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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 Ballet meets the king of puns, meets a night of cult classics, and much more 06 UPFRONT Art, comedy and a kid about Toon 08 TRY THIS Something new to try in NE1 10 10 ALIVE AFTER FIVE Five years in, we study the benefits of keeping Toon open all hours 14 MUSIC Heaven 17, Squeeze, Dappy, and The Proclaimers - it’s eclectic! 21 YAP YAP YAP Getting to know Chatty Man 17 18 Alan Carr ONE DIRECTION HALF TERM The world’s biggest boy band Our guide to keeping everyone 22 LISTINGS heads to Toon for three nights entertained during the holidays Your go-to guide to NE1 goings-on

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STARGAZING Life Science Centre’s Planetarium has had a £500,000 upgrade, LET’S DANCE bringing the latest digital Take one evil stepmother and a beautiful technology to the North’s queen, add a poisoned apple or two and biggest planetarium. The upgrade came a handful of dwarfs, and you’ve got the just in time for the launch of Hubble at 25, recipe for a classic fairytale. A magical which explores the history of the space reworking of the Brothers Grimm favourite telescope. Snow White is brought to Northern CULT FICTION life.org.uk Stage by the brilliant dance company The Cult Classics All Nighters have become the stuff of balletLORENT. With all the darkness and legend, and Tyneside Cinema is the only place you’ll see PIZZA PERFECT light of a classic fairytale, young dancers film fans arriving at the pictures with their sleeping bags Rossopomodoro (which from Newcastle will join the professional this month. means red tomato, if you ensemble to delight and enchant The next cinematic marathon includes The Big Lebowski, didn’t know) is now open audiences. Blade Runner (pictured above), Clerks, Evil Dead, A Nightmare at John Lewis in intu Eldon Northern Stage, October 16-17, from On Elm Street, Commando and Napoleon Dynamite. With Square. Serving Neopolitan £14.50, northernstage.co.uk films across all four screens running through the night, and breakfast, lunch and dinner – the chain’s tickets a mere £1 per film, you can afford to turn up early, get pizzas are the stuff of legend. comfy and order a BIG box of popcorn. John Lewis, rossopomodoro.co.uk IN A STEW BE INSPIRED Tyneside Cinema, October 19-20, £1 For beautifully crafted wordplay and clever Join Amy Barker, curator of the Arts & tynesidecinema.co.uk HATCHLING puns, look no further than Canadian comic Crafts House: Then & Now exhibition at The team behind Lane 7 Stewart Francis, who brings his deadpan style the Laing and enjoy in-depth look at the has launched Hatch 5 - a and witty one liners to the Toon. fascinating movement. NICE AND breakfast and lunch A regular on all the best panel One of the most profound and influential TEASY takeaway station. The shows, Francis is a quick-witted modern art movements, the Arts & Crafts period Tea aficionados will be hatch, on Churchill Street at and charming comedian, and his gave rise to celebrated figures like John Ruskin, delighted to hear Easy the side of Lane 7, is serving up traditional impeccable timing will have you William Morris and Edwin Lutyens. Collaborative Teasy has expanded its and healthy breakfast options plus hot chortling in no time. design and experimentation was the order of the range of loose-leaf tea to drinks and lunches. Tyne Theatre & Opera House day, with nature becoming a source of inspiration. 17 varieties. Churchill Street, hatch5.co.uk October 17, £22.50 Laing Art Gallery, October 28, £3 Set up by Northumbria tynetheatreandoperahouse.uk laingartgallery.org.uk University graduates VIVA LA REVOLUCION Harry Marshall, Luci Spanish restaurant Tapas Cowie and Tom Webb, their Revolution is heading to tea is available across the intu Eldon Square. North East, including at Madrid-born Omar Allibhoy Whosit & Whatsit, Sandhill. opens his fifth restaurant The range includes Earl as part of the centre’s new £25m dining Grey and English Breakfast, quarter - expect top-class dining from the plus Crème Caramel and chef who has worked at world famous Lavender and Fruit Rooibos, and is available online too. restaurant elBulli and for Gordon Ramsay. Easy Teasy, www.easyteasy.co.uk intu Eldon Square, tapasrevolution.com

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NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT Glaswegian comic Kevin Bridges has had a phenomenal run of success, with his 2012 tour selling 45,000 tickets on the first day. It’s no wonder the 28-year-old comedian can command a five-night run at our esteemed City Hall, and his new tour, A Whole Different Story, KID ABOUT TOON has been heralded as a down-to-earth and subtly WITH PETER TIMPERLEY, AGED EIGHT hilarious joy. Snaffle a ticket while you still can! FROM HEXHAM , October 27-31, £25 newcastlecityhall.org BEST PLACE TO SPEND ALL DAY CORNISH ON CANVAS Yesterday, I played Famed for his works depicting real life characters on lots of games at IT’S ASTOUNDING! in charming and highly detailed style, an impressive the Game On 2.0 Do the Time Warp with a bunch of like-minded souls when a selection of works by Norman Cornish is going on display exhibition at Centre special screening of Rocky Horror Picture Show comes to the in Newcastle. for Life, which is awesome. Mum says Mining Institute. The collection is typical of the Co Durham artist’s style, Pong is the best game, but my favourite Organised by the Sal Lumsden Archive Project, which celebrates portraying working life in the region with touching social is Halo. I was on it for ages, which was the life of Michael ‘Sal’ Lumsden, a pioneer of Newcastle’s LGBT quirks, from old men reading newspapers or playing amazing. Then, me and my friend Wilf scene, the group aims to share the experiences of LGBT people in dominoes in the local pub, to iconic ink and watercolour extracted DNA from wheat germ in a the region. Join Dr Frank-N-Furter and Brad ‘n’ Janet in your best winter scenes, all of which will be on sale. test tube. It was really cool. I really liked Rocky Horror attire for a frightfully good night out! St Thomas Street Workshops, October 17-December 23 dressing up like a scientist. The Mining Institute, October 20, free, slap.foundation (Tues-Sat), gallagherandturner.co.uk BEST PIZZA I totally love Pizza Express. You get to TOON TWEETS choose what’s on top A FEW OF THE THINGS THAT HAVE GOT PEOPLE TWEETING… TWEET US @NEWCASTLENE1 of your pizza, you get dough balls, and they THE BOTANIST NCL SANDRA TANG SCOTTISH RUGBY make your salad into @THEBOTANISTNCL @SANDIEBEACH (@SCOTLANDTEAM) a smiley face. It’s awesome! We can’t wait to have So this happened and IT WAS Newcastle’s fanzone set a new @JessicaAvison back! Thank you GOOOOD #Newcastle #nebloggers single-day #RWC2015 record with BEST CINEMA @GenreMusicLtd #LiveMusicEveryday #nefollowers #northeasthour 34,000 fans! My best cinema is the Empire at The Gate BEAUTY BY THE GEEKS GET INTO NEWCASTLE BOBBI CHARLESTON because they have @BEAUTYBYGEEKS @NEWCASTLENE1 @BOBBICHARLESTON these studio cinemas Harriet’s got a little excited at Lovely and busy evening by our Fierce, fabulous, furiously funny which are really small. #quaysideseaside #NE1 #Newcastle #NE1relaxationstation and NE1 #cabaret from @friskynmannish I saw Pixels there. It #Newcastle City Marina @sage_gateshead #justtoomuch was super cool.

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OUT AND ABOUT

I WENT TO… Naomi Friel, 42 High Heaton, therapist “I went to the Laing to see Picture This, the children’s illustrators exhibition. I really enjoyed the film with illustrators on what inspired them and how they produced their work, and the different interpretations of characters SOMETHING’S BREWING from a range of artists.” Plans have been approved for Wylam Brewery’s move to Exhibition Park in the THAT’S THE WAY! heart of the city. The award-winning brewer is set to open a microbrewery and events Mischievous and cheeky seem to be the buzzwords I ATE AT… space with a bar and restaurant in the Palace of Arts in the park in 2016. It will also be for Joe Lycett’s brand of stand-up comedy. Alan Diment, 46 expanding its team and output with a larger 30-barrel brew house. Watch this space! The self-proclaimed ‘absolute lad’ has received plaudits Heaton, stock Exhibition Park, www.wylambrewery.co.uk for his entertaining style, with his debut show Some Lycett administrator Hot nominated for the Best Newcomer at Edinburgh “I ate at Mamma Mia’s in Comedy Awards in 2012. He’s now hitting the road on his Pudding Chare. I’ve been THE NAME’S BOND humorously titled That’s The Way, A-Ha, A-Ha, Joe Lycett a vegan for five years so I tried out their One of the year’s hottest cinema releases is tour, which if nothing else at least gives a clue on how to special vegan menu, which was finally here, with Daniel Craig returning as 007 pronounce his surname. extremely good and had a great range in new Bond thriller Spectre. The Stand, October 20 & 29-31, £12, thestand.co.uk of stuff on it.” With a plot line far removed from the dreary Sam Smith I’M LISTENING TO… theme song, 007 finally Debi Millar, 31 comes face-to-face with the , teacher sinister Spectre organisation, “I’m really enjoying Titus a shadowy conspiracy that Andronicus’ new album. forces Bond to confront an I’m originally from enemy from his past. Northern Ireland and they were the first Expect car chases, band I saw after I moved over here, so explosions and plenty of they’re a bit special for me. It’s a peril. Exhilarating stuff. A GREAT ESCAPE 29-song rock opera, and it’s fab!” Empire Cinema & Tyneside One of the greatest Stephen King film Cinema. from October 30 adaptations, The Shawshank Redemption’s THE BIG PICTURE I’M READING… empirecinemas.co.uk & tale of triumph over adversity has been given Hannah Collins’ towering, unframed photographs will Emma Kingswood, 38 tyneside cinema.co.uk a new lease of life with a thrilling stage show get a fitting home at BALTIC, where the gallery’s huge Sunderland, counsellor 21 years after the film was first released. spaces offer a worthy location for the artist’s work. “I’ve just finishedThe Starring Doctors/Emmerdale actor Ian Kelsey Conveying the emotional and psychological aspects of Sea, The Sea by Iris as Andy Dufresne and Patrick Robinson (The spaces in cultural and social history, the exhibition includes a Murdoch. I had a Bill/Casualty) as prison fixer Red, the production selection of the artist’s vast unframed prints, plus The Fertile seaside holiday so I thought it would be promises all the grit and charm of the book Forest 2013-15, an installation of photographs of indigenous a good one to take with me. It’s a very and movie. Unmissable. plants taken during periods spent with Cofan and Inga tribes compelling story, although I found the Theatre Royal, October 19-24, from £14 in the Amazon basin. protagonist really irritating! I would still theatreroyal.co.uk BALTIC, until January 30, balticmill.com recommend it though.”

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GREAT TASTE A staggering 9.7m extra hungry visitors have come into Toon after 5pm since 2010 - and they can eat their way around the world. There is now the newly 9.7m Michelin-starred House of Tides (owner Kenny Atkinson is pictured right), posh VISITORS burger joint Byron Burger, the fab New York-style kitchen and gin distillery Bealim House, Neopolitan bistro Rossopomodoro, Brazilian steakhouse Viva Brazil, Preuvian kitchen Solano’s, American BBQ kitchen Purple Bear, veggie destination Painted Elephant and many more, drawn by the huge success of Alive After Five and the twice-annual NE1’s Newcastle With free parking and more Restaurant Week. to do than just go for a drink after 5pm, Alive After Five has brought an extra 9.7m visitors to the city after 5pm since its launch in 2010 TOON’S ALIVE AFTER FIVE! It’s been five years since NE1 Ltd - the company which champions Newcastle city centre - brought us Alive After Five, and what a difference it’s made! Over five years, the initiative has driven millions of £ visitors into the city after 5pm thanks to thousands of TRY SOMETHING NEW free parking spaces, extended shopping hours, a huge The change in the city’s retailers and growth in quality restaurants and coffee shops, new restaurants has been huge, and that’s not all. gyms and bowling alleys, and a huge increase in Eldon Leisure has had a big revamp to special events. improve the gym and add ten-pin bowling, Vertigo £591m Now firmly established as a world-leading initiative, climbing and Jungle Jack’s adventure soft play. Alive After Five has attracted scores of new retailers, Head along to City Library, which is open ESTIMATED VALUE OF restaurants, cafes and bars to Newcastle, where the until 8pm, or the Lit & Phil to enjoy one of their ALIVE AFTER FIVE HOURS one-time ‘dead zone’ between 5pm and 8pm is now regular evening events and courses. Great North When the scheme was buzzing with people who travel in from the suburbs and Museum: Hancock also runs regular courses and launched in 2010 it was hoped office workers who stay in town after work. workshops in the evenings, while film showings at it would provide a multi-million And its creator, NE1 Ltd, is continuing to introduce the Tyneside Cinema are now accompanied by pound boost to city centre new attractions to the city after 5pm, including the regular special events at its new Bar Cafe. business. Five years on, the twice-yearly NE1’s Newcastle Restaurant Week, which There’s also been an influx of luxury in Toon, estimated value of Alive After boosts city restaurant trade by more than £350,000. with the opening of the new Vermont Aparthotel Five is estimated to be £591m www.getintonewcastle.co.uk/alive-after-five and the new Crowne Plaza Hotel.

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We’re in celebratory mood with the fifth anniversary of NE1’s Alive after Five. October 25 is the official birthday, and what a huge success for the city! Newcastle has completely transformed since Alive after Five was launched in 2010. We have had an additional 9m visitors to the city and businesses of all sorts are benefiting from the early The massive boost in trade and visitors evening economy, valued at £591m in brought by Alive After Five has prompted many the last five years; a good illustration is redevelopments over the last five years. the opening of 43 new restaurants since The latest is taking place now at White Hart Yard - a Alive after Five’s launch. space between Grey Street and Cloth Market, which With people comes vibrancy, is being turned into a food and drink destination with excitement and security. The city centre various venues and pop-up spaces by Pleased to Meet now attracts a much wider range of You owner Ladhar Leisure. people in the early evening; students from around the world, families with BRING THE CAR children, couples and more. The team at NE1 Ltd, who created Alive After Five, And it continues to grow and knew that free parking would bring millions more evolve. Supporting NE1 events such people into Toon after 5pm, and they work with the as Restaurant Week are always being city council to provide thousands of free parking reviewed and improved, and new ones places at seven multi-storey car parks: are being dreamt up by the NE1 team all • Grainger Town Multi-Storey, Waterloo Square the time. • Eldon Garden Multi-Storey, Percy Street It’s hard to remember what • Eldon Square Multi-Storey, Percy Street Newcastle was like before Alive after • Multi-Storey, City Road Five, even though we remain unique • Manors Multi-Storey, City Road INTERNATIONAL APPEAL in the UK as the only city permanently • Oxford Street Multi-Storey open until 8pm. • Dean Street Multi-Storey Thanks to our universities, there are 135 nationalities now resident in Newcastle, Alive Here’s to many happy returns of www.getintonewcastle. After Five makes visitors and incomers from the day. co.uk/alive-after-five around the world feel right at home. With more Maksim Toome / Shutterstock.com Toome Maksim CREDIT: IMAGE shops open late, the streets are buzzing, and 12 WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK the more cosmopolitan and attractiveWWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK city 13 centre is loved by visitors and locals alike. MUSIC MUSIC

IN HEAVEN New-wave synth pop seems to be making a resurgence of late, which will please fans of electro combo Heaven 17, now a duo, who include the Toon as part of their UK tour this month. At the height of their fame in the OCH, AYE! early 80s, when dark disco classic The Scottish twins may be best-known for Temptation topped the charts in producing the ever-so-slightly irritating (I’m 1983, they played relatively few live Gonna Be) 500 Miles, but The Proclaimers COOL FOR CATS gigs - their first coming a mere 17 are in fact purveyors of incredibly witty With their latest single, the absurdly upbeat years after their formation. social commentary. Happy Days, getting constant rotation on the With the music scene’s penchant The proud Scots have had their music turned wireless, it seems enduring British pop act for recycling musical fashions, they into an award-winning stage musical (Sunshine Squeeze have had a new lease of life. may be in favour once more with a on Leith) and their distinctive style and warm Their success has spanned four decades, younger crowd, eager to experience personalities have gained them fans the world with the popularity of hits including Cool For Cats one of the pioneers of the genre. over. Don’t miss this chance to enjoy their music and Up The Junction ensuring they’ve never Riverside, October 24, £20 in what’s bound to be a sing-along from start to really gone out of fashion. Their new tour sees riversidenewcastle.co.uk finish. Altogether now: “I would walk 500 miles…” them team up with the original punk poet John Newcastle City Hall, October 16, £26.50 Cooper Clarke, whose biting wit and dry humour newcastlecityhall.org will make for an original, bitingly satirical support. Sage Gateshead, October 21, from £34 sagegateshead.com ROCKSTAR Former N-Dubz badboy Dappy is on his way to the O2 Academy with his big UK tour. Having forsaken his former wild ways for a passion for fishing in recent times, the three- time platinum artist is still making his mark with a ALL CHANGE new, more mature sound With a glut of number one singles, BRIT and a new album nominations and worldwide festival entitled Miracles. appearances to their name, drum and bass This may be your last duo Sigma bring their explosive show to Toon. chance to see the Rockstar Having tasted success with massive singles singer perform solo as the PRODUCED BY NEWCASTLEGATESHEAD INITIATIVE including 2014’s Changing, which featured pop rumours of an N-Dubz polymath Paloma Faith, and Glitterball featuring comeback continue X-Factor star Ella Henderson, the duo’s up-tempo to grow. style will no doubt make for a high-energy show. O2 Academy O2 Academy, October 24, from £15.50 October 28, from £20 o2newcastle.com o2newcastle.com

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THEY’RE THE ONE Following the news that One Direction Former band member Zayn left after falling have agreed to take a break after their out with his South Shields-born fiancee current world tour, tickets for their Perrie of pretty popsters Little Mix. Zayn is concerts are hotter than hot. If you’re scheduled to disappear without trace within going to their Newcastle show, you’re a six months, before popping up again to host a big fan, which means you know all there reality TV show on a minor cable channel. is to know about them. For the rest of us, here’s a summary of the life - and hair - of 1D’s dolls were designed with laser image pop’s premier pretty boys. face-sculpting technology so they’d look just like the real thing. Harry, the Having found fame on that TV powerhouse undisputed king of 1D hair, takes a Harry of musical innovation, X Factor, One Direction doll everywhere, using it to try out new are a global phenomenon. The group’s album hairstyles during quiet moments on the sales top 50m, they’ve achieved 91 number tour bus, just like his own My Little Pony. one singles, and they’ve performed live to more than 7.5m fans worldwide, at least 75% As well as being a pop star, Louis is also of whom claim to have shared a milkshake a footballer, playing for Doncaster Rovers with at least one member of the band. during the 2013/14 season. He has special dispensation from the FA to carry hair gel, One Direction have a bizarre pre-gig serum, and spray on the field at all times and ritual, and it’s not chucking tellies out of never leaves the house without his stylist. hotel windows or downing whisky shots Delivered by in all-night benders. No, the 1D boys share Still hungry for more 1D ‘facts’? Shop late ’til 8pm Mon-Fri and 7pm Sat. giant, family-sized bags of Haribo sweets. Type ‘The Story of My Life Shreds’ into Rock ‘n’ roll! YouTube. It’s okay, you can thank us later.

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SCHOOL’S OUT Seven Stories Juice Festival Life Science Centre We know, it feels like no time at all since the kids went back to school after the summer break, but half term is already upon us (oh to be young again, eh?). If you thought you’d exhausted all your options over the summer, here are some fresh ideas and top tips to keeping sane over the holiday.

Life Science Centre offers can play with the snot-like, Bardugo and Melinda Salisbury a wealth of learning-based squidgy stuff (and learn about its talk about their thrilling stories activities for all ages. The Making properties too). life.org.uk and provide insights into writing Space gives youngsters an fantasy fiction (Oct 23). For opportunity to get their hands NE1’s Space 2 has moved youngsters looking for a thrill, dirty – sometimes literally – with to Pilgrim Street. The centre, celebrate 35 years of Janet and a range of hands-on workshops which offers offers everything Allan Ahlberg’s Funnybones including animation skills (Oct from careers advice to music (Oct 24-Nov 1), with Hallowe’en 17-18), soldering a basic circuit workshops to XBox and crafts, interactive storytimes and (Oct 24-25), creating a spooky PlayStation to people aged dressing up. Day of the Dead celebrations lantern or a firework picture 13-18, is managed by YMCA sevenstories.org.uk (Oct 26-30). Newcastle. space2.org A whole week of tailor-made The most mischievous cat in Perfect for a drizzly Saturday The Game On 2.0 show is An altogether wilder option activities takes place throughout town comes calling at Tyne afternoon, the Newcastle extended now into January, For something a bit more arty presents itself at Tyne Theatre & Half Term (Oct 24-Nov 1) at Theatre & Opera House (Oct Does Vintage fair at Newcastle which is brilliant because it has (although potentially no less Opera House, as Deadly 60 TV Juice Festival. Take part in a 26), as Dr Seuss’s Cat In The Hat Civic Centre (Oct 24) provides to be one of the best days out in messy), Laing’s Art Academy presenter Steve Backshall brings superhero training programme brings witty wordplay and an dressing-up box joy at every the city - ironic if you spend most day (Oct 27) offers 7-10 year olds his Wild World to Toon (Oct 24). at Tyneside Cinema inspired engaging theatre experience for turn and something fabulous for of your time arguing with your the chance to try out a range of The presenter, adventurer and by The Incredibles; watch and little kids - and big kids. parents too. Win/win! kids about screen time! fun techniques. writer sends on a participate in live circus at the tynetheatreandoperahouse.uk britaindoesvintage.co.uk/ If you’re really not bothered laingartgallery.org.uk wild ride full of thrills and spills Mining Institute; get your face newcastle-vintage-fair about the potential laundry from the Arctic to the Amazon, painted at ¡Vamos! Social’s Day Lane7 has you covered for wet crisis afterwards, send your little For tweens, magic and mayhem looking at the wonderful array of of the Dead celebrations; enjoy weather activities – whether it’s Offering magical realism with a monsters on a Slime Workshop is the order of the day at Seven wildlife he’s encountered. thrilling hip-hop culture with Just a karaoke party for 15 of your street art aesthetic, Jaisen Yates’ (Oct 24-Nov 1), where they Stories, as authors Leigh tynetheatreandoperahouse.uk Jam Intl at Dance City, Sage teen’s closest friends, or some Nibbled To Death By An Okapi Gateshead and Northumbria fun and funky bowling, the quirky By Accident exhibition at Abject Just Jam Intl Steve Backshall University; and get down at intu venue will bowl you over! Gallery in Bamburgh House (until Eldon Square’s funky silent disco. lane7.co.uk Nov 14) presents surreal and juicefestival.co.uk colourful art, certain to please If your youngster gazes young and old(er) alike. Waterstones is hosting scary longingly at the X Factor every breezecreatives.com stories and ghoulish goings-on in Saturday night, Loft Music’s the basement during Half Term, Pop Music Experience will make If your youngster has superhero ending with a spooky Hallowe’en them feel like a star as they tendencies, they’ll enjoy Circus party on Oct 31. Take along your produce their very own track at Central’s Fly Like No One’s carved pumpkins or go dressed a top recording studio. Simon Watching course; a fun session in your scariest costume to win Cowell will come knocking in of aerial experiments, live music some devilishly good prizes. no time! and dancing (Oct 26). waterstones.com popmusicexperience.co.uk circuscentral.co.uk Slime Workshop 18 WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK 19 ALAN CARR CHATTY MAN

Alan Carr is on his way to talk our ears off Not entirely surprisingly, Alan didn’t this month with latest his tour, Yap Yap follow in his father’s sporting footsteps. Yap. Here’s everything you need to know When he got to middle school, his PE about the Chatty Man star: teacher proudly announced him as the son of the Northampton Town manager Alan has faced accusations of being ‘too and that he would be made team captain. camp’ throughout his career. In a Guardian “I was absolute crap. Scared of the ball. interview he revealed he’d spent a lot of his Absolutely terrified,” says Alan. early life trying to ‘de-camp’ himself. He’d try to play football or deepen his voice, but there So what was he like at school? “Mincey. I’ve was always a little something that gave him always been mincey. People think I put it on, away – the obsession with Wonder Woman, but I don’t. I’ve always been the same.” the laugh, the limp wrist, the love of Doris Day films, perhaps? In 2006, Carr and Lionel Blair - of all people - saved a man who was about to fall from On his distinctive voice, he says: “I didn’t a pier in . You couldn’t make that know what I sounded like until I watched one up! myself perform. So that’s why people are shouting ‘Bender!’” His trophy cabinet is as good as it comes with two British Comedy Awards, two National His dad Graham is from the North East and Television Awards and a BAFTA. was a professional footballer. He is currently chief scout at Newcastle United.

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