Northeast Music Guide

Bye Bye Science, old friend  It's all change for me right now. I've taken redundancy from my science-based government job. I'm now about to embark on what could be the gateway to a new, exciting career "facilitating" the future of new music, or a lot of regret about dropping the increasingly insecure civil service job and the pension, which although its being attacked, isn't a bad supplement to what was a pretty poor salary for a scientist. But, we should never regret what is done, and regret is often over what we haven't done, and perhaps should have. Enough of all that, music...its the future! A Busy Week  This week I embarked on a series of rehearsals for " Until We Are Lost " at Dance City . I've done a bit of singing, and this production by Okham's Razor dance company calls for a 20 strong choir drawn from the local community, and follows on from the company's sell out success with "The Mill". As I am currently fre...

So what's all this then? What am I up to? Well, I've been blogging on behalf of a certain PR company for a while and feel, well, I may as well do some independent blogging, then I can focus it in my chosen direction. This ain't my job, I do it for the love of Northeast Culture after all. What I want to do is provide a source of new music, comedy and theatre reviews, as well as letting you know what's going on. Going on? Where? Well, Northeast England is where I get up to most of my gigging, theatre, comedy. So most of it will be there. I do sometimes escape abroad for festivals, so I'll be telling you all about that. You still there? Coming up soon will be a review of the keenly anticipated (in our Pratchettphilic house anyway)" Carpe Jugulum" at the People's Theatre in Jesmond. I promise to make these blogs full of info and bonny pictures. This, I've just done on my phone. Cripplingly jumpy and hard to get around. I'll not be doing that a...