets your vote?
Book Review: Alan Turing’s Manchester by Jonathan Swinton
On the face of it, Manchester’s claims to Alan Turing are slender.
Review: Joy for Ever, The Whitworth, Manchester
It’s easy to have the last word when you’re arguing with a dead man. Or so you might think.
Book Review: Peach by Wayne Barton
Typically, Fanny Price is the least well-loved of Austen’s heroines.
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