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Glenda Young book signing The Toffee Factory Girls
Featherbed Books: May 23rd 2024
Join bestselling author Glenda Young for a book signing of her new historical northeast novel The Toffee Factory Girls. Inspired by Horner's toffee factory and Dainty Dinah toffee of Chester-le-Street. Set during WW1.
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Glitchers / Eville
Little Buildings: May 19th 2024
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Go Your Own Way
The Exchange: Jul 6th 2024
Fleetwood Mac tribute.
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Go Your Own Way
O2 City Hall: Apr 26th 2025
Fleetwood Mac Tribute.
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Go Your Own Way - The Fleetwood Mac Legacy
The Customs House: Oct 16th 2024
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Go Your Own Way: Fleetwood Mac Legacy
Alnwick Playhouse: Oct 17th 2024
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Goat Girl
Boiler Shop: Jun 28th 2024
South London trio weaving effortlessly between disparate elements of expansive noise-rock, delicate folk experimentation and satisfying synth-pop.
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GoGo Penguin
Wylam Brewery: May 12th 2024
Instrumental trio from Manchester, fusing jazz, classical and electronic influences (amongst others).
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Goldie Lookin Chain
The Cluny: Oct 19th 2024
With heavy street accents and loads of slang-slinging, comedy rappers Goldie Lookin Chain are proud to be lazy sods from Newport.
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Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie
The Cluny: Oct 3rd 2024
Celebrated Scottish band Goodbye Mr Mackenzie are going on tour to mark the 30th anniversary re-release of the album “Five” via the Last Night From Glasgow label.
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Grace Campbell Is On Heat
Tyne Theatre and Opera House: Nov 1st 2024
In her brand new show the unwaveringly honest comedian will ask big questions about the world, her vagina, and her obsession with making her dog her entire brand…
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Grease
Theatre Royal: Jun 10th 2024 - Jun 15th 2024
After a whirlwind summer romance, leather-clad greaser Danny and girl-next-door Sandy are unexpectedly reunited when she transfers to Rydell High for senior year. But can they survive the trials and tribulations of teenage life and find true love once mor
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Grease
Gala Theatre: Jun 26th 2024 - Jun 29th 2024
One of the world’s most popular and enduring musicals. Presented by MTS Durham.
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Grease Singalong (1978, USA, PG)
Star & Shadow Cinema: Jun 29th 2024
A sing/dance along of this movie. After their holiday romance falters, can bad-boy greaser Danny and clean-living Sandy find their way to true love?
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Great British Tribute Fest
Leazes Park: May 25th 2024 - May 26th 2024
Featuring We Are Champion, Elton Joel, Beyond Madness, Fleetwood Mac UK, Absolutely Abba, The Rising, Sam Offender, Blor, Arctic Monkeyz, Ohasis, The Ultimate Stone Roses, Kazabian and Kings Of Lyon.
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Greg Attonito of Bouncing Souls
Pop Recs Ltd: Jun 1st 2024
Singer of New Jersey's legendary Bouncing Souls visits Pop Recs for a splendind solo show! Support comes from Sunderland's Chris Hair and Leeds' Jimmy Islip.
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Greg Davies: Full Fat Legend
O2 City Hall: May 28th 2025 - May 31st 2025
Star of shows such as Taskmaster, The Inbetweeners, The Cleaner, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Man Down and Cuckoo, this is Greg’s biggest live tour yet.
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Grey Turner Lecture: A decade of surgical wounds research by Professor Ian Chetter
David Shaw Lecture Theatre: Jun 6th 2024
This lecture will summarise a decade of surgical wounds research undertaken under Professor Chetter’s supervision.
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groovetrain
The Forum Music Centre: Jul 27th 2024
A multi-vocal funk soul supergroup made up of touring and session musicians with Northern souls.
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groovetrain and friends
The Glasshouse: Sep 22nd 2024
This year’s event will see another live funksoul show from a 13-piece groovetrain line-up of top touring and session players and featuring some very special star guests – plus top support artists and star compère – to be announced.
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Groovy Disco Tech presents Proud As Punch w/ The Shapeshifters
World Headquarters: Jun 1st 2024
Groovy Disco Tech welcome The Shapeshifters and his Proud As Punch tour to World Headquarters for a night of disco energy!
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Grotesqueries / Ovulating Cadaver / Ceaseless Hunger
Little Buildings: May 29th 2024
A night of death metal.
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Ground Zero x Interstellar Audio
The Globe: Jun 8th 2024
The best of the Interstellar Audio crew will be going b2b with Modulate Records resident DJs!
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GUN
Wylam Brewery: Dec 11th 2024
Scottish rock band.
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Gusto Gusto
The Cluny 2: Jul 12th 2024
Australian dance floor favourites. Fronted by trumpet, clarinet and violin, Gusto Gusto play an eclectic mix of high energy instrumental funk, psych and world music. Support from Side Café Orkestar.
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H.E. Bates: The Man Who Made Pop Larkin
Star & Shadow Cinema: May 20th 2024
Actress Victoria Wicks talks about her grandfather, H.E. Bates, author of the much loved novels, Fair Stood the Wind for France, Love for Lydia and The Darling Buds of May, and his non fiction collections of essays on the English countryside, Through the
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Hairspray
Theatre Royal: Nov 11th 2024 - Nov 16th 2024
Welcome to the 60s, where everyone’s grooving to a brand-new sound! Enter Tracy Turnblad, with big hair, big heart, and big dreams to dance her way onto national TV. On her journey to become accepted, Tracy befriends Link Larkin the teen idol, Seaweed
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Hairspray The Musical
Sunderland Empire Theatre: Apr 14th 2025 - Apr 19th 2025
Enter big hearted Tracy Turnblad and her friends as they dance their way into history in their quest to fight intolerance and racism.
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Haiver
The Cluny 2: Jul 4th 2024
After years of captivating audiences as a key member of the renowned band Frightened Rabbit, musician and songwriter Billy Kennedy is stepping into a new realm and spearheading Haiver, a five piece indie rock band based in Glasgow.
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Hammok / Sulfur
Little Buildings: Jun 1st 2024
Hammok's music is both alternative and aggressive. Although essentially a hardcore band, the Norwegians also draw a lot of inspiration from post-punk, indie, post-rock and metal.
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Hancock's Half Hour - The Lost TV Episodes
Alnwick Playhouse: Nov 27th 2024
Hambledon Productions are delighted to be recreating three, ‘lost’ episodes from the original television series. Missing from the BBC archives, this UK Tour will mark the very first time these hilarious scripts have been brought to life since their origin
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Hannah Perry
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art: Jun 22nd 2024 - Jan 14th 2025
A major body of new work that considers labour, motherhood and class. British artist Hannah Perry works across installation, sculpture, film and printmaking. Perry continuously generates and manipulates materials to develop a sprawling network of referenc
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Hannah Wicklund
Anarchy Brew Co.: Jun 1st 2024
American rock singer and musician.
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Harriet Kemsley: Everything Always Works Out For Me
The Stand Comedy Club: Sep 22nd 2024
The multi award-winning Harriet Kemsley is back with a new show about break-ups, sloths and trying to think positively while everything descends into absolute chaos.
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Harriet Kemsley: Everything Always Works Out For Me
Arc: Sep 21st 2024
The multi award-winning Harriet Kemsley is back with a new show about break-ups, sloths, and trying to think positively while everything descends into absolute chaos.
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Harry Ford and Connor Read: Knit Wits
The Stand Comedy Club: Jun 29th 2024
Join “fast rising anecdotalist” Harry Ford and “the most promising emerging North East comedian” Connor Read for a comedy double header as they perform their debut solo shows for the first time.
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Harry Styles Tribute
The Customs House: Aug 30th 2024
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Harry Styles Tribute
Queen's Hall Arts Centre: Sep 27th 2024
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Hayley McKay
Gala Theatre: Sep 28th 2024
Displaying an incredible vocal range with a distinctive all-round style, which can effortlessly leap from earthy and soulful raw emotion to soaring and ethereal angelic tones, Hayley has been likened to Eva Cassidy, Joni Mitchel, LeAnn Rimes and Kate Bush
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Hayseed Dixie
Boiler Shop: May 23rd 2024
The undisputed creators of the musical genre, Rockgrass.
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Healthy Junkies
The Green Room: Nov 23rd 2024
Mixing Punk Rock with Grunge, Psychedelic Rock, New Wave, Garage, Glam and Goth Rock, add a soupçon of theatre and you have Healthy Junkies.
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Heartbreak: The Tom Petty Show
Whitley Bay Playhouse: Jun 7th 2024
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Heathen Apostles
The Cluny 2: Aug 9th 2024
Born of the voices of past lives and baptized in the dust bowl dirt, the Gothic Americana music of the Heathen Apostles harkens back to a bygone chapter of American history.
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Heathers The Musical
Stockton Globe: Oct 15th 2024 - Oct 19th 2024
Welcome to Westerberg High, where popularity is so very a matter of life and death, and Veronica Sawyer is just another of the nobodies dreaming of a better day. But when she’s unexpectedly taken under the wings of the three beautiful and impossibly cruel
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Heathers the Musical
Theatre Royal: Sep 3rd 2024 - Sep 7th 2024
This high-octane, black comedy, rock musical based on one of the greatest cult teen films of all time that starred Winona Ryder and Christian Slater, is back with a bang!
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Heavy Drunk / Watermelon Slim
Anarchy Brew Co.: Oct 5th 2024
Slick Trans-Atlantic Rock Artists Team Up For Electrifying UK Tour ‘The Delta Blues Experience 2024’.
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Hedkandi Present The Ibiza Special
Colonel Porter's Emporium: May 26th 2024
Join DJs Mark Doyle, Marc Rowell, Mark Ireland, A fabulous live PA from Soraya Vivian and Sarah Potts on Sax.
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Hejira: Celebrating Joni Mitchell
The Cluny 2: Jun 22nd 2024
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Hello Again... A Tribute to Neil Diamond
O2 City Hall: Jun 27th 2024
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Henning Wehn: Acid Wehn
Whitley Bay Playhouse: Mar 21st 2025
Award-deserving German Comedy Ambassador Henning Wehn takes an unbiased look at climate change, a topic sure to delight audiences and no surprise.
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Henry Normal & Nigel Planer
Wylam Brewery: Oct 17th 2024
Henry is a writer, poet, TV & Film producer. Nigel Planer starred in the seminal TV series The Young Ones, and The Comic Strip Presents and has been writing poetry for over fifty years.
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Hepple in Focus: Summer Flowers
Hepple Estate: Jun 10th 2024
Join Hepple Estate for a nature-focused tour of their wilding project. The hills around Hepple have been gently managed for wildlife and farming for decades but since 2020 they have changed gear and are now fully focused on building ecosystem health and e
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Here You Come Again
Theatre Royal: Jun 18th 2024 - Jun 22nd 2024
Packed with the iconic Dolly Parton songs Jolene, 9 to 5, Islands in the Stream, I Will Always Love You, Here You Come Again and more, this lively and touching new musical tells the story of a diehard fan whose fantasy version of international icon Dolly
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Hi Res Heart
The Globe: Nov 3rd 2024
A multi-media improvising group where spaciousness and fire co-exist. Even when the music is at its most abstract, the spirit of the blues is never too far away.
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Hieroglyphics
Northumbria University Students’ Union: Jun 13th 2024
A potentially once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to witness one of the most influential and important Hip Hop collectives of all time LIVE in concert. Featuring: Del The Funky Homosapien, Souls Of Mischief, Pep Love, Casual, Domino, DJ Toure.
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High Fade
The Cluny: Jul 5th 2024
It’s easy to see why High Fade are tipped for greatness. Their music transcends genres. A rich cocktail of funk, rock, pop and disco, infused with ‘70s and ‘80s influences, it’s an irresistible and intoxicating libation.
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Hilarity Bites Comedy Club
The Angel at Topcliffe: May 30th 2024
This show features Ignacio Lopez, Tony Cowards, and host Lee Kyle
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Hilarity Bites Comedy Club
The Forum Music Centre: Jun 1st 2024
This show features Martin Mor, Aaron Simmonds, Dawn Bailey, and host Karen Bayley
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Hilarity Bites Comedy Club
Bishop Auckland Town Hall: Jun 21st 2024
This show features Tez Ilyas, Masai Graham, and host Sully O’Sullivan
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Hilarity Bites Comedy Club
Ripon Arts Hub: Jun 4th 2024
This show features Martin Mor, Pete Selwood, and host Jon Pearson
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Hilarity Bites Comedy Club
The Pavilion: Jun 7th 2024
This show features George Zach, James Cook & host Lee Kyle.
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Hilarity Bites Comedy Club
Ripon Arts Hub: Jul 2nd 2024
This show features Tarot, Black Liver, Joe Kent-Walters, and host Lee Kyle. Special show in collaboration with Ripon Theatre Festival.
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Hilarity Bites Comedy Club
The Forum Music Centre: Jul 6th 2024
This show features Nina Gilligan, Dave Johns, Seeta Wrightson, and host Danny Deegan
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Hilarity Bites Comedy Club
Bishop Auckland Town Hall: May 17th 2024
This show features Rob Rouse, Matthew McAloone, and host Catherine Young
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Hilarity Bites Comedy Club
The Angel at Topcliffe: Jun 27th 2024
This show features Allyson June Smith, Tom Taylor, and host Pete Otway.
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Hilarity Bitesize New Act & New Material Night
Steam Machine Brewing Co: May 16th 2024
This show features George Zach, Anja Atkinson, host Al Stevenson & support
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Hilarity Bitesize New Act & New Material Night
Steam Machine Brewing Co: Jun 20th 2024
This show features Anthony J. Brown, Sam Serrano, host Elaine Robertson & support
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Hilarity Bitesize New Act & New Material Night
Hops & Cheese: Jun 6th 2024
This show features James Cook, Si Beckwith, host Andy Fury & support
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Himalayas
The Cluny 2: Jun 19th 2024
A unique blend of dark, cinematic fast-paced rock featuring barbed wire riffs and snarling vocals.
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Hip Hop Hooray
Hoochie Coochie: Jul 27th 2024
A night full of classic hip-hop anthems featuring the likes of Snoop Dogg, Jay-Z, N.E.R.D, Run-D.M.C and many many more…
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Hip Hop Hooray: The Nearly New Year Show
O2 City Hall: Dec 30th 2024
Following the success of Hip Hop Hooray’s tenth anniversary celebration in 2023, they’re back with their ‘Nearly New Year Show,’ featuring all of your favourite hip hop and R’n’B cuts and mashups from the 80s, 90s and 00s. Expect a few extra surprises too
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Historic Building Mythbusting: Uncovering Folklore, History and Archaeology by Dr James Wright (Triskele Heritage)
Newcastle Castle: Sep 10th 2024
James Wright will explain the development of historic myths and investigate the underlying truths behind them. Sometimes the realities hiding behind the stories are even more interesting, romantic, and exciting than the myth itself…
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Hits out of Hell – The Legend of Meat Loaf
The Forum Theatre: Oct 4th 2024
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Hoekstra-Gibbs
Trillians Rock Bar: May 29th 2024
Joel Hoekstra (Whitesnake, Trans Siberian Orchestra) and Brandon Gibbs (Devil City Angels, Poison). With Joey Wit.
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Hollowed Ground - The People of the Durham Coalfied
Seventeen Nineteen: May 30th 2024
This is a story about pride, determination, heritage, and family. A special screening, part of the #LoveSunderlandHeritage Fortnight.
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Honeyblood
The Cluny 2: May 22nd 2024
The acclaimed rock-pop project centred around singer, songwriter and guitarist Stina Tweeddale.
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Hope & Social
Think Tank?: Sep 12th 2024
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Horatio Gould: Sweet Prince
The Stand Comedy Club: Jun 9th 2024
His friends tell him he needs to open up, but he feels he has nothing to confess. Being part of a generation where everyone is constantly reminded that ‘It's okay to not be okay’, Horatio asks the question: is it no longer okay to be okay?
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Horrible Histories: Rotten Royals
Gala Theatre: Jun 7th 2024 - Jun 8th 2024
Boasting the funniest and most outrageous regal scenes from the hit Barmy Britain shows, Rotten Royals promises Durham will be most amused! It’s history with the nasty bits left in!
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Hot Club du Nord - The Old Black Cat Jazz Club
Seventeen Nineteen: May 17th 2024
1930s/40s Hot Club Gypsy Jazz Style with Emma Fisk (violin), James Birkett and David Harris (guitars)and Bruce Rollo (double bass).
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Houkago Grind Time / Mxyoma / Sector 7G / Plus Support
Little Buildings: Sep 9th 2024
Houkago Grind Time - Hyperblasting Weeb Mince. Mxyoma - Mince Mince. Sector 7G - Simpsons Mince. Plus Support - Probably gonna be Mince.
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House Of The Black Gardenia
Hoochie Coochie: Jun 7th 2024
Born of the desire to get their city’s dancefloors swinging to the lesser-known roots music of the 1920s and ’30s, Tyneside nine-piece House of the Black Gardenia brings together the new generation of Newcastle’s jazz and swing scene for a raucous revival
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How AI Ate The World, by Chris Stokel-Walker
The Lit & Phil: May 13th 2024
Artificial intelligence will shake up our lives as thoroughly as the arrival of the internet. How AI Ate The World, which will be launched at the Lit & Phil, charts AI’s rise from its Cold War origins to its explosive growth in the 2020s.
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How Sweet It is – Motown’s Greatest Hits
The Forum Theatre: Feb 13th 2025 - Mar 14th 2025
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How to Disappear Completely and Never be Found
Theatre Royal: Jul 9th 2024 - Jul 13th 2024
This award-winning play follows one person’s desperate attempts to buck the system, and asks, what really makes us who we are in the 21st century? An amateur production by arrangement with Nick Hern Books.
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Howie Reeve / Cod McDonnel / Nev Clay
Little Buildings: Jun 21st 2024
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Hue & Cry
The Glasshouse: Nov 1st 2024
Much loved Scottish pop band.
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Huey Morgan – The Fun Lovin’ Criminal
The Witham: Oct 14th 2024
An Evening of Music and Conversation with Huey Morgan: frontman, radio and television broadcaster, author and DJ.
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Hugh Cornwell
The Fire Station: Nov 23rd 2024
The songwriter behind The Stranglers.
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Humanimals: An Exhibition of Interactive Sculptures
Ushaw: Historic House, Chapels and Gardens: Jun 29th 2024 - Sep 1st 2024
An exhibition of interactive sculptures by Amanda Wray and Johnny White, contemporary artists based in Derbyshire. The family-friendly display will include a number of large-scale pieces and will be supported by a range of fun activities and workshops.
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Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
The Cluny: Jul 18th 2024
An eight-strong cohort of horn-playing brothers (plus one unrelated drummer) who take their stylistic cues from jazz, funk, hip-hop, and various strains of world music. Support from April Soul and Don Hoolio (DJ Set).
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Ian Macdonald: Fixing Time
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art: Jul 20th 2024 - Nov 3rd 2024
A retrospective exhibition across two venues – Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens and Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art – exploring 50 years of work by renowned British artist and photographer Ian Macdonald. Macdonald, boasts a rich and prolific caree
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Ian Macdonald: Shooting Time
Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens: Jul 20th 2024 - Feb 1st 2025
A retrospective exhibition across two venues – Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens and Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art – exploring 40 years of work by renowned British photographer Ian Macdonald. Ian Macdonald has spent four decades recording life, w
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Ian Prowse
The Studio: Oct 12th 2024
Musician/singer/songwriter and the front man of Amsterdam and previously of Pele.
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Ian Stone is Keeping it Together
The Stand Comedy Club: Nov 16th 2024
Ian is a hugely experienced broadcaster, podcaster, writer and a brilliantly funny comedian.
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Illegal Eagles
Whitley Bay Playhouse: Jun 28th 2024
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Illuminated Sheep
Queen's Hall Arts Centre: Jul 22nd 2024 - Aug 31st 2024
Illuminated Sheep by artist Deepa Mann-Kler was inspired by the Gospels’ themes of light and pilgrimage. The flock of life-sized sheep lit up in bright colours with a mesmerising soundscape have already visited some of the region’s most iconic locations i
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Imperial Wax + HMRC
The Engine Room: Jun 6th 2024
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In The Frame: legal industry practices
The Studio: May 14th 2024
Filmmaking in all its glorious creative chaos, still requires some structure and is subject to various legal considerations and processes. Hear from regional industry professionals about the elements you should be aware of when making or participating in
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In the Night Garden
Darlington Hippodrome: Aug 21st 2024 - Aug 22nd 2024
Igglepiggle, Upsy Daisy, Makka Pakka and friends are back in their fun-filled live show Igglepiggle’s Busy Day!