Artist Narbi Price and writer Mark Hudson share stories of hope and aspiration in mining communities, 40 years after the Miners’ Strike, in a new exhibition at Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens. Fittingly – seeing as it’s 40 years after that era-def…

The wondrous Mandidextrous is coming to World Headquarters in Newcastle this November, which gets a hearty “Woo hoo!” from me. For over 15 years, Mandidextrous has been an instrumental figure in the UK/European underground music industry. With their un…

Just why are Softcult so good? Find out when they play Newcastle this November (but read this chunk of text first). Softcult, the Canadian duo of twin siblings Mercedes and Phoenix Arn-Horn, are so good because they've masterfully revived and reinvented …