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FREE OCT 28 - NOV 11 2015 WHAT’S ON IN NEWCASTLE www.getintonewcastle.co.uk FRIGHT NIGHT GET READY FOR A SPOOKTACULAR HALLOWE’EN IN NE1 PLUS: THE NEW NE1 APP + ALISTAIR MCGOWAN + 50 CENT 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 Shakespeare meets Alice Cooper, meets Opera North 08 TRY THIS Something new to try in NE1 10 RUGBY WORLD CUP We look back at RWC 2015 in Toon 16 14 COMEDY Reeves & Mortimer, Jenny Eclair, Dave Gorman, Enfield & Whitehouse 16 HALLOWE’EN Our guide to all things spooky this October 31 SWPIX 19 50 CENT IMAGE: IMAGE: Getting to know Curtis James 13 21 Jackson III IT’S MAGIC FUNNY VOICES Super League’s Magic Weekend We catch up with funnyman 22 LISTINGS is coming back to Toon Alistair McGowan Your go-to guide to NE1 goings-on ©Offstone Publishing 2015. All rights Editor: Jane Pikett reserved. 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When you have finished with 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 UPFRONTNEWS WORD ON THE STREET YOU’VE GOTTA HAVE SOUL THINK! With more than 300 pairs of ALL A-BARD Get your thinking cap on at Sage Gateshead this month trainers on its amazing Talented youngsters will bring the Bard’s tales to life at Northern Stage as the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival introduces a sneaker wall, a trip to this month, as the Shakespeare Schools Festival comes to Toon. series of events based on the theme of Tearing Up The Soleheaven in Old Eldon Showing off their skills with performances of abridged versions of Rule Book. Square is highly some of Shakespeare’s best-loved plays, budding actors from a variety The Festival features big brains from the worlds of recommended for footwear fans with ‘sole’. of schools will tread the boards, performing A Midsummer Night’s Dream, science, politics, literature and the arts discussing the Big Founded by sneaker connoisseur Dale Parr, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet and more. Questions of life, the universe and everything. The clever it’s moved into Toon from Hoults Yard. Northern Stage, November 9-14, £10, northernstage.co.uk bods in the line-up include the scientist and outspoken Old Eldon Square, soleheaven.com atheist Richard Dawkins and the actor and author Sheila Hancock. Thought provoking! Sage Gateshead FOODIE HEAVEN November 6-8, free but ticketed, sagegateshead.com The expansion of Fenwick’s Food Hall continues this month with the launch of JAMMIN’ bakery-patisserie-café NE1’s Quayside Seaside may have gone for another year, Mason + Rye, which but you can recreate a taste of summer when Caribbean offers fine patisserie, artisan baking and restaurant chain Turtle Bay comes to Toon. Viennoiserie. The café offers breakfast and The restaurant, which is moving into the ground floor of lunch options to eat in or take away. the former Co-op Building on Newgate Street, is inspired by Fenwick, fenwick.co.uk the beach shacks and street hawkers of the Caribbean with dishes including salads, one pot curries and stews, jerk pit CREATIVES WANTED ALICE’S ADVENTURES ¡VAMOS! barbecue dishes and puddings. The cocktail menu features Interested in working in the Hallowe’en may have been and gone by the If you like Vamos! Festival - the colourful more than 40 rums from across the Caribbean. music or fashion time Mötley Crüe head to Toon, but their annual celebration of Latin culture - you’ll love Newgate Street, turtlebay.co.uk industries? Check out unique brand of scary metal mayhem and ¡VAMOS! Social; a quirky new events space Kaplan’s traineeships, monumental hair is set to bring it all back. and bar/cafe in Market Street from the lovely which offer 16-18-year- The US rockers are heading out for their final people who run the festival, in partnership olds a seven-week course including a hurrah, and they’re pulling out all the stops with with culture outfit Breeze Creatives. In four-week work experience placement with flame-throwing guitars, rotating drum kits and addition to the bar cafe, ¡VAMOS! Social features leading creatives. To find out more, head to support from none other than the legendary a gallery and film space and hosts special events an open day on October 28 (noon- 2pm) or Alice Cooper. Frightfully good fun! including live music and supper clubs. It’s also November 3 (noon-2pm). Metro Radio Arena November 2, £45 open noon-midnight, Wednesday-Saturday. Provincial House, free, thisiscreative metroradioarena.co.uk Market Street, facebook.com/vamossocial enterprise.com/creative-traineeships 4 WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK 5 UPFRONT UPFRONTNEWS WILL YOU? A rarity in that he’s survived the death sentence usually associated with reality TV, Will Young continues to shake off the Pop Idol curse with his acclaimed new TOON TUNES album, 85% Proof, which he will showcase alongside old faves from Ever wondered his back catalogue in Toon soon. what the folks A Brit Award-winner with a knack who book the for creating credible pop hits, multi- big bands in town talented Will also counts stage actor, listen to? Try these telly presenter, and author among his from Paul Twynam, accomplishments, He can also sing a general manager, bit, so this gig promises much. 02 Academy Newcastle City Hall, November 11 from £35, newcastlecityhall.org Lamb, Gorecki (album version) A track with beautifully crafted lyrics ALTOGETHER NOW which builds to a satisfying climax. TASTE OF THE DEEP SOUTH Opera North hits the Theatre Royal in November with a Canteen and Cocktails, the new bar kitchen in what was Oak on trio of comic, tragic and vivacious productions. Mew, Comforting Sounds (album Dean Street, opens its doors any day now. An opulent production of Rossini’s The Barber of Seville version) One of those tracks that’s It promises to celebrate America’s Deep South with food (Nov 3, 5) will enchant with its hilarious plot, the mischievous simple but slowly builds with layers that inspired by pit barbecues, which, for the uninitiated, is cooking meat musical gem Kiss Me, Kate (Nov 6) brings with it a rich you have to put on constant repeat to and root veg in a pit, basically. The menu features hickory-smoked score, dazzling choreography and a battle of the sexes, and capture the sum of it all. meat combos and char-grilled steaks and burgers, and cocktails Jenůfa (Nov 4) offers up Janáček’s web of love, jealousy and include C&C’s #numberone cocktail with strawberry and mixed sacrifice. And remember, folks, it ain’t over until that fat Depeche Mode, Never Let Me Down berry-infused vodka. Fruity! lady sings. This reminds me of a friend who passed Dean Street, canteenandcocktails.com Theatre Royal, from £18, theatreroyal.co.uk before his time. Such a great song and a good friend. Sigur Ros, Svefn-g-englar TOON TWEETS This band have nailed what they do A FEW OF THE THINGS THAT HAVE GOT PEOPLE TWEETING… TWEET US @NEWCASTLENE1 and their songs tell immense stories, even without undecipherable lyrics. THE HEAD OF STEAM KATE HARLAND RUGBY WORLD CUP Their music oozes mystery, power and (@HEADOFSTEAMHQ): (@KDHARLAND): (@RUGBYWORLDCUP): emotion and so good live. What to try tonight at @HOS_ Oh @byronhamburgers - why you so Newcastle, you were brilliant! 3 great Newcastle? @CullercoatsBrew yummy? #newintown #sodthediet matches, a second home to #SCO and a visit M83, Midnight City (Trentemoller @CameronsBrewery @boxsocialbeer #ne1 from reigning champions #NZL Howay! Remix) As a single, Midnight City was perfect DAN (@DEEJ89): ABBIE ATKINSON ANDREW FLINTOFF alt/pop. This version takes it to a more Shots from @Johnny_Marr in (@ABBSATKINSON): (@FLINTOFF11): intriguing, thoughtful and emotional #Newcastle. Amazing gig Got to love #newcastle & it’s street Big call but Newcastle has been my favourite level musically. Just how a good remix markets! #NE1 so far ! Thank you so much !! Great that should sound. @Harmy611 came @clydeholcroft o2academynewcastle.co.uk 6 WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK 7 TRY THIS TRY THIS ELLA ‘UV A SHOW Pop chanteuses Ella Henderson and Jess Glynne (pictured) are all set to bring their sultry sounds to O2 Academy. Ella Henderson – she of the seemingly ubiquitous song Ghost – is here on October 30, while Jess Glynne arrives on November 10 following her successful collaboration with Clean Bandit on their smash hit Real INTU SHOPPING? Love, and her chart-topping single Don’t Be Get your shopping shoes on, folks, intu Eldon Square has some new names So Hard On Yourself.