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NEWCASTLE NOIR Festival returns 5th - 6th Dec 2025. With author panels featuring 40 authors at Newcastle City Library, a proof-drop at the Tyneside Coffee Rooms & writing workshops with best-selling authors. newcastlenoir.co.uk www.tiny.cc/nnoir2025

Penguin Cafe Performs Music From The Penguin Cafe Orchestra at The Glasshouse International Centre for Music on Wed 19 Nov. Hypnotic. Avant-pop. Classic compositions with fresh perspective. theglasshouseicm.org/whats-on/pengu…

What a superb night at #theexchange1856 as #hectorgannet smashed it with a mix of old and very impressive new tracks from their new album planned for release in 2026. Brilliant support came from #theearlypurple

#aboutlastnight wonderful night #firestationsun to celebrate 20 years of #fieldmusicmusic with support from the extraordinary #dilettantesongs #goodtimes #livemusic #sunderland

This Sunday - The Engine Room, North Shields have an early **6pm** start with Brighton's psychedelic street punks Bones Ate Arfa + garage/punk TV Death + Jam Tub. Tickets available. (16+ allowed with responsible adult accompaniment - for any young skate punks out there). terns.co.uk

Wonderful night at #theengineroom to see the superbly talented and entertaining #pictishtrail including a conga line with support from #surfelectro #goodtimes #livemusic #northshields

Pictish Trail play The Engine Room, North Shields tomorrow evening. Based on the Isle of Eigg in the Scottish Hebrides, Pictish Trail is known for his wildly inventive electro-acoustic psych-pop. www.terns.co.uk/tm-event/pic... @pictishtrail.bsky.social

A great new exhibition has opened at Gateshead Central Library. 'Walking: Mapping Self Through Place' by Jane Young. Artworks were created in response to walks taken in the Derwent Valley during her artist residency at Lockhaugh Farm Rowlands Gill. www.gateshead.gov.uk/article/9037...

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Anniversary today… Released November 10, 1975 Patti Smith - Horses #albumanniversary #vinylsky #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinylcommunity #vinyl #records #music

For those interested in this kind of thing (ie all of you) this new book by @naomialderman.bsky.social is out now and it's FANTASTIC. Don't Burn Anyone At The Stake today is the title, and it covers the current information crisis we are living through, set in the context of previous ones.

Delighted to be hosting a series of events to celebrate playwright debbie tucker green. Just added to the line up is a FREE Panel Discussion on Tue 25 Nov, 5.45pm Find out more about all events & book at www.live.org.uk/whats-on/deb...

Black Grape celebrate the 30th Anniversary celebration of the classic album - It's Great When You're Straight... Yeah! NX Newcastle on Saturday 29 Nov. crosstownconcerts.seetickets.com/event/black-...

Campaign group Restore Nature with @davegoulson.bsky.social are fighting to protect Todrig from turning into an ecological desert in the form of a spruce plantation– Scot Forestry didn’t even think it deemed an environmental impact assessment . Beggars belief .

NEWCASTLE NOIR 2025 5th - 6th Dec. Celebrate the return of the international crime fiction festival of deliciously dark criminal delights! 🕵️‍♂️🔍In conjunction with Newcastle City Library. There'll be author panels & workshops with best-selling authors. newcastlenoir.co.uk www.tiny.cc/nnoir2025

Trailer for Folk Tales, out December www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmII...

www.rspca.org.uk/getinvolved/... Fed up with this annual shithousery? I am.

This time tomorrow Thu 6 Nov we'll be counting down to kick off for the first performance of #BigAnge by @jamieeastlake.bsky.social Be quick to snap up £11 preview tix for the first 3 showings tomorrow, Fri & Sat at 7.30pm It's on until Sat 22 Nov, book asap at www.live.org.uk/whats-on/big...

Hold Me and Show Me You Love Me sculpture at Middlesbrough Train Station by artist Stuart Langley. Made from old mobile phones being held in a framework of a hand. The new sculpture is intended to be a permanent feature & is part of the "Most Creative Station" programme. Navigator North.

Previews Thursday 13 November 6-9pm! ‘COALFACE/25 is an exhibition mounted by RIBA North East Small Practice, featuring original works by North East based architectural practitioners past and present. www.vane.org.uk/exhibitions/... @orbiscommunity.bsky.social @gatesheadcouncil.bsky.social

There’s only a few days left to experience the wonder of storytelling through our MA students’ exhibition, Telling Tales, at the Oriental Museum. This family-friendly exhibition will be closing; 9th of November.  Unable to make it? Check out our online exhibition and audio guide. #TellingTales

This Wednesday we're excited to welcome Edinburgh alt-rockers Swim School to Reflex for a special instore signing session! For entry, simply order the band's excellent eponymous debut album from us - available on CD and green vinyl! Buy: reflexrecordshop.com/product/8385...

The Engine Room, North Shields join their neighbours Three Tanners Bank for a Vinyl Market tomorrow Sunday 2 Nov. Traders over both venues. From 12 midday. Browse & buy drinks & music.. sounds good.

This December, adventurers of all ages are invited to experience a night of cosmic wonder, as Enchanted City transforms Northumbria University's City Campus after dark. www.enchanted-city.co.uk

Small venues are facing big problems. Yet these are the very fabric of our cultural life - far more so than oversized, overpriced arenas. So it's encouraging to see efforts to keep Middlesbrough's Disgraceland afloat: talkingnortheast.substack.com/p/saving-dis...

‘In Concert @thebowesmuseum.bsky.social transforms the museum’s elegant Jubilee Room into an intimate venue for unforgettable evenings with internationally acclaimed musicians. thebowesmuseum.org.uk/whats-on/

Here’s @thecrackmagazine.bsky.social’s full review of @anthonygardnera.bsky.social’s new novel All God’s Creatures www.thecrackmagazine.com/view-editori...

This week's eletter. thecrack.createsend.com/campaigns/re...

Just a handful of places left for Friday's Florence + The Machine listening party... email us at [email protected] to secure yours! See the quoted post for full details.

Editing occasionally borders on the contrived, but documentary 'Folktales', which focuses on 3 troubled teens attending a traditional, rustic folk high school in remote Arctic Norway is empathetic & quietly inspiring, & the Norwegian environs are beautifully captured. Excellent husky action too.

November issue back from the printers & out for delivery! Coming soon to a gallery, theatre, music venue, bar, library, cafe, museum, independent cinema or shop near you, (if you live in the North East - or delivered to your door). ,

BIG NEWS! We’re super excited to announce that GemArts Masala Festival has been nominated for the North East Culture Awards 2025 in the Arts Council England Award category. the awards on 27th Nov at The Stockton Globe Theatre. #NECultureAwards #MasalaFestival #ACESupported #LetsCreate

BBC News - North East crafters crochet oysters to boost conservation - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Get your crochet hooks out, people! 😍👍🦪🧶

French-Moroccan writer-director Sofia Alaoui’s singular & bewitching first feature ‘Animalia’ clocks in at a mere 90 mins but manages observations on class, money & gender, against a sci-fi/supernatural end-of-days setting replete with moments of beauty & ecstatic wonder #Animalia

⭐️Tickets are now on sale for Enchanted City! This December, adventurers of all ages are invited to experience a night of cosmic wonder, as Enchanted City transforms Northumbria University's City Campus after dark. 🌠 enchanted-city.co.uk #EnchantedCityNcl

Open now. Sarah-Jane Szikora's exhibition, 'A House is Not a Home', has opened at BottleWorks in Ouseburn. The free exhibition features paintings exploring the human condition & the absurdity of life. 23-27 Oct. 10am - 6pm. www.sarah-janeszikora.com 8 Riverside Walk, NE6 1LX

Dave Ball was not some bloke in the background of Soft Cell – he drove their startling, subversive sound www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

Is the venue you love getting involved in #IVW26? There's still time... Send them this post as a little reminder and say why you'd love them to be part of it 🙌

Just been to the excellent @narbiprice.bsky.social exhibition at Sunderland's Museum & Winter Gardens. Strong overlap with the locations in Ken Loach's 'The Old Oak' (which I starred in for almost 20 seconds)

After presenting a work in progress of the show at Hexham Pride back in 2023, Matt Miller is bringing Fixing to Queen’s Hall on Thursday 6 November! A drag show about family breakups, car breakdowns and how to get over them. Grab your tickets: www.queenshall.co.uk/whats-on/fix...

🍃 ‘Sarah Hall is a writer bold and talented enough to pull off a novel in which the main character is the wind itself. . . Helm, which was 20 years in the making, will sweep you off your feet.’ Independent Join Sarah Hall on Sat 29 Nov | 11am | City Library www.tiny.cc/booksontyne2025 📸 Faber Books

Pictish Trail's new single Torch Song is from the new album, LIFE SLIME. He plays a special solo show at The Engine Room, North Shields on 13 Nov! Based on the Isle of Eigg in the Hebrides, Pictish Trail is known for his wildly inventive electro-acoustic psych-pop. www.terns.co.uk/tm-event/pic...

From this Thu 23 Oct - Sat 1 Nov we are delighted to be bringing to our audiences the brilliant #MotherCourage and Her Children from Ensemble '84 & Isango Ensemble Check out some of the production pics taken by Keith Pattison & then book asap at tinyurl.com/5aetykwh

Saturday 1st Nov.

Packed Friday night with audiences getting a first glimpse of Shelagh Stephenson's new play #AstellandWoolf read by the amazing Gemma Whelan and Rosie Cavaliero as part of #WOWNE @WOWisGlobal Watch this space for more news on this sharp new comedy... 🔜⌛👀

Iggy Pop played the Mediaeval Baebes on his BBC 6music show this afternoon. They're playing @newcastlecathedral.bsky.social on 18 Dec. Beautiful early music & folk; ethereal harmonies, through a myriad of ancient & forgotten languages. As recommended by Iggy. www.tickettailor.com/events/media...

For a film that champions the potency & need for storytelling, dark feminist fairytale ‘100 Nights of Hero’ feels a bit of a narrative chore. Emma Corrin locates wryly correct comic register from the get-go, although most of rest of cast flounder, & there are droll sight gags a la Lester/Greenaway

#NoKings If the Repugs were hoping for crowds of masked, Molotov cocktail-throwing youth clad in black, calling for anarchy, they were bitterly disappointed. The millions who took to the streets for "No Kings" could not have been a more peaceful, far-from-radical, everyday representation of America.

Start next week with a gig! The Engine Room, near North Shields Fish Quay.