Our Biggest Restaurant Week Ever January 19-25: Eat Owt for £10-£15 at 80 Venues
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FREE JAN 21-FEB 4 2015 WHAT’S ON IN NEWCASTLE www.getintonewcastle.co.uk OUR BIGGEST RESTAURANT WEEK EVER JANUARY 19-25: EAT OWT FOR £10-£15 AT 80 VENUES PLUS: WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR AT LIFE STRICTLY COME DANCING + RUGBY SHAKES UP ST JAMES’ PARK CONTENTS Newcastle NE1 magazine is brought to you by NE1 Ltd, Restaurant the company which champions all that’s great about Newcastle city centre WHAT’S ON IN NE1 Week 04 UPFRONT Arenacross, wedding wisdom, 19th–25th January Burns Night and more Dine with us at some of Newcastle’s finest 08 TRY THIS restaurants for only £10 or £15* per person. A perfect storm of art, theatre Newcastle. Get more from your day. and music to keep you busy 11 FOOD HEAVEN NE1’s Newcastle Restaurant 16 Week is back and even bigger 14 MUSIC From classical to classic rock 16 KEEP DANCING Strictly Come Dancing Live 19 JESSIE J News and grooves about Jessie 12 20 as she lands at the O2 Academy A KIND OF MAGIC HAPPY SNAPPERS Magic Weekend and the Rugby The world’s best wildlife 22 LISTINGS World Cup head for Newcastle photographs on show at Life Your guide to goings on in NE1 ©Offstone Publishing 2015. All rights Editor: Jane Pikett reserved. No part of this magazine may be reproduced without the written permission Words: Dean Bailey, Claire Dupree of the publisher. All information contained (listings editor), Stanley Gene, in this magazine is as far as we are aware, Eugenie Johnson, Samantha Rickelton If you wish to submit a listing for inclusion correct at the time of going to press. 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Email [email protected] [email protected] Like us /GetIntoNewcastle Twitter @offstonepublish WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK 3 23334 SF Restaurant Week Jan 15 NE1 Mag A5 Ad.indd 1 15/12/2014 11:21 UPFRONT NEWS REVVING UP WORD ON THE Seekers of high-octane thrills will be revved up by STREET Arenacross Racing’s return to Metro Radio Arena. Arenacross showcases the death-defying skills of internationally renowned motocross riders as they race Glass House, over jumps and display daredevil aerial gymnastics on LET IT ‘BURNS’! Newcastle’s swish a specially built indoor dirt track. new champagne bar, Aussie champ Daniel McCoy heads an all-star line- JANUARY 25 opens any day now at up of pro riders and up-and-coming talent. Milburn House on Metro Radio Arena, February 1, from £19 Dean Street. It’ll have metroradioarena.co.uk Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face, great a courtyard, a tapas and canapés menu, chieftain o the puddin’ race - here’s and a selection of fizz, whisky and beer. our guide to celebrating Burns’ Night! Cheers! Glass House, Dean Street • Blackfriars is hosting an “earthy” Burns glasshousenewcastle.co.uk dinner with cock-a-leekie soup, haggis, WITTY neeps and tatties followed by cranachan The Hidden plus a dram with each course chosen by Newcastle app, which WIMMIN whisky expert Eddie Ludlow. features weird and There’s no better Blackfriars, January 23 and 25, £45 wonderful stories way to guarantee a blackfriarsrestaurant.co.uk from the city’s history, warm fuzzy glow than • Sage Gateshead celebrates the is now available free to support a worthy work of the great Scottish poet with a for Android devices on Google Play, as charity while doing banquet-style menu of Scotch broth, well as Apple devices. To find out more, something fun. At haggis with neeps and tatties, whisky download the app and get exploring! least that’s what the and cranachan with traditional music and hiddennewcastle.org GET HITCHED! Women’s Education dancing to end the night. Getting married in 2015? Make sure you’re in Toon on Society of Northumbria Sage Gateshead, January 25, £35 Cat lovers and January 24 and 25 when two major events will offer all University Student’s sagegateshead.com stressed out city the wedding inspiration you need. Union is hoping to offer • Hotel Du Vin’s traditional Burns Night workers can look The North East Wedding Show (pictured) returns to Metro with its event at The menu is available January 23-25 and forward to the Radio Arena with hundreds of exhibitors, catwalk shows, Stand in February. is matched with a selection of whiskies opening of the city’s entertainment, discounts, and free bridal workshops. The society fundraises to support women and girls including a 10-year-old Arran single malt first cat café in May. Decoration specialist Dandy Events is also hosting its to enter and remain in education. This night of stand-up to accompany the haggis, neeps and Planned for a secret location in the city, own inspirational wedding weekend on January 24 and 25 comedy will help women internationally to access education. tatties. There are also whisky jellies for Pretty Pussy Parlour will be home to with fizz and canapes on arrival, exclusive discounts and a Poet The Word Bird will be one of five performers taking afters. Hic! feline friends to help you relax while you free copy of Belle Bridal magazine to take away. the stage, and organisers promise a night filled with wit, Hotel Du Vin, January 23-25, £39.50 enjoy a purr-fect cuppa. Metro Radio Arena, £7, metroradioarena.co.uk patriarchal satire and feminist fun. hotelduvin.com/locations/newcastle Dandy Events, Scotswood Road, free, dandyevents.com The Stand, February 3, £5, thestand.co.uk 4 WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK 5 UPFRONT UPFRONT TWIST AND SHOUT! Transport yourself back to the heady days of the swinging 60s with the sensational Dreamboats And Miniskirts, heading to Theatre Royal in January. The sequel to the acclaimed 50s show Dreamboats And Petticoats, this is a super- NEW WORLD psychedelic celebration of Mersey beats Tyneside Cinema Gallery has another cutting-edge and fab 60s sounds. installation on show now in the shape of Sebastian Featuring hit after hit from Handy Man Buerkner’s The Chimera of M. to Pretty Woman, One Fine Day and many The 3D stereoscopic digital animation depicts the world I’VE BEEN TO… more, the top cast will have you twisting and through an abstract landscape filled with shards of light shouting in the aisles! and colour. Using the latest technology, the work explores Theatre Royal, January 20-24, from £14 themes of longing, intimacy, loss, and identity and has a BETH MCNALLY, 25, TEACHER theatreroyal.co.uk cinematic feel which fits in with its setting at the Tyneside. GATESHEAD The winner of the Tiger Award for Short Film at the 2014 I went to see the Body Rotterdam Film Festival, the work was also shortlisted for the Worlds Vital exhibition Film London Jarman Award and the European Film Awards at the Centre for Life. It POET AND PIPER short film prize. A programme of free events includes a talk was pretty gruesome The “rhyming gobshite / piping vicar combo” from Buerkner himself on Feb 5. Tyneside Cinema in places but I really (their words, not ours) PiPE RiOT begin their until February 25, free, tynesidecinema.co.uk enjoyed it. residency in the main bar at the Cluny on February 7 on the back of a busy 2014 which WILL NICHOLSON, 28, WAITER included supporting iconic punk poet John GATESHEAD Cooper Clarke last summer. I saw Ben Folds play Performance poet Ettrick Scott and at Sage Gateshead a Northumbrian piper Chris Ormston will perform little while ago, which monthly Saturday slots at the Cluny featuring their was amazing. More unique insights into varying topics from football recently, I’ve been to violence to the merits of dry shampoo. They’re also The Stand to see Tony GOING LIVE planning an election night special. Law, which was really funny. Live Theatre has its finger on the pulse The Cluny, www.thecluny.com when it comes to spotting new talent and its GET PRETTY MELISSA GOSVIG, 32 innovative Live Lab programme kicks off 2015 Beautiful people rejoice, creative studio Hidden Heights CHILDMINDER, DENMARK with a series of events showcasing bold and is thriving in its new location at Arch 4 on Westgate My friend and I came ambitious new work. Road, and the quirky studio has a range of services to over from Denmark to 10 Minutes To… on Jan 25 presents new thrill lovers of beautiful things. see the 90s boy plays based around the theme of ‘Take Off’. Then, Experts in photography and make-up artistry Marie bands at the Metro Scratch Night on Jan 29 is the best place to see Harkness and Lo Dias have 10 years experience and an eye Radio Arena. It was a works-in-progress, and on Jan 30 there’s a night of for crafting eye-catching looks. Treat yourself to one of their great concert and we cutting-edge theatre, spoken word, comedy and make-up and photography packages – guaranteed to make got to meet the members of Blue music to enjoy.