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Veteran rock star Bryan Adams is to kick off his Roll With The Punches world arena tour in Newcastle next May – and tickets went on sale today. The tour, named after his upcoming new album, starts at Newcastle’s Utilita Arena on May 8. Adams will then play 10 other venues around the UK, […]
The late Smiths bassist Andy Rourke is set to have a mural unveiled in his honour later this year. Rourke sadly passed away in May following a lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer. The official unveiling of his mural is set to coincide with Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Day on November 21st. A Crowdfunder, which has now […]
Overall Rating: 6.5/10 Highlight: Mothers It’s not every day that you come across indie pop albums about grand theft gorilla. If that’s what you’ve been searching for though, today is your lucky day. Blossoms are back with their latest album Gary, and they’re getting groovy. Fresh off the back of their third UK number-one album, […]
A promotional campaign is underway to turn the Tee’s Barrage in Stockton-on-Tees, into a regular, recognisable location used for film and TV productions. Sam Mendes’s World War 1 film 1917 (released in 2019) has become the most well-known production to have used this location. The sequence in the film that the Barrage features in […]
Ocean Colour Scene have announced that they will be coming to the North East as part of their 22-date UK & Ireland tour in 2025. The band announced their latest tour following a string of successful summer festival appearances. Looking ahead to the tour, lead vocalist Simon Fowler said, “Having had such a great time […]
“I want to be the lighthouse / Bring all of you together”: Stevie Nicks, the transcendent songstress of Fleetwood Mac legend, has released her first single in two years, raising her own flag for women’s rights in the teeth of America’s anti-abortion court ruling. The Lighthouse is Nicks’ protest against the American Supreme Court’s decision, […]
After 16 years, The Cure are back with their new single ‘Alone’. The legendary post-punk outfit premiered the first song off of their upcoming album Songs of a Lost World exclusively on BBC Radio 6. The track opens in classic The Cure fashion, with a lengthy instrumental intro. As the first song on the album, […]
Oscar-winning British director Danny Boyle has been in the North East filming his latest film, 28 Years Later, the highly anticipated third instalment in the horror series. Recognisable locations in the film will include Northumberland, Hexham, Waskerley, Lindisfarne, Ripon, Aysgarth Falls and Fountains Abbey, and Melsonby, which have been used to bring the dystopian horror […]
