If you’re unfamiliar with horsegiirL, I implore you to get to know her - with her extraordinary (and rather uncanny) half human, half horse aesthetic, she’s not an artist you’re likely to forget soon. In v.i.p, the Berlin-based DJ incorporates hardstyle, …

The 900 play a whole bunch of raucous songs, all of which have appeared in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater videogames. Naughty but niche! See them in Sunderland in early April. I spent a huge amount of my time in the early 00s (and beyond) trying to carve, grin…

Stephen May won much praise for his last novel ‘Sell Us The Rope’, which told the tale of Stalin’s visit to London in 1907. For ‘Green Ink’ he’s treading similar ground in that he’s blending fact and fiction to detail the curious events of 1920 when the t…

Gia Coppola’s film feels like an obvious attempt to do for star Pamela Anderson what ‘The Wrestler’ did for Mickey Rourke. It feels heartfelt enough but underwhelms on the script front. Anderson is Shelly Gardner, a fifty-seven-year-old dancer who has per…

The wonderful Tyne Valley Film Festival returns this March for their grand 5th outing, with 33 screenings taking place across 23 unique venues across the Tyne Valley and surrounding areas. From little acorns, mighty oaks have risen in rural areas across t…

One of the region’s most glorious festivals – the Newcastle Puppetry Festival – returns this April. From street carnivals, to premiere shows, to an amazing array of workshops, this year’s Newcastle Puppetry Festival – which comes to us courtesy of Moving …

The Railway Quarter – which you can find nestled among the iconic railways and bridges on the Gateshead side of the Tyne – is one of THE most up and coming places in the north-east. Home to a plethora of independent businesses, and some of the best pubs y…

The Sunderland spoken word poet and musical artist 90BRO is launching his new album in North Shields this March, and it’s set to be an event far removed from your average launch. I’ve been to a fair few album launches in my time but none of them commenced…

When Trump decided he was going to ‘take over’ England, everyone in the rest of the world assumed it was the usual gaslighting and bluster. After all, this was a president who said he’d take over Greenland and didn’t, take over Canada and didn’t, take ove…