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FREE FEB 4-18 2015 WHAT’S ON IN NEWCASTLE www.getintonewcastle.co.uk FEEL THE LOVE! IT’S VALENTINE’S DAY - HERE’S HOW TO IMPRESS IN NE1 PLUS: HALF TERM + AL MURRAY RETURNS + CHINESE NEW YEAR NE1’S NEWCASTLE RESTAURANT WEEK 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 The latest word on the street and a Valentine’s alternatve 08 TRY THIS Try your hand at Irish dancing 11 IN REVIEW The biggest NE1’s Newcastle Restaurant Week ever 16 14 STAGE The circus and Scottish Ballet come to Toon 16 FEEL THE LOVE Our guide to Valentine’s in NE1 19 THE GUVNOR Everything you need to know 12 20 about The Pub Landlord SKOOL’S OUT! KUNG HEI FAT CHOY Our guide to keeping the whole Welcoming the Year of the 22 LISTINGS family entertained this half term Sheep to NE1 Your guide to goings on in NE1 ©Offstone Publishing 2015. All rights Editor: Jane Pikett reserved. 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If on behalf of NE1 you identify yourself as the copyright holder of material we have wrongly attributed, please When you have finished with contact the office. this magazine please recycle it Unit One, Bearl Farm, Stocksfield, NE43 7AL, ADVERTISING Follow us @newcastleNE1 www.offstonepublishing.co.uk Tel 01661 844 115 01661 844115 Email [email protected] [email protected] Like us /GetIntoNewcastle Twitter @offstonepublish *Sold Out shows not listed WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK 3 UPFRONT UPFRONTNEWS DEJA VU? It’s to be hoped that indie legends Echo and the Bunnymen will finally appear at the O2 Academy on Valentine’s Day after two cancelled shows last year. So, it is with some trepidation that we announce this gig which showcases the band’s latest album and - we hope - iconic classics. O2 Academy, February 14 £26.50 o2academynewcastle.co.uk WORD ON THE WOMAN STREET ABOUT TOON WITH MISS RORY Piled on the pounds AKA DAN CUNNINGHAM over winter? HOST/DJ, BOULEVARD Newcastle Sports Injury Clinic may have the answer with Who dresses you? its performance Fenwick obviously! It has an excellent pilates classes and one-to-one selection under one roof and the sessions. The clinic, which has moved to customer service is fantastic, which is Saville Place, also offers yoga and tai chi, very important. I love it! so get on move on! Saville Place newcastlesportsinjury.co.uk Where do you eat your cupcakes? That’s easy - I love The Great British The fab EAT! Festival SEAN SANE Cupcakery, Bakehouse & Parlour returns with EAT! IN Comedian, actor, author and all things on Queen Street. Everything there is across the city Feb rather clever, Sean Hughes struggles to homemade, the cakes are to die for and 20-Mar 1. Events stay on the right side of sane in his next the staff are lovely. It’s beautiful inside, include pop-up show at The Stand. too. A sweet delight! paladres in secret Hughes’ new Mumbo Jumbo act is a venues and an eat and drink-along jumble of stories which he uses to illustrate Where do you go for great evening with a screening of The Great his belief that the two sides of his brain performance and music? Gatsby at the Lit & Phil. Tasty! are in constant and irreconcilable conflict. I adore Hoochie Coochie for great gigs www.eatnewcastlegateshead.com Hughes’ rambles include a bizarre story in a fantastic atmosphere. We saw the PSYCHO THRILLERS of being serenaded at dawn by hairy fab disco DJ collective Horse Meat Suffering from greasy While cinema audiences get hot under the collar Cure frontman Robert Smith, a series of Disco there recently and they were just spokes? Worry not! with the much-hyped film adaptation of E.L James’ bewildering conversations with his amazing! Of course, I have to mention Dr Bike - everyone’s bonkbuster Fifty Shades Of Grey, Tyneside Cinema mum, and communing with gorillas. Boulevard and our wonderful, full-on favourite bike marks its release with an altogether more interesting There are also a few poems, a West End productions right here in NE1, mechanic - pops up look at love and lust with a weekend of sexually charged three-minute musical about as spectacular as they are hilarious, I on Northumberland psychological thrillers. ageing, and a fair amount have to say, we’re unbeatable! Street soon. Supported by NE1, the Dr They include The Secretary, an off-beat look at the of tomfoolery. This Bike team offers free checks and basic darker side of love; the pyschological Japanese horror combines to produce a And where do you people watch? repairs, just ride along on any of the drama Audition; David Cronenberg’s graphic and shocking nonsensical night out and 9Bar at the Theatre Royal - the terrace following dates. Northumberland St Crash; and David Lynch’s sexually charged hallucinogenic a lot of laughs. provides a feast for the eyes! Feb 27, Mar 13 and 27, 8.30am-4pm thriller Blue Velvet. Be warned - these are not date movies! The Stand, February 10, £15 boulevardnewcastle.co.uk Tyneside Cinema, Feb 9-15, tynesidecinema.com thestand.co.uk 4 WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK 5 UPFRONTNEWS UPFRONT ANYONE FOR MARIACHI? Bizarre but true, the seven amigos pictured above were once hardcore punks. Now, however, they’re big into the Mexican folk I’M READING… genre mariarchi and heading to The Cluny. KERRANG!!! American punk to Mexican folk is an unlikely jump we know, but Head bangers unite! The iconic heavy rock music mag Mariachi El Bronx are renowned for their superb musicianship which BILLY MOFFAT, 27, STUDENT Kerrang! is bringing four heavy hitters to Toon. has garnered them fans worldwide. On the evidence of their third NEWCASTLE The gig is headlined by post-hardcore and surprisingly eponymously titled album, this is going to be quite a gig. Ole, amigos! I’ve just read the third well-groomed band Don Broco (pictured), whose pop-rock The Cluny, February 8, £12, thecluny.com installment of Bridget sound has earned them worldwide plaudits. If your tastes Jones’ Diary, which are a little more raucous, US pop-punkers We Are The In was just brilliant. I Crowd are on the bill alongside melodic metalcore band relate to it all, which is Bury Tomorrow and hardcore punks Beartooth. a bit worrying! O2 Academy, February 15, o2academynewcastle.co.uk GEORGE ZACH, 31, COMEDIAN NEWCASTLE I’m reading Too Big to Fail about how the NOW banking system collapsed in America. IN 3D It’s too smart for me Stretch your artistic CRACKING THE CODE but I’m stuck with it experience with Hatton Tyne & Wear In The First World War is now. It’s very interesting but I am at the Gallery’s In Three commemorated in a two-week series of art point where I don’t know what’s going on Dimensions exhibition - a events and installations across the city. anymore. So far all I know is that bad snapshot of pioneering BACK IN OUR DAY Decoded 1914-18 showcases artworks things happened! abstract artist Victor 70s music giants Jefferson Starship and 10cc and performances by seven artists who explore Pasmore’s career are reliving their heyday with UK tours, both of themes ranging from the crucial role of women DANIELLE KEATING, 22, HEATON displaying the evolution of his work from 2D figurative which land at Sage Gateshead any day now. in the First World War economy, to wartime Iv’e just read the paintings to 3D reliefs. Jefferson Starship (pictured) have kept the communications technologies, to the impact of Game Of Thrones Pasmore, who helped develop the ‘Basic Design’ psychedelic flame of San Franciscan pop wonders war on folk traditions such as rapper dancing, clog series which was revolution in art education at Newcastle University in Jefferson Airplane alive in recent years, while the dancing and folk song. Taking place across the great, totally the late 1950s, produced some of the most radically melodic 10cc continue walking in the rain and the city at venues including the Discovery Museum un-put-downable, It’s uncompromising paintings and reliefs of the period and snow with, as it turns out, plenty of places to go. and Newcastle University, there are opportunities also good to see the is widely thought of as one of the most important British Jefferson Starship, Feb 4, £22.50 to meet the artists and join in with special events. difference between the books and the artists of the time. Hatton Gallery, February 6-May 9 10cc, Sage Gateshead, Feb 13, £34.50 Tyne & Wear Museums, February 16-28, free TV series. It’s great stuff. free, twmuseums.org.uk/hatton-gallery sagegateshead.com decoded1914.org.uk 6 WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK 7 TRY THIS TRY THIS • CLASSIC ROCK We’re not sure when a concert audience last rocked out with their air guitars, but it may well happen when the hits of rock gods Queen are re-imagined in a show performed by Royal Northern Sinfonia.