The sun popped out last weekend. Cue long-sleeved shirt, jacket and irrational panic. I was properly baking as I headed to St James’s Park but at least those pesky UV rays couldn’t penetrate my multiple layers. Better sweat buckets than risk death. Seriously. Twenty years ago I was more gung ho. You’d even see me …
Karen Errington points to the chalkboard in the pub she owns with her partner Phil Mason. Its handwritten temptations are obvious but she insists they don’t run a restaurant. “I’m very proud that I can say this is a pub,” she declares. The Rat Inn at Anick, near Hexham in Northumberland is undoubtedly a pub …
More than 30 years since the Robinson brothers last charmed Newcastle with their Southern rock-fuelled brand of bar room blues it was time for Tyneside to reacquaint itself with one of the most beguiling bands on the planet. And right from the first few captivating notes of the reassuringly groovy opener Bedside Manners this felt like an …
If you’d dropped me, blindfolded into the basement bar at Newcastle City Hall on Saturday night and asked me to guess the evening’s on stage attraction, I reckon I would have got it within 30 seconds. Standing in the ridiculous queue, weighing up the longevity benefits of a two-pinter versus the inevitable — and even …
Most stories, give or take a chronological tweak, hang on a narrative thread with a beginning, middle and end (usually an end, although there’s always the possibility of a sequel). It keeps things tidy and helps to answer the perennial question: “What happens next?” Nick Payne, in his celebrated two-hander premiered in 2012, resisted the …
17th May …and first a look at what has previously happened on this day in history: 1536 The marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn was annulled 1590 Anne of Denmark was crowned Queen of Scotland 1805 Muhammad Ali became Wali of Egypt 1809 Napoleon ordered the annexation of the Papal States 1900 The novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was …
Sporting a Pantera tee and looking like a latter-day Kurt Cobain, it seemed Jaren Johnston was on a mission to cement The Cadillac Three’s harder edge. Sure enough, elements of garage rock, grunge and punk paced a furious set, only occasionally punctuated by mellower trad country. And Nashville’s finest read the room a treat. Dim …
The first single I bought was Bon Jovi’s Keep The Faith, and my first concert was Bon Jovi at Gateshead Stadium in 1995, so it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the first music documentary (or rockumentary if you will) I’m recommending is Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story which landed on Disney Plus on April …
It might have taken Beyoncé to supercharge the country music scene but those in the know have been jumping aboard a genre in rude health for years. With its crossover into RnB, rock and mainstream pop complete, country continues to whip major magazines, global management and festival bosses into a frenzy. And even if Taylor …
10th May …. and it really feels as if Spring has arrived. A quick look at what has previously happened on this day in history …. 1294 Temur, Khagan of the Mongols, was enthroned as Emperor of the Yuan dynasty 1497 Amerigo Vespucci set sail from Cadiz on his first voyage to the New World 1503 Christopher Columbus visited …
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