Ten Songs We Played After Getting Dumped In The 90s
It’s the 1990s. You’ve been callously DUMPED. You’re DEVO’D. Here’s what you’re listening to…
It’s the 1990s. You’ve been callously DUMPED. You’re DEVO’D. Here’s what you’re listening to…
As the ‘big night out’ becomes the ‘big night in’, we thought we might help people keep their spirits up by sharing a taste of North East England life with the world. Since Newcastle was named Rough Guides ‘top destination in the world to visit’ in 2018, we don’t want people to feel disappointed that they can’t make their highly anticipated Toon trip this spring. So, if you can’t come to us, we’ll come to you! With the help of a few lovely Geordies sharing their favourite examples of North East life and culture, here’s how you can enjoy a taste of what the region has to offer from the comfort of your living room. So what are you waiting for? Grab a Fentimans Ginger Beer, dust-off your Vera box-set and have yersel a geet proper Geordie neet in!
When it comes to mental health stigma, we're like great big spongey things, soaking up all the negative vibes and holding them in the depths of our restless minds. But they don't just sit there quietly after giving your self esteem a good kicking do they?
It's all John Lewis' fault. They started it! How many more brilliant songs are we going to trash with the hipster trend of wispy lazy female vocals? Give me Courtney Love any day. (NB - Lily Allen is also allowed).
Transient but deep. Fleeting but real. Common but unique. The precarious and vulnerable teenage mind. Sometimes, teenage angst lived side by side with mental illness. Sometimes it simply intruded on otherwise happy and carefree times. It made everything feel 10x harder. Hands up who would go through their teen years again? No-one? Me neither. But here's a few nostalgic tunes instead - to re-live it, without having to endure the pain again. The soundtrack to the common case of teenage angst and the brutal emotions of the every day teenage mind...
An Open Letter To Brad and Ange
Calm down!? Seriously. Don't go there.
You might not have heard of 'Butoh' - the Japanese 'dance of darkness' - but it's probably already made its way to your TV, cinema and play station. With the world's first dedicated butoh theatre, Kyoto Butoh-Kan opening in Japan this summer, and a new butoh arts programme, Project Godie, launching in the UK, it's the perfect time to delve into this dark and butohful (sorry!) world...
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