inU x OSCURA is coming to Newcastle in early June with a super-hot line-up featuring both Patrice Bäumel and Dave Seaman. Oh, my! This is going to be good. Patrice Bäumel rose to prominence through releases via labels such as Kompakt and Afterlife, whe…

This year marks the centenary of the 1926 General Strike, and to that end there’s plenty going on in the north-east. It’s said that the 1926 General Strike was the biggest rupture to society since the Civil War, and, largely thanks to Wisecrack Product…

In James Alistair Henry’s debut novel, Britain is divided into ancient tribes; but this is also a Britain of office blocks, mobile phone apps, and vapes. In short, ‘Pagans’ is a high-concept alternate history thriller in which the Norman Conquest of 1066 …