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FREE DEC 17-Jan 21 2014 WHAT’S ON IN NEWCASTLE www.getintonewcastle.co.uk NE1’S NEWCASTLE RESTAURANT WEEK IS BACK Eat at a host of city centre restaurants for just £10 and £15 PLUS: GOODBYE 2014 + HIDDEN NEWCASTLE + HELLO 2015 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 Comedy, film, and events to keep you busy over the festive period 08 TRY THIS Hootfest, new writers and more 11 FOCUS Getting fit in NE1 16 14 MUSIC First Aid Kit and the mighty Queen come to Toon 16 EAT OWT! NE1’s Newcastle Restaurant Week is back 18 HELLO 2015 12 20 Welcome the New Year in style GOODBYE 2014 HAPPY APPING 22 LISTINGS Take a look back on a busy year We take the new Hidden Your go-to guide in Toon, and ahead to 2015 Newcastle app for a test run to goings on in NE1 ©Offstone Publishing 2014/15. 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 NEWS HEN PARTY TODAY I’M Coop Chicken House is celebrating its first birthday on IMAGINE LISTENING TO... January 11 and everyone’s invited. Tyneside Cinema’s new Gallery space continues Coop is all about simple food done well; its tables heaving to provide food for thought in its programming of with chicken fresh from the wood-fired grill and sides including insightful installations. grilled corn, BBQ beans, sweet potato fries, and ‘slaw. Add to that In the new exhibition White Hole, John Smith ALEXANDER DINSLEY, 14 a pint from the excellent Wylam Brewery and away you go. In the epitomises the spirit of experimentation and imagination. STUDENT, NEWCASTLE meantime, the lunchtime menu is on offer noon-5pm Monday- Smith’s new work documents the artist’s memories of I won’t lie, I think a lot Friday and the takeaway menu is available until 9pm. Eastern Europe and questions idealised imaginings of life of what I’m listening to Coop Chicken House, Collingwood Street in other places and subverts the perceived boundaries is pretty generic. I like www.coopchicken.co.uk between documentary and fiction. Iggy Azalea, I think Tyneside Cinema, until January 11, free she’s pretty cool. Then www.tynesidecinema.com again, I do listen to quite a bit of classical music, too. BANKING ON LAUGHS WANT TO ROB MCCARR, 60, RETIRED It’s too easy at this time of excess to forget BUILD A LIL MCCARR, 59, MEDICAL the real meaning of Christmas, but thanks to SNOWMAN? ASSISTANT, NEWCASTLE The Stand you can enjoy great Disney smash-hit Lil: “We listen to a lot comedy and help others. Frozen is bound to of Smooth Radio, so a With nearly 5,000 people be the soundtrack lot of tunes from the accessing the city’s food banks to many families’ 70s and 80s.” monthly, a charity evening at The Christmas this year, Rob: “I like my Stand aims to provide laughs in and thanks to Seven Northern Soul CHEERS! return for food, with a star line-up Stories everyone can too; the classic soul singers. I tend Two iconic Newcastle pubs are getting major on offer in return for a bag (or more) enjoy a special sing-a- to listen to a lot of those records.” facelifts and new names. The Earl of Pitt Street, of shopping featuring Jason long screening of the formerly The Greyhound, will keep its traditional Cook, Carl Hutchinson animated family adventure. RICH HODGSON, 25, ASSISTANT exterior while the interior will be based on “Vivienne and Hardeep Singh Whether you’re dreaming of saving the world like MANAGER, NEWCASTLE Westwood meets Alfred Hitchcock”, which sounds Kohli (pictured). A list Princess Anna or you love the cuddly reindeer Sven, the I listen to a lot of tunes interesting. Meanwhile, the Vic & Comet, which of urgently needed event offers a chance for all the family to sing and dance for work. Tonight featured in the iconic film Get Carter and later food items is on The along. Build an Olaf-shaped snowman - no matter what we’ve got a chart became ONeill’s, becomes The Victoria Comet and Stand’s website. The the weather - and join in with Frozen-themed face painting bingo night as part of John Smith, 2014 Installation Shots, Colin Davison, 2014 Colin John Smith, 2014 Installation Shots, : is dedicated to real ales and proper pub food. Stand, January 6, before the film. Just try to resist singing along to Let It Go, a big run of events, so The Earl of Pitt Street, Pitt Street 50p plus a bag of you’ll be belting it out with the rest of them in no time! I am listening to the www.facebook.com/theearlofpittstreet shopping, Seven Stories, December 28-January 4 tunes from that – it’s a lot of chart stuff The Victoria Comet, Neville Street www.thestand. (except Dec 31, Jan 1), £5 plus admission fee but there’s things like Michael Jackson’s IMAGE CREDITS IMAGE www.nicholsonspubs.co.uk co.uk www.sevenstories.org.uk Thriller in there too. 4 WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK 5 UPFRONT UPFRONT MEET THEM ON THE CORNER Affectionately known as Lindisfarne Mk3, the latest incarnation of the revered Tyneside band will play a series of gigs at the City Hall in December. I’VE EATEN Ray Jackson’s Lindisfarne comprises six former members of the band, including Dave Hull-Denholm, Paul Thompson, Charlie Harcourt, Steve Daggett and Ian Thompson. Famous for their JANET PERIGO, 53, TEACHING SPOOK NIGHT iconic folk rock sound, the band will play hits including Lady ASSISTANT, LEEDS As the winter nights draw in and the weather howls at Eleanor, All Fall Down, Fog On The Tyne, Meet Me On The Corner My husband and I ate the window, there’s nothing like a scary story to set and many more and these shows will please fans new and old. at the Slug and the wintry mood and test the nerves. City Hall, December 20, 22, 23, from £22.50 Lettuce on the The hallowed halls of Newcastle’s independent library, www.newcastlecityhall.org Quayside last night The Lit & Phil, will play host to an evening of supernatural and enjoyed it. tales told by cultural historian Gail-Nina Anderson, poet I had the fish and Sean O’Brien and award-winning novelist Lesley Glaister. chips; while it’s simple food it’s done well. The Grade II listed building is the perfect location for a chilling night in; just watch out for what lurks behind those TIM NICHOLSON, 66, BRIDGE old bookshelves. Prepare to be severely spooked! ENGINEER, HIGH WYCOMBE The Lit & Phil, January 6, £5, www.litandphil.org.uk We’ve come up here for a couple of days and we’ve eaten at a LAUGHING HYENA few places; we loved Newcastle’s longest-established comedy club has a trio Carluccio’s. We’ve of superb live performances over the festive eaten at the one in period. Gravel-voiced comic David London too, the food and drink at the Hadingham will showcase his inimitable one here is equally as good. facial contortions and handmade BEST BRIDES CHRISTMAS NUMBER ONE gags alongside the acerbic wit The North East Wedding Show returns in If you haven’t chosen the location for your big MICHAEL CHADKIRK, 41 of John Ryan and the self- January, with leading bridal coach Michele Christmas celebration, The Cluny has just the HEALTHCARE WORKER deprecating comedy musician Paradise set to share her invaluable advice on ticket; its festive event featuring The Great WHITLEY BAY Kate Lucas (pictured). On New everything from feeling calm and confident on Curve and Behold A Pale Horse. Melodic indie My wife and I recently Year’s Eve, Jason Cook is joined your wedding day to walking in fabulous shoes. rockers The Great Curve (pictured) bring their ate at Za Za Bazaar in by Glaswegian comic Larry Dean The 80-strong exhibitor list includes epic, infectious and anthemic sound, while the Gate. We liked the and a soon to be announced Debenhams, Moss Bros, Seaham Hall, Accent Behold A Pale Horse’s psychedelic Krautrock- selection that was on special guest. Hyena Comedy Original Bridal House, and The Designer Cake influenced rock will please fans of Radiohead and offer but I thought the Club, December 19, 20 and 31 Company. Pop Idol finalist Aaron Bayley and CAN. The first 100 people in get a free four-track best parts were some £15, www.thehyena.com his band will entertain visitors throughout the CD featuring two songs by each band, and of the burgers, and all the desserts weekend.