AUG 3-17 2016 200+ Events www.getintonewcastle.co.uk Plan ahead with our big listings guide INSIDE Proud city Make a A look back at Pride meal of it NE1 Newcastle Restaurant Week - Aug 8-14 School’s out Kids’ summer in the city Out and about Screen on the Green In the Ouseburn Our guide to this summer’s open-air cinema FREE From incredible critters and birds of prey to Spartan warriors, dinosaurs and the secrets of outer space... Contents What’s on in NE1 VE A 04 Out and about 19 Proud! YOU’LL HA Stage, comedy, offers and more... A look back at Newcastle Pride 11 Movie magic 20 Walkabout Screen on the Green 2016 We head down to the Ouseburn 13 School's out 22 Listings SUMMER Our guide to summer in NE1 Your go-to guide for NE1 goings-on GREAT : HANCOCK AT THE GREAT NORTH MUSEUM Let's eat! 16 Come dining NE1 Newcastle Restaurant Week is back Aug 8-14 NE1 magazine is brought to you by NE1 Ltd, the company which champions all that’s great about Newcastle city centre ©Offstone Publishing 2016. All rights Publishers: Jane Pikett, Gary Ramsay reserved. No part of this magazine may be reproduced without the written permission Writers: Dean Bailey, Claire Dupree of the publisher. All information contained (listings editor) in this magazine is as far as we are aware, Designers: Stuart Blackie If you wish to submit a listing for inclusion correct at the time of going to press. 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Viva forever! £27 masterpiece No Man’s Land. Theatre Royal, from £16, theatreroyal.co.uk High Bridge is set for another new name with whispers of a LANE 7 Spanish tapas bar joining some of the city’s coolest kitchens, bars and culture spots which already occupy the street. MARTINI Already home to The Stand, Dabbawal, Pleased to Meet You, TWO-FOR- Recommends Mr Tilly’s, Laneway & Co, and Patrick Forster’s Barber Shop, ONE ON LIFT AND planning has now been submitted by Kaltur Restaurant to COCKTAILS FIRM FACIAL transform the former home of End Clothing into a Spanish food, AND WINE FROM £15 wine and cocktail bar. Watch this space! AT TURTLE AT LEVOI The Low down BAY When: August 4 ROOMS WITH A Indie aficionados will be pleased to see stalwarts Low back in Newcastle to plug their new album Ones And Sixes, out now on SUMMER COCKTAIL the Sub Pop label. & CONTINENTAL The American scenesters’ brand of indie rock has a minimalist BREAKFAST FROM £99 Café culture Quick on the draw and deliberate tempo. Handily dubbed ‘slowcore’, their AT MALMAISON Laneway & Co coffee shop is the latest new offering When: August 7 harmony-drenched songs are by turns dreamy, atmospheric to join Newcastle’s buzzing indy café scene. The Stand presents two hours of comedy sketches in and enthralling. Now open on High Bridge, the café is inspired by A Sketch for Sammy, raising money for the Sunday for Sage Gateshead, from £22, sagegateshead.com SUMMER BLEND Australian laneway coffee stops. The emphasis is Sammy Trust which supports young creative talent AROMATHERAPY on quality brews and the coffee menu will change on Tyneside. Top comics Steffen Peddie (pictured) and MASSAGE FOR £45 AT seasonally and showcase regions as far afield as Josh Daniels will host the night, with sketches judged by BEAUTY & THE SPA Malawi and Sumatra. Geordie legends Tim Healy, Ray Laidlaw, Billy Mitchell There are homemade sandwiches, savouries and and Geoff Wonfor. Tickets are free, but they’re limited, To use the offers, and for timings and full cakes too. so don’t delay! T&Cs, download the app for free from the App Store or go to getintonewcastle.co.uk IMAGE CREDIT: © Andy Hollingworth, Mark Savage Mark Hollingworth, CREDIT: © Andy IMAGE High Bridge, lanewaycoffee.co.uk The Stand, free, thestand.co.uk 4 WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK 5 UPFRONT UPFRONT Instagram VIEW FROM The best of Newcastle THE TERRACES On your bike When: August 14 on Instagram Great Bard on a bike…this is Shakespeare like you’ve never With Paul Dixon seen it before! The Handlebards’ bicycle-powered shows have received rave reviews, and they’re bringing their quick-witted and fast-paced production of Romeo & Juliet to Great North You will have noticed a jauntiness about Museum: Hancock, in a hilarious and utterly barmy show. some Newcastle citizens in the last The four actors – who carry all their set, props and Out and fortnight and more football shirts are costumes around the UK on bicycles – will perform the about? re-appearing after their summer (sorry- tragic tale of two star-crossed lovers with live music Tweet us! Throwback to the first ever Level 2 heat warning) shut down. accompaniment. Unique, hilarious and, possibly, saddle sore. @NewcastleNE1 #NE1RestaurantWeek back in 2011, The darkened limbs emanating from them Great North Museum: Hancock, £10 S/O to the restaurants who’ve been in are either brown from a foreign holiday or greatnorthmuseum.org.uk since the start! rusty from a UK version. Either way, they are swinging confidently and the days until kick- off are anticipated rather than feared. Recommends It’s amazing how the appointment Rafa Benitez has brought such a transformation in expectation, even though he starts from a lower league. Perhaps, just as sticky weather needs some rain to act as We took the team meeting out to the a clearing cough, we needed a drop in grass this morning. @newcastlecastle leagues to provide the equivalent. Football, like weather forecasting, isn’t an exact science, but at least with football you don’t need a government prodnose to tell you how to enjoy it. All that remains is to enjoy the next nine months and watch my tan turn to rust; hopefully my dreams don’t go the same way. In a spin The voice [email protected] When: August 12 When: August 13-September 3 What a view of the #NE1MotorShow! Dance music pioneer and label boss Joey Negro (Dave Lee to Christopher Rollen is bringing his new exhibition, Vox Pop, #cars #motorshow #greysmonument his mum) is one of the hottest producers and remixers in the exploring personal and collective histories, to Vane Gallery, industry, with a string of hits to his name with the likes of Take The Berlin-based artist’s archive pays homage to the work of Follow NE1 on Instagram That, Brand New Heavies, and Taka Boom. WWI sound pioneer Dr Wilhelm Doegen, who recorded more His DJ sets are legendary - eclectic and exciting, filled with than 250 dialects from prisoners in POW camps. @newcastlene1 dancefloor smashers perfect for getting your groove on. Don’t Rollen’s work uses contemporary voices, collected data and miss it! imagery to draw interesting comparisons. Hoochie Coochie, £20, hoochiecoochie.co.uk Vane Art Gallery, free, vane.org.uk 6 WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK WWW.GETINTONEWCASTLE.CO.UK 7 TRY THIS TRY THIS Sweet dreams? When: August 12 Cheers comes Tyne Theatre & Opera House presents the UK’s top male strip show to set the bride hearts aflutter in the shape of The When: August 6 Dreamboys with Scotty T. Wylam Brewery’s lovely Palace of The boys will be strutting their Arts building is the perfect spot for stuff in a raunchy and fun-filled WOMAN ABOUT a romantic tipple, and now lovebirds show, complete with added star can go one step further and host their appeal thanks to an appearance TOON wedding reception at the venue. from Geordie Shore and Taking a tour of the city with In the heart of the city amid the Celebrity Big Brother Newcastle-born greenery of Exhibition Park and personality Scotty T. ideal for all those grooms who have Expect magic, music crime writer LJ Ross dreamt of a booze-up in a brewery, and plenty of muscle! Where do you get your coffee? the venue will be throwing open Tyne Theatre & I have a soft spot for Blakes on Grey Street. My its doors for prospective bride and Opera House, £22 mum used to take me there for cream teas grooms at a special event to marvel at tynetheatreand and milkshakes when I was little and it makes the building, meet carefully selected operahouse.uk me feel nostalgic every time.