A blog on Newcastle Arts and Culture, Cinema and Life.
If asked to list the people in your life in order of importance, it’s likely that you would rank your close family members pretty highly. Unless, of course, you know a drug dealer or someone famous, in which case actual family members may get bumped down the list. Those with family members ranking top trumps [...]
Last weekend, the most sparkling jewel in Newcastle’s cultural crown, the Tyneside Cinema, hosted an epic 75 hour cinema extravaganza in celebration of their 75 year anniversary. This is the second time the Tyneside has organised such a cinematic feast and at just 75p per ticket, it would be rude not to gorge. I’m not [...]
I’ve mentioned my love for silent film with live soundtrack before and as though the Gods of cultural oddity were reading my badly-punctuated plea for more, a whole initiative has sprung forth, promising to unite more films from the silent canon with contemporary musical accompaniment. Wunderbar! The latest incarnation of this magnificently diabolical marriage of [...]
The poor little Shipley Art Gallery gets a bit forgotten about doesn’t it? Way over there on the wrong side of the river it can seem somewhat neglected. A quiet and peaceful ‘hidden gem’, this art gallery never gets as busy as the more overtly child-oriented places, which makes a visit infinitely more pleasant for [...]
Bob Marley died of cancer, a cancer that began in his big toe. I thought this was a myth like the rumour that Elvis Presley died of constipation, but, as I learned from Marley, it is the tragic and absurd truth. A man who, for many, changed the world was snatched from the earth aged [...]
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