Win two weekend tickets for Head for the Hills Festival

Posted by Helen Nugent | Aug 30, 2017 | Competitions

Win two weekend tickets for Head for the Hills Festival

Win two weekend tickets to Head for the Hills Festival

The festival season’s final fling, Head for the Hills in Ramsbottom, returns on September 15, 16 & 17 2017, and Northern Soul is giving away a pair of weekend tickets for you and a friend.

The festival’s headliners include Maximo Park, Beth Orton, The Stranglers, Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip), Manchester band Dutch Uncles and Ska legends, the Neville Staple Band, while arts highlights consist of acrobatic storytelling by Pif-Paf Theatre, an interactive retro cinema experience by Ecstatic Cinematic, children’s theatre from multi award-winning company Fine Chisel and the especially commissioned installation Between Stillness and Storm by Aidan Moesby.

To be in with a chance of winning this awesome prize for you and a pal, all you have to do is sign up to the Northern Soul newsletter (details of how to do this are on the right-hand side of the page) and send an email to emma@northernsoul.me.uk with the title ‘Head for the Hills’.

Closing date: September 10, 2017

Winners will be picked at random and notified by: September 11, 2017

For more details, or to book tickets, head to the website: http://headforthehills.org.uk/

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Helen Nugent

Helen Nugent is the Founder and Editor of Northern Soul. A Northern lass, born and bred in Manchester, Helen has been back in her home town for 13 years after working in London for The Times and a number of other national newspapers. You can find articles by Helen in, among others, The Guardian, The Mail on Sunday, The Times, the i newspaper, The Observer, Big Issue North, The Yorkshire Post, and The Spectator. Previous roles include producing and presenting the business news at BBC Radio 5 Live and on BBC local radio across the UK, and freelancing for The Daily Telegraph, The Independent on Sunday, The Sunday Times, and the Financial Times. She also spent 18 months as Money Editor of The Spectator. During ten years at The Times, she won a series of awards including Journalist of the Year and had a number of jobs including News Reporter, News Editor, Lobby Correspondent in the House of Commons, Business Reporter, and Financial Writer. In addition, Helen runs her own media training and PR consultancy firm, Helen Nugent Consulting. Helen has appeared on Sky News, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio Manchester, BBC Radio Merseyside, BBC Radio Lancashire, BBC World Service, talkRadio, and GB News. An experienced chairperson and speaker, she regularly chairs conferences and events for, among others, literature festivals, award ceremonies, and tech shows. She was also a Guest Lecturer at Westminster University in the Department of Journalism & Mass Communication, and a Guest Lecturer at City University and at MMU. She taught Music Journalism at Salford University for a number of years, and taught Political Reporting at Huddersfield University. In 2017, she was shortlisted for Person with Purpose at the Northern Power Women Awards. In 2019, she was a judge for the HWA Gold Crown Awards which recognise the best historical novels. Feel free to drop her a line at nugenthelen@hotmail.com or via the contacts page. All correspondence is welcome, particularly if you would like to share a magical Northern experience.

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