Northern Soul

3 min read 2022-07-02 22:54:22

Blackbird flies again: director Nick Bagnall on plays and a return to acting

Just over two years ago, the theatre director Nick Bagnall discovered, as did many others, that plays and pandemics don’t mix. His production of

4 min read 2022-07-02 21:38:32

In a series of editorials where leading writers are free to say what they want under a pen name, Little Bird writes about the conflict in

1 min read 2022-06-30 06:56:17

This summer will see the beauty, mysteries and restorative benefits of woodland celebrated through a major exhibition of work by two photographers at

2 min read 2022-06-28 17:13:50

A warm summer’s evening, and Anfield is filling up. There’s a buzz of anticipation. I love this place, it is so full of memories for me. But this

7 min read 2022-06-24 05:44:41

At Northern Soul, we can often be found with our nose buried in a book. As a team, we are notorious bookworms and are passionate about championing

4 min read 2022-06-24 04:48:56

As a result of the pandemic, Manchester-based LGBTQ+ theatre company Green Carnation was on the verge of calling it a day. But thanks to an Arts

3 min read 2022-06-24 02:55:32

We’re now at the point where the video games age has accumulated a history that stretches back across generations. Clearly the industry is

4 min read 2022-06-24 01:57:19

Sometimes I think about how my life would be if I had made it as a hugely famous musician. I’d be a singer/songwriter who spends six months of the

3 min read 2022-06-24 00:48:43

Late Tuesday afternoon, October 7, 2014 and a 15-year-old Katie Damer is waiting at a red light on Bury’s Dumers Lane as she cycles home from

2 min read 2022-06-22 04:24:42

‘All those writers all those pages We’ve done it in a minute when it took them ages’ So sings the cast of CLASSIC!, thereby encapsulating the

4 min read 2022-06-22 04:07:20

Back when Doctor Who was first heading to TV screens in 1963, there was a behind-the-scenes intention for it to provide improving, semi-educational

3 min read 2022-06-21 23:52:19

My Gran used to say that the best thing about gardening was the anticipation. For much of her life her only outside area was a backyard in Newcastle,

7 min read 2022-06-15 18:32:30

The novelist Patrick Gale knows how to write an opening line. Consider these examples from a selection of his books, and then try and resist the urge

3 min read 2022-06-15 06:36:13

Hermione Burton, one hopes, would have loved it. Exhibited little in her lifetime, possibly in just one solitary show mounted in conjunction with her

2 min read 2022-06-14 22:33:34

“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.” So began Vladimir Nabokov’s puppet, Humbert Humbert, as he set out his case to