Coming up at Hoochie Coochie, this event will bring you the very best current, upcoming soul artists based in the North East, featuring: Georgia May, Kate Bond, Phibi, Fallu and Frankie Jobling. A fantastic night of original music, forefronting five femal…

After a 5-month pandemic postponement, Ellie Goulding’s Brightest Blue tour finally arrived in Newcastle on the 9th of October, and it was well worth the wait. The O2 Academy was practically vibrating with the atmosphere of a couple thousand concert goers…

Mark Carr aka Armchairanarchists is launching his new album ‘LIEBE HATA STULTITIA’ at the Star & Shadow next month. He welcomes you into Room 2021 to experience a live audio/visual paradox of Love Hate and Stupidity. Recorded over 10 months during ‘lock-d…

Get ready for the North East’s new state-of-the-art performance venue, bringing world-class music, theatre and performance to Sunderland! The Fire Station’s Auditorium opens its doors in December with a red-hot opening season - Firestarters featuring: …

WOMEN ARE MINT. No truer statement has ever been uttered. It’s also an absolutely banging festival on Alphabetti’s new intimate D’Addario Stage, curated by local musician Martha Hill. Guaranteed to satisfy every musical itch you need to scratch. From powe…

The debut play of up and coming actor, rapper and singer, Kema Sikazwe, only has one actor – Kema himself. There is only one set, mesmerising as it is: a dark space with strobe lights and two steps. Yet so many characters are brought to life, and we are t…

Tyne Rising – a specially commissioned outdoor theatre performance for the award winning Newcastle Puppetry Festival 2021 – took place at the City Stadium in Heaton and, fair to say, it was a huge hit among the sold out audience.Directed by Andrew Kim, wh…

If you know your “Twelfth Night” you’ll remember the familiar romantic set-up of a ship-wrecked girl dressed as a boy who falls in love with a duke while accidentally winning the heart of lady who’s mourning her own dead brother but ends up with the first…