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MAY 10 - 24 2017 200+ Events Plan ahead with our big www.getintonewcastle.co.uk listings guide Magic INSIDE Star turn Weekend Professor Brian Cox hits town Rugby League’s biggest event of the year returns for a big weekend of family fanzone fun Comic turn Film & Comic Con is back Late date Funny Girl The Late Shows return Sheridan Smith is Fanny Brice FREE What’s on in NE1 04 Upfront 19 Cosmic capers Where to go, what to see Professor Brian Cox's star turn 08 Stand up! 20 Late Shows Stage right It's a big comedy fortnight, folks Take a tour after dark 11 Funny 13 Comic turn 22 Listings girl Film & Comic Con returns The go-to guide for NE1 goings-on Sheridan Smith treads NE1 magazine is brought to you by NE1 Ltd, the company which the boards at the champions all that’s great about Newcastle city centre Theatre Royal Publishers: ©Offstone Publishing 2016. All rights Jane Pikett, Gary Ramsay reserved. 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If this magazine please recycle it on behalf of NE1 you identify yourself as the copyright holder of material we have wrongly attributed, please contact the office. @newcastleNE1 Unit One, Bearl Farm, Stocksfield, NE43 7AL ADVERTISING /GetIntoNewcastle Tsantilis CREDIT: ©Dan IMAGE www.offstonepublishing.co.uk Tel 01661 844 115 01661 844115 Email [email protected] [email protected] The Get into Newcastle app COVER Twitter @offstonepublish 3 WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK UPFRONT UPFRONT NE1 Newcastle Motor Show When: July 8 & 9 MAGIC WEEKEND NE1 Newcastle Motor Show, the UK’s largest free open-air city centre motoring event, returns on July 8 & 9, bringing with it a festival atmosphere and masses to see and do. Lloyd Newcastle BMW is the new Dealer Partner for the event and will showcase showstoppers from BMW’s national headquarters. Dubbed the ‘Goodwood of the North’, the show will bring show-stopping cars and entertainment to more Offers than two square miles of the city with themed zones for supercars, rally and racing cars, and rare vehicles lining Grey Street. app More than 104,000 people attended last year, and this year will be even bigger. getintonewcastle.co.uk and at getintonewcastle.co.uk Hungry for more When: May 18 & 25 The story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar has delighted generations of youngsters since it was published in 1969. Now this timeless children’s classic is making its way off the page and onto the stage. Featuring a menagerie of 75 puppets, the Magic Weekend caterpillar is joined by three of Eric Carle’s other favourite tales; KING ROOM & The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse, Mister Seahorse, and The BREAKFAST £99 Very Lonely Firefly. A treat. Sandman Signature Hotel Northern Stage, £9.50 children/£12.50 adults (only 10 available) northernstage.co.uk Recommends 20% OFF 2 COURSES Good neighbours? FOOD AT £20 OR When: May 18 & 25 HANDMADE 25% OFF BURGER CO Lies and long-held grudges abound in Who’s Afraid of Virginia WITH A FOOD Woolf, with Imelda Staunton utterly engrossing in her portrayal MAGIC AT TIGER of Martha. She and her long-suffering husband George (Conleth WEEKEND TIGER Hill) have a playful but bitter relationship which takes a cruel TICKET MAY 20-21 turn when new neighbours move in. The play comments on society’s expectations of married couples and what can happen FREE MINI TEA CADDY WHEN when they don’t meet those lofty standards. See it live from the YOU SPEND £15 AT National Theatre. Tyneside Cinema (May 18 & 25) WHITTARD OF CHELSEA £15.50, tynesidecinema.co.uk WITH A MAGIC WEEKEND TICKET Empire Cinema (May 18), £15.50 newcastle.empirecinemas.co.uk Full house SmackDown! 10% OFF AT GAME When: May 12 ON FULL-PRICED OR The much talked-about Yolo Townhouse has opened PRE-OWNED GAMES & to much attention in High Bridge, offering up three Part sport, part entertainment, WWE Live brings all ACCESSORIES floors of food, drink and social spaces, including an our favourite wrestling superstars and divas under WITH A MAGIC open-air terrace bar. Owned by the folks behind one roof at Metro Radio Arena. Bursting with all the WEEKEND TICKET Hadrian’s Tipi, which is set to return this summer, Yolo drama and energy of a rock concert, it’s the ultimate Townhouse is open from 8am until late daily, serving in family entertainment... To use the offers, and for timings and full up food and drink all day and late into the night. Metro Radio Arena, from £27.50 Ts&Cs, download the app for free from the App Store or go to getintonewcastle.co.uk Yolo Townhouse, yolotownhouse.com metroradioarena.co.uk 4 5 WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK UPFRONT UPFRONT Out and Toon Tweets Screen returns Thank you for Now an essential part of summer in about? A few of the things Tweet us! Newcastle, NE1 is bringing back its huge the music that have got @NewcastleNE1 outdoor cinema screen in the heart of the Becky Unthank fronts Mercury- you tweeting… city at Old Eldon Square. This year, there nominated North East folk group The will be numerous screenings, including live Unthanks with her elder sister Rachel. Tweet us relays from the Royal Opera House of Here she is, ahead of the band’s date at @NewcastleNE1 La Traviata and Turandot. the Theatre Royal when they will perform getintonewcastle.co.uk/ne1-events/ the songs of Molly Drake; mother of the screen-on-the-green influential songwriter Nick Drake. Lee Stoneman Is there sibling rivalry? No, it’s a bit (@LPhotogr): sickly, but I’ve always looked up to Rachel. Even on a wet night Your parents are folk singers; did you Newcastle is one of the ever feel like rebelling? We’re really best cities in the world close. They took us to festivals, where there’s no divide between audience and Dylan McKee performer and you realise that if you want (@djmckee): to be a singer, you can. @NOVELTEA drinks loved What drew you to Molly Drake’s work? the Earl Grey! It’s the way she sees the human condition @NOVElTEA time @Fenwick and the struggle between light and dark, how dream and reality are both important. Secret Diner I felt immediately connected to it. (@SecretDiner1): Do you hate being pigeonholed? Glorious one-bite slap of I’m proud to be a folk singer, but we’re just meat, fat, salt, cheese and Recommends music lovers in general. carb that marks a good Darkly You and Rachel live in the North East. specimen @TheGrindNcl Where can we find you when you’re in different Newcastle? We’re definitely drawn to the BALTIC Shop When: May 13 Ouseburn. We still do clog dancing at the (@balticshop): Wickedly gruesome and Cumberland Arms! The sun peeked out so we darkly surreal, Arthur Pita’s Theatre Royal, May 14, £23.50 hit the beach at lunchtime double bill at Dance City is theatreroyal.co.uk #quaysideseaside double trouble. Stepmother @newcastlene1 leads us into a world where familiar fairytales distort Billy Bootleggers into nightmares, while (@BBootleggers): Stepfather tells the tale of Interior shots that will make a twisted family inspired you crave a night out on by the folk punk Country the moonshine There’s an app for that Death Song from cult US Fancy a G&T but not sure where to find the best in band Violent Femmes. Charlie Harrison town? Or new to the city and need to know where to Unmissable. (@cheekycharlo): find the best live music? A new app called Tipll now Dance City, £15, Dog café in #Newcastle offers up a guide to Newcastle for everyone - local, dancecity.co.uk you say?! How exciting! tourist, student, family, social visitor or corporate - Antihistamines at the providing options using augmented reality which you IMAGE CREDIT: ©Arthur Pita CREDIT: ©Arthur IMAGE ready! #DogAndScone can use to create routes you can keep private or share with the world. tipll.co.uk 6 7 WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK COMEDY COMEDY Lee-sy does it When: May 18 & 19 Described variously by critics as venomously funny, delusional, twisty and brilliant, Stewart Lee is returning to Carr-y on Newcastle following his sell-out show at When: May 12 the Theatre Royal last year. After four years Love him or hate him, Jimmy of writing and performing his TV show, Carr has been a major star for Content Provider is Lee’s first new full- 15 years, gathering material length show since Carpet Remnant World. along the way. Now, he’s set to City Hall, £24, theatreroyal.co.uk perform some of his greatest hits and new material at what is being billed as the ultimate Taking the Micky comedy show. Prepare for When: May 11 laughter and horror in He’s one of the country’s most successful stand-ups, but Micky equal measure.