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FREE MAY 1 - MAY 15 2014 WHAT’S ON IN NEWCASTLE www.getintonewcastle.co.uk YOUR NEW-LOOK MAG WE’RE IN FASHION! NE1’S NEWCASTLE FASHION WEEK HITS TOWN PLUS: LITTLE MIX + THE LATE SHOWS 2014 + GAME OF THRONES CONTENTS NE1 magazine is brought to you by NE1 Ltd, the company which champions all that’s great about Newcastle city centre. WHAT’S ON IN NE1 04 UPFRONT 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 ©Offstone Publishing 2014. All rights Editor: Jane Pikett reserved. 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If on behalf of NE1 you identify yourself as the copyright holder of material we have wrongly attributed, please When you have finished with contact the office. this magazine please recycle it Unit One, Bearl Farm, Stocksfield, NE43 7AL, ADVERTISING Follow us @newcastleNE1 www.offstonepublishing.co.uk Tel 01661 844 115 01661 844115 Email [email protected] [email protected] Like us /GetIntoNewcastle Twitter @offstonepublish WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK 3 UPFRONT UPFRONT 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 © Professional Images/@ProfImages, cinemafestival / Shutterstock.com, Featureflash / Shutterstock.com, Featureflash / Shutterstock.com, cinemafestival Images/@ProfImages, © Professional : 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 Sage Gateshead, July 18-20 IMAGE CREDITS IMAGE They’re a good act.” Herald, Andru Lawson and Alexandra Dixon, which is nice… July 18, 19, 20, www.northern-pride.com www.summertyne.com 4 WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK 5 UPFRONT UPFRONT WOMAN ABOUT TOON 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 Ouseburn 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 Sunderland 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 6 WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK 7 TRY THIS TRY THIS 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.