The North East Magazine
Number Five is Alive and is now available to watch in the eighties classic Short Circuit film which comes to DVD and Blu-ray. It’s ninety five minutes of great entertainment for all the family and an ideal watch over the festive celebrations. Experimental military robots are being put through their paces at an army base [...]
If you’ve ‘liked’ the American Connection Facebook page, then it could be you that wins our Album Of The Week on today’s show from Adrianna Freeman along with the latest album from The Time Jumpers, as I’ll be making the draw later in the show. I’ll be taking the usual look at some country artist [...]
Even if I say it myself there’s a great across the board mix of good music on today’s show and there’s almost 100 minutes of it. Our Album Of The Week features a band that have reformed in their original personnel lineup to bring out a new EP…that’s Exile and it’s sheer modern country class [...]
Randy Bruce Traywick began playing country music in his early teens with his brother Ricky when they formed a duo and called themselves The Traywicks. It was years later when he won a talent competition that the clubs owner to a liking to his music and he changed his name to Randy Ray. It was [...]
This is the eighth studio album release by alternative Country Rock band “The Jayhawks” who have been producing quality self penned music and notable covers since the early eighties. Big in Americana music circles across the pond they have still to make much an impact over here. That said this handsome collection just might do [...]
“Old Tribal Habits Die Hard” Set in a down at heal sink estate in mid eighties Liverpool, this film starring Bernard Hill, Ray McNally, Michael Angelis and Elvis Costello tells the story of the confrontation between two religious tribal groups who get their parties double booked on New Year’s Eve. Liverpool, often called the [...]
There’s a bit of a special on today’s show, because after a modicum of pressure you’re going to hear yours truly sing a song. Since the announcement of Billie Jo Spears appearing here in Britain as part of the ‘Ladies Of Country Tour’ many listeners remembered that in the eighties I had recorded a song [...]
“It’s The Way That They Tell Them’ Back in the seventies, stand up comedy was king and top of the pile were the stars who appeared on this Saturday night weekly TV show produced between 1974-77 by Granada Television. Set in an imaginary club under the stewardship of the redoubtable Colin Crompton as Chairman the [...]