Music in Newcastle, live music & gigs in the North East

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Review: Folk Rising, The Sage Gateshead Mar 19 2013

THE Folk Rising concerts always promise an eclectic mix of boundary-breaking folk music and this was no exception.Read

Review: Falling Red, Newcastle O2 Academy Mar 19 2013

EARLIER this month South Shields singer songwriter Ginger, of The Wildhearts, bemoaned what he perceived to be the demise of the North East rock scene.Read

Review: Clannad, The Sage Gateshead Mar 16 2013

THE world’s most successful Gaelic rock fusion band take their name from the Gaelic word for family.Read

Review: The Script, Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle Mar 13 2013

IN the two years since their last Newcastle visit, The Script have garnered an ever-growing and increasingly devoted following.Read

Newcastle Choral Society to take on Vaughan Williams Mar 13 2013

THE singers of Newcastle Choral Society are preparing to make some big sounds and stir deep emotions.Read

Interview: Singer Dan Reed on his journey through rock world Mar 12 2013

FROM Portland to Prague and every major city in between, Dan Reed’s journey has been a remarkable one.Read

Gilly Love to receive the MBE for services to music Mar 12 2013

THE first time I saw Gilly Love in action was about three years ago when I was documenting a day in the life of The Sage Gateshead.Read

Preview: Music v Cancer, Grand Hotel, Hartlepool Mar 11 2013

A CRACKING music weekender is set to rock Hartlepool next month to raise funds for charity.Read

New songs and old tales as Pitmen Poets return Mar 11 2013

WHEN Billy Mitchell, Bob Fox, Jez Lowe and Benny Graham were approached to put something together to represent a slice of North East culture, they thought it was a one off.Read

Review: The Darkness, Newcastle City Hall Mar 07 2013

JUSTIN Hawkins and company have played the City Hall before.Read

Interview: Erlend Hjelvik, frontman with heavy metallers Kvelertak Mar 07 2013

NORWEGIANS have no shame, it seems. In fact, press Erlend Hjelvik on his band’s imminent debut in the North East – in the light of his country’s historical reputation for ransacking the region – and he’s in no mood to hold back.Read

Review: Richard Thompson Band, The Sage Gateshead Mar 06 2013

RICHARD Thompson features in the upper echelons of most people’s lists of the world’s greatest guitarists and has done so for years. Read

Review: Mark Eitzel, The Cluny 2, Newcastle Mar 04 2013

HE SHAMBLES on, still looking like one of Cezanne’s card players. What he doesn’t do is apologise persistently.Read

Review: La Voix Humaine and Dido and Aeneas, Opera North, Newcastle Theatre Royal Feb 28 2013

AN intriguing double bill presents us with lovelorn women - and musical styles - from across the ages.Read

Review: X Factor star Olly Murs at the Metro Radio Arena Feb 28 2013

IT seems that Olly Murs, pop's mischievous troublemaker, might just have grown up.Read

Review: The Chapman Family, Cluny 2, Newcastle Feb 27 2013

STEPPING downstairs into Cluny 2 is a bit like stepping into a holistic cavern, a dark but homely venue that, on this evening, reverberates with wall-to-wall intensity.Read

Preview: Brofest NWOBHM festival at Northumbria University Students’ Union Feb 27 2013

IN 1980 a new musical phenomenon burst on to the scene. It was called the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) and it spawned bands such as Iron Maiden, Def Leppard and Saxon.Read

Review: Everything Everything, Newcastle 02 Academy Feb 26 2013

A MERCURY PRIZE-nominated debut LP that was sometimes thrilling and occasionally brilliant, Man Alive was crammed with staccato lyrics, taut with musical invention but some claim it was packed with too many ideas.Read