The North East Magazine
‘Old Sock’ is the latest album release from Eric Clapton on the Polydor record label. Eric Clapton has been around since the early Sixties and has helped define the very best in Pop and Rock in British music since then. From “The Yardbirds”, to “Cream”, “Blind Faith” and as a solo artist he has [...]
The Mavericks ‘In Time’ release is a brand new offering from the band after an absence of nine years. Founded in 1989 they developed a unique sound which took on a Tex Mex cuban style, complimenting great rhythms accompanied by a vibrant horn section and between 1991 and 2003 they recorded six studio albums in [...]
We live in a 24 hour news cycle where underneath the 15 minute repeat cycle of headlines conspiracy theorists run riot that the world that we live in is not really as it presents. This is not new phenomena a fact which is wonderfully in evidence in Networks first time release (in any format) of [...]
The ship that could not sink did so on it’s maiden voyage to New York one hundred years ago this year. The shock and scale of the Titanic disaster has resonated in the public mind ever since and is unlikely any time soon to fade back into history. The search for and finding of the [...]
“One Language Separated by Two Cultures”. Fifties movie star darling Doris Day was and remains a multi media legend long before our present day instant “celebrities” that pop up overnight and “like snow on a ditch in may” just as quickly disappear. A top selling recording artist and toast of Broadway, Hollywood called and Doris [...]
Written by two of the famous “Goodies” comedy team namely Bill Oddie and Graham Garden this series ran on ITV for two series in 1981 and 1983. This is a first time release for this amusing and lighthearted situation comedy that is set in a space lab when such real life adventures were at the [...]
Comedy finds favour in opposites accommodating one another and misunderstandings harvesting conflict and absurdities. No more so can it be seen than in the latest release from the Network DVD emporium which stars Julia McKenzie, Irene Handl, and Anton Rodgers. Take Julia Mc kenzie a recently divorced teacher starting a new life and alighting upon [...]
World War 2 was the most destructive event in human history. Recent calculations have established that for the nearly five years duration of the War the daily death toll amounted to 70,000.It is indeed chilling to realise that the vast majority of these casualties were of civilian’s men women and children killed on the “home [...]