FREE MAY 13-29 2015 WHAT’S ON IN NEWCASTLE www.getintonewcastle.co.uk IT’S A KIND OF MAGIC RUGBY LEAGUE’S MAGIC WEEKEND COMES TO ST JAMES’ PARK PLUS: NE1’S FASHION FUTURES + MAY FESTIVAL FOCUS THE LATE SHOWS + TAKE THAT + THINKING DIGITAL 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 Things to make you think, laugh cry and more 08 TRY THIS Something different in NE1 13 IN FASHION 16 NE1’s Fashion Futures May 13-14 14 MUSIC Local heroes plus Take That, Lulu and The Fall 16 MAGIC MOMENTS Rugby league’s biggest hitters come to Toon 19 HALF TERM 10 20 Keep the whole family happy LATE SHOWS 2015 FESTIVALS Our guide to this year’s events We look ahead to the summer’s 22 LISTINGS across the city biggest festivals 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 JOIN THE CIRCUS TOMORROW’S We’re packing our trunk and heading WORLD down to Circus Fascinated by the speed of humankind’s Central, popping up technological developments? Thinking Digital at venues across will further intrigue and inspire you. Newcastle, including This annual conference features three days of some beautiful churches. They’ve got I’VE BEEN TO... lectures, workshops and events designed to pique classes for adults and kids Mon-Sat MATTHEW BOURNE ’S your curiosity. Speakers include BBC science covering everything from aerial fitness THE CAR MAN presenter Steve Mould, Pixar’s technical director and tumbling to yoga, juggling, and Holly Lloyd, CERN ‘collision scene investigator’ trapeze. Eek! circuscentral.co.uk (we kid you not) Tara Shears, former Microsoft By James Cooper, 17 e-scientist Tony Hey and more. Plus there are PARLEZ-VOUS FRANÇAIS? Newcastle College student workshops in interactive filmmaking, 3D printing, If not, check out My mum likes to think she is the key to virtual reality and digital surgery. Language Café, what she calls my ‘cultural education’ Sage Gateshead and The Core, May 19-21 which is running and she likes to take me to the theatre from £82.50, thinkingdigital.co.uk language classes because she’s decided I like it there. popping up across To be honest, I really do like it, and the city in the coming I’m generally pretty pleased to go with CALL TO ARMS months. The website has details. Ciao! her. I was a bit baffled when she said Foil Arms And Hog - not the latest in hipster street ihworld.com/school/profile/ih_newcastle we were going to see contemporary food, but a hilarious Irish comedy trio - bring their dance though, basically because I’ve greatest hits show to The Stand this month. TOP MARKS! never expressed an interest in it, but I Having toured the world, sold out at the Edinburgh Hop & Cleaver thought, why not? Mum loves Matthew Comedy Festival for the last six years and posted many picked up the top Bourne and thinks I should too, so I hilarious clips on YouTube, the trio’s fast-paced sketch prize at this year’s thought it was worth a go, particularly comedy features twisted characters and unpredictable, Battle of the Beers as she promised a pre-theatre feast highly energetic performances. One of the best comedy Competition, part of at Dabbawal. shows you’re likely to see in some time, begorrah you the Newcastle Beer Mind, I wish she’d warned me about won’t regret it! Festival at Northumbria University. Its the naked men and the depictions The Stand, May 18, £12, thestand.co.uk beer, Quayside Porter, beat 18 others of gay sex, neither of which are great FAMOUS FACES from the region. hopandcleaver.com when you’re sitting next to your mum A selection of the North East’s most famous in the second row. When I eventually faces are coming to Newcastle this month with CHOO CHOO stopped squirming in my seat, I have the Portraits from the North East exhibition at After 35 years and to say the show was amazing. The St Nicholas’ Cathedral. more than 4.5m train music was brilliant, the dancers were Created by local photographers, the exhibition runs journeys, the QEII incredible, and if my relationship with May 17-June 15 and features North East celebrities bridge is getting a my mother survives it, I would definitely including Steve Cram (pictured), Brendan Healy and refurb. There will be go back. Maybe next time I’ll leave her Kate Adie. some disruption at home, though. St Nicholas’ Cathedral, May 17-June 15 between Monument and Heworth. theatreroyal.co.uk portraitsfromthenortheast.org Go to the website for info nexus.org.uk 4 WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK 5 UPFRONT UPFRONT KEEPING UP WITH JONES Prepare to be baffled - comic Milton Jones is MAN ABOUT bringing his bizarre show to Newcastle City Hall. The surreal comedian is a master of the TOON bizarre and his new show is loosely based on an adventurous quest for buried treasure. Expect loud If it’s happening, Alok Loomba, shirts, killer gags, and a true taste of the unexpected. partner at city law firm Sintons, knows Newcastle City Hall, May 22, £24 about it. Here are his top city picks newcastlecityhall.org sintons.co.uk BEST FOR THREADS? TWO LITTLE BOYS Reiss is firm favourite of FRIGHT NIGHT Harrowing yet compelling, The Boy in the Striped mine. It’s very difficult to go Ever wondered where the spooky sound effects in Pyjamas is a stage adaptation of John Boyne’s in there without coming out horror B-movies come from? bestselling novel telling the story of two young boys with several bags. Find out with artists Katie Goodwin and Rachel Lancaster whose friendship is conducted from either side of a and their new show at Tyneside Cinema’s Gallery space. concentration camp fence. The talented cast of The BEST FOR FOOD AND DRINK? There’s a screening of The Brain Eaters, a 1958 American Children’s Touring Partnership presents the touching Pleased To Meet You. science fiction horror film about alien parasites on May story of this innocent friendship and its course towards its They have an excellent 14 which features a live sound performance; plus a a free devastating denouement brilliantly. Essential. cocktail menu, more gins exhibition (May 15-17) showcasing their artwork. Theatre Royal, May 19-23, from £13 that I can count; it’s a Tyneside Cinema, May 14-17, free tynesidecinema.co.uk theatreroyal.co.uk favourite spot for lunch. BEST FOR MUSIC? Livello, hands down. The Friday and TOON TWEETS Saturday night DJs are exceptional. A FEW OF THE THINGS THAT HAVE GOT PEOPLE TWEETING… TWEET US @NEWCASTLENE1 BEST FOR PERFORMANCE? NEWCASTLE GUSTO EMMA - BAGLADEE NEWCASTLEGATESHEAD I’m huge fan of Boulevard (@NEWCASTLEGUSTO): (@BAGLADEE): (@ALTWEET_PET ): cabaret club. The quality of Never too full for our new cannoli, Great gig last night in Newcastle Congratulations to Monument Mall for being the production is as good filled with vanilla mascarpone and @SeasickSteve #legend #steveo crowned Project of the Year at the RICS as the West End. hazelnuts #dessert #ne1 Awards #JamesBay #livemusic #newcastle BEST COFFEE? THE BOTANIST NCL DABBAWAL (@DABBAWAL): KAREN MARSHALL Blakes. A stalwart on the Tim Leach : (@THEBOTANISTNCL): Think healthy food is boring? We have (@MARSHALLK3): city centre coffee scene, it’s Our Sunday Roast has been most fresh, healthy alternatives with all the Luke (5) and Isaac (5) teaching each an excellent place to meet popular today! #Sunday #Roast flavour! #NEFollowers other how to code @CoderDojoNE for a cappuccino for #Food #Newcastle #NE1 @makerfaire_uk @scienceatlife business or pleasure. IMAGE CREDITS IMAGE 6 WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK 7 TRY THIS TRY THIS SUPER SCREENING One for the deep thinkers, Man & Superman is beamed live to cinema WORD ON THE EURO VISION ON! screens from London’s National The most camp night of the year returns Theatre this month, bringing STREET on May 23 in the shape of the Eurovision romantic comedy, epic fairytale, and Song Contest, and you can let your hair philosophical debate with it. IT’S ALL ABOUT THE JOURNEY down with special parties in NE1. George Bernard Shaw’s classic Need advice on Get in the mood one night early at the featuring Ralph Fiennes (pictured) tells walking or cycling in Sick Children’s Trust’s event at Charles the story of radical thinker and NE1? Pop along to Grey, where there’s a Eurovision reverse rich bachelor Jack Tanner, The Journey walking sweepstake, food, music, quiz and prizes.