PAOLO Nutini is back. Amazingly, it has been three years since million-selling debut These Streets put the Paisley-born songwriter on the musical map.Read
HE’S one of the big men of opera – in voice, in stature, in reputation. But now Bryn Terfel is being marketed as the ‘bad boy’ of opera as he prepares for a national tour which will bring him to the North East for the very first time.Read
DAVID Gest promised entertainment, if nothing else, as the living advert for Z-list celebrity excess rolled in to the Journal Tyne Theatre this week.Read
Natacha Atlas has performed on Tyneside several times over the years. Many know her as Transglobal Underground’s singer and belly dancer, others remember her last performance at the Sage when she appeared on a trapeze!Read
RIVALRY is the essential ingredient of football, whether on the pitch or off it. But sometimes it can spill over into something uglier – as we saw recently with a clash between Millwall and West Ham and as we have also seen in relation to Newcastle versus Sunderland.Read
OPERA North, in association with The Sage Gateshead and Symphony Hall Birmingham, has announced a series of concert performances of Wagner’s demanding Ring Cycle.Read
