I heard running water before I saw it. The rain seeps from the peat drop by drop. A dribble here, a trickle there, a sike becomes a runnel or perhaps a rill and the decibels grow as the full-blown stream I cannot see bounces over rocks and boulders. A paradox this land of water: not …
Michael Bailey, 51, grew up in South East Northumberland and now lives in North Tyneside. A digital marketer, designer and musician, the 51-year-old remembers taking his first photos on a school trip to France when he was 12 – using the bulk of his precious 24 shots attempting to get abstract close-up photos of waves …
In 1907 amid great celebrations the Mauretania left the Tyne where she had been built to begin a stellar career in which she would dominate the world of the great ocean liners. There to take one of his finest pictures was Whitley Bay photographer Gladstone Adams. It was not his first brush with history. He …
This was the commission: The Gordon Burn Prize is going to be hosted in Newcastle from now on, so could I write something about him and his home city? Yes, but warily. Warily because I wasn’t sure how Burn felt about Newcastle. I knew he grew up in the city’s west end, but he left …
On the day, my book, How To Build Your Own Record Pressing Plant: The True Story of Press On Vinyl was published last November, I found myself sitting in the Teesside vinyl record factory’s boardroom looking across the TeesAMP Business Park as dusk settled over Middlesbrough’s less famous – but equally iconic – Newport Bridge. …
As Simon Le Bon prepared to accept the greatest honour in Duran Duran’s storied career, in front of a 12,000-strong live audience and millions more across the globe, he didn’t look like a man overcome by joy. Overwhelmed by emotion, maybe. Where there should have been a beaming smile and an aura of blissful pride, …
Gosforth guitar great Mark Knopfler has sold 120 of his prized instruments at an historic auction at Christies (on January 31) for a staggering £8m. And North East charity Brave Hearts, of which he is patron, is now set for a bumper pay-day with a donation expected to be well in excess of half a …
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