The third and definitely most far-out out there long player from The Utopia Strong, the experimental, psychedelic, prog, ambient, electronica threepiece featuring a former snooker world champion, ...

We chat with the two creative entities about their event on 26th September at Star & Shadow, Newcastle, which celebrates the DIY artists shaping the city’s grassroots subculture art scene. Two of the ...

From Saturday 19 th – Sunday 27 th April, you can get your puppetry fix (if you knew you needed such a thing), as the Newcastle Puppetry Festival returns to the city. With a varied programme which ...

The award-winning Liverpool-based company 20 Stories High collaborate with acclaimed national partners Graeae, Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse and Leeds 2023 to create High Times and Dirty Monsters, a ...

After a three year hiatus, Books on Tyne is proudly stepping back into the spotlight with the 10 th instalment of this beloved Newcastle -based book festival taking place from Saturday 19 th-Saturday ...

A mainstay on the independent festival circuit, Colonel Mustard and the Dijon 5 translate some of their live party vibe onto their latest album, The Difficult Number 2. A melting pot of different ...

Psychedelic punks Radio Silence collate all their releases so far and add a couple we haven’t heard yet and release their Isolation EP. With tracks discussing all that’s not-so-great about modern ...

We chat with the documentary filmmaker, turned author, about his new book Tyne and Weird, which illustrates just how weird the North-East can be Documentary filmmaker Rob Kilburn runs the Tyne and ...

Since I first discovered and started writing about the North East’s humble urban music scene almost three years ago, one name constantly came up in discussion: Rick Fury. During any conversation about ...

Los Angeles-based post-punk group Flat Worms released their energetic new album Into The Iris in February this year. They are now subsequently sweeping across the UK, touring with performances as ...

We caught up with comedian and promoter Dean Moore for a chat on all things comedy. As the brains behind Middlesbrough’s super successful Halfpenny Comedy Club, he’s pulled in some of the comedy ...

Lee Fisher: Perhaps the first thing one notices about this year’s AV Festival is the title, ‘Meanwhile, What About Socialism?’. After the more open-ended themes of previous years – Broadcast, Slow, ...