Many of you will have seen The Departed by Martin Scorsese for which he won his only Oscar. Fewer of you will know that the story for the film was ‘borrowed’ from a 2002 Hong Kong crime thriller called Infernal Affairs directed...
Read MoreWelcome to the brand new Northern Soul Manchester comedy blog. Outside of the capital (which apparently is down South somewhere) and the Edinburgh Fringe, Manchester has the biggest comedy scene in the country. From large-scale...
Read MoreThe scriptwriter Nigel Kneale has a Yahoo group dedicated to discussion of his life and work, and like all Yahoo groups these days, it’s mostly fallen into disuse. In recent weeks, though, it’s spluttered back into...
Read More“‘Shhh, it’s a library’ is so yester-year,” Punam Ramchurn, director of the Rochdale Literature & Ideas Festival, tells Northern Soul. “We have music gigs, computer classes, children’s...
Read MoreShortly after moving back to his home town of Leeds from Dundee, where he’d been a very successful artistic director of Dundee Rep, James Brining told Northern Soul that “Leeds is a really brilliant city. And it feels like quite...
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