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Review: Grizzly Bear at The Sage Gateshead

THIS was, despite the luscious harmonies and addictive hooks, certainly not a night of easy listening.Read

Review: Newcastle Bach Choir at The Sage Gateshead

JS BACH blew forth from his 18th Century Leipzig to the banks of the Tyne on Sunday night courtesy of Newcastle Bach Choir.Read

Why stage star David is enjoying life on the road

POPULAR actor David Troughton is back in the region this week, playing opposite Alison Steadman in Alan Bennet’s Enjoy at the Theatre Royal.Read

Opera singer Katherine Jenkins

Review: Katherine Jenkins, Metro Radio Arena

AUDIENCES were treated to the sparkle and pizzazz of a large-scale West End show on Saturday night.Read

The weird and wonderful

WHEN Emilie Autumn rolls into town tomorrow it is probably prudent to expect the unexpected.Read

African Soul Rebels, The Sage Gateshead

AN annual event has become a mustn’t-miss date: three of the finest acts from the previous 12 months packaged into one night. Read

The Futureheads, O2 Academy, Newcastle

THE Sunderland post-punk favourites topped the bill at a packed-out Academy on Thursday for a night of some of the best new music from across the UK. Read

Singer Lady Gaga

Monster year for Lady Gaga

When Lady Gaga last performed in Newcastle, as bottom-of-the-bill support to the Pussycat Dolls in January 2009, few would have predicted that by the time she returned she would have sold over nine million copies of her debut albumRead

La Boheme

Review: La Boheme at Newcastle Theatre Royal

WOMAN knocks on chap’s door to borrow cup of sugar (actually light for candle), falls in love, gets ill, dies.Read

Baroness Shirley Williams

Fifth Hexham book festival fires up

THE programme for the Hexham Book Festival was unveiled yesterday, and will doubtless cause a flurry of date-circling in the diaries of literature lovers all over the North East.Read

Kate Fox

Budding writers' scheme a success

ANYONE who's a writer, performance poet or stand-up comedian clearly has a way with words.Read

Europe

Review: Europe at the Newcastle O2 academy

YES it’s that Europe. Yes, The Final Countdown Europe. And yes, they are still going. In fact they’ve been going strong again since 2003 when the original line-up reformed.Read

Simon Jauncey photo exhibition at Opus Gallery

Simon Jauncey photo exhibition at Opus Gallery

THE Opus Gallery, Gosforth, which specialises in contemporary art, has a new exhibition devoted to the work of Scottish-born photographer Simon Jauncey.Read

Joanna Trollope

Interview: Joanna Trollope on The Other Family

THE North East has an enthusiastic and potentially very valuable new fan: Joanne Trollope, bestselling author of 15 contemporary novels which one reviewer, to her chagrin, once described as “Aga sagas”.Read

Review: Machine Head, Newcastle O2 Academy

IN THE world of heavy metal, fist-pumping, riff-rousing wannabes sign up for the long haul. And as Machine Head approach their 20th anniversary it is only now that the band from Oakland, California, are being lauded as the true saviours of a genre in need of new heroes.Read

Dancers from the Cuban dance troupe Danza Contemporanea performing on stage at the theatre Royal, Newcastle

Review: Danza Contemporanea de Cuba at Theatre Royal, Newcastle

MAKING its UK debut in Newcastle – an occasion which brought the nationals’ dance critics north – one of Cuba’s leading dance companies was clearly out to make an impact on Tuesday night.Read

Trev Stardust from electro-indie band Viva City

Viva City head to the US to play SXSW festival

THEY have been ricocheting around the North East’s music venues for some time. But Viva City – who are playing The Cluny at the Ouseburn tonight – are preparing to catapult their blend of electro-indie tunes across the pond.Read

Lead singer Morten Harket from Norwegian pop group A-ha

Fans' chance to see A-ha's last hurrah

THE final curtain will come down on the career of Norwegian pop trio, A-ha later this year.Read