The North East Magazine
Written and directed by Andy Hamilton and starring Neil Pearson, ‘Trevors World Of Sport’ is the first time release of this BBC television sitcom that was broadcast originally in 2003 . Set in a Sports Industry PR Company Pearson plays as duck out of water decent man in a mindboggling corrupt business. Diva like stars from [...]
‘Mother’ is the first solo album release from Natalie Maines former lead singer of the award winning Dixie Chicks. “I wanted this music to be very different from The Dixie Chicks” she says.”Lots of albums by lead singers might just have been made by the band, but I think this is very different from anything [...]
Canadian Book Of Beer by Steve Cameron is one of the latest offerings to come from the Blue Bike Books publishing stables. Beer is a universal beverage with as many variations as there are recipes that magically merge water, hops and yeast. Charles Dickens no slouch when it came to alcohol refreshment would at the [...]
Produced and directed by Jim Brown this time Time Life DVD entitled ‘American Troubadour” is available at all good CD/DVD stores. “American Pie”, “Vincent”, “And I Love You So” are three songs that will live forever. Their author and singular performer Don McLean the American singer songwriter is the subject of this slow burning but [...]
The SummerTyne Americana Festival held each year at The Sage Gateshead takes place this year from July 19th to 21st. Over the years it has become the prestigious event for musical appreciators with an across the board mix of musical genres with a nucleus of country flavourings. This year the indoor events kick off with [...]
Gateshead International Festival of Theatre 2013 takes place at various locations from Thursday (May 2nd) through to Sunday 5th May. The GIFT initative was established to provide a platform for work not normally featured in the region and for new theatre makers in the North East. Now in it’s third year the festival features [...]
Roots, Shoots and Leaves (Cooking With Vegetables) by Bernadette Le Roux is a new book from Sunbird Publishers. Vegetables are the secret friend of great recipes and fine dining. In all their diversity, taste, colour and variations within a type they add to the joy of life. In this classy publication by author Bernadette Le [...]
Alan Jackson – Precious Memories Volume 2 is his latest release on the EMI/Humphead record label. Ironically the song does have a precious memory for me as the first time I heard it was many moons ago sung by Jim Reeves, it was a track featured on a favourite album of my mothers entitled ‘God [...]