Articles relating to: Helen Carter
Travel: Northern Soul goes skiing in the French Alps
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that you don’t ski in May.
Review: Christopher Eccleston, Pilot Light Festival, Manchester
Christopher Eccleston has recently been described as a ‘northern powerhouse’.
Review: St George’s Day – The Orchestra of Syrian Musicians, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
Imagine that you’re so moved by a performance that you get up out of your seat, raise your arms in the air and dance around exuberantly.
Claiming back the day: The Orchestra of Syrian Musicians in Liverpool
On St George’s Day, a day which has been misappropriated and twisted beyond recognition by the far-right to further their cause, it seems apt that Damon Alban is performing in Liverpool with the Orchestra of Syrian Musicians along with Mounir Trudi.
Review: The Lowry Hotel Spa, Salford
It’s been more than a decade since I first visited The Lowry Hotel Spa.
Purring and Parring: the mysterious history of Clog Fighting
Believe it or not but naked clog fighting was a mysterious and illegal sport that existed in Northern mining communities for hundreds of years. Now Gallery Oldham is staging an exhibition examining the myths of the brutal underground ‘purring, clogging or Fighting Wigan Fashion’.
Reindeer and Christmas Carols at Liverpool Philharmonic
Two days at the Liverpool Philharmonic this week and two very different, but equally pleasant, experiences.
Review: The Winter’s Tale, Oldham Coliseum
In the programme notes to The Winter’s Tale, director Conrad Nelson has a gentle dig at the marketing of theatre performances.
Banking on the Miller & Carter Steakhouse in Manchester
It was a blisteringly hot Manchester Day day when I went to the Miller & Carter Steakhouse with the editor of Northern Soul.
Mondrian at Tate Liverpool
There was the most spectacular thunderstorm when I went to visit the Mondrians at Tate Liverpool.
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