Just an Illusion Derren Brown: “I Used to Be an Attention Seeker, but I’Ve Got Over It Now”

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JUST AN ILLUSION DERREN BROWN: “I USED TO BE AN ATTENTION SEEKER, BUT I’VE GOT OVER IT NOW”

PLUS: THE BEST OF NE1’S NEWCASTLE FASHION WEEK + DOLLY PARTON + SNOOP DOGG + BILLY OCEAN

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04 UPFRONT World Cup(s) warm-up, Boiler Shop and more from NE1 08 TRY THIS Walk around or jump about?

11 IN FOCUS A closer look at the history of 16 Newcastle’s landmarks 14 COMEDY Jesterval 2014 hits town 16 THE MAGICIAN Derren Brown’s life as illusion 18 MUSIC 12 20 Snoop Dogg meets Billy Ocean DOLLY PARTON FASHION WEEK 22 LISTINGS The life behind the legend We take a look back at Your one-stop guide to the that is Dolly Parton NE1’s Newcastle Fashion Week best happenings in NE1

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EVERYONE’S TALKING ABOUT

ALL SEEING EYE Upstairs from Blackie Boy, the new bar All Seeing Eye boasts a smart cocktail menu and a very cool atmosphere. Defi nitely the new place to be seen in NE1. WORLD CUP FEVER www.blackieboy.co.uk Good news, football fans. If you don’t have a ticket to Rio for the World Cup there are plenty of opportunities KOSHER! to catch the matches that matter in NE1. England’s fi rst We came across this game against Italy kicks off at 11pm on June 14, when we’ll friendly chap when be at Lane7 (www.lane7.co.uk) where the downstairs room we were out and will be converted into a 120-seater World Cup venue. For about in the city game two against Uruguay on June 19 (8pm KO) we’ll be at centre recently. the O2 Academy (www.o2academynewcastle.co.uk) and Danny, 59, a driver for game three against Costa Rica on June 24 (5pm KO), we’ll from London visiting friends here said: be at The Sage Gateshead (www.sagegateshead.com). “Newcastle is quieter than London, but After that? Let’s not tempt fate! it’s a great city to visit with loads going on. I ate at a Kosher Bakery in Newcastle yesterday and it was really great. It’s normally quite hard to fi nd a good range of Kosher food but Newcastle has quite a few and they’re really good. You should try them.”

REMEMBER WHEN? Nostaglia has recently been the order of the day here AND FOR THOSE WITH at NE1 magazine HQ and here’s one from FUNNY-SHAPED BALLS… @turnipheadpic on The Rugby World Cup hits St James’ Park in October Twitter, who wrote “Northumberland 2015 with South Africa v Scotland (Oct 3), defending Street Newcastle Upon Tyne c. 1985.” champions New Zealand v Tonga (Oct 9), and Scotland We’re not saying which member of the v Samoa (Oct 10). The ticket application window is open team said it was just like yesterday (Gary September 12-29. All of England’s group matches will be Ramsay). Suﬃ ce to say, the rest of us played at Twickenham. St James’ Park, from £50

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LUCY LEWD… Ladies! An all-star cast headed by Gary Lucy has been announced for a new production of The Full Monty at the Theatre Royal in October. Dancing on Ice winner and former Eastenders star Lucy will play Gaz in the production written by the Oscar-winning writer of the original fi lm, Simon Beaufoy. Released in 1997, the iconic British fi lm about six out-of- work Sheﬃ eld steelworkers is one of the most successful British fi lms of all time. The stage show features songs from the fi lm by Donna Summer, Hot Chocolate and Tom Jones, plus those memorable dance routines. Saucy! Theatre Royal, October 27-November 1 from £12, www.theatreroyal.co.uk

STEAMING BOULEVARDING The monthly Boiler Shop Steamer is a mecca Drag acts aren’t just for Eurovision… and while drag for music and food lovers, with bars, street food club Boulevard’s popular house acts Betty Legs stalls and entertainment. The next event features Diamond, Miss Rory and the Broadway Dancers NARC. magazine’s line-up on the Saturday, with put up their platforms for a holiday, fabulous female soulful funk from Simon And The Sundowners and impersonator Ceri Dupree is fi lling in on June 6 and high energy world music from Backyard Rhythm 7, before Betty, Rory and the Broadway Dancers Orchestra, guaranteed to keep you dancing. return ahead of the club’s summer shows. Boiler Shop, June 6-7 Boulevard, June 6-7, from £7 www.theboilershopsteamer.com www.boulevardnewcastle.co.uk

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WE’VE BEEN TO... IN THE STUDY, WITH

GEORGIA CAREY, 22, CONSETT, THE CANDLESTICK… EVENTS MANAGER Budding Val McDermids and Ian Rankins will be out in SARAH BOLAM, 22, CONSETT, force for Crime Story - a two-day festival at Northumbria SALES ASSISTANT University in collaboration with New Writing North for Sarah says: “It’s my established and aspiring crime writers. birthday, so we’ve had The festival features discussion and workshops focusing a few drinks at The on a fi ctional crime created especially for the weekend by Eclipse opposite the Ann Cleeves (Shetland, Vera) and how it weaves its way Centre for Life. It’s the through the criminal justice system. Intriguing! sister pub to The Dog, Northumbria Uni, May 31-June 1, www.crimestory.co.uk it’s relaxed and plays good music.”

SIMON COOK, 21, HEATON, ADMIN ASSISTANT I go to the Metro Radio Arena for gigs and when I do I like to eat at Akkbars or grab a drink at Tilley’s beforehand. Although it’s a relatively small arena, it’s great to see big bands there. SMART THINKERS JAKE BLACKLOCK, 17 TEDx, which spreads ideas through short, powerful talks GATESHEAD, STUDENT on subjects from science to global issues, brings its “It’s a lovely day so I’ve TEDx talks to Newcastle University on June 8. Speakers been sitting in Leazes include Prof Sugata Mitra, who worked on the Hole in the Wall park soaking up some project, which placed a free-access computer in a wall in a sunshine. I’m off to Delhi slum. The experiment inspired Vikas Swarup to write MacDonalds for some the novel Q&A, which was eventually turned into Slumdog

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ONE MORE STEP BEYOND… Madness have announced a new UK tour and a Minehead in November, preceded by visit to Metro Radio Arena in December. European Summer Madness with appearances The tour is the latest landmark for the band, in Mallorca and Ibiza, France, Italy, Russia which until a few years ago was just another and The Netherlands. 80s memory. Ahead of the December tour the Metro Radio Arena, December 12, from £35 Madness House Of Fun Weekender returns to www.metroradioarena.co.uk

SLIP-SLIDING H’AWAY THE BIG 30 The youngsters in our oﬃ ce are all in a triple- Sachins is celebrating its 30th birthday, having salco about Disney On Ice, back at Metro Radio pioneered quality Punjabi food, ready meals Arena this October. Very cheesy, very Disney, and in Fenwick, outside catering, and owner Bob surprisingly entertaining for kids and grown-ups (no, Arora’s Curry Classroom. Sachins, owned by Bob not just when they fall over…which they never do). and his wife Neeta, has worked with many schools Metro Radio Arena, October 7-12, from £14 and charities and the team is planning a VIP birthday www.metroradioarena.co.uk bash. Watch this space! www.sachins.co.uk

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WOMAN ABOUT TOON

Rachel Kershaw (@rachmotormouth) creative manager at Metro Radio and blogger, www.lifeingeordieland.com SPANISH AYES BEST FOR CLOTHES? Cinema performance group Screenage Kicks pops I’ve discovered lots of up at ¡VAMOS! Festival with the outrageous 1980s boutiques thanks to NE1’s Spanish sex comedy Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! at a Newcastle Fashion Week. pop-up Spanish New Wave fancy dress party with I’m usually on a tight budget drag queens, fl amenco dancers, 80s DJs and more. and TK Maxx never lets me down! ¡VAMOS! events this year also include a Mardi Gras performance; a festival family picnic; and the return of BEST FOR FOOD AND DRINK? Mexican wrestling. There’ll also be pop-up restaurants, An old favourite is music, family events, and art from international artists. Kafe Neon on the Bigg For an idea of what you can expect at the Screenage Market. I can’t resist the Kicks event, refer to the pic above from its recent tzatziki and the cocktails. Reservoir Dogs party at the Boiler Shop Steamer. The event included Reservoir Hot Dogs, Sliced Ear Burgers, BEST FOR MUSIC? Reservoir Doggette Dancers, Reservoir Dogs Band playing The Sage Gateshead is the entire soundtrack, and actors recreating big scenes. incredible. I love Hoochie Various venues, June 6-22 Coochie for intimate soul www.vamosfestival.com gigs. I saw Jocelyn Brown there and still have goosebumps!

BEST FOR PERFORMANCE? STYLE HUNTER... It’s hard to beat Theatre Royal. I’ve just seen Dirty UGLY SHOE SHUFFLE Dancing, which was ‘Ugly’ shoes are a summer absolutely amazing! must, from cleated-sole pool slider to chunky Birkenstocks. Kurt Geiger BEST COFFEE? has Carvela, Sam Edelman and Pumphrey’s - the smell Nine West, plus these embellished from their Grainger Market sandals by Miss KG, which fi t the bill. stall is always incredible! intu Eldon Square

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ALL A BLUR Were you a Blur fan or an Oasis afi cionado? Or was it all about Suede? Or Pulp? Who cares – if you were into Britpop you’ll be into this bite-sized theatre performance from Mixtape, which is taking Britpop songs and, using only the lyrics, creating micro-plays no longer than the tracks that inspire them. Part theatre and part pop quiz, the audience gets to guess the songs and the bands which inspire each short for the chance of winning a coveted Golden Mixtape. Unmissable! Alphabetti Spaghetti Theatre (upstairs at The Dog & Parrot), June 9, £5 www.mixtapetheatre.co.uk

WALK THE TALK City tours aren’t just for tourists, it seems. Upcoming Newcastle City Guide walks include The Witches of Newcastle at the Guildhall courtroom, telling the story of 15 people hanged on the Town Moor for witchcraft in 1649. There’s Riverside Ramble (June 4), Shopping Spree (June 10) and Gannin te Blaydon Races (June 11). The City Highlights Tour runs daily from the Visitor Information Centre, Market Street at 10.30am. www.newcastlegateshead.com

STYLE HUNTER... WITH ALICE NARCROSS (WWW.ALICESWONDEREMPORIUM.BLOGSPOT.CO.UK)

CRUISING PRINTS CHARMING Much as we’d love a heatwave, it’s Take a walk down Grainger best to stock up on some lighter Street for Cath Kidston’s outwear for windy days and pretty dresses in adorable nipper barbeques. This DKNY summer prints. From feminine cardigan from Cruise is the fl orals to exotic safari, to this perfect standby. quirky teacup print, it’s perfect. Princess Square Grainger Street www.cruisefashion.co.uk www.cathkidston.com

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BUILDING BLOCKS Have you ever walked along the Quayside or through Grainger Town and wondered what it once looked like? Newcastle University’s Newcastle City Futures event, May 23-June 10, oﬀ ers insights into developments which have shaped the city, focusing on the Metro and the Byker Wall, the redevelopment of St James’ Park, and new projects such as the Stephenson Quarter. Various venues, www.ncl.ac.uk

*Pic shows the construction of the Metro station at Newcastle Central Station in 1978. Part of the original Grade 1 portico had to be demolished and re-built to allow its foundations to be strengthened

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NE104.indb 11 22/05/2014 10:16 PROFILE HERE SHE COMES AGAIN THE GREAT DOLLY PARTON HEADS TO NEWCASTLE ANY MINUTE NOW. JANE PIKETT CAN’T HELP SMILING...

Polish up those rhinestones, website, and you’re treated to a people, Dolly Parton - the most charming eight-second video of Dolly successful country singer of all declaring how excited she is to be time and probably the loveliest coming to Newcastle. No doubt she person on the planet - rolls into has recorded the same message town any minute now. for every town and city she’s visiting Dolly, darling of the country scene this tour, but she still makes it sound and the woman we most want to be sincerely meant; another bit of Dolly our fairy godmother (how lucky is magic for us all to treasure. Miley Cyrus?) hits town on June 14 The Dolly brand machine now with what we are reliably informed will includes something called Dixie be the most diamante ever seen on Stampede - a family dinner attraction one stage at one time. with live animals and pyrotechics; At 68 she still looks like a Barbie doll the Dollywood theme park (we kid ye (the work is good...) and her gorgeous, not); Splash Country water adventure glitzy life is a far cry from her early park (the website features Dolly in a years, one of 12 kids of a ‘dirt poor’ wetsuit!); Pirates Voyage dinner and tobacco farmer who paid the doctor show (like Pirates of the Caribbean who helped deliver her with a bag of with songs); and Dolly Parton’s oatmeal. Probably one of the happiest Imgination Library charity, which gets people on the planet, she’s been kids reading. married for 48 years and tells beautiful “Every time I come to Europe I’m stories on stage which are as much just as excited as I was my very fi rst a part of her show as her songs, of time, which was many, many years which she has written and recorded ago,” she says. “We always have such more than 3,000. a good time and I’ve put together a This tour features songs from her lot of things for this show that I think new album Blue Smoke as well as her the fans will love. We hadn’t planned best-known hits, the only question to come back so soon, but we got so being, having sold 100 m albums much fan mail last time, I thought ‘Well, during her 45-year career, how does why not. If they’re having a good time, she choose what to sing each show? and we always do, let’s just do it’.” Nip onto the Metro Radio Arena Dolly, we just can’t wait!

Metro Radio Arena, June 14, from £50, www.metroradioarena.co.uk

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WE ALWAYS HAVE A GREAT TIME!

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FUNNY PEOPLE Jesterval hits Baltic Square June 6-14 with household names including Marcus Brigstocke, Jason Manford, and Zoe Lyons. The event also showcases Newcastle comics including Gavin Webster and Jason Cook, and there are special shows for kids, too. Highlights include: June 7: Lee Kyle, Andy Fury, George Zach, Mike Milligan, Jason Cook, Marcus Brigstocke, Luisa Omielan June 9: Zoe Lyons, The Lumberjacks June 11: Patrick Monahan, Simon Munnery, Abnormally Funny People Gateshead Quays, June 6-14, £5-£22.50 plus free family shows, www.jesterval.co.uk

ON THE GAME Eddison Tollett of the Night’s Watch (that’s Tyneside actor and stand up Ben Crompton for the microcosm of society which isn’t into Game of Thrones) headlines the Giggle Beats Comedy Quiz at The Stand on June 1. Crompton, who is often found on The Stand’s stage between appearances on the big and small screen, joins regular quizmaster Lee Kyle for the combined show/quiz. The Stand, June 1, £3, www.thestand.co.uk

TOON TWEETS ...A FEW OF THE THINGS THAT HAVE GOT PEOPLE TWEETING IN NEWCASTLE RECENTLY…

WHITLEY BAY (TURNIPHEADPIC): JULIEN MACDONALD ’Tuxedo Royale’ 80/90s nightclub (@JULIENMACDONALD): from Newcastle/Gateshead as Backstage with the fabulous crew of she stands at the moment in nclfshnwk thanks for looking after me Middlesbrough, Teesside guys! @ The Old Assembly Rooms

JESSICA ROBERTSON TYNESIDE CINEMA (@JESSXROBERTSON): (@TYNESIDECINEMA): At @BonbarNewcastle tonight for Newcastle’s Dana International storming the oﬃ cial launch of NE1’s Newcastle the stage at @tynesidecinema’s

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TODAY I’M LISTENING TO... FROM AXED TO BLOCKED ANDREW FENNER, 44, NEWCASTLE Writer and stand-up Chris Ramsey has landed on his feet after the axing of his BBC2 show Heburn by picking up a role in Frankie Boyle’s new radio sitcom Blocked. Described as traditional sitcom with an edge, Blocked also stars David Mitchell and Lorna Watson and is due to air on Radio 4 later this year. Chris is also back on stage at the City Hall on November 17 as part of his UK tour. ”I enjoy listening to indie and folk, and City Hall, November 17, www.newcastlecityhall.org quite a lot of electro pop, stuff like Little Boots. I’ve usually got Amy MacDonald on in the car and at home.” TOON TWEETS DALE KNIGHT, 24, NEWCASTLE ...A FEW OF THE THINGS THAT HAVE GOT PEOPLE TWEETING IN NEWCASTLE RECENTLY…

PAUL NICHOL (@PAUL_NICHOL): Amazing night at the darts! Why did I not get the day off work?!? #darts

CHRISTOPHER CHARLTON ”I listen to Tame Impala and Girls, and (@CHRISCHARLTON): Steve Earle who does country-rock. Dinner @TheHerbGardenUK in When I’m out running I tend to listen to Newcastle. They have a vertical farm heavy, superfast rock stuff with a good in the restaurant! beat, like Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.”

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I USED TO BE AN ATTENTION-SEEKER BUT I’VE GOT OVER IT

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NE104.indb 16 22/05/2014 10:17 PROFILE ROCKET MAN DERREN BROWN – HUMAN OR ALIEN? JANE PIKETT ISN’T SURE

Who, or what, is Derren Brown? His writer, and sceptic’. Ask him for one word Twitter profile claims he is Prince to sum himself up and he settles for of Eternia and Defender of the ‘magician’, but then starts listing all the Secrets of Castle Grayskull, a disliker others and a few more before admitting of blue cheese, and ‘just behind your he defies categorisation. right ear’. He’s 43, lives in London with his Having witnessed his unique blend partner, designer Marc Hagan Guirey, of ‘magic, suggestion, psychology, read German and Law at Bristol Uni, and misdirection and showmanship’ on fell into his career through an interest in a previous visit to the Theatre Royal, magic and hypnotism. I suspect he is alien, his claims of an He is also patron of the charity Parrot unremarkable suburban upbringing a Zoo Trust. “Parrots are fascinating; I just front for a plot to hypnotise the human love them,” he says. “If you met one, race into gifting Earth to the Zygons. But you’d know.” He has a pet parakeet called calling from Llandudno on a Tuesday Rasputin, which he says is “a bit like a afternoon, he’s disarmingly friendly and toddler. You know, just very interesting. A distinctly human. toddler who can fly.” This is what I learn: His passport He says he went through a phase describes him as an ‘entertainer’; he when he was younger of dressing “a bit used to be a Christian but he doesn’t like a parrot in really bright clothes and a believe in God anymore; he’s an cape. I was a bit of an attention-seeker accomplished portrait painter; he likes then, but I’ve got over that now,” he says. parrots; and he finds it really hard to His best decision was coming out, answer the question, ‘what would you do he says, which he did a few years ago if you couldn’t fail?’ and was surprised to find it didn’t attract “Gosh, that’s toooooo hard! No nearly so much attention as he’d feared. failure would mean no risk, and that’d His best mistake was, he says, remaining be paralysing. I’d like to say I’d learn to in the closet so long, “because it gave play piano, but shouldn’t you say you’d me the time to focus on work.” change the world? Great question; I’m He’s writing a book about happiness, going to have to think more about this.” which he says is achieved by letting go He’s been on the telly for years now, of things you can’t control, and he says since 2000 in fact, when his show Derren we all need something in our life which Brown; Mind Control was first broadcast. is ‘deep and intense’, not necessarily Wikipedia calls him an ‘illusionist, God. And with that, he’s off to re-join his mentalist, trickster, hypnotist, painter, spaceship. Or was it all an illusion?

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SNOOP DOGG HITS THE DECKS Hot on the heels of the great Chaka Khan at Hoochie Coochie, we give you another global star, DJ Snoopadelic, aka hip hop star Snoop Dogg, at Tup Tup Palace. Snoop (real name Cordozar Calvin Broadus) boasts a mega career spanning nearly two decades, 11 albums, and more than 40m worldwide album sales. His DJ set at Tup Tup is one of a handful of UK dates before he heads oﬀ for summer festival dates across Europe. Tup Tup Palace, June 9, from £40 www.tuptuppalace.com

SINGALONG A GARETH Warm up your vocal chords, folks... housewives’ favourite Gareth Malone brings his new choir to Newcastle on May 30. Following a nationwide search for young singers, Gareth Malone’s Voices are on a UK tour. This latest Malone- ROCK ROYALTY manufactured ensemble Anthemic rock gods Kings of Leon grace the follows the success St James’ Park stage on May 31 ahead of of the Military Wives headlining the Isle of Wight Festival. Choir and popular BBC With support from White Lies and The Horrors, shows The Choir and the multi-Grammy and Brit award-winning Sing While You Work, Tennessee rockers arrive in the UK hot on the which take fi rst-timers heels of the worldwide success of their sixth album to extraordinary levels Mechanical Bull. The gig represents a big return of success and have led to live music at St James’, which in the past has to a nationwide revival in hosted the likes of Queen, The Rolling Stones, and community singing. Bob Dylan, but hasn’t seen a live act since Rod City Hall, May 30, Stewart in 2007. St James’ Park, May 31 from £22, www.

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TOON TUNES WITH PAUL BROWN, TINY LIGHTS RECORDINGS POKER FACES For a city of its size and location, AT THE READY Newcastle off ers the discerning Little Monsters rejoice…Lady Gaga’s new show, punter a good selection of gigs. artRAVE: The ARTPOP Ball is coming to Newcastle. That’s largely down to an array of Newcastle is one of four extra UK shows added to the active promoters and venues willing world tour - probably the most outrageous yet - and the to take a chance on brilliant bands, stage is designed to bring Gaga closer than ever to her with current listings including some adoring acolytes with runways stretching into the audience incredible names like Swans, Eagulls from the main stage. You have been warned… and St Vincent. As promoters, we’re Metro Radio Arena, November 22, from £35 blessed with incredibly helpful and www.metroradioarena.co.uk passionate people running venues, sound desks and magazines which facilitate our fl ights of fancy. I tend to focus my booking eye on the kind of bands who are more at home at the Head of Steam than the City Hall; messy indiepop bands on their fi rst tour or out-of-town bands who’ve just released an LP not enough people love yet. Recent highlights include Scott and Charlene’s Wedding, Tyrannosaurus Dead and The Spook School. It’s a tough job balancing the books ARE YOU READY? (or even looking at them sometimes), Dancing shoes on, people - the great Billy Ocean hits but that’s the eternal problem of putting Newcastle on June 4 with a string of classics including gigs on. Are You Ready, Red Light Spells Danger, and When the None of us are expecting (or even Going Gets Tough. trying) to make our fortune, but if you With 30m record sales to his name in a career spanning can bring a brilliant band to Newcastle four decades, we’re up for a night of hits we know all the then it’s worthwhile, and if a couple of words to. people fall in love with them, that’s a City Hall, June 4, from £20, www.newcastlecityhall.org lovely bonus.

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NE104.indb 19 22/05/2014 10:17 FASHION WE’RE IN FASHION! NE1’S NEWCASTLE FASHION WEEK, MAY 9-17, PRESENTED A RIOT OF STYLE ENJOYED BY FASHION FANS AND FAMOUS FACES

NE1’s Newcastle Fashion Week 2014 Catwalk shows at the Comapny was a wonderful riot of fashion and Magazine Presents event were hosted fun kicked off by the Me & Mrs Jones by designer Julien Macdonald OBE, who DJ set featuring Sophie Ellis Bextor proved a popular personality with all at and her husband Richard Jones. The Assembly Rooms. Fresh from the release of her new YouTube make-up sensation Lauren album Wanderlust and her UK tour, Luke was the headline speaker on Friday Sophie teamed up with Richard, guitarist at Northumbria University and also with The Feeling, for an exclusive DJ made an appearance at the Rox Royalty set at Bonbar, kick-starting the week’s event at Rox Jewellers. The Northumbria proceedings in style. University end-of-year show attracted This year’s event dominated the city international buyers and fashion pundits, during the week May 9 -17 with catwalks, while NE1’s Newcastle Fashion Week retail offers, VIP events and a healthy closing party at Tup Tup Palace was a smattering of celebrities thrown in for fittingly glitzy affair to round off the week. good measure. www.getintonewcastle.co.uk/nfw IMAGE CREDITS: © NE1NFW IMAGE

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O2 Academy, thenewbridgenewcastle. £4, £3 conc, 2.30pm. o2academynewcastle.co.uk co.uk The Guildhall, Quayside, newcastlegateshead.com JUNE 11 SPORT JUNE 2-JUNE 7 RED DRAGON CARTEL, SYRON VANES, JUNE 7 DERREN BROWN: JUPITER FALLS INFAMOUS BELLA HARDY AND Creative hard rock. The illusionist returns. THE MIDNIGHT WATCH £28, 7pm. From £27.50, 8pm. Creative, prolific and O2 Academy, Theatre Royal, original singer. o2academynewcastle.co.uk theatreroyal.co.uk £14, £12, 8pm. The Sage Gateshead, JUNE 4, 7, 10, 12 AND 14 thesagegateshead.com PUB QUIZ

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JUNE 7 REDHOUSE Cash prize and a free pie SECRET THEATRE: LADIES OF for the winner. 50p, 8pm. WOYZECK MIDNIGHT BLUE Redhouse, Sandhill, George Buchner’s Powerful and upbeat duo. theredhousencl.co.uk DIRTY DANCING masterpiece. £18.50, £5, 8pm. “Nobody puts Baby in £14.50 conc, 7.30pm. Live Theatre, live.org.uk THE BODEGA the corner!”. Northern Stage, Bodega wooden spoons From £16.50, 7.30pm. northernstage.co.uk HUTTON, POPE up for grabs. £1, 8.30pm. Theatre Royal, AND CARNEGIE The Bodega, theatreroyal.co.uk JUNE 5 Jazz trio. £5, 9pm. thebodega newcastle. Jazz Café, co.uk JUNE 1 HELA jazzcafe-newcastle.co.uk Inspired by the true life THE NEW BRIDGE THE WITCHES story of Henrietta Lacks. SEX PISTOLS Ever-popular general OF NEWCASTLE £12, £9 conc, 8pm. EXPERIENCE, LIZZIE AND knowledge quiz. In 1649 15 people were Baltic, balticmill.com THE BANSHEES £1, 8.30pm. hanged on the Town Moor Two great tribute acts. The New Bridge, for the crime of witchcraft, JUNE 6 £14, 6.30pm. Argyle Street, hear their stories.

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SECRET THEATRE: short stories, poems and Laing Gallery, McDermid. GLITTERLAND novels. Free, 6pm-7.45pm. twmuseums.org.uk/laing Free, 6pm-7pm. A thrilling story of power, Newcastle City Library, Newcastle City Library, corruption and revenge. newcastle.gov.uk JUNE 6 newcastle.gov.uk £14.50, £12 conc, 7.30pm. Northern Stage, MAY 28 TRANSLATING PSEUDOSCIENCE northernstage.co.uk THE POEMS OF READING GROUP CITY WALK: CORSINO FORTES Hysteria in the 19th JUNE 7 BLUE TO THE BISCUIT A workshop about Century. Free, 6pm. Meet at Laing Art Gallery, translation plus a reading. The Lit & Phil, KEY CHANGE newcastlegateshead.com/ Free, 7.15pm. Westgate Road, Hear the stories of women city-guides Culture Lab, litandphil.org.uk prisoners from HMP YOI culturelab.ncl.ac.uk Low Newton Prison. JUNE 2 JUNE 10 £12-£10, £5 conc, BXNU SYMPOSIUM: 2pm and 8pm. ELLEN PHETHEAN CLOUDSCAPE THE LIVES OF STARS Live Theatre, The poet launches her new Connecting visual, live and How to make gold, with live.org.uk collection. Free, 7pm. performing arts. £30, £25 Gordon Moir. Free 7pm. The Lit & Phil, conc, 10.30am-8.30pm. The Lit & Phil, JUNE 11 AND 14 Westgate Road, Baltic, balticmill.com Westgate Road, litandphil.org.uk litandphil.org.uk SECRET THEATRE: JUNE 7 CHAMBER PIECE IMPROVISATION AND JUNE 11 Comedy about power, EAR TRAINING LEWIS ROBINSON lethal injection and the For musicians, with Paul Artist talk. Free, 2pm-3pm. CITY WALK: desperate need for a Twix. Edis. Free, 7pm. Newcastle Arts Centre, GANNIN TO From £14.50, 7.30pm. The Lit & Phil, newcastle-arts-centre. BLAYDON RACES Northern Stage, Westgate Road, co.uk A trip back to the 1862 northernstage.co.uk litandphil.org.uk Blaydon Races. JUNE 9 £4, £3 conc, 7pm. JUNE 3 Meet at Grey’s TALKS/ BIG READ Monument, WORKSHOPS THE LIVES OF STARS BOOK GROUP newcastlegateshead. With Gordon Moir. A Place Of Execution by Val com/city-guides Free, 8pm. EVERYDAY The Lit & Phil, Westgate Road, CITY HIGHLIGHTS litandphil.org.uk NEXT ISSUE WALKING TOUR Taking in the main points of JUNE 4 interest in the city. IF IT’S HAPPENING IN NEWCASTLE NE1, £4, £3 conc, 10.30am. IT’S IN NE1 MAGAZINE. Meet at Visitor IN YOUR NEXT EDITION... Information, Market Street, Robbie Williams newcastlegateshead.com/ city-guides Scooby Doo ¡Vamos! Festival EVERY TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY MOUNTAINS IN MIND AND FRIDAY Inspirations and meditations with Susan FREE GUIDED TOURS Dobson. Free, 6pm. Free, 11.15am. The Lit & Phil, Tyneside Cinema, Westgate Road, Pilgrim Street, litandphil.org.uk tynesidecinema.co.uk PICTURE PERFECT SEND US NEWS OF YOUR EVENTS: EVERY TUESDAY A talk on painting restoration given by [email protected] SHARED READING Ana Flynn, Painting GROUP Conservator. © Seamus Ryan Theatre Royal, Matt Holliday, FeatureFlash/ shutterstock.com, North News & Pictures ltd, icreateimages, Zander Photography icreateimages, ltd, North News & Pictures shutterstock.com, FeatureFlash/ Matt Holliday, Royal, CREDITS: © Seamus RyanTheatre IMAGE Read aloud and talk about £2, 2pm-3pm.

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