The Ouseburn Valley ‘Summer Street Party’ is, as the name kind of hints at, a party (but, hey, it’s also a market – and plenty more besides). Oh, my! There is so much going on at the next Ouseburn Valley ‘Summer Street Party’ that I think I’m going to …

Whoa, mama! Very feisty duo The Courettes have two dates in the north-east this August (in Newcastle and Stockton) where they will be hitting us up with their awesome wall-of-sound-heart-of-soul. I caught The Courettes the last time they played the reg…

Cud? Didn’t they used to be one of the most distinctive and genuinely entertaining indie acts to emerge in the pre-Britpop days? They still are! What’s more, they’re playing Sunderland in early September. While many of their contemporaries leaned rathe…