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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

Solo role in La Voix Humaine marks Lesley Garrett’s return Feb 25 2013

ON this page, it’s pretty safe to say, you see bubbly opera star Lesley Garrett as you’ve never seen her before.Read

Preview: The Chapman Family, The Cluny, Newcastle Feb 19 2013

AMID the fanfare and patriotic dousing of the nation in red, white and blue last summer, a lone voice of dissent emerged on Teesside.Read

Review: Train, Newcastle O2 Academy Feb 19 2013

TRAIN keeps on rolling. But only just. The band’s first scheduled stop in the UK of 2013 could well have been their last had it not been for Pat Monahan’s steely perseverance.Read

Review: The Romantic Symphony 3, Northern Sinfonia, The Sage Gateshead Feb 19 2013

THE day of this concert someone told me that she aims to “suck the juices out of life”.Read

Director hails new role as endorsement of The Sage Gateshead Feb 14 2013

ANTHONY Sargent, general director of The Sage Gateshead, has taken on a prestigious new role which he describes as a ringing endorsement of the North East institution.Read

Review: Kerrang! Tour 2013, Newcastle O2 Academy Feb 14 2013

WRITING music beyond their years and acutely aware of what it means to entertain, Fearless Vampire Killers have got it cracked.Read

Northern Chords festival to pay homage to composers Feb 14 2013

F Benjamin Britten were still alive, he would be getting a telegram from The Queen in November. Wagner and Verdi, meanwhile, would have turned 100 in the year he was born, 1913.Read

Interview: The Fearless Vampire Killers Feb 11 2013

FEARLESS Vampire Killers sound like a bad B-movie and look like they haven’t washed for weeks. But, as Simon Rushworth discovers, there's more to British metal’s new kids on the block than meets the eye.Read

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