This week there’s a real special flavour to the show as we link in with Nashville and a superstar takes over to present the show. A couple of month ago Carrie Underwood became the first American country artist to play to a fully packed house at the Royal Albert Hall on her first visit to [...]
Matraca Berg returns to The Sage Gateshead
If you have had the pleasure of experiencing the Wine, Women and Song shows with Gretchen Peters, Suzy Bogguss and Matraca Berg, then you may relate to the fact that Matraca is the ‘quiet ‘one. She’ll also be the first to admit that before she comes on stage for a performance she gets ‘butterflies’. To [...]
Nanci Griffith at The Sage Gateshead
Many years ago in the halycon days of the Peterborough Country Music Festival I had the pleasure of seeing a fairly new artist at the time called Nanci Griffith. Nanci was new to hard core British country music audiences and it was not perhaps until the release of her album ‘Lone Star State of Mind’ [...]
Agatha Christie – And Then There Were None
‘And Then There Were None’ by Agatha Christie plays the Peoples Theatre in Newcastle this week from tonight (Tuesday 17th January) until Saturday January 21st Agatha Christie remains the Queen of the crime novel. Innovative in her plots, she found a formula and won an audience which remains alive and well on television, films and [...]
Oh! Please Yourselves – Frankie Howerd at ITV
‘Oh! Please Yourselves’ is a new DVD offering featuring Frankie Howerd available from Network DVD. As written, a Frankie Howerd script betrayed not the slightest flicker of humour or wit. It was the man who provided that magic ingredient. Transforming the most banal observation into a circus of sexual innuendo, bitchy superiority and savage put [...]
Piaf at The Playhouse
PIAF The Centenary of The Peoples Theatre comes to a triumphant conclusion with an energetic production of this play about the legendary French singer Edith Piaf. A child literally of the Paris streets Piaf, known as ‘The Little Sparrow’ found fame singing sad songs of heartbreak and loss which, French in character found a world [...]
Kete Bowers-Road to Success
Liverpool born singer/songwriter makes a confident début with this joyous and well produced CD. Gifted in his use of words his lyrics sing of experience and love. At the heart of this album, and I suspect of his artistic muse is the loving memory of his late grandmother Isobel. Her name is the title of [...]
Michelle Shocked-Soul Of My Soul
‘Soul of My Soul’ is the latest offering from this Texas singer songwriter and she’s in fine form. Michelle Shocked burst onto the scene by getting arrested, back in 1984. In doing so she acquired her stage name and found an audience. Since then she has kept her audience gripped and entertained in equal measure. [...]