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MARCH 16-30 2016 200+ Events www.getintonewcastle.co.uk Plan ahead with our big listings guide INSIDE Eggs-cellent Girl Easter fever in NE1 power Inside the weird world of Little Mix Luck of the Irish Raise a glass to Paddy’s Day Brain games Get your geek on Engage your brain at Life Make your mark on Newcastle Film & Comic Con FREE NE1 magazine is brought to you In the mix by NE1 Ltd, the company which champions all that’s great about Newcastle city centre 16Little Mix The biggest group on planet pop head to NE1. Here's the inside track... NowNow Contents recruitingRecruitingWhat’s on in NE1 Apply iguanaspeople.co.uk or send your CV 04 Going out? 19 Luck of the Irish [email protected] The pick of the latest events Celebrate St Patrick's Day in NE1 11 Mirror mirror 20 Eggs-cellent balletLORENT's Snow White Easter holidays in the city 13 Get your geek on 22 Listings Our guide to Film & Comic Con Your go-to guide to NE1 goings-on ©Offstone Publishing 2016. 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If When you have finished with on behalf of NE1 you identify yourself as the copyright holder this magazine please recycle it MANAGEMENT of material we have wrongly attributed, please contact the office. @newcastleNE1 STAFF NEEDED Unit One, Bearl Farm, Stocksfield, NE43 7AL ADVERTISING /GetIntoNewcastle www.offstonepublishing.co.uk Tel 01661 844 115 01661 844115 Email [email protected] [email protected] The Get into Newcastle app Twitter @offstonepublish WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK 3 UPFRONT UPFRONT LATEST Offers app Luck be a lady and at www.getintonewcastle.co.uk When: March 22-April 2 Get set for gamblers, gangsters and glorious show tunes, as the hit West End musical Guys And Dolls rolls into town. The sizzling tale of New York’s nightclub underbelly comes packed with Campbell’s soupcon glamorous tunes, sequins galore, dazzling MARGHERITA choreography and a magical production. of surprises NAPOLETANA Theatre Royal, from £17 When: March 22 theatreroyal.co.uk Performing a stand-up show at Everest Base Camp is just one of the FOR £5.50 crazy things Canadian comic Craig Campbell has done in his time, AT ROSSOPOMODORO and he’s here to regale you with tales both heartbreaking and barmy Recommends in his new show Don’t Look Down. His storytelling style and hilarious yarns guarantee lots of laughs - don’t miss it. OYSTERS FOR The Stand, £15, thestand.co.uk 10% OFF £1- 3 5PM AT FULL PRICE No halves, Nelson SALTWATER STOCK AT DANIEL When: March 19 FISH CO FOOTWEAR Get your glad rags on for comedian Lee Nelson’s gig at Tyne Theatre & Opera House, as he brings his Suited And Booted tour CHATEAUBRIAND to town. MEAL & WINE Having grown up and gone FOR TWO FOR £50 from one-time AT MALMAISON cheeky chav to smart suited On the boil Here comes the sun stand-up, When: March 16-17 After the dark days of winter, Barluga is expanding its this new show 20% OFF MASSAGE Rachel Jackson’s portrayal of relationship break-ups and terrace in readiness for al fresco drinking and dining offers topical comedy and TREATMENTS breakdowns provides hilarious food for thought in her come the summer. Opening in April with room for 100 caricature driven laughs. AT BLUE MOON production Memoirs of a Bunny Boiler. Taking a look at people, the terrace will feature a barbecue, heaters and Tyne Theatre & relationships in all their glory, this one-woman show heated seats for those inevitably chilly nights, and will be Opera House, £20 To use the offers, and for timings and full depicts a woman’s desperate attempt to find ‘the one’. available for private parties. Sunglasses on, people! tynetheatreandoperahouse.uk T&Cs, download the app for free from the App Store or go to getintonewcastle.co.uk IMAGE CREDIT: ©Paul Coltas CREDIT: ©Paul IMAGE Live Theatre, £8, live.org.uk Grey Street, barluga.co.uk 4 WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK 5 UPFRONT UPFRONT Scratch that! When: March 20 Where’ve Dub music superstar Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry’s extraordinary life and career you been? comes under the microscope in a new documentary filmed over 15 years by German music documentarian Been anywhere good Volker Schnaer and heading to lately? They have... Tyneside Cinema. LUCY MOORE & Vision of Paradise follows Perry’s rise MICHELLE from impoverished roots in Jamaica HOLMES, BOTH 23 to his current home in the Swiss Alps NOTTINGHAM / via spiritual liberation, Bob Marley and SOUTH SHIELDS legendary live performances, painting a We’ve been to see picture of a true music eccentric. the Robot exhibition at Life Science Centre, Tyneside Cinema, £9.25 which was fantastic. We also went on the 4D tynesidecinema.co.uk Motion Ride, which was great fun - except you get splashed! Four-legged friends LOAY KHALID, 19 Brain games City Tavern has launched a new menu just for dogs – including a NEWCASTLE When: from March 25 special doggy beer. STUDENT Explore your brilliant brain with Life Science Centre’s new Brain Zone, where Biscuits on the new menu are flavoured with everything from I’ve been for lunch you can delve into your grey matter, take part in experiments, and find out Scottish salmon to country game, and there are venison chews at Aneesa’s on the how the brain develops. and fruit and vegetable flavoured snacks too. Quayside, which was Working with Northumbria and Newcastle universities, among others, And to wash it down there’s Belgian Snuffles Dog Beer – a non- delicious. I’m from Oman and love the mix of the new exhibit will test your cerebral knowledge and offer up a few surprises alcoholic brew made with beef and chicken along with malt barley food in the city. Aneesa’s is in a great location along the way. Life Science Centre, usual admission price applies £9.95 extracts, minerals and vitamins. right by the river too. adults, £6.95 children 17-5, under 4s free, life.org.uk Northumberland Road, citytavern.co.uk THE WALKER FAMILY Toon Tweets We’re regular A few of the things that have got people tweeting… Tweet us @NewcastleNE1 visitors to the museums in town and we love Great Patrick Forster(@PFBarberAndShop): Campus North (@campusnorthuk):: James Martin (@jamesmartinchef): North Museum: Hancock – particularly when When you need a goal who do YOu call..? Thanks to everyone who came along to Thanks all, hope you had as much fun they’ve got new exhibits. We’ve also been Haircuts = goals @CPFC Secret weapon. #DigitalDrinks! Especially our awesome as me! #platesmatesandautomobiles skating at Life Science Centre. It was Laurie’s Always nice to hook up with Yo sponsors @sageuk! #Newcastle first time and she loved it. Saltwater Fish Co. (@_saltwater_fish): BrewDog Newcastle Chris Stuart-Wilson (@chrisjswilson): Fresh out the oven! Crab & Gruyère (@BrewDogNewc): Thanks Newcastle for being an amazing cheese tartlets - fresh, local & delicious! Beer school in session! #knowledge crowd last night at @dancecity #dirtydancing #Saturday @fenwicknew #floorcrawlingactuallyhappened @NewcastleNE1 6 WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK 7 TRY THIS TRY THIS Fast forward When: March 18-June 26 Exploring the ways stories, history and identity are formed, celebrated filmmaker Omer Fast’s new exhibition is taking over two floors at BALTIC. WITH NICK WRIGHTSON, BEATDOWN RECORDS With works that question the conventions of storytelling, It’s impossible to pin down my favourite genres, media reportage and historical representation, new installations never mind my top tunes, so as a compromise, and project-based artworks will be on display. Fast’s material It’d be criminal to miss it here’s my top 5 albums (at least this week) moves from thriller and documentary to comedy, showcasing When: March 24 occasionally graphic, thought-provoking issues. Indulge your inner sleuth at Newcastle City Library with its Northern Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions BALTIC, free, balticmill.com Crime One event in partnership with New Writing North. To Hold Us Back Some of the region’s most promising emerging crime writers The definitive hip hop LP, the Bomb Squad’s including Karol Alderman, Lynne Blackwell, Michael Connon and production is the key. It’s like listening to James Recommends Tom Moody will regale crime buffs with tales of urban horror, high Brown’s 70s output all at once. drama and blunt force trauma. Newcastle City Library, free, newcastle.gov.uk Sly and the Family Stone - Fresh Sly is always as funky-as-owt and has loads of killer albums to choose from, but Fresh has If You Natural history Want Me To Stay on it, so it wins every time. When: until April 17 Some of the oldest New Order - Technique human remains New Order totally clicked with teenage me. This ever found in Britain was their swansong on Factory Records. A last are on display at blast of greatness before the 90s spoiled them.