The new NARC. Magazine is out, and I think we’re the last ones in the region to see it, but we’re more than happy with it.
What we’ve decided to do hear, and all thanks to the superb photography of Tracy Hyman, Tracy Daniel, Idene Roozbayani, David Wala and Brian James is show you some of the photos that didn’t make the magazine this month – but only for the practical reason of only being able to choose one. [view more…]
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You may have noticed that we’re having a launch party on Thursday night to bless our royal wedding to NARC. Magazine and a certain feathered super group from Sunderland are thundering into Newcastle to perform to help us celebrate.
In case you’ve been doing bird in prison and don’t know who they are, B>E>A>K are a delectable tropical post-punk assemble featuring members of Field Music, Razmataz Lorry Excitement, The Futureheads and around 4,003 other brilliant musicians from the region.
In between touring and recording with their own bands, B>E>A>K enjoy playing sell-out shows throughout the land behind the veneer of their now legendary and slightly terrifying bird masks.
Now, there are a lot of shit puns flying around about them, and I’m never one to pigeonhole an act with needless quips, so I present to you a rare interview we did with Bluetit – B>E>A>K’s bird bass come 6-string riffer – to find out what this ‘bird rock’ lark is really all about.
KYEO: So, what the fuck is ‘bird rock’ Bluetit? [view more…]
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Food, it’s glorious, you’ve all heard the song. But being, as we are, in the sensual throws of an economic squeeze, you’ll be readily forgiven for making Sugarpuff sandwiches, Potnoodle calzones, and Ryvita marmalade soup your staple diet. It’s nice to have a treat once in a while though, so bully for absolutely everyone that we’re currently tounge-deep in Newcastle’s very own Restaurant Week.
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There are few things worse than shameless self-promotion and tooting one’s own cock, so I’ll try and keep this succinct. This Thursday, January the 26th, we’re hosting a little party and we’d dearly like to see you all there.
“What’s the occasion though!?” I hear you bellow. Well, if you haven’t heard, after a few months of drunkenly texting each other at 3am, ourselves and the good folks at NARC. magazine have finally started going at it like a pair of nervous freshers on someone else’s sofa bed. Best of all, we even didn’t wake up the following midday and regret the whole thing, so now we’ve moved in together.
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With January a typically slow month in the comedy world, I’ve been trying my hardest in the past few weeks to stop sounding like a broken record. The Grinning Idiot, one of the North East’s best nights out, has taken a month-long break from stand-up and I’m beginning to suspect I should have too. So, without further ado, this is me trying my hardest to stop sounding like a broken record:
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Who Are They?
Almost 7 months to the day that we started this whole Single of the Week bollocks, we’ve had our first repeat. Back in June 2011, when ‘Greek debt’ and ‘Arab spring’ we’re both still just takeaways in Bkyer, we brought you Young Liar’s Can’t Do Attitude for your consideration. Now the same band are back with the first track from their second release and it’s sounding every bit as brilliant as we hoped it would.
Not much has changed about the band since then. They’re still one of the region’s finest and loudest instrumental acts, only now their reputation is starting to reach the heady heights that their talents deserve. With an illustrious support slot with Errors on the horizon, 2012 might well be the year they kick on to yet another level.
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The Stairwell Gallery, the in-house exhibition space run by art regeneration specialists Empty Shop, is on the verge or launching its latest project The Scaled House. Produced by local artist Julia Tyron, The Scaled House is a series of intricate photographic sculptures that look to “question what can be found to be secure, unwavering and enduring”.
With that in mind I bent the ear of Nick Malyan, one of the brains behind Empty Shop to find out why this is definitely more than some nice pictures on the stairs.
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