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04 UPFRONT Russell Howard, Steven Seagal and a big Quayside triathlon 08 TRY THIS Our pick of what’s coming up

15 MUSIC World Headquarters, Shindig 16 Shenanigans, and more 16 FASHION NE1’s Newcastle Fashion Week 18 COMEDY Forgotten legend Billy Pearce 20 IN THE MIX 10 12 The search for Little Mix BEN CROMPTON THE LATE SHOWS 22 LISTINGS The world according to the Our recommendations for this Your go-to guide for man from Game of Thrones year’s event what’s on in NE1

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HEY BABY… The phenomenon that is Dirty Dancing hits the Theatre Royal stage on May 6 for a mega run which doesn’t end until May 28, when an extra matinee has been added to cope with demand. Packed with heart-pounding music, passionate romance and dancing which would be banned on TV’s Strictly, this is the story of Baby and WE’VE BEEN Johnny, two independent spirits from different worlds who come together in TO... GOOD NEWS what will be the most challenging and TV funnyman Russell Howard has added a major autumn triumphant summer of their lives. extension to the UK leg of his sold-out 2014 Wonderbox Theatre Royal, May 6-28, PATRICIA REED, 58, BYKER (LEFT), world tour, returning to the Metro Radio Arena on from £16.50, MYRIAM REED, 60, MORPETH December 16. www.theatreroyal.co.uk “We’ve just been to The tour has already seen almost 200,000 fans book Sgt Peppers for to see Howard in the UK, including four sold-out nights at scampi and chips. London’s Royal Albert Hall, before sold-out runs in the USA, It’s a nice little pub in Australia and New Zealand from this month. The new dates a lane just off will make a further 85,000 tickets available at arenas. Northumberland Metro Radio Arena, December 16, £27.50 Street. We’re long-lost sisters. We only www.metroradioarena.co.uk recently found one another.”

ROBERT SEWEL, 58, PHARMACIST, WASHINGTON Mark Nichols, chairman of Northern Pride, with “I’ve just been for a building society manager meal at Simply and DJ Iain Macleod Greek in the Bigg Market. It’s a great DOUBLE LIFE SEAGAL SINGS little place, a real The Most Surprising Alter-ego of the Week Who knew Hollywood action hero Steven Seagal gem with Award goes to Iain Macleod - by day a building is also a blues singer? We didn’t, so we looked it authentic food.” society manager, by night a Handbag House DJ up on YouTube and there he was, warbling away, who’s snaffled a prime Saturday night slot at practising perhaps for his appearance at the TOM FORSTER, 17, Newcastle Pride. SummerTyne Americana Festival in July. STUDENT FROM GATESHEAD Iain, who has a weekly Saturday night DJ slot The stellar bill also includes the legendary “We’ve come to the FULL OF BEANS at The Dog in Newcastle, tells us, with admirable Booker T Jones, Martha Wainwright, and ex-Black 02 Academy to see a We happened across this happy bunch of would-be understatement: “People are always really surprised Crowes strummer Marc Ford. You can join the band called Brand baristas at Costa Coffee, Northumberland Street, to hear that I’m a building society branch manager SummerTyne Americana Festival Choir (led by New - an alternative enjoying a coffee masterclass to mark UK Coffee Week as well as a DJ.” Newcastle Pride runs over three former Massive Attack singer Yolanda Quartey), and rock band from Long (is there a week for everything these days?). They were days in July and Iain hits the decks on the Times enyoy films, family activities, street food, and more. Island, New York. treated to a hands-on tutorial by award-winning barista Rob Square stage on July 19. The , July 18-20

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With Rosie Ward, store manager at Dr. Martens on Grainger Street TRIPLE WHAMMY Lycra at the ready, people – Newcastle’s first triathlon BEST FOR THREADS? sets off in July on the Quayside. Newcastle is fantastic for Competitors get to swim in the river and run and cycle shopping. I love Fenwick the Quayside, with the fabulous backdrop of The Sage French Salon for designer Gateshead, Baltic and the bridges to inspire them. brands, Topshop for jeans, Organised by VO2Max Racing Events and Triathlon LAST SUPPER The White Company and Jo Malone. England, the swim follows a down-stream course under Everyone in the NE1 magazine office was WWI-themed exhibitions, community projects, local the Millennium Bridge and into the Cycle Hub, fascinated when this photo landed courtesy of history displays, commemorative events and more BEST FOR FOOD AND DRINK? while the cycle ride follows both banks of the Tyne. The Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums. across the region over the coming months. The first Fitzgeralds on Grey Street run covers a multi-lap course over the Millennium and It shows World War I recruits gathered in the exhibition, Paintings of World War I, opens at the has a great day time menu Swing Bridges. There are three distances - Beginner swim Great Hall at what is now the Discovery Museum. Laing Art Gallery on May 10. and Sachins Indian 400m, cycle 12km, run 3km; Sprint swim 750m, cycle The team at the Archives and Museums service The chaps in this photo were, we are told, new restaurant is always brilliant. 20km, run 5km; Standard swim 1500m, cycle 40km, run issued it to publicise Heritage Lottery Fund backing recruits being treated to dinner before heading 10km - and the event is supported by Start Cycles, Orca, for its excellent project - Wor Life 1914-18, Tyne & over to France. We wonder how many came back. BEST FOR MUSIC? Merida Bikes, Nirvana Europe, High5, and Winn Solicitors. Wear in the First World War. Poignant stuff. I love The Sage To take part in the first Newcastle Triathlon on July 19, Delivered in partnership with Laing Art Gallery, from May 10, plus various Gateshead for its incredible visit www.thenewcastletriathlon.co.uk Museums and Heritage, Wor Life 1914-18 features venues, www.twmuseums.org.uk acoustics and the City Hall for intimate gigs. WITH ALICE NARCROSS (WWW.ALICESWONDEREMPORIUM.BLOGSPOT.CO.UK) BEST FOR PERFORMANCE? STYLE HUNTER... The Theatre Royal for giving Newcastle a true VIVIENNE WESTWOOD END CLOTHING ACCESSORIZE taste of the West End. Quietly tucked away next to the End Clothing is a great choice for Accessorize in Eldon Square Theatre Royal lies the Vivienne quality menswear. It offers a provides plenty of glitz with BEST COFFEE? Westwood store. Jam-packed with number of well-known brands pieces such as this I can’t choose between extravagant designs, it’s home to an such as Acne, Fred Perry, Nike white beaded collar necklace; Panis and Blakes! They’re array of clothing and accessories, in and Vans, while retaining the a perfect pick as statement so friendly, they serve up keeping with Vivienne Westwood’s warm and friendly service of necklaces are the must-have great food, and you always one-of-a-kind style. an independent store. accessory now. bump into someone you know. Hood St High Bridge intu Eldon Square

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THE WORD EVERYONE’S Live Theatre’s Studio Theatre welcomes BBC TALKING ABOUT Radio 4 Slam Champion Ben Mellor and his award-winning show Anthropoetry on May 8. A mash-up of science, politics, comedy, hip hop, social commentary and soul searching, BACK OF THE NET! poems and stories are presented in free-verse The full-time whistle has blown on poetry, rap, beatbox and satire, underscored live queuing for your half- by Dan Steele on guitar, keys, drum-pad and live time pie and Bovril looping. On May 15, Kirsten Luckins’ The Moon at St James’ Park Cannot Be Stolen promises a journey to India thanks to a new app through the eyes of a backpacker, the narrator which allows fans to meeting characters from hippies to holy men. pre-order food and drink to be delivered Anthropoetry, May 8, The Moon Cannot Be to their seats. The ground is the first in Stolen, May 15, Live Theatre, £8/£6 the UK to offer the VenueMenu app. www.live.org.uk

ROLLER DERBY! Newcastle Roller Girls is the city’s only LET IT ALL HANG OUT female roller derby CURIOUSER & CURIOUSER Fancy hanging out upside down on a trapeze? league and is The National Theatre’s multi award-winning Thought not, but having seen this photo, populated with production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the we’re tempted. teams of women on Night-Time is heading north on its first UK tour. On May 4, visitors to Dance City can explore wheels with only winning in mind. Not for Simon Stephens’ brilliant adaptation of Mark Haddon’s trapeze, silks, cocoon and hoop in workshops for the faint-hearted, every player has a best-selling novel has won all the awards that matter and ages three to 103. On May 18, there’s Hang Stretch game name (check out Missy Pow Pow, then some, and has been seen by more than 200,000 Yoga using fabric cocoons to explore inverted Bucks Liz, or Anita B Nasty) and they play people in the West End. Just go... poses and stretches. Which begs the question, why for teams with names like The Canny Theatre Royal, Jan 26–Feb 7 2015, from £13 on earth haven’t we thought of this before? Belters and Whippin’ Hinnies. www.theatreroyal.co.uk May 4 and May 18, £20, ww.dancecity.co.uk www.newcastlerollergirls.org.uk

STEAMPUNK We encountered TOON TWEETS this chap about toon ...A FEW OF THE THINGS THAT HAVE GOT PEOPLE TWEETING IN NEWCASTLE RECENTLY… on our travels, who told us, “I’m in a rush. LITTLE MIX (@LITTLEMIXHQ): BBC LOOK NORTH NE&C VICTORIA (@PROOFANDDESIGN): I’m attending a Jade @LittleMix today supporting the X Factor (@BBCLN): Jeff Brown’s selfie with A local tweet - our new steampunk wedding. auditions in Newcastle. Three years ago Jade Fab Flournoy from Newcastle Eagles, Blaydon. @NorthEastTweets @ Sorry!” Which led us, auditioned for the third time! to celebrate a sixth basketball league altweet_pet @NewcastleNE1 inevitably, to Wikipedia, which tells us title in nine seasons! #Newcastle #newcastlecity that steampunk is a “sub-genre of science fiction typically featuring THE HERB GARDEN STEPHEN MILLS MARTIN HUNTER steam-powered machinery, especially in (@THEHERBGARDENUK): (@LICENSINGSTEVE): (@MARTIN_HUNTER1): a setting inspired by industrialised The Herb Garden’s carnivore platter. #jcats queuing since 2am to meet This city ain’t bad you know Western civilization during the 19th How hungry are you? #northeasthour @UnionJworld at @fenwicknew #newcastle #quayside Century”. Wish we hadn’t asked… #newcastle #NE1 #NE_scran Newcastle. #bestfans

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Most of the ‘sleb interviews on the Aren’t the locations exotic? NE1 roster involve people you know Oh yeah, one group shoot in Morocco about or you’ve seen on the telly. and Croatia and are walking round in Take Ben Crompton. He’s in Game their Speedos, while we’re stuck half of Thrones – the TV phenomenon way up a mountain in northern Iceland. everyone on the planet has seen. We were stuck in a hotel for seven Apart from me. days once because it was so cold. It So, I head to Google, and here’s was like The Shining by day three. what I learn: Game of Thrones is very Who’s your other half? popular. Crompton’s first film was Les Liv [Lorent, founder of Newcastle- Miserables (1998) with Geoffrey Rush, based Ballet Lorent]. She recently got Liam Neeson, and Uma Thurman. He the MBE so we got a trip to the Palace. dabbles in stand-up comedy. And he We weren’t even offered a cup of tea! bears an uncanny likeness to Barry What else are you working on? Chuckle. So I ask him: We’ve just shot the third series of What was your first big job? Pramface. BBC3’s going online, which Les Mis, shot in Prague. I played is tricky because I’ve been working on Grantaire. Javert was Geoffrey Rush, BBC3 programmes for years. I could who was brilliant. I’d just left drama be on my arse when it goes online. school and I was 21. Liam Neeson What about the stand-up? bought me a pint one night. I’ve always loved stand-up. What’s the Any more names to drop? worst that can happen? A few bad I was invited to Glenn Close’s surprise gigs - I know! birthday party once. I bought her And your spare time? a remote controlled fart machine. We’ve got a six-month-old daughter She loved it so much, she bought and a five-year-old son; he and I make IF THE GODS WANTED some for her friend Robert Kennedy daft films together. I’m really into Jnr’s children. collecting soundtracks on vinyl. All the Are you the third Chuckle brother? money goes to eBay now. No, but I use it in my stand-up and How come you’re so busy? US TO HAVE DIGNITY, THEY It’s an advantage of not being it always gets a laugh; proof that people think it could be true, which handsome. You don’t get pigeonholed is depressing. in the romantic leads if you’re a bit WOULDN’T MAKE US FART Were you a Game of Thrones nerd runty. I suppose I’m really happy I’m before you landed a part in it? not Tom Cruise. I didn’t have a clue about it, but my first What can we expect from the new WHEN WE DIE dialogue was, ‘if the gods wanted us Game of Thrones? to have dignity, they wouldn’t make us I get to stick a sword in someone! fart when we die’. Pretty good! This series will be cracking – no doubt!

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WHO KNEW 1 Ouseburn Valley Friday from 8pm Jack the Ripper is on ABOUT... 3 the loose in the Ouseburn Valley. Look out for unexpected goings-on as you wander between venues.

2 Black Gate Saturday 7pm-11pm Enjoy a sneak preview of the newly refurbished interior and find out about the story of the Castle (for which the Black Gate was the main entrance) and its inhabitants before The Tyneside Cinema on Pilgrim Street it officially opens in the summer. originally opened as The Bijou News- 1 Reel Cinema in 1937, and was designed 4 3 Hatton Gallery and built by Dixon Scott, great uncle of Saturday 7-11pm Pop Art meets Marilyn film directors Ridley and the late in this fab photographic exhibition - Tony Scott, which kind of makes sense, 5 Marilyn Monroe: A British Love Affair. when you think about it. 4 St Dominic’s Priory Friday and Saturday 7-11pm Angelic Light presents an evening of music, art and performance around the theme of light and angels. 6 2 5 Toffee Factory Friday and Saturday 7-11pm Saunter down to the Toffee Factory for vintage glamour, killer cocktails and The Literary and Philosophical Society, sounds that swing. generally known as the Lit and Phil, has operated since 1793 and was founded 6 Tyne Bridge Tower as a conversation club. The library is the FTHE LATE SHOWS 2014 Saturday 7-11pm Venture inside the largest independent library outside of More than 50 venues have signed up to be part of northern tower of the Tyne Bridge to London, housing more than The Late Shows 2014. This year’s event on May 16 experience Inhibitor, an audio-visual 150,000 books. A and 17 sees museums, galleries, artists’ studios and piece by Ed Carter exploring PARP hidden treasure! heritage sites stay open into the evening and offer a inhibitors - a new type of cancer huge variety of free events . treatment discovered in Newcastle. Greggs the bakers Highlights of this year’s programme include the first opened in chance to venture inside the Tyne Bridge’s North tower ä Various venues Gosforth in 1951. to see a brand new work of art which will be taking up Friday and Saturday 7-11pm Artist Ginny Wonderfully, residence there, and tea and performances in the city Reed’s specially created artworks pop there are now centre’s own secret garden at Blackfriars. up in various locations. Look out for more branches For full listings visit www.thelateshows.org.uk wry phrases illuminating various Late in the UK than there are McDonald’s, Shows venues, igniting imaginations and which seems only right to us. forming an incandescent trail. MAP CREDITS: © NewcastleGateshead Initiative, Newcastle City Council

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ON THE BUTTON F**k Buttons (sorry, but that’s what they’re called…) reached a global audience when Danny Boyle put them in the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony. Now the duo are set to play an intimate date at Newcastle University on behalf of local independent promoter The Great Northern. This is your chance to catch one of the world’s most arresting electronic acts ahead of their headline slot on The Park Stage at Glastonbury and a full UK tour later in the year. Newcastle University, May 5, £15 www.nusu.co.uk

SHINDIG SHENANIGANS IN VOGUE! Unbelievably, club night Shindig has been going An unexpected bit of publicity landed on one for 22 years, and its May 4 birthday event will of the city’s finest clubs recently when Vogue PIC OF THE WEEK feature Shindig shenanigans over three venues. featured a review of World Headquarters’ Have you seen Newcastle Central Station since the new glazing on the ByDay & ByNight kicks off at Spillers Wharf Uplifting Groove nights, describing them as “a newly pedestrianised portico was unveiled? If not, here it is, and very with world-class dance acts and DJs including trailblazing mix of disco, African, funk, gospel magnificent it is, too. Catz N Dogz, Cristoph, Guti and Jamie Jones. A and the cream of club classics”. It’s hard to believe that this area used to be populated almost entirely by fine selection of local pop-up street food outlets WHQ is also teaming up with Channel 4 for a taxis, exhaust fumes, and bone-chilling winds. Instead, it is now a beautifully will refuel clubbers as the sun makes its exit and documentary looking at the political aspects of the calm entry point fit for a beautiful city. the party gives way to the night, when Loco Dice venue and its long history. Having knocked back the The £20m transformation of Newcastle Central Station and the and Robert Diez perform live at Warehouse34 at likes of the BBC for similar projects, this commission surrounding area continues over the coming months thanks to the efforts of Hoults Yard, while theCUT welcomes Sante, Sidney was only recently signed off after 18 months of NE1, Network Rail, East Coast and Newcastle City Council. Charles and Steve Dunn on the decks. lengthy negotiations. We hear a proposal to make Watch this space for more updates. Spillers Wharf /Warehouse34 /theCUT, May 4 WHQ resident pooch Ronnie the star of the show www.facebook.com/shindignewcastle clinched the deal. www.welovewhq.com

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STAR SHOW JULIEN MCDONALD AND SOPHIE ELLIS BEXTOR TO APPEAR AT NE1’S NEWCASTLE FASHION WEEK

NE1’s Newcastle Fashion Week has Julien Macdonald OBE become a magnet for star names, appears at: and this year will be no exception, Company magazine with official appearances from presents NE1’s NFW, Sophie Ellis Bextor and designer The Assembly Rooms, May 10 Julien McDonald. Star designer Julien will be in town This year’s event will dominate the to compere three catwalk shows at city during the week May 9-17 with The Assembly Rooms. Shows at noon catwalks, VIP events, retail offers, and 2pm will highlight the best of fashion-themed events, and parties. Newcastle’s high street fashion scene Dr. Martens has designed this and Julien – whose designs have year’s official T-shirt, available only at graced the likes of Beyonce, Taylor Fenwick. All profits from the sale of the Swift and Nicole Scherzinger – will tees goes to Cash For Kids. deliver his definitive perspective for the assembled audience. Sophie Ellis Bextor That evening, he will present the appears at: Vivienne Westwood collection at The Official Cruise for an invited audience of VIP Launch Party guests at The Assembly Rooms. Bonbar, May 9 Fresh from the release of her new Lauren Luke appears at: album Wanderlust and her UK tour, Get into Fashion, Sophie will team up with her husband, Northumbria University NE1’s Newcastle Fashion Week 2014 is sponsored , guitarist with indie Law School, May 16 by Mercedes Benz Newcastle and DDCA The band The Feeling, for an exclusive YouTube beauty sensation Lauren Creative Agency. NE1’s Newcastle Fashion Week is DJ set under the guise of ‘Me and Luke will share her amazing success organised and delivered by business improvement district Mrs Jones’ at Newcastle’s newest story, from bedroom video blogging company NE1 Ltd as part of its ongoing efforts to improve and most exclusive venue, Bonbar, at at her home in South Shields to the city centre offer for businesses, residents and visitors The Assembly Rooms. The duo will international renown with her own to Newcastle. perform an hour-long DJ set to kick- cosmetic range. Lauren has starred For more details on all the events during start NE1’s Newcastle Fashion Week in a BBC documentary, published her NE1’s Newcastle Fashion Week in style. The event will be infused with own book, has her own app, and has visit www.getintonewcastle.co.uk/nfw style, cocktails and great music and featured in Glamour, The Guardian, will last long into the night with Bonbar CBS, Vanity Fair, New York Times, Time open until 4am. Magazine and more.

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WELL GROOMED The Hyena, Newcastle’s longest-running comedy club and scene of ’s debut, has had a lick of paint to go with its excellent new spring/summer programme. Promoter David Hadingham has also been brought on board with the aim, he says, to make The Hyena Newcastle’s LONG LIVE go‑to venue. “I like to think I know what and who makes people laugh,” says Hadingham, who’s been performing JOSIE stand-up since 1996. “You see so many exceptional Ace comedian and political comedians on the circuit and we’re hoping people will enjoy pussycat Josie Long has seeing them here.” announced an intimate work- Mick Ferry, Jarred Christmas, Adam Bloom, Silky and in-progress show at The Stand. feature in The Hyena’s spring/summer This is your chance to help TOP OF programme and there are plans for Newcastle’s first weekly her weed out the crap jokes gong show for newcomers in September. and witness the glorious ones THE BILL Leazes Lane, every Friday and Saturday, £11-£12 before she takes them to the Forgotten comedy legend Billy www.thehyena.com Edinburgh Fringe in August. Pearce is making a return to The Stand, May 27, £8 stand-up with his new show, An www.thestand.co.uk Adult Evening with Billy Pearce, at Mill Volvo Tyne Theatre. A multi-award winning GET UP, STAND UP comedian who started out at Fancy your chances as a stand-up Butlins in the 1980s, Pearce comedian but don’t where to start? has won just about every You might want to try Live Theatre’s award there is, including the stand-up workshops. prestigious British Comedy Led by John Scott and Paul Sneddon, Award. So why, you might be the course guides wannabe comics asking, have we not heard from through the process of creating an him in almost 20 years? onstage character, using improvisation, Well, you could say that he and stagecraft, before shaping material CARL HEADS fell out of fashion in the 1990s into a routine that can be tried out at a with the rise of alternative special live show at the end of the course. HOMEWARD comedy. Like a lot of comics, he HEARD THE ONE ABOUT... John, who has been performing After two years supporting found a niche in panto while, he ...Creased Comedy Festival, which returns in July with a stand-up for 14 years now, is the first best mate Chris Ramsey on tells us, keeping the razor-sharp host of award-winning comics, including Lee Ridley. to admit he isn’t a miracle worker, but successive national tours, Carl wit needed to entertain adult- Ridley (aka Lost Voice Guy) has cerebral palsy and uses a hopes the weekly two-hour workshops Hutchinson is heading home. only audiences. Let’s hope communication aid to perform his routine - with hilarious help lay the foundations for that very The observational comic he remembers how to handle and inspiring results. The only paid event on the programme, first gig. “The course gives you tips on is showcasing his Edinburgh intoxicated Geordies on a The Afternoon Show, will include a star, as yet unnamed, of how not to have a disaster the first Fringe act, Here’s Me Show, at Friday night. TV’s Live At The Apollo, so it’s going to be well worth the £7 time you get on stage,” he says. The The Stand Comedy Club before Mill Volvo Tyne Theatre, entry. There’s lots more, including family-friendly stuff, in the graduates perform for the first time heading north in August. May 16, £18.50, www. nine-hour extravaganza. on May 22 and 23 at Live. The Stand, May 6, £8 millvolvotynetheatre.co.uk Cluny 2, July 5, free/£7, www.creasedcomedy.co.uk www.live.org.uk www.thestand.co.uk

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THE SEARCH FOR LITTLE MIX

...AND EMMA HOWE’S TOUGH LESSON ABOUT LIFE WHEN A ONE-TIME GIRL NEXT DOOR BECOMES A FAMOUS POP STAR

Waiting by the phone, cramping fame? (kidding....it’s not like when Geri typing digits, adrenaline throbbing left, don’t panic). We’re happy; we must as we await confirmation that we have her now, but our dash to Shields get to meet an elusive pop star. from NE1 mag HQ yields only the Every nerve feels for the interview news that our bird has flown, leaving we know is there...somewhere. us back to vain pleadings with Norma’s Only it’s not, at least not this time. voicemail. So, we give you this, a We have failed in our mission to statement released by the girls prior track down just one member of Little to the tour: ‘’We’re so excited to be Mix. We have failed to get one direct preparing for our first arena tour! It’s comment about how excited she/they incredible to think we’ll be playing for are about their UK tour. We don’t know so many people every night. We are how good two of them - proud North going to be pulling out all the stops to East lasses Jade Thirlwell and Perrie make sure it’s as unforgettable for our Edwards - feel about headlining the Mixers as it will be for us.” Metro Radio Arena. And that, dear Mixers, is it. A meagre We feel bad. But we promise you, we crumb, we know, but a 49-word tried. Fresh off the back of rejection statement is better than nothing, from The Management (“They’re on surely? Frustratingly, we bumped into holiday”...” Definitely not”...”Is that you Jade two nights after our failed quest TRACKING DOWN A POP STAR again?”...”Which part of the word no for an interview in a club in South TRACK THEM TWEETS… called Norma, so once you have them in your do you not understand?”) our writer Shields (one of her favourite haunts, Look for landmarks in pop star selfies. Is that sights, try to act like you’re a normal person. It remembers she has a phone number which we won’t reveal because we Monument? Is Perrie at Jamie Oliver’s? Is Jesy definitely helps if security don’t call the police at for Little Mixer Jade Thirwell’s mam don’t want you to mob her next time throwing up over the side of a Tyne ferry? the first sight of you. Norma. The only thing is, the only she’s home). She said she was sorry, answer coming from it is voicemail. she’d have said yes to an interview if HOTEL STAKE-OUT BE NICE Then, we track Jade down in her only she’d been available and said to Easy...look for a massive luxury tour bus, hoardes When you are out stalking, whether it be outside hometown of South Shields attending ring her next time. In the meantime, in of fans, and the local paparazzi. hotels, venues, record shop signings or, well… X Factor auditions. Not satisfied with honour of our miserable failure, here Jade Thirlwell’s garden, you’re going to be two No1 singles and a platinum album, are some tips for tracking down the DON’T SCARE THEM surrounded by other fans. So make friends, is she looking for her next shot at Mixers...let us know how you get on. Remember, celebs are just people like the rest because if Little Mix head straight to party at of us. Obviously they’re far more rich, pretty, and Digital, at least you’ve gained something from the Little Mix play Metro Radio Arena on May 17, www.metroradioarena.co.uk generally better at life, but they still have mams day: a Mixer mate.

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