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Review: Constellations, Liverpool Playhouse
Almost 20 years ago, Pulp released their career-defining album Different Class. Along with the Yanis Varoufakis-approved anthem Common People, it also featured a song called Something Changed. In the song, which is a delicate strum-a-long until some easy-listening strings send it soaring, St Jarvis of Intake ruminates on the temporal singularity around which a relationship was once conjured into existence.
Read the full story..A Room with a Stew: Stewart Lee at The Lowry
Racing backwards through life I can pepper any experience with anxiety. It’s a perpetually irritating talent that never fails to amuse.
Read the full story..Exclusive: Basil Brush talks to Northern Soul
On election day, Northern Soul had a very unusual To Do list. Firstly, vote, obviously. Then do a bit of a shop. Then interview Basil Brush.
Read the full story..Max Stafford-Clark on Crouch, Touch, Pause, Engage
Northern Soul’s Rich Jevons talks to Out of Joint director Max Stafford-Clark about the new co-production with National Theatre Wales, Crouch, Touch, Pause, Engage.
Read the full story..Over the Rainbow: The Eva Cassidy Story
At the time of her death, Eva Cassidy was unknown outside her home town of Washington, DC.
Read the full story..Joe McElderry talks to Northern Soul about life after The X Factor
For some X Factor winners it is a swift return to pub gigs. For others like Joe McElderry it leads to gold records and gigs at decent-sized venues.
Read the full story..Avenue Q
In America during the Great Depression there was a huge underground market for so-called ‘Tijuana bibles’, small bootleg comics which depicted the family-friendly cartoon stars of the day – Popeye, Dick Tracy – getting up all sorts of rude, adult and not at all family-friendly things.
Read the full story..John McArdle talks Brassed Off, Brookside and Billy Corkhill
Like many people, I spent my teenage years crushing on various people off the telly.
Read the full story..Gary Barlow: the Frodsham frontman comes home
Last week’s Manchester Arena gig by Gary Barlow was a first for me.
Read the full story..Elbow: soaring to new heights
Elbow played Manchester’s Phones 4u Arena on Wednesday night to a crowd of almost 20,000 and pulled off a spectacular trick. They made it feel like an intimate gig.
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