FREE MAY 14-28 2014 WHAT’S ON IN NEWCASTLE www.getintonewcastle.co.uk YOUR NEW-LOOK MAG I THINK I LOVE YOU WILL YOU BE ONE OF JUST 250 PEOPLE TO SEE THE GREAT CHAKA KHAN IN NEWCASTLE? PLUS: FAB FLOURNOY + SARAH MILLICAN + BODY WORLDS VITAL ad ne1 210x148_v1 02/05/2014 13:00 Page 1 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 Al Murray, New Kids on the HOME OF THE ROSSINI Block, and Mexican wrestlers 08 TRY THIS Our pick of what’s coming up 10 IN FOCUS Human bodies, preserved 10 in plastic. No kidding! 14 SAILING NE1 Newcastle Marina 18 STAGE The Bodyguard’s in town! 20 SLAM DUNK 12 16 Fab Flournoy spills the beans HOMEBIRD DISCO DIVA 22 LISTINGS Sarah Millican reveals her love Will you be one of the chosen Your go-to guide for of David Bowie and waving 250 to see Chaka Khan? what’s on in NE1 ©Offstone Publishing 2014. All rights Editor: Jane Pikett reserved. 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Festival returns in June with events across offer to dine at 68 city restaurants for Newcastle city centre. ¡VAMOS! celebrates everything only £10 or £15. The 25,000 vouchers TO... THE RIGHT STUFF? about Latin culture and this year’s events include redeemed equated to well over We’ve seen Take That, Blue, Backstreet Boys...and now, a Mardi Gras performance; international act Jaleo £350,000 of business for restaurants. ALISA OLEMBERG, 35, FULL-TIME as New Kids On The Block head to Newcastle, we ask - Flamenco from Seville; an outdoor family picnic with a MUM OF FIVE, GATESHEAD what inspires one-time boybands to keep coming back? Portuguese and Brazilian Festa de Juninas theme; and Two Fifths has raised “We’ve just had a Perhaps it’s the record-breaking cash machine that is the return of the ever-popular Mexican wrestling. There’ll its cheeky head on great time at the the Take That reunion. Or the fact that life after the demise also be pop-up restaurants, music, talks and art from the corner of Centre For Life. It’s of a boyband can seem hollow. And when it comes to guilty international artists and a specially commissioned artist- Collingwood Street great value, there are pleasures, there’s nothing better than five middle-aged men designed ¡VAMOS! Pavilion. A busy few weeks, then! offering modern lots of things to keep trying to re-capture the moment they lifted their shirts and Various venues across the city, June 6-22 British food in cool, urban surroundings the kids busy and wiggled their six packs in celebration of selling in excess of www.vamosfestival.com and open from breakfast until late for they loved the 4D motion ride.” 80m records worldwide. food, cocktails, a pavement cafe and City Hall, May 23, from £37, www.newcastlecityhall.org events. Owner John Snell used to have BEN TOWNSEND, 28, NISSAN a hair salon here. Cutting edge! WORKER, TYNEMOUTH facebook/Two-Fifths “We get a lot of great bands in Newcastle La Tasca on the and the last one I saw Quayside has a new was Killswitch Engage look starring a funky at the O2 Academy. I collage effect on one go to live gigs a lot wall and a mural and we get a great mix here.” behind the bar. It’s fresher, brighter and the Spanish ambience remans strong. JADE IRVING, 19, NEWCASTLE www.latasca.com/newcastle COLLEGE FASHION STUDENT, THEY’VE BEEN TANGO’D WHITLEY BAY RED EYES IS BACK Strictly fans rejoice…Saturday night dance favourites The next Hotel du Vin “I’ve been to The Paul Heaton is returning to Newcastle with his former and Argentine tango experts Vincent Simone and Flavia wine dinners on July Biscuit Factory. I love Beautiful South bandmate Jacqui Abbott, who also sings Cacace are bringing their new show, Dance ‘til Dawn, to 3 features art and it helps me on his latest album, What Have We Become. the Theatre Royal in June. Argentina’s famed © Manuel Harlan, Andrew Whitton © Manuel Harlan, Andrew : with my studies in The show will feature hits from his three solo albums and We’re told the new show promises stunning sets and producer, Cantena fashion. I can’t wait for Heaton may also dip into his Housemartins and Beautiful more sequins than have ever been seen before under one Zapata. Malbec is its most prominent NE1’s Newcastle South back catalogues. roof (probably). Keeeeep dancing! wine and there’ll be plenty of it along Fashion Week Mill Volvo Tyne Theatre, May 20, £19.50 Theatre Royal, June 9-14, from £13 with a four-course dinner. IMAGE CREDITS IMAGE [May9-17]. It’s a highlight of the year.” www.millvolvotynetheatre.co.uk www.theatreroyal.co.uk www.hotelduvin.com 4 WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK 5 UPFRONT UPFRONT NOBLE RETURN Great news for lovers of the meandering rambles of Ross Noble. His TV series Freewheeling, which sees him use his 433,000 Twitter followers as a guide book for a road trip across the UK, has been commissioned for a second WHO KNEW... series. We are told the Geordie comic is filming six, hour-long episodes in June and the series is expected to air in Newcastle Brown Ale the autumn. Ross returns to is the best-selling Newcastle in November as part of his imported beer in IN FOCUS Tangentleman tour. In the meantime, America (according to Side Gallery has just unveiled a superb collection look him up on Twitter the most recent of documentary photography from Russia, Ukraine, (@realrossnoble) and he may end up figures available). Georgia, and The Caucasus. paying you a visit. Having become a favourite with Legacy, the second of Side Gallery’s exhibitions linked City Hall, November 25, £25 American students in the 1990s, you to the 25th anniversary of the end of the Berlin Wall, www.newcastlecityhall.org might have seen it pop up in The Big focuses on the new East-West borderlands of the former Bang Theory more recently. Clint Soviet Union republics, exploring shared histories, isolation Eastwood is also said to be a big fan of a and engagement, tradition and the desire for modernity. bottle of Broon. The show celebrates some of the best documentary photography coming out of this torn and fertile ground. Younger folks may be Side Gallery, May 17–July 19, www.amber-online.com unaware that Jimi Hendrix was discovered in New York in 1966 by Geordie music producer Chas Chandler. Chandler brought him back to Newcastle and some residents still recall seeing Hendrix busk on Heaton’s Chillingham Road. In the late 1960s Newcastle had its own CHEERS! STRIKE A CHORD winter zoo at the ROOFTOP TOUR TV favourite Al Murray has announced a work- Northern Chords, one of the most exciting and Exhibition Centre, Have you ever sat in Level Seven at St James’ Park and in-progress show ahead of his UK tour at The original events of the North East music calendar, formerly the Town Hall, looked out across the city? It’s great, and now you can Stand Comedy Club on July 1. returns at the end of May. near the Bigg Market. go one better by climbing onto the roof of the Milburn Murray, aka The Pub Landlord, will warm up in Featuring 100 musicians from around the world © LehaKoK / Shutterstock.com, Rafal Milach / INSTITUTE, Kaupo Kikkas Milach / INSTITUTE, Rafal / Shutterstock.com, © LehaKoK : The zoo was a big attraction, with Stand. Billed as a sightseeing tour rather than the full St Newcastle, Edinburgh and Glasgow before his 52- in a unique week of musical encounters, this year’s animals including Geordie Giraffe and James’ Park experience, it promises amazing views of the date UK tour begins in September.