Northeast Music Guide

The Coral, Grandmaster Flash  and many more heading to  Corbridge Festival this Summer! Corbridge Festival , the increasingly popular family-friendly music festival, returns for its sixth year with a spectacular musical line-up. Born in 2011 out of a desire to bring great music and family entertainment to West Northumberland.   Headlining the festival on Saturday 9th July this year is Liverpool rock band The Coral . The five-piece band, who had 8 top 30 singles and six top 20 albums, were the figureheads of the Merseyside revival in the mid-2000s and have recently released Distance Inbetween , their first album of new material in six years.   On 23 Nov 2015 the band announced their 2016 return after a five year break and will mark their return by headlining The Corbridge Festival! They first found success with their debut album The Coral which was nominated for the 2002 Mercury Music Prize and later voted the fourth best album of the year by NME M...

A goat, some ale, fun time guaranteed. Me and Beer I do like beer. I'm a member of the Campaign for Real Ale but I don't limit myself to the strictly British definition of real ale. I love a good German weiss- or schwarzbier, a Belgian Ale or a lager brewed in the Gambia (very welcome in that heat!). I don't drink beer to get drunk, but to enjoy the different flavours of hops, malts and the odd guest ingredient that brewers like to play with. I was pleased to hear about the Gateshead Beer Festival , and even more happy to see a great lineup of bands playing over the 3 days: the 3rd to the 5th May.  Scratch The Surface,  Jonny Boyle , the Dust Town Dogs , Superheat, Jen Stevens and the Hiccups , Skylark Song , Bessie and the Zinc Buckets , Claypath and many more. After very successful festivals in 2011 and 2012 the festival will again be brightnening up your May Bank Holiday. There will be over 140 different beers from all over the country and also featuring...

Jowheretogo Show Week 2! A New Day Riising Interesting week for me. After meeting the manager of Bastille (and the lady who first signed the Stereophonics), Polly Comber, at my "Managing A Music Business Enterprise" course, I had a day in a recording studio. In the very homely surroundings of Broadwater Studios in Gateshead, meeting with Riise Music artists Anna and Richard (formally of Anna and The Kings), recording a track in a style more suited to their new style as Northeast electronic duo Denature . I met the increasingly popular Wallsend singer  Junior Turner who was filming an interview to go into his "An Audience with Junior Turner" DVD. The video will include footage of his highly successful album launch concert at Tynemouth Priory Theatre with support from Jess Wood who features on his song, Loveblind on the "Under Scrutiny" album. Download the album here . The DVD will be released on Wednesday 6th March. Junior chats about life, the wor...