The Ewan Brown Newcastle Anarchist Bookfair marks its fifth anniversary this May at the Star and Shadow. Hats aloft! First up, you should know that the Anarchist Bookfair is so much more than a bookfair. Yes, there are books – some that may or may not ha…

This Sunderland/Gateshead band has a new album out in May, and it’s a bewitching delight from start to finish. And that album is called ‘The Haunted Life of Architecture’ (released 15 May) and its gestation came about after their songwriter Daniel Clif…

A young woman exhumes her uncomfortable family history in Spanish writer-director Carla Simon’s engaging semi-autobiographical drama. The year is 2004 and eighteen-year-old Marina Piñeiro (Garcia) travels from Barcelona to Vigo, a city on the Spanish coas…