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CARTOON CAPERS THE 2015 FILM AND COMIC CONVENTION HITS TOON

PLUS: EGG-CELLENT EASTER + JIMMY CARR + BLUE RECLAIM YOUR LUNCH HOUR + BRIDIE JACKSON AND THE ARBOUR CONTENTS

NE1 magazine is brought to you by NE1 Ltd, the company which champions all that’s great about Newcastle city centre WHAT’S ON IN NE1 04 UPFRONT Something old, something new, some Lycra, and Blue! 08 TRY THIS Listen, watch, learn and explore 11 EASTER Our kids’ guide to the holiday 12 12 COMIC CON Our guide to Film and Comic Con 2015 14 STAGE I will always love yooooouuuuuuu! 18 MUSIC Getting to know folk darlings SALLY ANN NORMAN SALLY COVER: CREDIT, IMAGE 16 20 Bridie Jackson and The Arbour FUNNY BUSINESS TIME TO RELAX 22 LISTINGS We catch up with Jimmy Carr Lunch in the city is far more than a Your go-to guide to ahead of this month’s City Hall gig walk to the vending machine goings on in NE1

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DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME More Fight Club than Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks, Insane Championship Wrestling does exactly what it says on the tin. Full of comedy and stunts, these shows aren’t for the faint-hearted. If blood, bad language and plenty of violence are your WORD ON THE idea of fun, pull up a collapsible chair and enjoy watching STREET Lycra-clad wrestlers beat each other senseless in this strictly 18+ show. O2 Academy, March 28, £15 o2academynewcastle.co.uk RAISE A GLASS VIEW FROM THE Luxury whisky, wine and champagne bar TERRACES Glass House has With football watcher opened its doors on Paul Dixon Dean Street. The £250,000 development You know the sensation when your claims to have the best whisky and spouse announces: “Don’t make champagne selections in the city and plans for Saturday, we’re going to there’s live jazz on selected nights. visit [insert name of tedious friends Dean St, glasshousenewcastle.co.uk and/or relatives]”? This, I’m afraid, is similar to trooping up to St. James’ PARTY IN THE PARK Park for an afternoon to be endured World-class DJs rather than enjoyed. Steve Angelo and Newcastle United won’t be Steve Aoki are relegated, were out of domestic cup heading to Toon for competitions before the Christmas Northern Lights in decorations came down, and have the Exhibition Park in May. same chance (or appetite) of competing More than 50 artists play the two-day in Europe as Nigel Farage. event, which features three stages of live As ever, we’ll be the ones who music, two bars, and food stalls. can influence other teams rather Exhibition Park, reachforthelights.com than ourselves as the season draws KILT KINGS AMERICAN DREAM interminably to a close, occupying the YOU’RE HAVING A LAUGH You might be forgiven for thinking blues rockers King Nope, not a Scottish folk band enthralled by Rabbie footballing tundra of dreary mid-table. On the festival theme, King have come straight from Memphis rather than their Burns or an Americana-drenched group with Steinbeck Most of our remaining fixtures are Jesterval returns native Glasgow, though while Alan Nimmo’s American- issues - Of Mice And Men are pure Californian metalcore. against teams after top four places, or from June 5-14 with accented bluesy drawl is authentic and powerful, the Inspired by the concept of the American Dream, the heavy trying to avoid having to troop around more than 30 comics kilt is a bit of a giveaway. rockers fuse a love of punk with emo-tinged influences, footballing backwaters like Rotherham including Ed Byrne, King King is the hottest band on the blues-rock circuit resulting in a sound that pays homage to the likes of or Wigan next season. All we have to Sara Pascoe right now and Nimmo certainly knows his way around a Buzzcocks and The Clash as much as rabble-rousers KORN play for now is a top half finish. (pictured), Jason Cook, and Chris fretboard. The band’s high-energy blues-rock is backed and Linkin Park. Expect an onslaught of guitars, brutal drums That afternoon with Marjorie from Ramsey. Tickets range from £3-£13 and with genuine talent and played with passion, and who cares and angst-fuelled lyrical gymnastics. work who collects thimbles is starting to there are a number of free events, too. where they’re from when the music is this good? O2 Academy, March 31, £16.50 look appealing.

Guape.Tom and ICW/ChelseaCochrane CREDITS : Guape.Tom IMAGE Baltic Square, jesterval.co.uk Sage Gateshead, March 19, £15, sagegateshead.com O2academynewcastle.co.uk [email protected]

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HOUSEWIVES’ CHOICE Less boy band, more man band these days, Blue are no longer the winsome lads whose catchy RnB-infused pop saw them top the charts in the early noughties. They’ve recently swapped pop hits for reality TV - ref. Blue Go Mad In Ibiza, Simon I’M READING… Webbe on Strictly, Lee Ryan’s Celebrity Big Brother appearance – and now they’re back on tour. You can’t keep a good man band down, it seems. Newcastle City Hall, March 31, £25, newcastlecityhall.org DECKLIN O’HAGAN, 28 STUDENT, NEWCASTLE I’m reading Irish rugby OWN GOAL union legend As a one-time football pundit, writer Andy Fury’s experiences Brian O’Driscoll’s on tour with Sunderland AFC in the US have set him up well READ ALL ABOUT IT autobiography The for comedy. 24-hour news might have made a big dent in Test. It’s fascinating Having spent 10 years reporting for news organisations around newspaper sales, but artist Tony Swain is still making learning how a the world, Fury swapped football stadiums for comedy clubs and good use of newsprint by painting over the top of it. professional sportsman works, and how has won a host of awards including the Hilarity Bites New Act of the Swain takes everyday broadsheets and applies a much they put into their preparation. Year competition in 2010, and got himself a stint on Radio 4. range of materials to transform them into canvases on His latest tour and newly released book, My Cup Upset, revisits which he teases out distorted landscapes. The abstract SAM GRIST, 22 his first love and tells a heart-warming and hilarious tale of artworks hover on the border between reality and fantasy, FREELANCE WRITER, WHICKHAM friendship and footie. demonstrating that print isn’t dead, it’s just underneath I’ve just finished The Hyena, March 20, 21, £11, thehyena.com the surface. Baltic, until July 12, free, balticmill.com reading Ayoade on Ayoade by the film director and comedian Richard TOON TWEETS Ayoade. It’s very funny, A FEW OF THE THINGS THAT HAVE GOT PEOPLE TWEETING… TWEET US @NEWCASTLENE1 and explores the premise of the standard ‘celebrity interview’. HOP & CLEAVER WATERSTONESNEWCASTLE DIANE DIXON (@DIABELL): (@HOPANDCLEAVER): (@WATERSTONESNEWC): The B stage from the front of the venue JADE WILKINSON, 21 Planning a party? Book the taproom Delicious scones from @frenchoven #zoomlense @thescript @TheScript_Danny STUDENT, JESMOND now and enjoy an evening in barbecue available in Cafe W! #newcastle #manwhocan’tbemoved Newcastle I’m currently reading heaven! #NE1 #localfood #ne1 #CafeW Men, Women and Children by Chad THEYESTERDAYSOCIETY DANIEL (@LUZHNIKI2008): ALEXANDER SHELLEY Kultgen. I loved the (@THEYESTERDAYSOC): Newcastle Upon Tyne, England (@SHELLEYCONDUCT): film, which starred Enjoying a cookie and a cuppa from In @BackPageShop Newcastle - 5 mins to stage & room 7 is causing trouble @ Adam Sandler, so I our new neighbour Mrs Pumphery best football memorabilia shop in TheatreRoyalNew @Opera_North #ONFigaro decided to get the book. I’m really @PumphreysCoffee #Graingermarket the country @Helen_Sherman #Newcastle enjoying it and would recommend it.

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KNIVES (AND FORKS) OUT Thanks to the popularity of sites like Tripadvisor, everyone can be a critic, but few TOON TUNES of them are as brilliant or anything like as WITH STEVE DAVIS bona fide as Jay Rayner. BEHIND THE SCENES Promoter and manager at He’s doled out his fair share of bad reviews and AT THE MUSEUM SSD Concerts been on the receiving end of a handful himself. You’d never assume that having road kill brought to In his new one-man show, My Dining Hell, he your front door would be an occupational hazard Lately, there’s been a shift, a ray of examines our love affair with lousy reviews in all for a museum curator, but if you work at Great North hope, a rejuvenation in the North their gory detail. Recently voted the UK’s Museum: Hancock, it’s an unfortunate possibility. East music scene, bringing with it a top food and drink journalist, he presents a The museum of natural science and world culture sense that something is happening. hilarious journey through terrible meals and offers a fascinating insight into how it works this month as I can’t put my finger on why, but there stroppy restaurateurs. learning officer Roy Bearpark recounts eye-opening tales is definitely a new batch of hungry kids The Stand, March 30, £12, thestand.co.uk about preserving objects collected hundreds of years ago. aspiring to break through. Whether it’s Watch out for the odd dead badger on your way in. because of the BBC 6 Music Festival, Great North Museum: Hancock, March 24, £4 the amazing work of Nick Roberts twmuseums.org.uk/great-north-museum and the BBC Introducing team, or the resurgence of popular rock on national radio with the likes of Royal Blood TRUMPET VOLUNTARY inspiring the next generation, it doesn’t Top trumpeter Bruce Adams hits Toon this month, matter. The fact is, something’s brewing. bringing his enviable embouchure skills to Local bands like Little Comets, the Jazz Café. Lisbon, Gallery Circus, Boy Jumps Ship One of British jazz music’s and The Lake Poets are holding their most cherished musicians, own outside the area. Little Comets the flugelhorn and trumpet have been doing it for years but their virtuoso is in demand on album going into the UK album charts the big band circuit, working at 31 proves what can be achieved. A DOCTOR WHO… SUPER SHORTS with the BBC Big Band and It’s not just guitar bands either - the A thought-provoking lecture at The Lit & Phil International Short Film Festival Oberhausen Scottish Radio Orchestra as work of Northern Lights and Shindig by Ian McArdle shines a light on the life of has become one of the world’s most respected well as Kenny Baker’s Dozen and is staggering, and you’ll not see better Charles Wilson, Winston Churchill’s physician film events, and Tyneside Cinema will screen the Ted Heath Band. He’s also a dance festivals outside Ibiza this year. during World War II and a young medical several shorts this month. regular nominee at the British Excitement in the city hasn’t been officer during WWI. Expect a range of visual techniques, spanning Jazz Awards, winning the this high for many years - just check His experiences on the battlefields of the subjects as diverse as lost love, hidden memories Top Trumpet prize three out the upcoming gig calendars at the Western Front offer a detailed picture of life on and themes of loneliness and isolation, offering a times. Unmissable. likes of Sage Gateshead, O2 Academy, the front line and the role of medical personnel bite-sized insight into an often powerful medium. Jazz Café, March 20 The Cluny, and Think Tank?. North East during conflict. Tyneside Cinema, from £5, March 23-26 £10, jazzcafe- music is flying right now! The Lit & Phil, March 24, free, litandphil.org.uk tynesidecinema.co.uk newcastle.co.uk ssdconcerts.co.uk

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Hopping mad Seven Stories is going hopping mad this Easter with rabbity fun including screenings of HOP! and Guess How Much I Love You. Watch out for the Bunny Book Burglar on the loose with Ralfy Rabbit creator Emily MacKenzie on April 10. April 3-19, sevenstories.org.uk

Princesses and superheroes Discovery Museum welcomes the Superhero Squad to help you brush up on your secret powers with a day of hero challenges, games and prizes (April 15). Meanwhile, the Cinderella Ball features singing, dancing, fun and games, art, crafts and party bags (April 7). Both £15, twmuseums.org.uk/discovery

Easter cinema Little princesses will enjoy a screening of the live action adaptation of Cinderella from March 27 at Tyneside and Empire cinemas. There are also kids films every day at 10.30am at the Tyneside. tynesidecinema.co.uk empirecinemas.co.uk

Implausible Places, Impossible Spaces If your youngster prefers to play with the box the gift came in, send them down to Baltic to get messy amid reams of newspaper, transforming the Quay Gallery into a world inspired by the current Tony Swain exhibition. April 4-19, free, balticmill.com

CBeebies Live Justin & Friends return to Newcastle this Easter with Mr Tumble’s Circus at the Metro Radio Arena. Expect thrills and spills with the CBeebies presenters and a host of circus performers. April 13 from £13.50, metroradioarena.co.uk 10 WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK 11 FILM & FILM & COMICRUBY WAX CON COMICNEWS CON

THE ZONES Clock Tower in costume and with a Providing dedicated spaces lightning strike background. for fans to meet the stars, For an additional fee, stars from buy merchandise and even be many cult films and TV shows are photographed with actors from TV on hand for a photo opp including shows and films, the Zones are the Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd place to be. (Torchwood), James Marsters (Buffy/ • In The Comic Zone, fans Torchwood), Ray Park (Phantom of sequential art can browse Menace, X-Men), Robert Llewellyn collectable comics and zines and Craig Charles (Red Dwarf), Ben alongside all manner of merchandise Crompton and Mark Stanley (Game including action figures, posters, of Thrones), Dan Starkey, Bonnie statues and original art. If you’re Langford, Louise Jameson and a closet scribbler, get your work William Russell (Doctor Who) and – critiqued by one of the top US or our personal favourite – Kenny Baker, UK editors or learn a new skill in a aka R2D2 (Star Wars). special masterclass. • The Manga and Anime Zones offer TALKS the opportunity to meet artists and If you’ve always wanted to know creators of these highly stylised how long it takes Kryten to put genres, plus merchandise and on his square head or how it collectables for you to explore. feels to be a Doctor Who love • Make a beeline for The Cosplay interest, now’s your chance to Zone if you’ve come dressed to find out the answers to all your impress (highly encouraged) and burning questions. enjoy parades and competitions. Talks take place throughout the Definitely the place for a photo opp. weekend, and highlights include • Get stuck into The Gaming Zone GET YOUR GEEK ON Craig Charles and Robert Llewellyn for some retro gaming, join in with Geeks of Newcastle unite, Film And Comic Con from Red Dwarf, wrestlers Bob mini-tournaments or just watch the Newcastle is coming to the Metro Radio Arena ‘Hardcore’ Holly and David Hart professional gamers show off. this month, offering an opportunity to meet stars Smith Jr, Star Wars actors Jeremy from the big and small screen. Ever wanted to Bullock and Pam Rose, and William K.I.T.T ON DISPLAY have your photo taken with R2D2 or Kryten? Now’s Russell, Louise Jameson and Bonnie Eighties TV fans can finally make your chance! Langford from Doctor Who. their Knight Rider dreams come The event will pack the Arena with collectable items, true, as Michael Knight’s trusty fun and quirky events, talks, workshops and some of DO YOUR BIT FOR CHARITY companion will be on display. Get the biggest stars around. Anyone looking for an insight To help celebrate Back To The in line early and strike a pose with into cult TV and film will find much to enjoy. So, grab that Future’s 30th anniversary, the the iconic car. Princess Leia or Klingon outfit from the closet and feel event will also support the the force of our handy guide to the best of the event. Michael J Fox Foundation charity MEET & GREET Metro Radio Arena, March 28-29, from £3 campaign, Up To 88, which helps to PHOTOSHOOTS metroradioarena.co.uk fund Parkinson’s research. Celebrating 30 years since the first There will be unique opportunities Back To The Future film, there are TWEET US USING on offer for those who go the extra unique opportunities to have your @NEWCASTLENE1 mile for the fundraising team so picture taken in costume with the dig deep.

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ON A PLATE Pitched somewhere between a Grimm fairy tale and an absurdist ghost story, The Red Chair is a one-woman show written and performed by Sarah Cameron. Cameron’s lilting Scots brogue takes the audience on a journey through a landscape littered with extreme compulsions and domestic drudgery, tackling the relationship ROCK AROUND between eater and feeder in the shape of a man who cannot stop eating and a woman THE CLOCK doomed to cook his meals, told amid a ghostly Live Theatre is harking back to the golden age of musical score. rock ‘n’ roll this month, as Mixtape’s latest bite- A haunting and compelling platter of sized micro-play turns to the 1950s for inspiration. physical theatre not to be missed. The Mixtapers create short theatre sketches Northern Stage, March 24-25, £10 inspired by songs and in this part-theatre show, part- northernstage.co.uk music quiz BuddyNewcastle’s Holly goes up against Premier Elvis and 6 nations Venue. Connie Francis. Don your prom dress or T-Bird leather jacket and rock aroundShowing the clock. all matches live throughout Live Theatre, March 20, £6, live.org.ukFebruary & March.

5 Real Ales always on tap. NEW MENU NOW AVAILABLE ON GUARD LET’S DANCE Full English served from 6am The Bodyguard will always be remembered Dance City is on the lookout for the next for that song, and while it remains one of the big dancing sensation at its latest series of Monday - Friday in C C Hudsons most karaoke-d numbers of all time, I Will PULSE events. Always Love You has also helped the stage Celebrating youth dancers from across the Open Mic nights - Fortnightly on Tuesdays musical break records and pick up four region, PULSE offers an inspiring opportunity Olivier Award nominations. for young dancers aged 11-19 to get involved Function rooms available for private hire In this show, X Factor winner Alexandra Burke in an increasingly competitive medium. Future will do justice to Whitney Houston’s big vocals Brendan Coles and Anton du Bekes are now Grand Central Station, Neville St, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 5DG as she takes on the lead role of Rachel Marron, battling it out to perform at the Regional PULSE Tel: 0191 2616611 played by Houston in the 1992 film. Platform, where we can expect pirouettes and www.centurion-newcastle.com Theatre Royal, April 1-18, from £17.50 hip-bumps aplenty. theatreroyal.co.uk Dance City, March 31, £5, dancecity.co.uk

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Jimmy Carr has been described How would you sum up the material for as the hardest-working man in your new show? comedy, which is rather like being I like to write a joke without any fat on it. awarded the prize for Tallest Dwarf or The shorter the better. I cater for people Healthiest Glaswegian. with ADD. Mind, he does get about a bit and he’s now back on the road with his new show, Funny This is your ninth tour. Haven’t you run Business, packed with witty musings and out of jokes yet? the odd knob joke, just to keep you on I write fewer jokes these days, but I have your toes. a better hit rate. The trick is to write down Ahead of the gig on March 27 we asked everything even vaguely funny and hope him some searching questions... that you trip across something brilliant.

Are you a workaholic? On average, how many jokes go you get I do work a lot, but it’s just telling jokes, into your show? which is basically a night out, so I I’ll try and tell 250 jokes over two hours, but suppose not. in order to get 250 jokes that work, I’ve got to write about 1,000. Some people are offended by your act. What do you think of that? Your memory must be impressive... It’s absolutely valid; people have a right to Well, the way to think about it is that it’s be offended. But I also reserve the right to my only job in the world. All I have to make a joke about whatever I want. think about is telling 250 jokes. And, how highly motivated am I? I’m standing in How hard is it to behave appropriately front of 3,000 people, that’s motivation to on telly? remember something. Think of a wedding and being moved from the kids’ table to sit with the And your infamous laugh? grown-ups. That’s what a panel show I’m proud to say it has its own Facebook can be like. You’re just thinking, ‘better not page (facebook.com/ Jimmy-Carrs-laugh). make any knob jokes’. It sounds like a seal honking.

City Hall, March 27, £25 newcastlecityhall.org

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HERE COMES THE BRIDIE FOLK DARLING BRIDIE JACKSON TALKS ABOUT THE TOON, PRE-THEATRE MENU EMERGING TALENT, AND DREAMS OF SURFING THE WAVES

Newcastle quartet Bridie Were you into music as a child? Favourite place in Newcastle? Jackson & The Arbour are Oh yes. My dad is a composer I love the Ouseburn Valley for among a crop of folk- and I come from a very its amazing venues and lovely influenced women riding musical family. pubs with proper beer. a wave right now. They’ve What do you love about being What makes a gig great? already got a Glastonbury a musician? When the performers and the triumph under their belt, and The process of writing new audience are so engaged they they’re bezzie mates with music. Getting to work with don’t want to be anywhere else. Radio 2’s Dermot O’Leary and other creative people. If you could duet with any Radio 6 Music’s Steve Lamacq You were a hit at Glastonbury musician, who would it be? - both fans of their powerful in 2013. What was it like? Stevie Wonder - as long as we harmonies and string- Exciting. And nerve-wracking! sang Superstition. drenched melodies. And if you weren’t a musician? What’s your biggest ambition? Prior to their UK tour and a gig I quite like doing claymation. I I always wanted to write an at The Cluny, we chatted with think I’d try to get a job at Pixar. opera, and I managed that last Bridie (above, second left) about Your career highlight to date? year so I need a new ambition home, her first opera, and her Probably Glastonbury. You can’t really. I’d quite like to be able to ambitions of surfing. beat that, really! surf, so maybe that.

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CANVAS OPINION Take in world-class GEEK TREAT HIDDEN NEWCASTLE art at the Laing Art Enter nerd heaven Go exploring in Gallery, where one at Geek Retreat, your lunch hour of the most famous where comics and with the free paintings in the all manner of Hidden Newcastle world, Picasso’s game-play is on app and uncover Weeping Woman, is offer alongside strange and now on show until regular events and a café. Or try forgotten tales from more than 800 June 7. Enjoy contemporary art at the Travelling Man, a quirky shop years of the city’s history including Hatton Gallery, Vane gallery, or the dedicated to graphic novels, manga the ones about escaped bears, Globe Gallery, or go to Baltic or its and board games, plus events at the skating on the frozen Tyne, and the sister gallery Baltic 39 to explore the fantastically named Nerd Hutch. one about the flying donkey varied exhibitions, geek-retreat.com Castle Keep. hiddennewcastle.org twmuseums.org.uk/laing travellingman.com balticmill.com CHILL OUT twmuseums.org/hatton-gallery KEEP FIT Reflect on vane.org.uk Pure Gym offers the morning’s globegallery.org high-intensity/ achievements at a high-reward free meditation IN TUNE lunchtime classes, class at Newcastle Newcastle Bodyzone has a Buddhist Centre, University’s King’s range of classes where lunchtime mindfulness and Hall offers free including spinning, try out the Insanity yoga ease the stresses of the day. weekly recitals of Workout at Eldon Leisure, or take newcastlebuddhistcentre.org wonderful classical yourself down to the Quayside and music performed work out for free at NE1’s pubic WHIFF WHAFF! by gifted musicians. St Nicholas outdoor gym or attend the free boot Challenge a Cathedral’s lunchtime concerts, camp at 12.45pm on Tuesdays and colleague to a meanwhile, occasionally veer into folk Thursdays laid on by Operation game of pinball at territory too. Fitness and NE1 Ltd. HMV or head ncl.ac.uk/events/kings-hall puregym.com outside to the NE1 stnicholascathedral.co.uk northcountryleisure.org ping pong tables, body-zone.org.uk which dot the city, and return in May. CATCH A FLICK getintonewcastle.co.uk getintonewcastle.co.uk Tyneside Cinema’s hmv.com fab Bar Café MAKE YOUR LUNCH BOOK WORM screens a variety Explore the miles WILD LIFE of free films HOUR COUNT of shelving at the Lose yourself in throughout the day Lunchtimes don’t have to mean munching a Boots Lit & Phil – the the history of so you can watch a meal deal at your desk, and there are now more largest indy library wildlife and much whole movie or just dip in and enjoy opportunities than ever to make the most of outside London more at The Great your lunch. On the food front, the midday in NE1. Here’s our pick! – or drop in at the North Museum: menu features everything from soups, Newcastle Centre for Literary Arts Hancock, or head salads and sandwiches to a fantastic TWEET US USING for talks and readings. to the Discovery Museum to explore Asian-style fish curry. litandphil.org.uk the city’s industrial heritage. tynesidecinema.co.uk www.ncl.ac.uk twmuseums.org.uk ‘Weeping Woman’ by Pablo Picasso ©Tate, London 2015 London ©Tate, Picasso Pablo by CREDITS Woman’ : ‘Weeping IMAGE @NEWCASTLENE1

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UNTIL APRIL 11 UNTIL JUNE 28 SHAKE EVERY FRIDAY BE SOMEBODY ART Hip hop and pop. Hip hop, RnB, commercial. COMPOSITE MIND The CUT, CLUB NOIR Bonbar, bonbar.co.uk MUST MARCH 14-MAY 31 Exploring the legacy of thecut.squarespace.com Party tunes. North East architectural Metropolis, facebook. ALPHA MODERN MASTERS firm Ryder & Yates. NAKED com/metropolisncl Alternative music. SEE A rare opportunity to Hatton Gallery, Sweets, treats and O2 Academy, o2academy browse – and buy – an twmuseums.org.uk/ tricky beats! HANG THE DJ newcastle.co.uk original print by a modern hatton-gallery House of Smith, Floritas Weekly club night. master including works by and Madame Koo, Tyneside Cinema Bar Cafe, VOODOO ONE-OFF EVENTS Picasso, Matisse and Miro. UNTIL APRIL 19 WHEN THE LAMPS house-of-smith.com tynesidecinema.co.uk House, RnB and hip hop. Laing Gallery, WENT OUT Riverside Nightclub, MARCH 20 & 21 twmuseums.org.uk/laing WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER Life on Tyneside in WWI. EVERY THURSDAY DIRTY LITTLE SECRET riversidenewcastle.co.uk SPRING/SUMMER OF THE YEAR Discovery Museum, Electro house. FASHION SHOWS UNTIL MARCH 21 A global showcase of twmuseums.org.uk/ MAZED Tup Palace, LOVE SATURDAYS TOWIE’s Amy Childs the very best nature discovery Start your weekend here! tuptuppalace.com Dance classics. (pictured) returns to GEORGE CHAKRAVARTHI: photography. Included in Perdu, perdubar.com Digital, Newcastle to take part in THIRTEEN centre admission. UNTIL JULY 12 DIRTY POP yourfutureisdigital.com intu Eldon Square’s Spring/ Photographic exhibition Life Science Centre, LOVEDOUGH Student party. Summer Fashion Shows in portraying Shakespeare’s life.org.uk TONY SWAIN Best of hip hop and RnB. O2 Academy, o2academy JAY ROCKWELL AND association with HELLO! tragic characters. 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THE CORONAS Young Explorers Zone for MINI ILLUSTRATORS RETRO RACE Student night. Eazy St, eazy-street.co.uk Sage Gateshead, One of Ireland’s best loved under 7s; indulge your See how real illustrators An adrenaline-fueled Powerhouse, sagegateshead.com bands. £9, 6.30pm. curiosity in the Curiosity make their work. 4D adventure. Included Westmoreland Rd PHYLIS AND OPHELIA B O2 Academy, o2academy Zone; the 4D Motion Admission applies, 3pm. in admission. The Bank, Scotswood Rd KING KING newcastle.co.uk Ride has thrills and spills Seven Stories, Life Science Centre, KARAOKE Blues rockers. £15, 8pm. galore; the Planetarium sevenstories.org.uk life.org.uk With DJ Drama. MARKETS Sage Gateshead, STEVE SUMMERS/ has regular shows and The Yard, Scotswood Rd sagegateshead.com PETER GILLIGAN DUO there’s always something EVERY MON AND THURS MARCH 31 MONDAY TO SATURDAY Free, 9pm. new to learn in the Science DOUBLE TROUBLE GLITTERBALL ANTHROPROPPH, HAIKU Jazz Café, Theatre. £12/£7.50. 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Fun learning activities for UNTIL APRIL 2015 The Bank, Scotswood Rd BETTY LEGS DIAMOND 9am-5pm (Mon and Gwen Dickey. £26.50. Seven Stories, children aged 5-12. Free. Superb cabaret. Weds), 9am-5.30pm Sage Gateshead, DEBRA MILNE sevenstories.org.uk Newcastle City Library, EVERY TUESDAY From £5, 7pm Fri, (Tues, Thurs, Fri and Sat). sagegateshead.com ENSEMBLE newcastle.gov.uk 6pm and 10pm Sat. graingermarket.co.uk Rare jazz standards and UNDER 5S MUSIC MAKING FREE POOL Boulevard, MICHAEL WOODS original songs. £5, 8pm. Concerts and classes MARCH 20, 27 Secrets, Scotswood Rd boulevardnewcastle.co.uk EVERY SUNDAY Guitar recital featuring The Globe, jazz.coop for bumps, babies and fingerpicking, ragtime, beyond. £3, 9.45am, ANGELINA BALLERINA JELLY BELLY TUESDAY EVERY SATURDAY QUAYSIDE MARKET bottleneck and blues. 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Tyneside Irish Centre, choralsociety.org.uk KENNY THOMAS northernstage.co.uk Live Theatre, live.org.uk tynesideirish.com Commercial soul artist. MADE IN BRITAIN: EVERY MONDAY MARCH 23 £25, 7pm. THE BEST OF BRITISH MARCH 20 UNTIL MARCH 29 EVERY TUES, WEDS Hoochie Coochie, MUSICALS NORTH TERRACE AND FRI hoochiecoochie.co.uk A celebration of British General knowledge. NEWCASTLE EAGLES VS MIXTAPE: ROCK ‘N’ musicals from tGilbert & £2, 8pm. BRISTOL FLYERS ROLL JUKEBOX FREE GUIDED TOURS LUNCHTIME JAZZ Sullivan to Andrew Lloyd- North Terrace, TO 7.30pm. Bite-sized theatre inspired Free, 11.15am. With James Birkett and Webber. From £10. Claremont Road Sports Central, by music. £6, 7.30pm. 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Free, GUN litandphil.org.uk theheadofsteam.co.uk EVERY THURSDAY MARCH 27 UNTIL MARCH 22 beautiful Princess Fiona. 6.30pm-8pm Hard rockers from From £17.45. Tyneside Irish Centre, Glasgow. £14, 6.30pm. MARCH 28 MARCH 31 REDHOUSE NEWCASTLE EAGLES VS THE FRIGHTS Theatre Royal, tynesideirish.com O2 Academy, o2academy Cash prize and a free pie MANCHESTER GIANTS A twisting, darkly funny theatreroyal.co.uk newcastle.co.uk THE NEW ORIGINALS LISBON for the winning team. TO 7.30pm. play exploring right and SET DANCING Rock and pop. Free, 9pm Indie rockers. 7pm. 50p, 8pm. Sports Central, wrong. From £6, 6.30pm. MARCH 31 Old-style Irish formal MARCH 24 The Newcastle Arms, Think Tank? @ Digital, Redhouse, newcastle-eagles.com New Bridge Street West, dance. Beginners newcastlearms.co.uk ssdconcerts.co.uk theredhousencl.co.uk alphabettitheatre.co.uk A QUEST TO STARDOM welcome. Free, 8pm-10pm RICK WAKEMAN MARCH 28 DIY live panel show, Tyneside Irish Centre, Recounting stories from his WOLF ALICE BI-POLAR SUNSHINE THE BODEGA MARCH 23-24 featuring comedians, poets tynesideirish.com life, the YES keyboardist Alt. rock four-piece. 7.30pm Eclectic vocalist. 7pm. Second last place gets a INSANE CHAMPIONSHIP and musicians. £5, 5.30pm is joined by The Cadbury Riverside, Quayside, Riverside, Quayside, Bodega-branded wooden WRESTLING CONFIRMATION New Bridge Street West, Sisters. £26.50. riversidenewcastle.co.uk riversidenewcastle.co.uk spoon! £1, 8.30pm. Wxpect blood, violence Award-winning Edinburgh alphabettitheatre.co.uk Sage Gateshead, The Bodega, thebodega and bad language! £15. Fringe show about the sagegateshead.com DJ YODA: BREAKFAST COURTNEY BARNETT newcastle.co.uk O2 Academy, o2academy gulfs we can’t talk across. APRIL 1-18 OF CHAMPIONS Sassy Australian rock newcastle.co.uk £14, £12 conc, 7.30pm. MARCH 25 Live hip hop. £16.50, 8pm. artist. £11, 8pm. THE NEW BRIDGE Northern Stage, THE BODYGUARD Sage Gateshead, Newcastle University General knowledge quiz. DANCE northernstage.co.uk Award-winning musical WARPAINT sagegateshead.com Students Union, nusu.co.uk £1, 8.30pm. based on the blockbuster LA female rock band. £19. The New Bridge, thenew MARCH 25, 26 MARCH 24 film. From £18.95, 7.30pm SHARED READING GROUP Sage Gateshead, SHADES bridgenewcastle.co.uk Theatre Royal, Read aloud and talk about sagegateshead.com Alternative five-piece PARK IMPROV MONTAGE theatreroyal.co.uk short stories, poems and celebrate the launch of MARCH 24 An urban oasis, a place of 50 unscripted minutes. £4. novels. Free, 6pm-7.45pm. MARCH 26 their new EP. £4, 7pm. refuge from ordinary life New Bridge Street West, Newcastle City Library, Head of Steam, where eight characters alphabettitheatre.co.uk TALKS/ newcastle.gov.uk BRENDAN COLE: A theheadofsteam.co.uk play, fight, fall in love and NIGHT TO REMEMBER learn to survive. £20. 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