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Dave Bainbridge w/Sally Minnear
The Forum Music Centre: Jul 2nd 2024
Multi-instrumentalist Dave Bainbridge joins forces with Lord of The Dance vocalist and instrumentalist Sally Minnear, to bring a spellbinding evening of music.
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Dave Finnegan's Commitments
Darlington Hippodrome: Aug 2nd 2024
Direct from the hit Hollywood Film 'The Commitments', the man who has fronted the touring band for the last ten years, Dave Finnegan performs with his own 8 piece band.
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Dave Lee (JN) DJ set
Hoochie Coochie: Jun 21st 2024
World renowned Disco & House legend.
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Dave Twentyman Has ADHD
Arc: May 24th 2024
Dave Twentyman very much wears his heart on his sleeve in a show described by audiences as brilliantly moving, heartwarming, honest but most importantly hilarious.
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Dave Whiffin & Friends
The Cluny 2: May 25th 2024
A rich mix of original melodic rock with hints of John Mayer, Steeley Dan, Donald Fagen and Eric Clapton in a contemporary vibe.
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David Essex
O2 City Hall: Sep 19th 2024
Internationally renowned singer, composer and actor.
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Dawn Landes
The Cluny 2: Sep 5th 2024
A North Carolina-based singer-songwriter whose music you might have heard if you watch The Good Wife, House or Gossip Girl.
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Day Fever
Boiler Shop: Jul 20th 2024
The best daytime disco in the UK is coming to Newcastle. Full of people ready to party to the best feel good music, personally curated by Jon McClure of Reverend and the Makers.
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Dead Girls Rising
Northern Stage: May 31st 2024 - Jun 1st 2024
Katie and Hannah love murder. They go to bed listening to podcasts about serial killers; they clutch blankets glued to gruesome documentaries. They’re in deep. Burrowing beneath the skin, beneath the guts, beneath the veins and blood and mess of flesh. Th
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Dead Heat
The Cluny 2: Jul 8th 2024
Pulling from bands such as Suicidal Tendencies, Excel, Leeway and Vio-lence, the band manages to create a harmonious blend of hardcore punk and thrash metal into one. Support from Final Form, Equitum and Aggrieved.
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Dead Pony
Independent: Jul 1st 2024
Rising Scottish stars.
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Dead Romance Club
Zerox: May 25th 2024
A night of alt/heavy rock debauchery featuring Dead Romance Club, Romeopathy, Midnight Jazz Club and Broken Temples
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Dean Parker + Penny Grennan
The Globe: Jun 20th 2024
Dean Parker is first and foremost a guitar player, singer and songwriter who is finding his own mercurial voice. Penny Grennan is a singer songwriter who plays the ukuleles, the banjo and guitar.
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Dear Evan Hansen
Sunderland Empire Theatre: Nov 19th 2024 - Nov 23rd 2024
Meet Evan: an anxious high school kid who wants nothing more than to fit in. The thing is, on his way to fitting in, he didn’t tell the whole truth. And now must give up on a life he never dreamt he’d have. As events spiral and the truth comes out, Evan f
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Death Lens
Little Buildings: Jun 30th 2024
On record, Death Lens have an established habit of writing hard-nosed rock that combines West Coast reverbed-out surf punk with tight and bouncy Britrock, deceptively characterizing the band as exclusively chill and vibe-focused when live, a Death Lens sh
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Deco
Think Tank?: Nov 7th 2024
One of the UK’s most intriguing viral pop acts of the last 2 year.
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Deep Rising (UK Green Film Festival)
Tyneside Cinema: Jun 23rd 2024
Narrated by Jason Momoa, and interwoven with awe-inspiring footage of the deep’s most dazzling creatures, Deep Rising illuminates the vital relationship between our ocean’s fragile and mysterious ecosystems, and sustaining all life on Earth.
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Deep Rising (UK Green Film Festival)
The Forum Cinema: Jun 30th 2024
Narrated and executive produced by Jason Momoa, and interwoven with awe-inspiring footage of the deep’s most dazzling creatures, Deep Rising illuminates the vital relationship between our ocean’s fragile and mysterious ecosystems, and sustaining all life
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Def Leppad
The Cluny: Sep 29th 2024
Support from Whitesnakes.
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Def Leppad & Motley Cruel
The Georgian Theatre: Jan 25th 2025
Rock Rampage presents a night packed with huge rock anthems from two of the UK's finest tribute bands.
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Des Rocs
The Grove: Sep 26th 2024
A fearsome force of nature, a self-invented rock ‘n’ roll star for a new age and a generation seeking direction, a streetwalking cheetah with a heart full of napalm on a mission to search and destroy our social media-addled brains.
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Destination Bowie
The Exchange: Oct 5th 2024
Expect a 12-piece, live band with a full horn section, blasting through your favourite Bowie hits.
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Destination: Bowie
Queen's Hall Arts Centre: Jun 21st 2024
Expect an 11-piece live band of session musicians blasting through your favourite Bowie hits.
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Dinosaur Adventure Live: Trouble on Volcano Island
Alnwick Playhouse: Aug 12th 2024
This amazing, immersive and interactive show is guaranteed to be an unforgettable adventure for the whole family.
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Dinosaur Adventure Live: Trouble On Volcano Island
Queen's Hall Arts Centre: Aug 6th 2024
Meet the incredible Triceratops, the cheeky Spinosaurus, our cute baby dinos and the gigantic T-Rex as you follow in their huge footprints and journey across the island. This amazing, immersive and interactive show is guaranteed to be an unforgettable adv
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Dinosaur Adventure Live: Trouble on Volcano Island
Tyne Theatre and Opera House: Aug 7th 2024
When the island’s ancient volcano becomes active, it spells danger for everyone – including the Dinosaurs! It’s a race against time to help our Rangers and favourite Dinosaurs in this thrilling prehistoric expedition, to save Volcano Island from imminent
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Dire Streets
Alnwick Playhouse: Jun 7th 2024
Dire Straits tribute.
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Disco Inferno
Tyne Theatre and Opera House: Mar 7th 2025
Featuring the hits of the Bee Gees, Village People, Jacksons, Sister Sledge, Rose Royce, ABBA, Donna Summer, Barry White, Kool and the Gang, Earth Wind and Fire, Gloria Gaynor, Billy Ocean, Weather Girls, Candi Staton, The Trammps, Gap Band, Wild Cherry a
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Discography
The Cluny: Jul 19th 2024
Celebrating the high energy sounds of New Yorks ‘Studio 54’, 11-piece Discography perform classic and new arrangements of iconic floor fillers form the disco era.
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Divine Shade
The Cluny: Oct 24th 2024
Rock band with variable geometry, Divine Shade is a combination of styles and influences inspired by cold wave culture with a touch of electronic music.
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DJ Shadow
The Glasshouse: Jul 13th 2024
For over 30 years, Josh Davis has expressed his passion, taste, and values through the music he creates as DJ Shadow. The name alone evokes a high watermark for instrumental hip-hop and composition.
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Doctor Who!
The Assembly Rooms Theatre: Jun 13th 2024 - Jun 15th 2024
Ooook! returns with its annual 'sitcom'. This year its Dr Who adapted by Harry Threapleton. The Doctor and Donna are investigating Adipose Industries and its mysterious weight loss pills, comically missing each other at every turn. They must work together
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Dog Unit
The Cluny 2: Oct 11th 2024
Dog Unit sound like electronic music played by a rock band, or post-rock you can dance to. Purveyors of entrancing drone, tactile texture, slow-mo polyrhythm, and skewiff riff.
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Doja Cat
Utilita Arena: Jun 15th 2024
GRAMMY award-winning global superstar.
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Dom Joly: The Conspiracy Tour
The Witham: Oct 24th 2024
Dom Joly has been off travelling the globe again. This time, he’s been looking into some of the strangest and weirdest conspiracy theories in existence.
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Dom Martin (full band show)
The Cluny: Nov 3rd 2024
Irish multi award winning and UK Blues Hall of Fame artist Dom Martin embarks on a UK and Irish tour with his band to celebrate his upcoming live album “Buried Alive”. Dom’s special guests on the tour are Birmingham based “Blue Nation”, a euphonic blues r
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Don't Stop Queen Now
O2 City Hall: Aug 24th 2024
All of the hits of Queen, honouring the legacy and music of the nation's favourite band.
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Don’t Stop Believin’
The Forum Theatre: Jun 21st 2024
The End-of-the-Night Anthems Show.
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Double Indemnity (1944, USA, PG)
Star & Shadow Cinema: Jun 9th 2024
Pay what you can. With Stanwyke, McMurray and Edward G this is Noir as dark as it gets: treacherous sultry murderous - homoerotic.
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Doug MacLeod
The Cluny 2: Jul 16th 2024
MacLeod is known for his superb songwriting, guitar wizardry, warm soulful vocals, wit, and unforgettable live performances.
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Dr Packer DJ set
Hoochie Coochie: Jul 19th 2024
King of Disco & 80’s Soul dancefloor remix killers!
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Dr. Louise Newson: Hormones and Menopause - The Great Debate
Darlington Hippodrome: Oct 18th 2024
Dr. Louise Newson, leading medical expert on menopause and hormones, is embarking on her inaugural UK theatre tour accompanied by Dublin-based comedian Anne Gildea. “Hormones and Menopause – The Great Debate” aims to educate and challenge misconceptions a
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Dragged Up
The Cumberland Arms: Jul 26th 2024
Bringing together garage, psychdelia, ethereal art-rock and doomy scuzz.
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Drawing attention: emerging artists in dialogue
Hartlepool Art Gallery: May 18th 2024 - Aug 24th 2024
Experience some of the most compelling artists in the field of contemporary drawing, displayed alongside highlights from the British Museum collection. Works using make-up on face wipes by Sin Wai Kin, to a drawing made with chalk collected from the White
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Dreamworx
Digital: May 26th 2024
Daytime Clubbing for Over 30’s in Newcastle. Dance classics, The best DJ’s, Stilt walkers, fire eaters + full club production.
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Dressed to Kill
The Cluny: Jul 26th 2024
Kiss tribute.
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Drop The Dead Donkey
Theatre Royal: May 21st 2024 - May 25th 2024
Starring the original cast members Susannah Doyle, Robert Duncan, Ingrid Lacey, Neil Pearson, Jeff Rawle, Stephen Tompkinson and Victoria Wicks, the iconic BAFTA and EMMY award-winning comedy is reimagined in this brand-new topical commentary on the cutth
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Drop the Dead Donkey: the Reawakening!
The Lit & Phil: May 24th 2024
After a brief hiatus of thirty years, the original cast of Drop the Dead Donkey is back together again, and for the very first time on stage. Join Neil Pearson and his fellow cast members Jeff Rawle and Victoria Wicks at the Lit & Phil for a lunchtime con
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Dry Run Exhibition 2024
Shipley Art Gallery: May 25th 2024 - Jun 8th 2024
Dry Run Exhibition 2024: University of Sunderland's 25th annual showcase at Shipley Art Gallery introduces the works of 16 emerging glass and ceramics artists. Despite early career stages, their pieces reflect professionalism and originality. Hosted at th
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Dub Secret Presents: Rave Revival
The Globe: Nov 2nd 2024
Emerging underground artist Dub Secret is here to deliver the 3rd summer of love!
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Dvořák's Cello Concerto
The Sage Gateshead: Jun 15th 2024
Dinis Sousa (conductor), Steven Isserlis (cello) and Royal Northern Sinfonia play Antonin Dvořák, Kristine Tjøgersen and Robert Schumann.
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Dylan John Thomas
NX: Dec 18th 2024
Scotland’s next songwriting talent, mentored by Gerry Cinnamon.
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Early Doors Club
World Headquarters: May 18th 2024
The ultimate early evening clubbing experience with house to techno from 17:00-22:30, ensuring you're home before midnight. DJs Danny Jarvis and Richard Trout bring 30+ years of global underground electronic music expertise.
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Early Doors Club Halloween Party
World Headquarters: Oct 26th 2024
The ultimate early evening clubbing experience with house to techno from 17:00-22:30, ensuring you're home before midnight. DJs Danny Jarvis and Richard Trout bring 30+ years of global underground electronic music expertise. With special guest Nasser Alaz
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Early Doors Club Summer Party
World Headquarters: Aug 17th 2024
The ultimate early evening clubbing experience with house to techno from 17:00-22:30, ensuring you're home before midnight. DJs Danny Jarvis and Richard Trout bring 30+ years of global underground electronic music expertise.
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Earthball / Chris Corsano
The Lubber Fiend: May 26th 2024
Earth Ball are a wild ensemble from Canada, mainly based on Vancouver Island. Chris Corsano is an upstate NY-based drummer who has been active at the intersections of collective improvisation, free jazz, avant-rock, and noise music.
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East Coast Swing Band
The Exchange: Nov 22nd 2024
A local 22 piece Big Band with nine sax players. They guarantee an evening of great music from the swing era of the 1930s to 1950s, plus a few rock numbers reworked for a big jazz band.
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Eater
The Cluny 2: Jul 6th 2024
One of the first British punk bands. Playing stripped-down power-chord bile anthems in the mold of the Buzzcocks and (more distantly) the early Jam, Eater weren’t nearly as talented or diverse as those early punk pioneers. But they did manage some spirite
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Ed Byrne: Tragedy Plus Time
Middlesbrough Town Hall: Jul 4th 2024
Attributed to Mark Twain, humour is defined as Tragedy Plus Time. Come and join Ed as he tests that formula by mining the most tragic event in his life for laughs.
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Ed Byrne: Tragedy Plus Time
Queen's Hall Arts Centre: Oct 17th 2024
From the quote attributed to Mark Twain, humour is defined as Tragedy Plus Time. Ed returns with his hit show, having sold out here on 15 September 2023, to test Twain’s formula by mining the most tragic event in his life for laughs.
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Ed Byrne: Tragedy Plus Time
The Witham: Oct 16th 2024
From the quote attributed to Mark Twain, humour is defined as Tragedy Plus Time. Ed returns with his hit show, having sold out on 25 January, to test Twain’s formula by mining the most tragic event in his life for laughs.
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Ed Cosens
Mosaic Tap: May 30th 2024
Ed Cosens will be headlining with support from locals SHIMMR (known for his incredible live shows with GREY PALM) and singer songwriter Mat Hunsley!
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Ed Gamble: Hot Diggity Dog
Tyne Theatre and Opera House: Nov 3rd 2024
Ed Gamble has minced a load of meat (thoughts), piped it into a casing (show) and it’s coming to a bun (venue) near you. There will be all your classic Gamble ranting, raving and spluttering but he’s doing fine mentally. Promise.
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Eddie & The Hot Rods + The Chords UK
The Grove: Dec 1st 2024
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Edinburgh Festival Previews
Black Bull: Jul 10th 2024
With Seymour Mac and Lee Kyle.
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Edinburgh Preview Day
Queen's Hall Arts Centre: Jul 28th 2024
Join four of the UK’s finest comedians as they prepare their Edinburgh and UK tours. Come and see Lauren Pattison, Justin Moorhouse and Andrew White.
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Edinburgh Previews
The Vault: Jul 25th 2024
An exclusive chance for Hexham to see brand new shows by legendary club comedian Gavin Webster, winner of the UK Circuit Comedian of the Year award, and rising star Elaine Robertson.
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Edinburgh Previews: Craig Hill, Connor Burns & Kai Humphries
The Witham: Jul 20th 2024
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Edinburgh Previews: Steve Bugeja & Chris Cantrill
The Witham: Jul 23rd 2024
Two of the UK’s very best young comedians try out material ahead of the start of the following week’s Edinburgh Festival.
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Edinburgh Previews: Tom Stade & Gareth Mutch
The Witham: Jul 3rd 2024
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Edinburgh Previews: Tom Stade & Gareth Mutch
The Hullabaloo: Jul 4th 2024
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Edith Hall: Facing Down the Furies
The Lit & Phil: Jun 20th 2024
In this deeply personal story, Edith Hall explores the psychological effect that suicide casts across generations. She draws parallels between characters from Greek tragedy and her own life and psyche, which have been shaped by such loss—her mother’s gran
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Edward Scissorhands
Newcastle Castle: Sep 14th 2024
The story of an unfinished artificial humanoid who has scissor blades instead of hands that is taken in by a suburban family and falls in love with their teenage daughter.
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Elaine Robertson - Delulu
The Stand Comedy Club: Jul 9th 2024
Elaine is famous. Elaine is the worst person in the world. Elaine saw Bootsy Collins on a child’s bike outside a Dominos in Newcastle* *None of these things are true. Elaine Robertson is Delulu.
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Eleanor McEvoy
Seventeen Nineteen: Nov 27th 2024
One of Ireland's foremost songwriters. She is the composer, co-performer and producer of "A Woman's Heart", the title track for the best selling Irish album in Irish history.
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Electric Circus EP Release
The Cluny 2: Oct 26th 2024
Electric Circus are back in Newcastle bringing fast and loud rock and roll. With their debut E.P coming days before the show, and support from We Three Kings, Hivemind and Jam Tub, this one is not to be missed!
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Electric Six
Riverside: Jun 29th 2024
Detroit legends, Electric Six are heading back to the UK for some intimate summer shows! Mixing garage rock, disco, punk, new wave, and metal into cleverly dumb, in-your-face songs celebrating hedonism in multiple forms.
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Elio Pace in Concert
Alnwick Playhouse: Nov 28th 2024
Highly-acclaimed and celebrated singer/piano-player, Elio Pace is back on stage, this time performing his own brilliant songs and some of his favourite covers with his sensational 9-piece band.
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Eliot Smith Dance: Past & Future
Woodhorn Museum : Jun 29th 2024
This season, experience three distinct and captivating dance works that are filled with passion and commitment. Eliot Smith Dance (ESD) embraces the past and future with the premiere of Paul Taylor’s ‘DUET’ from 1964, alongside Eliot Smith’s latest work –
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Eliot Smith Dance: Past & Future
The Bowes Museum: Jun 26th 2024
This season, experience two distinct and captivating dance works that are filled with passion and commitment. Eliot Smith Dance (ESD) embraces the past and future with the premiere of Paul Taylor’s ‘DUET’ from 1964, alongside Eliot Smith’s latest work – ‘
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Eliza Carthy
The Glasshouse: Jun 29th 2024
Eliza Carthy MBE is forward-thinking and vibrant, embodying the current English folk revival. She’s one of the most impressive, engaging, and important performers of her generation.
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Eliza Clark: Penance
Northern Stage: Jun 18th 2024
Join New Writing North and Faber at Northern Stage to celebrate the paperback publication of Eliza Clark’s acclaimed second novel, Penance. This story of a murder among teenagers in a seaside town in the North East is an utterly chilling and compulsive bo
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Eliza Faye
The Lost Wanderer: Jul 2nd 2024
Cumbrian, Newcastle-based songstress Eliza Faye is bringing her mesmerising pop songs to The Lost Wanderer for a special stripped back headline show with support from Liverpool-based artist June Holland and local musician Sam George.
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Elkie Brooks
The Glasshouse: Feb 15th 2025
An exceptional performer with an unmistakable voice which has earned her the title of ‘British Queen Of Blues’. Elkie never fails to captivate her audience.
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Elkie Brooks In Concert
Whitley Bay Playhouse: Sep 27th 2024
Elkie will be performing her biggest hits including “Pearl’s A Singer”, “Lilac Wine”, “Fool (If You think It’s Over)”, Don’t Cry Out Loud” & “No More The Fool”.
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Ella & Ellington - Strictly Smokin Big Band
Alnwick Playhouse: Jun 21st 2024
Get ready to swing the night away with the Strictly Smokin’ Big Band as they bring to life the timeless music of Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington.
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Elle Chante: Accessible Dreamscapes
The Glasshouse: Jun 6th 2024
Accessible Dreamscapes is a project by the artist Elle Chante, focusing on creating a holistically accessible and immersive music performance, developing dreamscape environments that integrate sensory experiences and arts technologies to meet a range of a
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Elton John by Candlelight
Newcastle Cathedral: Jun 7th 2024 - Jun 8th 2024
Featuring a cast of West End singers and an epic live band, experience the hits of Elton John as you have never heard them before!
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Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve
The Glasshouse: Sep 7th 2024
Music legends Elvis Costello and long time collaborator Steve Nieve. Audiences can expect intimate interpretations and new connections shining light on both familiar favourites and rarely-played gems spanning decades of peerless song writing.
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Embrace
Boiler Shop: Nov 14th 2024
Following in the footsteps of Oasis and The Verve became a minor pop sensation in post-Brit-pop Britain in the late '90s.
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Emilia Quinn
Little Buildings: Oct 13th 2024
Join Americana singer-songwriter Emilia Quinn for an intimate journey through her music on the Bare Faced 2024 Acoustic Tour.
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Emily Nenni
The Cluny 2: Sep 4th 2024
Over the past several years she’s enraptured audiences across Music City with sizzling sets in smoky bars and clubs, honing her command of the stage, perfecting her skills as a band leader and sharpening an already astute world view.
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Emma Doran - Dilemma!
The Stand Comedy Club: Oct 8th 2024
It’s the post-apocalyptic world. There’s only one contraceptive pill left. Do you give it to your 19-year-old daughter or keep it for yourself? Is it better to be a 40-year-old grandmother or a 40-year-old new Mum. These are the dilemmas facing Emma Doran
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Emma Fisk's Hot Club du Nord
The Glasshouse: Jun 9th 2024
Bringing to life the classic repertoire of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli’s Hot Club de France, conjuring up the swinging Gypsy Jazz of 1930s Paris.
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Emma Wilson (acoustic)
Claypath Delicatessen: Sep 14th 2024
British Rhythm and Blues sensation Emma Wilson plays an intimate, one-off Claypath Deli gig. Emma’s live performances are renowned as being vibrant affairs, her songs delivered with true passion, backed by quality musicians.
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Emofest
Riverside: Nov 8th 2024
The greatest tribute night to the music that was never just a phase. Featuring all your biggest emo songs in existence with a live band and live DJs spinning all the angst your teenage dirtbag heart desires all night long!
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En Attendant Ana
The Cumberland Arms: May 20th 2024
Parisian indie outfit En Attendant Ana fuse strong melodic songwriting with a fuzzy lo-fi approach, splitting the difference between a garage punk aesthetic and pop sophistication.
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Endorphinmachine
Riverside: Sep 27th 2024
Prince Tribute.
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English Teacher
Boiler Shop: Nov 19th 2024
With their inspired lyricism and indie sensibilities, English Teacher are the quartet steadily rising to the top of the class.
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Eric Bell Trio
The Studio: Sep 7th 2024
Thin Lizzy founding guitarist, Eric Bell, is thrilled to be setting out on his first UK tour since the pandemic.