Mark Thomas Stirs It Up
There’s a video on Mark Thomas’ website featuring the rather jolly sight of people singing in an Apple store. It seems remarkable that – considering this was a protest against Apple’s tax arrangements...
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90 Degree Citizen at Manchester Museum
Beginning in the foyer and spreading towards the café at Manchester Museum is an exhibition of some significance. Organised by Virtual Migrants – who organise digital media artists and productions responding to themes of race,...
Read MoreProfessional Frenchman or stand-up comic? Northern Soul finds out
This Autumn it seems us northern English are supremely lucky to be in receipt of a series of talks from professional Frenchman, Marcel Lucont. Lucont has spent a number of years now doing missionary work (paid of course),...
Read MoreFringe Benefits
It’s a long August spent at the Edinburgh Fringe. I keep looking wistfully back at the first show I saw, the memory fuzzy like one from my distant past. What, it was only the beginning of the month? Surely not? But one of...
Read MoreThe Rocky Horror Show at The Palace, Manchester
If I was going to dress up as any character in The Rocky Horror Show, I always thought it would be Magenta. For many years we shared the same style: a back-combed mop, too much eye make-up, fish nets. All I really had to do was...
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