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Interviewing The Vengaboys
If, at the start of the millennium, you turned on your TV on a Saturday morning, chances are you would have seen The Vengaboys on shows such as CD:UK.
Please check all dates with the venue before travelling as many theatres are currently closed.
Next Seven Days In The Arts (Sun 26th Sep - Sun 3rd Oct)
Darlington Hippodrome
Backstage tour and lunch
TueAl Murray: Landlord of Hope and Glory
WedSome Kinda Wonderful
ThuLes Musicals 2021
Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
Ferens Open Exhibition
Pride in Our City
O2 Academy Newcastle
FriInhaler Tour
SatQueen Legend Roger Taylor
Sage
WedScritti Politti Tour - Cupid & Psyche
FriRoyal Northern Sinfonia: Dance!
The Rheingans Sisters plus Heather Ferrier plus Heather Ferrier
Classical CD Review; Bruch: Piano Trio & Other Chamber Music
Andrew Palmer
Group Editor
Bruch: Piano Trio & Other Chamber Music The Nash Ensemble Piano Trio in C minor Four pieces Op 70 Romance, String Quartet No 2 in E major Op 10 Hyperion CDA68343.
5:00 AM 25th September 2021
‘Tizita, That Sweet-Sour Memory’: Unbury Our Dead With Song, By Mũkoma Wa Ngũgĩ
Paul Spalding-Mulcock
Features Writer
Noetic forces clearly exercise their influence on our lived experience, illuminating the penumbra cast by our subliminal consciousness. That said, perhaps visceral agencies exert a more cathartic energy able to penetrate the shadows cast within both our inner, and outer lives. Tolstoy told us that, ‘All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow’.
8:04 PM 23rd September 2021
Daniel Craig Named Baddest Behaved Bond Of All Time
A new study into the James Bond films has revealed which of the iconic Bonds would be most toxic to be dating. With the highly anticipated release of the 25th Bond film, No Time to Die, film data has highlighted 007’s problematic traits, with the study analysing which actors' portrayal of the secret agent would be the one to avoid dating.
4:15 AM 25th September 2021
Interview With Rachel Deering
Paul Spalding-Mulcock
Features Writer
Rachel Deering
The path taken by those following their literary muse can be one strewn with impediments and obstacles. Traversing such a rocky road can both make, or break the creative psyche of those brave enough to venture upon its uncertain sods. In exceptional circumstances, adversity acts rather like a white hot crucible, forging a talent ever more glowing by dint of the elemental forces acting upon it.
8:31 AM 24th September 2021
The Tinnitus Of Grief: A Narrow Door By Joanne Harris
This novel is the last in the Malbry trilogy but may be read as a standalone – indeed, I didn’t know about the other two books - Gentleman & Players (2005) and Different Class (2016) - when I read it and I don’t think anything was lost because of the omission. As for A Narrow Door, my goodness, I couldn’t put it down and yet I had to - at frequent intervals.
6:10 PM 23rd September 2021
‘Three Girls’ Rochdale Grooming Gang Prosecutor Nazir Afzal OBE Joins Raworths Harrogate Literature Festival Line Up
A criminal lawyer who successfully oversaw the prosecution of the Rochdale grooming gang and former BBC presenter, Stuart Hall, is joining the line-up of guest speakers at next month’s Raworths Harrogate Literature Festival.
12:21 PM 23rd September 2021
Courteeners Give Halifax A Drive To Remember
What a joy it is to discover a band through a superb album and then to learn that they have a back catalogue to enjoy. Such was my experience with Manchester band Courteeners. More. Again. Forever. might have been their fifth album when it was released last year but to me they were an undiscovered gem.
10:48 AM 23rd September 2021
Review: Burnt Sugar By Avni Doshi
Burnt Sugar follows the story of a mother and daughter, through whose tangled relationship we uncover the depth of a connection, and explore our own familial interactions, whether undertaken freely or circumscribed by perceived duty.
2:41 PM 22nd September 2021
There Could Be Temples: Still By Christopher Meredith
Steve Whitaker
Literary Editor
Christopher Meredith’s richly engaging new poetics of time and observation gives unconscious lyrical direction to Roland Barthes’ philosophical enquiry into the capturing of a photographic moment.
1:06 PM 22nd September 2021
Duran Duran - No Ordinary World In Scarborough
Graham Clark
Features Writer
photo credit Cuff and Taylor
Looking good, Scarborough“ says an excitable Simon Le Bon
9:11 PM 18th September 2021
Peston Puts The Thrill Into Thriller - Book Review: The Whistleblower, Robert Peston
Andrew Palmer
Group Editor
Robert Peston has certainly put his vast insider knowledge and experience as a political journalist to great effect in this superb debut novel. It sparkles with the ingredients that make a compelling read: corruption, political, sleaze, drink, drugs, murder, intrigue, and pace. The exciting and gripping narrative covers a month in a general election campaign in 1997.
4:30 AM 18th September 2021
Album Review: Metallica - The Black Album Remastered
Graham Clark
Features Writer
Metallica’s The Black Album is one of the most influential and def…
3:50 AM 18th September 2021
Poem Of The Week: 'One Cigarette' By Edwin Morgan (1920-2010)
One Cigarette No smoke without you, my fire. After you left, your cigarette glowed on in my ashtray and sent up a long thread of such quiet grey I smiled to wonder who would believe its signal of so much love. One cigarette in the non-smoker’s tray. As the last spire trembles up, a sudden draught blows it winding into my face. Is it smell, is it taste?
10:43 AM 15th September 2021
Curtain Rises At Town’s Theatre
The Kirk Theatre in Pickering is planning to reopen post-Covid next month. The theatre has remained closed since the pandemic started in March 2020. Theatre manager Luke Arnold said: “The past 18 months have been extremely difficult for the theatre. Covid forced us to close the doors and cancel numerous productions.
1:20 PM 14th September 2021
Coming Home: Connections - A New Collection Of Short Stories
The making of connections – counter-intuitive and otherwise – is grist to the short story maker’s purpose. Short stories are obliged to do more work; focus becomes expedient as relationships are dissected, domestic dynamics examined and anxieties worked through on the written page.
11:15 AM 13th September 2021
On Air: The Last Night Of The Proms - Ending A Brilliant Season Of Live Music
Doesn’t time fly? I've been listening to The Proms throughout the six week season and congratulations to Radio 3 and BBC television for wonderfully produced programmes. It has been a superb season captured so brilliantly by both media; the highlights too numerous to mention. But what about the Aurora Orchestra playing Stravinsky’s Firebird from memory?
4:12 PM 12th September 2021
Review: Snake Eyes - G.I. Joe Origins
Jack Bottomley
Media Correspondent
When it comes to the G.I. Joe film series (2009’s Rise of Cobra and 2013’s Retaliation), based on the Hasbro toy line, you know what you are signing up for. They are movies specialising in big flamboyant action set pieces, high-tech heroes and villains, and some very casual relationships with the laws of gravity.
3:00 PM 12th September 2021
80’s Classical Leeds - Classic Hits From Pop’s Golden Era Re-invented
Graham Clark
Features Writer
The hit songs from pop’s golden era of the 1980’s have weathered better than the fashions of the day: think shoulder pads, ra-ra skirts and day glow colours and you can see why perhaps these items are now at the back of many an 80s music fans wardrobe, until that is they decide to give them another airing for their next 80’s concert!
4:00 PM 11th September 2021
New Research Reveals The Bard's Influence On Infamous Acts Of Terror, From The Gunpowder Plot To 9/11
William Shakespeare
The works of Shakespeare inspired and angered some of history’s most infamous terrorists including the conspirators behind 9/11 and the Gunpowder Plot, new research has revealed.
7:47 AM 10th September 2021
Steve Steinman Takes A Leap Out Of Faith On New Album
Graham Clark
Features Writer
The name Steve Steinman might be familiar to you from the touring theatre shows Vampires Rock and Anything For Love - The Meat Loaf Story show.
3:32 PM 9th September 2021
Stereophonics- Still Hanging On In There
If you saw Stereophonics at Scarborough Open Air Theatre this summer you will know what a great live act the band still are. A new album Oochya! is to be released next March with a tour to follow.
2:04 PM 8th September 2021
Review: Jungle Cruise
As cinema continues its slow but sure revival from an unprecedented time for not just movies but all of us, the time is certainly now for some good old fashioned rollicking fun at the flicks.
11:51 AM 8th September 2021
‘You Have To Take Your Chances When You Can’: The Great Frost By Chris Speck
The ‘Great Frost’ was an extraordinarily cold winter in Europe in 1708–1709 when temperatures in England plummeted to -10C.
6:13 AM 8th September 2021
Going Astray: On A Distant Ridgeline By Sam Reese
An excursion in the very best, meandering sense, Sam Reese’s absorbing collection of short stories for Platypus Press is circumscribed only by uncertainty of definition. For his book’s title, On a Distant Ridgeline, imposes an horizon which flatly refuses to be attained.
9:03 AM 6th September 2021
Classical CD Review: Schumann: Arabeske, Kreislerina & Fantasie Stephen Hough
Andrew Palmer
Group Editor
Schumann: Arabeske in C major Op18, Kreislerina Op 16 & Fantasie in C major Op 17.
9:55 AM 5th September 2021
Chubby And The Gang - Still Going Nuts On Second Album *****
Graham Clark
Features Writer
West London 5-piece Chubby and the Gang return with their second album The Mutt’s Nuts.
11:24 AM 4th September 2021
Poem Of The Week: 'The Couple Upstairs' By Hugo Williams
Steve Whitaker
Literary Editor
Hugo Williams
The Couple Upstairs Shoes instead of slippers down the stairs, She ran out with her clothes And the front door banged and I saw her Walking crookedly, like naked, to a car. She was not always with him up there, And yet they seemed inviolate, like us, Our loves in sympathy. Her going Thrills and frightens us.
11:01 AM 4th September 2021
Classical CD Review: Northern Lights – Christopher Herrick Plays The Organ Of Nidaros Cathedral, Trondheim
Andrew Palmer
Group Editor
Northern Lights – Christopher Herrick Plays the organ of Nidaros Cathedral, Trondheim
10:07 AM 4th September 2021
Granfalloon Gets Positive On New Album *****
Granfalloon AKA Richard Lomax releases his third album Positive Songs which includes the single Who You Are. The single sees him continuing in his unique indie folk grooves that runs across the positive message of the album. “Embrace Who You Are” he sings on the track. The melody, like most of the tracks on the album clings on to you refusing to let go.
1:05 AM 4th September 2021
Abba Return On A New Voyage
If you are an Abba fan you will no doubt be as excited as I was when it was announced a few years ago that the band would be releasing two new songs. Well, those two songs have now developed into a whole new album to be released on 5th November with the news that there will be virtual concerts to be held in London from May 2022.
11:28 AM 3rd September 2021
National Parks Photography Competition
Campaign for National Parks Photography Competition 2021 launches – documenting climate change in National Parks
8:21 PM 1st September 2021
The Northern Short Story Festival Academy 2021
Applications Are Now Open!
8:16 PM 1st September 2021
Tell Me On A Sunday - But Watch This Any Day!
Sarah Crown
Theatre Correspondent
Although originally written four decades ago, this beautifully crafted and iconic musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black is a timeless piece of musical theatre.
7:16 AM 1st September 2021
Shed Seven Go For Gold In Halifax
Graham Clark
Features Writer
Shed Seven
There cannot be a more spectacular architectural outdoor venue in Yorkshire to hold a concert than the Piece Hall in Halifax. This historical venue has over recent years, started to hold a series of big act concerts with the Kaiser Chiefs, Manic Street Preachers and New Order still to come this year.
10:14 AM 30th August 2021
Leeds Festival Blossoms With An Oasis Of Acts
Graham Clark
Features Writer
Leeds Festival returned over the Bank Holiday weekend after a one year Covid infused break. This year for a change there were two main stages, East and West along with the regular tents and smaller stages.
3:18 PM 29th August 2021
The Willard White Interview: A Secret Rapper?
Richard Trinder
Editor
Bass baritone Sir Willard White, undoubtedly one of the international superstars of the Opera world, is performing twice in the North of England over the next few months: At the Great Yorkshire Proms at Harewood House on Saturday September 4th in an evening of Opera and Classical favourites and starting in January 2022 at Opera North's rendition of Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto.
5:00 AM 28th August 2021
Geezer Butler - The Very Best Of - Prepare To Be Surprised *****
Though primarily known for being the bassist in Black Sabbath, Geezer Butler has also had a successful solo career, so much so that he has enough material to release a Best of Album. If you are expecting lots of Black Sabbath type tracks you might be surprised to discover that it is not just doom metal tracks. Butler explores industrial metal and groove metal.
3:00 AM 28th August 2021
Poem Of The Week: 'Frustrated Virtuoso' By Norman MacCaig (1910-1996)
Frustrated Virtuoso In the corner of Crombie’s field the donkey gets madder every minute. I listen to his heehawing seesawing and imagine the round rich note he wants to propel into space, a golden planet of sound orbiting to the wonder of the world.
3:40 PM 27th August 2021
‘Hiding Away From The World Never Works, Because You Still Have To Meet Yourself In The Mirror Every Morning': the Seven Sisters By Lucinda Riley
There are only a limited number of musical notes, yet after all these centuries, composers can still create new music – a different arrangement of notes on the stave. Surely, the time must come when every permutation has been tried and there can be no more new music?
1:57 PM 27th August 2021
A Dream Of Suffocation: 100 Poems To Save The Earth
There are many mantras in Seren’s new anthology of ecologically concerned poems, and it is a shame that radical change and recovery cannot be effected by the simple reinforcement of creative solutions through repetition.
6:34 PM 25th August 2021
Jake Bugg Discovers Pop On Saturday Night, Sunday Morning *****
Graham Clark
Features Writer
Nottingham’s Jake Bugg says this fifth album he was influenced by the likes of Abba and the Bee Gees - personally I cannot hear that. His brand of indie rock has been replaced by a pop sheen that his fanbase might find hard to digest.
12:08 PM 23rd August 2021
Educating Rita - Cast Interview With Stephen Tompkinson And Jessica Johnson
A chance meeting and a mutual love of Educating Rita was the spark for the major new production of the acclaimed Willy Russell play. Jessica Johnson will play Susan 'Rita' White, the Liverpudlian hairdresser aiming for a better life at the Open University, opposite Stephen Tompkinson as her frustrated professor Frank Bryant.
1:00 PM 22nd August 2021
Nile Rodgers And CHIC Bring Back The Good Times To Scarborough
Graham Clark
Features Writer
“Scarborough are you ready to party?” asked a white suited Rodgers as the CHIC hits of Dance, Dance, Dance, Everybody Dance and I Want Your Love followed in quick succession. Of course they were! The sold out Scarborough audience were more than ready to party after nearly eighteen months without live music.
10:15 AM 21st August 2021
Interview With Del Amitri
Graham Clark
Features Writer
Kiss This Thing Goodbye, Nothing Ever Happens and Always The Last To Know are all songs that Del Amitri had hits with which are still played on the radio today. The band have released a new album Fatal Mistakes and are going on tour in September.
4:00 AM 21st August 2021
Bloomin’ Good Flower Power
Ever enjoyed a performance but not quite sure why because you weren’t entirely sure what you’d just watched? Well, I had such an experience last night at Leeds Playhouse when members of The Performance Ensemble took me on a gentle journey through the garden of life, and I was enthralled for two hours, listening intently to the wonderful, and very real stories, that slowly unfolded before me.
10:00 PM 20th August 2021
Family Fun At Stockeld Rox For August Bank Holiday
Get into the groove as the ultimate pop tribute acts headline Stockeld Rox! Lady GaGa, Jessie J, Rita Ora, Madonna and Take That promise to relight your fire for one mega final summer celebration in the spectacular grounds of Stockeld Park.
4:00 AM 20th August 2021
Ilkley Literature Festival 2021 Headline Acts Announced
Booker-prize authors, poets, philosophers, comedians and broadcasters head to the 2021 Ilkley Literature Festival this October, which runs from Friday 1 to Sunday 17 October. The first hybrid Ilkley Literature Festival offers a mix of Covid-safe in-person and digital events.
8:00 AM 19th August 2021
Poem Of The Week: 'Noon' By John Clare (1793-1864)
Noon The mid-day hour of twelve the clock counts o'er, A sultry stillness lulls the air asleep; The very buzz of flies is heard no more, Nor faintest wrinkles o'er the waters creep. Like one large sheet of glass the waters shine, Reflecting on their face the burnt sunbeam: The very fish their sporting play decline, Seeking the willow-shadows 'side the stream.
11:52 AM 18th August 2021
The Artist As Poet: Quest For Ions By Browzan
Jonathan Humble
Features Writer
Christopher Brown (aka Browzan), visual artist, filmmaker and poet, has published his first collection of poems Quest for Ions, with artwork designed by Russian born, Berlin-based visual artist Olya Dyer.
4:56 PM 16th August 2021
Review: Date With Deceit By Julia Chapman
Steve Whitaker
Literary Editor
Wresting the ground away from kitchen-sink caricature, Phil Redmond’s creation of an entirely new form of televisual realism in Brookside in 1982 was a brave attempt to restore authenticity to soap opera convention.
8:50 AM 16th August 2021
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