I Think I Love You Will You Be One of Just 250 People to See the Great Chaka Khan in Newcastle?

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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 Al Murray, New Kids on the HOME OF THE ROSSINI Block, and Mexican wrestlers 08 TRY THIS Our pick of what’s coming up

10 IN FOCUS Human bodies, preserved 10 in plastic. No kidding! 14 SAILING NE1 Newcastle Marina

18 STAGE The Bodyguard’s in town! 20 SLAM DUNK 12 16 Fab Flournoy spills the beans HOMEBIRD DISCO DIVA 22 LISTINGS Sarah Millican reveals her love Will you be one of the chosen Your go-to guide for of David Bowie and waving 250 to see Chaka Khan? what’s on in NE1

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THE EAT ON THE STREET

Proof, if it were needed, that we’re a hungry bunch, NE1’s Newcastle Restaurant Week in January was a record-breaker with LET’S GO! more than 25,000 people taking up the WE’VE BEEN ¡VAMOS! Festival returns in June with events across offer to dine at 68 city restaurants for Newcastle city centre. ¡VAMOS! celebrates everything only £10 or £15. The 25,000 vouchers TO... THE RIGHT STUFF? about Latin culture and this year’s events include redeemed equated to well over We’ve seen Take That, Blue, Backstreet Boys...and now, a Mardi Gras performance; international act Jaleo £350,000 of business for restaurants. ALISA OLEMBERG, 35, FULL-TIME as New Kids On The Block head to Newcastle, we ask - Flamenco from Seville; an outdoor family picnic with a MUM OF FIVE, GATESHEAD what inspires one-time boybands to keep coming back? Portuguese and Brazilian Festa de Juninas theme; and Two Fifths has raised “We’ve just had a Perhaps it’s the record-breaking cash machine that is the return of the ever-popular Mexican wrestling. There’ll its cheeky head on great time at the the Take That reunion. Or the fact that life after the demise also be pop-up restaurants, music, talks and art from the corner of Centre For Life. It’s of a boyband can seem hollow. And when it comes to guilty international artists and a specially commissioned artist- Collingwood Street great value, there are pleasures, there’s nothing better than five middle-aged men designed ¡VAMOS! Pavilion. A busy few weeks, then! offering modern lots of things to keep trying to re-capture the moment they lifted their shirts and Various venues across the city, June 6-22 British food in cool, urban surroundings the kids busy and wiggled their six packs in celebration of selling in excess of www.vamosfestival.com and open from breakfast until late for they loved the 4D motion ride.” 80m records worldwide. food, cocktails, a pavement cafe and City Hall, May 23, from £37, www.newcastlecityhall.org events. Owner John Snell used to have BEN TOWNSEND, 28, NISSAN a hair salon here. Cutting edge! WORKER, TYNEMOUTH facebook/Two-Fifths “We get a lot of great bands in Newcastle La Tasca on the and the last one I saw Quayside has a new was Killswitch Engage look starring a funky at the O2 Academy. I collage effect on one go to live gigs a lot wall and a mural and we get a great mix here.” behind the bar. It’s fresher, brighter and the Spanish ambience remans strong. JADE IRVING, 19, NEWCASTLE www.latasca.com/newcastle COLLEGE FASHION STUDENT, THEY’VE BEEN TANGO’D WHITLEY BAY RED EYES IS BACK Strictly fans rejoice…Saturday night dance favourites The next Hotel du Vin “I’ve been to The Paul Heaton is returning to Newcastle with his former and Argentine tango experts Vincent Simone and Flavia wine dinners on July Biscuit Factory. I love Beautiful South bandmate Jacqui Abbott, who also sings Cacace are bringing their new show, Dance ‘til Dawn, to 3 features art and it helps me on his latest album, What Have We Become. the Theatre Royal in June. Argentina’s famed with my studies in The show will feature hits from his three solo albums and We’re told the new show promises stunning sets and producer, Cantena fashion. I can’t wait for Heaton may also dip into his Housemartins and Beautiful more sequins than have ever been seen before under one Zapata. Malbec is its most prominent NE1’s Newcastle South back catalogues. roof (probably). Keeeeep dancing! wine and there’ll be plenty of it along Fashion Week Mill Volvo Tyne Theatre, May 20, £19.50 Theatre Royal, June 9-14, from £13 with a four-course dinner.

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NOBLE RETURN Great news for lovers of the meandering rambles of Ross Noble. His TV series Freewheeling, which sees him use his 433,000 Twitter followers as a guide book for a road trip across the UK, has been commissioned for a second WHO KNEW... series. We are told the Geordie comic is filming six, hour-long episodes in June and the series is expected to air in Newcastle Brown Ale the autumn. Ross returns to is the best-selling Newcastle in November as part of his imported beer in IN FOCUS Tangentleman tour. In the meantime, America (according to Side Gallery has just unveiled a superb collection look him up on Twitter the most recent of documentary photography from Russia, Ukraine, (@realrossnoble) and he may end up figures available). Georgia, and The Caucasus. paying you a visit. Having become a favourite with Legacy, the second of Side Gallery’s exhibitions linked City Hall, November 25, £25 American students in the 1990s, you to the 25th anniversary of the end of the Berlin Wall, www.newcastlecityhall.org might have seen it pop up in The Big focuses on the new East-West borderlands of the former Bang Theory more recently. Clint Soviet Union republics, exploring shared histories, isolation Eastwood is also said to be a big fan of a and engagement, tradition and the desire for modernity. bottle of Broon. The show celebrates some of the best documentary photography coming out of this torn and fertile ground. Younger folks may be Side Gallery, May 17–July 19, www.amber-online.com unaware that Jimi Hendrix was discovered in New York in 1966 by Geordie music producer Chas Chandler. Chandler brought him back to Newcastle and some residents still recall seeing Hendrix busk on Heaton’s Chillingham Road.

In the late 1960s Newcastle had its own CHEERS! STRIKE A CHORD winter zoo at the ROOFTOP TOUR TV favourite Al Murray has announced a work- Northern Chords, one of the most exciting and Exhibition Centre, Have you ever sat in Level Seven at St James’ Park and in-progress show ahead of his UK tour at The original events of the North East music calendar, formerly the Town Hall, looked out across the city? It’s great, and now you can Stand Comedy Club on July 1. returns at the end of May. near the Bigg Market. go one better by climbing onto the roof of the Milburn Murray, aka The Pub Landlord, will warm up in Featuring 100 musicians from around the world The zoo was a big attraction, with Stand. Billed as a sightseeing tour rather than the full St Newcastle, Edinburgh and Glasgow before his 52- in a unique week of musical encounters, this year’s animals including Geordie Giraffe and James’ Park experience, it promises amazing views of the date UK tour begins in September. He’s celebrating programme, which begins at The Sage Gateshead Fred the Indian elephant making the trip city’s landmarks and the pitch. You’ll also get to go pitch side 20 years as a stand-up this year and his date at The on May 23, features eight concerts, including north from Flamingo Land in Malton, after the tour and see exactly how far up you’ve just been. Stand is his only appearance in Newcastle in 2014. A Requiem at Newcastle Cathedral on May 28.

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LOVE IS THE DRUG Lock up your sons, people - Courtney Love is in town. Rounding off a nine-date tour on May 22, the former Hole lead singer will perform as part of the Think Tank? Presents shows from promoter Steve Davis at Riverside. Love has chosen to unleash her return WORD-UP to music in the 20th anniversary year of her WITH LAUREN ARCHER husband Kurt Cobain’s death. Speaking about NE1FM PRESENTER the tour recently, she said: “I feel most at home in the UK. I grew up half British and I miss it.” On her previous form, it would be dangerous TV STARS TURN OUT to predict anything for the gig apart from the CBBC is about to land on the Quayside for three fact that Love inevitably surprises. action-packed days of events and live broadcasts. Riverside, May 22, from £30 CBBC Live NewcastleGateshead will bring some of the www.riversidenewcastle.co.uk channel’s biggest stars to the Quayside for three days of events and activities from May 29‑31. As well as watching some of CBBC’s most-loved shows live and getting the chance to see some of their favourite CBBC stars close-up, children will also get to try Newcastle’s got more restaurants PEACE, MAN activities in interactive zones created by BBC Learning. per square mile than anywhere in Award-winning comic and former Buddhist CBBC’s Hacker T Dog says: “I can’t wait for Live from the UK, which is nice, and we’ve had monk Sam Brady will ponder the meaning of life NewcastleGateshead. It’s going to be top notch! I’ve never a food renaissance over the last at the Theatre Royal on May 22. been to Newcastle… is it like Wigan, where I’m from? Hope couple of years, with independent In 2001 he gave up his career and all his they have meat paste!” restaurants, cafés and bars possessions to train as a Buddhist monk. Four CBBC Live, Baltic Square, May 29-31 popping up all over the city. years later, he returned with no money, a sense One of the new kids on the block, of bewilderment and a really bad haircut. His one- Burger Stop on Dean Street, is serving man shows are strongly influenced by Eastern KNOW WHAT I MEAN, ‘ARRY? up gorgeous handmade burgers and philosophy as he continues to try to figure out Harry’s Bar and Grill has launched on Grey Street sides alongside an impressive drinks TUNE IN how to live a meaningful life and, in Newcastle, its menu created by head chef Steve menu, including Hard Shakes. Burger Ever wanted to get your hands on a big in this show, how to be kind. Jobson (ex of Louis in Jesmond) following extensive highlights include the Up in Smoke instrument? Well you can on Great North Organ Following on from his research in the kitchens of many famous restaurants (with pickled red onion, smoked Day, when you can play some of the North award-winning debut on the Cote d’Azur and the Italian Riviera (it’s a tough mayo, smoked bacon, blue cheese) East’s oldest musical instruments. show Meditation Ruined job, but...). and Chilli Bang Bang (with chipotle This year, BBC Songs of Praise presenter My Life, Brady explores Steve has captured the French and the Italian Rivieras’ mayo and jalapenos). I’m also excited Gordon Stewart will be playing and speaking at with painful honesty simple approach in his lunch, dinner and late supper to try the Proper Wings and chips. three venues. He will be joined by James Lancelot, his on-going failure menus which include a veal burger, a brisket burger, crispy Vegetarians worry not, the Schroom organist and master of choristers at Durham to become ‘a Peking duck, traditional fish and chips, Sunday roasts, Burger sounds incredible, with its soy Cathedral, and there are beginner classes planned good person’ in French soufflés and, following the French tradition, a and maple syrup-marinated portobello throughout the day. For full details visit the website. candid style. range of traditional cakes and patisseries. The restaurant mushroom, Asian ‘slaw, avocado and St Mary’s Cathedral, The Cathedral Church of Theatre Royal and cocktail bar are open daily until 2am. Sriracha mayo. Hot! St. Nicholas and St John the Baptist Church, May 22, from £8 Harry’s Bar and Brasserie, Grey Street The Side, Quayside

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BODY BEAUTIFUL? Whatever your moral position on the rights and wrongs of displaying plastinated bodies in public places, there are few who can claim zero fascination with the work of the controversial Dr Gunther von Hagens. His new show, Body Worlds Vital, is at Centre for Life May 17-November 2, and whether you visit or not, you’re probably going to be very familiar with its gory detail because everyone’s talking about it. Globally, Body Worlds exhibitions have been seen by more than 38m people and visitors in Newcastle can explore anatomy, physiology and health through full-body plastinates, individual organs and body slices. If you’re really taken with it, you could join more than 14,000 people worldwide who have bequeathed their bodies to Dr von Hagens’ Institute for Plastination and end up like this chap. Any takers? Centre for Life, May 17-Nov 2, www.life.org.uk © Gunther von Hagens Institute for Plastination, Heidelberg, Germany Heidelberg, Plastination, for Hagens Institute CREDITSvon : © Gunther IMAGE

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HOME BIRD SARAH MILLICAN ANSWERS EMMA HOWE’S BURNING QUESTIONS PRIOR TO HER CITY GIG

SOME STUFF What’s your unique selling point? and go, ‘Oh, she’s a woman’. They just YOU NEVER Being ordinary. So many people go, ‘Oh watched her because she’s hilarious. I my God, my auntie’s just like you’ or, love her. KNEW ABOUT ‘My neighbour’s just like you,’ and I take that as a real compliment. I’m a kind Was she the impetus for you SARAH of Everywoman. starting comedy? Not really. It was my divorce in 2004 that What/who inspires you in comedy? got me on stage. I just got up and had ◊ She has never learned to Being ordinary! I can’t be away from a go. I didn’t really know it was stand-up ride a bike. When she was a home too long because I’ve got two at the beginning. I was just talking to child in South Shields, she cats and a lot of tomatoes to look after. If people about my divorce. had an imaginary library I’m away for a couple of days it makes so she didn’t feel the me so happy to go into my little Frank Skinner was in Newcastle need to go outside greenhouse and see if the plants recently. Who makes you laugh? ◊ She married fellow have changed. I’m also learning I love Frank Skinner. He’s so naturally comic Gary Delaney to cook, and my attempts are funny. I did Frank Skinner’s Opinionated, last Christmas and making their way into my comedy. and you know you’ve really made him they have a home I also get inspiration from other laugh when he slaps his leg. When he in Cheshire comedians. I’ve just been listening to does that, I’m thinking, ‘I’ve got him!’ I ◊ She can’t remember Tig Notaro, an American who did a set also think Jo Brand is wonderful. I did a her natural hair colour immediately after she found out she gig with her last year, and the audience and she admints that had breast cancer. She went straight was so excited she was there. There’s a sometimes she shaves from the appointment to her gig. It’s lot of love for her. only the front of on iTunes and it’s an astonishing her legs piece of comedy. That just blows my What are your favourite sitcoms? ◊ Her favourite song is bloody socks off. Could you write one? David Bowie’s Dancing I love watching Blackadder and Father in the Street What did you grow up watching? Ted. Graham Linehan, who wrote Black ◊ In 2013 she was A lot of Victoria Wood, and Books, Father Ted, and The IT Crowd, is listed as one of the whenever she was together with a comedy genius. They’re all so different 100 most powerful Julie Walters it was wondrous. And and yet all came from the mind of one women in the UK people didn’t watch Victoria Wood man. I don’t think that’s for me. by Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour Mill Volvo Tyne Theatre, May 21-24, from £20

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MARINA HIGHLIGHTS SUMMER ‘14 May 25-26 F WE ARE SAILING Royal Northumberland Yacht Club Regatta The NE1’s Newcastle City Marina is only two years club moors at the Quayside Marina following its old and already has a packed programme of annual race from Blyth to the Tyne. Expect flags, events that have become key milestones in bunting and fancy dress. From 2pm on May 25. the city, including the spectacular NE1 Zapcat Grand Prix powerboat racing on August Bank Holiday weekend. Now that Newcastle City Marina is firmly IN MY VIEW established on the marina map, yachting WITH MAXINE BROWN enthusiasts have a new stop-off point on SENIOR YOUTH WORKER round-Britain sailing trips, and the marina AT SPACE 2 provides a welcome new city centre tourist attraction. We’ve just celebrated the first birthday of Space 2, a project for May 29 – 31 young people aged 13–19, open First open weekend Sailors moor free for the seven days a week. Since we weekend and are treated to hospitality while visitors opened, some 1,500 young people enjoy the newly installed Quayside Seaside, offering have become members and more 500sqm of sand with deck chairs, volleyball court, than 100 visit the project daily. and buckets and spades. Young people can enjoy activities June 26 – 27 and chill here, make new friends and Dutch Yacht Fleet visit NE1 Ltd has worked get advice and support. We help them closely with the Dutch Kustzeilers Association to through good and bad times and into organise the trip and on June 26 the fleet will sail up college and work, helping them to the Tyne with a parade of sail flags and bunting. achieve goals and gain qualifications. July 1 – 7 We’ve had success stories and Super yacht visit The Florida-based super yacht touching times in our first year. MV Sovereign will be staying for up to a week. Recently we supported a young July 19 homeless lad, organising for him Newcastle Triathlon 2014 The marina will provide to go to London for a job interview an ideal vantage point to watch the city’s first river and helping with small things like triathlon with thousands of competitors swimming in washing and ironing his clothes for the river and cycling and running along the Quayside. the interview. He didn’t get the job this August 23-24 time, but they gave him lots of advice Old Boat Gathering The North East Maritime Trust and have asked him to apply again. organises this gathering of historic boats with music, After that, we managed to get him into sea shanties and people dressed in period costume. a hostel. That’s what we’re here for August 30 – 31 - helping people, in any way we can, NE1 Zapcat Grand Prix powerboat racing For and a big thanks to Greggs, Fenwick, the third year running, NE1 is hosting the NE1 Zapcat John Lewis and everyone else who Grand Prix powerboat racing on the Tyne (pictured supports us. left). A thrills and spills powerboat race on a tight Space 2, Clayton Street, course mapped out between the Tyne and High Newcastle, is part funded by NE1 Level bridges, teams from all over the UK travel to and run by Newcastle YMCA and Newcastle to compete in the event, which is often

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I’ll be honest, when I heard that Chaka bringing world-class artists to Newcastle Khan had agreed to play an intimate for nearly three years,” says Thomson, gig in Newcastle my first response “and I hope Chaka Khan brings us wider included pigs with wings. attention, as we’re still a bit of a secret.” Step forward Warren Thomson, heart Thomson can’t reveal what he’s paid and soul of live lounge Hoochie Coochie, for the acts, but assuming it’s a huge and the man who has managed to amount, the £175 ticket price (£1,200 secure a gig from the legendary diva. for a booth of six) seems pretty modest. The question on everyone’s lips now “Not everyone can afford it, but this is is how did he swing it, but Thomson is a a world star and a world-class band pro whose connections can swing even playing for an audience of 250,” says the seemingly impossible. “First, we Thomson. “Any profit will go to the have to be thankful to Alex Lowes who Chaka Khan Foundation for Women and brought Chaka over for the Minehead Children in Need.” Soul Weekender,” says Thomson. Some may think this is an ‘eyes too “She then decided to do a few dates big for your belly’ moment for Thomson, with Incognito in intimate venues. I who says: “Yes, this is easily the biggest had Incognito booked on May 3, and artist we’ve ever booked, but the legacy because I know them, I got a call from we hope to leave is that it’s all about the their management asking if we were music. We subsidise many gigs through interested, which we were, obviously! profit from the bar and we donate profits “Yes, it’s a big risk. We’ve never to charities like Mary’s Meals. Then, attempted anything as big as Chaka in addition to the bigger names still Khan and Incognito. Together! But it’s to come this year, we’ve got fabulous Chaka Khan man!” up-and-coming acts and some of the The pocket-sized woman with biggest DJs in the world right now in the massive voice will grace a stage Joey Negro, John Morales, and Dimitri previously trod by Gregory Porter, from Paris to come.” Jocelyn Brown, Soul II Soul, Brand New So, all eyes on Hoochie Coochie and IT’S ALL Heavies, Candi Staton, and dozens the arrival of a woman with 10 Grammys more. Alexander O’Neal plays here in and 70m record sales. We feel for you, ABOUT THE MUSIC September, ditto Mica Paris. “We’ve been Chaka...we think we love you. Hoochie Coochie, May 23, tickets from £175 www.hoochiecoochie.co.uk

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THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE Natalie Imbruglia stars in Alan Ayckbourn’s brilliant Things We Do For Love in Newcastle next month. This tangled tale follows Nikki (Imbruglia) and her fiancé Hamish (Edward Bennett) when they move in with Nikki’s friend Barbara. Hamish and Barbara’s mutual distaste hides deeper feelings, creating repercussions for all including WE’VE BEEN the lodger, lovelorn postman Gilbert, who has a SPRING AND FALL secret fixation with his landlady. Intriguing! TO... Never one for avoiding thought-provoking drama, Theatre Royal, June 16-21, from £13 Northern Stage presents two moving plays this month. www.theatreroyal.co.uk Unnerving, entertaining, funny and dark, Frank BETH WEBSTER, 18, NEWCASTLE Wedekind’s play about youth, Spring Awakening, caused COLLEGE MEDIA STUDENT, riots when it exploded onto the stage in 1906. It’s now WHITLEY BAY been brought up-to-date and looks at how young I WILL ALWAYS “I last saw Matthew people are affected by an older generation that doesn’t Bourne’s Swan understand them. LOVE YOUUUUUUUUUU… Lake at the The Fall, by Lilia Rubin, is inspired by The Legacy Warm up your vocal chords, folks, the multi- Theatre Royal. It Letters, which features letters to the victims of 9/11 written award-winning musical The Bodyguard is at was spectacular; by family members, many from daughters to their fathers. the Theatre Royal next spring, packed with hits possibly the best The Fall explores how 9/11 affected these young women’s including One Moment in Time, I Wanna Dance stage performance sense of self, their growing up, relationships, spirituality, with Somebody and I Will Always Love You. I have ever seen. It’s great that these and outlooks on life. Watch this space for casting details for the tour. amazing shows come to Newcastle. The Spring Awakening, May 20-24; The Fall May 21-24 Theatre Royal, April 1-18, from £17.50 Theatre Royal is a gorgeous place, too.” www.northernstage.co.uk www.theatreroyal.co.uk

LUCY STEEL, 30, CARE ASSISTANT, MORPETH “I have a son who TOON TWEETS is four and the last ...A FEW OF THE THINGS THAT HAVE GOT PEOPLE TWEETING IN NEWCASTLE RECENTLY… performance we saw was at The LISA (@LISAALLEN14): CHRIS FINNIGAN ALASDAIR ALLAN (@ALLAN): Discovery @jamieoliver fab food and excellent (@CHRISFINNIGAN85): Ras el …and that’s a wrap for Museum on Easter service @jamieoliver restaurant Newcastle hanout rubbed smoked lamb belly, bbq @makerfaire_uk. See you all next Bank Holiday. It glaze, chilli pickled cucumber, wasabi & year! #makerfaire #makerfaireuk was a bit like a pantomime and a magic mustard yoghurt #tasty #lane7 show combined. It was great and included lots of interaction with the SHINDIGUK (@SHINDIGUK): MCBUSTED (@MCBUSTED): METRO RADIO NEWS children. I’d never thought about taking Introducing another of our on-site festival The Dougie chair, coming to a store (@METRORADIONEWS): my son to The Discovery Museum but food stands at SHINDIGXXII near you soon... well actually a gig The Embarrassing Bodies van in there’s lots to do and we both really @papaganoush1 ! #XXII http:// near you soon. In a bit Newcastle! Newcastle today... would you show

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Fabulous Flournoy has taken a team that Where do you go out? The team goes many said would never win a trophy to out together at least twice a month. We six league titles in the last nine years, go all over the city. Last week, we went plus five BBL Trophies, two BBL Cups to Lane7 for bowling and miniature golf. and five play-off wins with this year’s I also love Newcastle’s many unique play-offs to come. Ever wondered what gems, like the Quayside Market on a makes him tick? Try this: Sunday morning. What’s it like proving the How do you unwind? I’m a big fan of doubters wrong? They said the team cartoons, fantasy drama and sci-fi. I’m couldn’t win with a player/coach, but a Trekkie and a geek about Star Wars. I in 2006 we won our first trophy and studied law so I watch a lot of CSI and things changed. I was labelled as a murder mystery too. shouter then because I’d built an identity Do you enjoy being a role model? The as aggressive, but I’m actually very community aspect of this club is very big nurturing and respectful with my players. and really important to me personally. I Was it your ambition to be won’t sign a player who doesn’t want to player/coach? No! It took a long time for go into schools or thinks he’s too good Paul Blake (Eagles MD) to get me to take to sign autographs, no matter how good the job. He asked me three times and I he is. We’re very privileged to be doing said no, then he said he was looking for what we love. another coach and would I help out until What do you listen to? Hip hop and he found the right guy. He’s still looking! RnB, particularly Jay-Z. Different eras of Is it tough being a perfectionist? his music have meanings for me. I love A No, but when I say I’m going to do Dream by Jay-Z. It has a lot of meaning something, I have to work to be the for me. best at it. I love to cook because it What do you miss about New York? takes perfection, particularly baking The atmosphere, the people, the pace because you need the right timing, and its energy. It’s not for everyone, but I PU T MY PANTS ON measurements and method. I love it. What’s good about Newcastle? The When are you happiest? When I’m atmosphere is fantastic, full of laughter successful - whether that’s winning and warmth, particularly at night, and a basketball games or cooking a ONE LEG AT A TIME, I don’t drink alcohol! I’m from New great meal. York and I’ve travelled the world, but What do you see when you look in there’s nowhere like Newcastle. I love the mirror? Someone who is extremely LIKE EVERYONE ELSE the pantomime at Christmas. I’d never fortunate and blessed to be where he is. been to one until a few years ago and I I put on my pants one leg at a time, just was amazed! like everyone else.

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Baltic, balticmill.com thecut.squarespace.com PICASSO’S IMPORTANT digital technology, the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle THOMAS BEWICK AND WORKS ON PAPER ways we receive and digest University, twmuseums. UNTIL JUNE 29 HIS APPRENTICES PINUP Picasso’s work on paper is information through digital org.uk/hatton-gallery A range of work produced Celebrate 1950s pin-up often overlooked despite reproductions. THEY USED TO CALL IT by Bewick and his pupils. girls. 10pm. the key influence it has Free, 12pm-6pm Tues-Sat. UNTIL MAY 18 LEWIS ROBINSON – THE MOON Free, 10am-5pm (not Mon) House of Smith, had over the graphic arts. 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O2 Academy, MAY 21 O2 Academy, thesagegateshead.com THE HANCOCK Enron depicts one of the STORM JAMESON o2academynewcastle.co.uk o2academynewcastle.co.uk Bar vouchers and cash up most infamous scandals Discussing the impact ELIZA GILKYSON MAY 28 for grabs. 50p, 8pm. SALLY MORGAN in history. of the novelist’s sense THE LINDSAY Politically-minded, singer- NEW KIDS ON The Hancock, Britain’s favourite TV £10, £7 conc, times vary. of identity. HANNON PLUS songwriter. £13, 8pm. THE BLOCK HOT EIGHT Hancock Street, psychic. £23, 7pm. Northern Stage, Free, 5.30pm-6.30pm. One of the most dynamic jazz Live Theatre, live.org.uk Boyband sensations BRASS BAND thehancocknewcastle. Newcastle City Hall, northernstage.co.uk Newcastle City Library, singers around. £5, 11pm. return! £77, £51.50, £37, Intensity fro a multi- co.uk newcastlecityhall.org newcastle.gov.uk Jazz Café, Pink Lane, DECADE, ONLY RIVALS, £21.50 conc, 7.30pm. instrumental band. MAY 22 newcastle-arts-centre.co.uk BRAWLERS, SECOND Newcastle City Hall, £16, 7pm. EVERY THURSDAY MAY 17 READ REGIONAL PLACE HERO newcastlecityhall.org O2 Academy, KINDNESS Meet Tara Bergin, who DEAN STOCKDALE Upbeat pop punk. £8, 7pm. o2academynewcastle.co.uk THE BODEGA THE LATE SHOWS AT Sam Brady’s struggle to be combines lyricism with Top notch jazz. 9.30pm. O2 Academy, MAY 24 Second last place gets LIVE THEATRE a ‘good person’. fairytale and folklore. Free, Jazz Café, Pink Lane, o2academynewcastle.co.uk THIEVING HERER, a Bodega-branded The Your Aunt Fanny girls £10, £8 conc, 7.45pm. 6.30pm-7.45pm. newcastle-arts-centre. THE CAFFREY TOO SPICY, 3 AT SEA wooden spoon. celebrate everything that’s Theatre Royal, Newcastle City Library, co.uk MCBUSTED BROTHERS Live music courtesy of £1, 8.30pm. funny and inappropriate. theatreroyal.co.uk newcastle.gov.uk Additional date. £39.50. Original and uplifting Alphabetti Spaghetti. 8pm. The Bodega, Free, 10pm and 10.45pm. LITTLE MIX Metro Radio Arena, songs. £12, 7.45pm. Dog And Parrot, Westgate Road, Live Theatre, live.org.uk MAY 25 THE IMAGE OF THE HERO The Geordie X Factor metroradioarena.co.uk Live Theatre, live.org.uk Clayton Street, thebodeganewcastle. How does art convey the winners are back. alphabettispaghettitheatre. co.uk UNTIL MAY 17 OPEN STAGE concept of the hero? £5, £33.50, £22.50. MAY 22 THE LONGSANDS co.uk Head down and try 6pm-7pm. Metro Radio Arena, Indie rock band. £11, 7pm. THE NEW BRIDGE CAPTAIN AMAZING something out! 8pm. University Gallery, metroradioarena.co.uk COURTNEY LOVE Riverside Nightclub, THE SOUTH General knowledge quiz. One-man show about Dog And Parrot, Northumbria University, A must-see performance. Quayside, Featuring ex members £1, 8.30pm. Britain’s only part-time Clayton Street, northumbria.ac.uk/ MAY 18 £33, 7pm. riversidenewcastle.co.uk of The Beautiful South. 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Hear from the Mariner 9 A CELEBRATION open their doors, offering shows at noon and artist. 2pm-3pm, free. OF BRITAIN’S free events, exhibitions 6pm. Free. Laing Gallery, MOUNTAINEERING and performances. intu Eldon Square twmuseums.org.uk/laing HISTORY Free, 7pm-late. Discussing the literary and Various venues, FRIDAY MAY 16 MAY 15 cultural history of rock thelateshows.org.uk climbing. Free, 2pm. GET INTO FASHION MALORIE BLACKMAN The Lit & Phil, Westgate MAY 24 Seminars and panel The Children’s Laureate Road, litandphil.org.uk discussions with a discusses her career. £6, FIFTH BIRTHDAY PARTY team of fashion gurus £4 conc, 7.15pm. LIT POP BOOK GROUP With party games, bouncy including Lauren Luke. Northern Stage, Perfect for lovers of music castle, face painting, noon–6.30pm. Free. northernstage.co.uk and books. Free, 6pm-7pm. balloons and birthday Northumbria University Newcastle City Library, cake!. Free, 11am-3pm. School of Law MAY 16 newcastle.gov.uk Great North Museum: Hancock, ROX ROYALTY IN TRACING YOUR WAR OVER MY DEAD greatnorthmuseum.org.uk ASSOCIATION TIME ANCESTORS BODY: THE ETHICS OF WITH LUXE How to find out DISPLAYING CORPSES VIP invite-only affair of about family war Is it ok to display human NE1’S cocktails, pampering time experiences. bodies? A panel debate NEWCASTLE and entertainment. Free, 2pm-3pm. inspired by the Body Rox Jewellers, Newcastle City Library, Worlds Vital exhibition. FASHION Northumberland Street newcastle.gov.uk £12/£7.50. 7pm. Life Science Centre, WEEK SATURDAY MAY 17 MAY 18 life.org.uk THURSDAY MAY 15 NE1’S NEWCASTLE SPECIAL GUEST FASHION WEEK LECTURE: PROFESSOR INTU ELDON SQUARE OFFICIAL MICHAEL ROSENTHAL FASHION FRENZY CLOSING PARTY Looking through Shopping event with Expect the paparazzi. £6 landscape. 2pm-3pm, free. special offers and activities entry before midnight. Laing Gallery, from noon until 8pm, plus Tup Tup Palace, St twmuseums.org.uk/laing Eldon Garden catwalk Nicholas Street

HANG STRETCH YOGA MAY 27 Use fabric cocoons and hammocks to THE LIVES OF STARS NEXT ISSUE explore inverted poses Discussing massive stars. and stretches. Free, 7pm. £20, 12.30pm-2.30pm. The Lit & Phil, IF IT’S HAPPENING IN NEWCASTLE NE1, Dance City, litandphil.org.uk IT’S IN NE1 MAGAZINE. dancecity.co.uk IN YOUR NEXT EDITION... MAY 28 MAY 20 Kings of Leon at St James’ Park TIM WINTON THE LIVES OF STARS Literary reading by the Jesterval 2014 The story of a star’s life and popular Australian author. Watch England in Brazil in NE1 how elements are made. £6, £4 conc, 7.15pm. Free, 7pm. Culture Lab, The Lit & Phil, Newcastle University, litandphil.org.uk culturelab.ncl.ac.uk

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