Northeast Music Guide

The Forum Cinema Presents "Encore" A Chance to See The RSC in Stratford On Avon On a Screen on Comfy Seats in Hexham! The Forum Cinema in Hexham is my favourite place to see a new film...Jo Prices are reasonable for tickets and for food and drink. Cinema how it should be. Recently refurbished! Check out the website  http://www.forumhexham.co.uk/   and book tickets. Membership saves you even more.

An extra-ordinary tale of British independent moo-vie making (or how one farmer and his cows went to Sundance!) A special screening of the most talked about British documentary of the year with Scottish filmmaker Andy Heathcote at TYNESIDE CINEMA, NEWCASTLE T he filmmaker who led a cast of dairy cows to surprise stardom comes to Newcastle this week with a special showing of hit indie documentary The Moo Man (97 mins, U). Described as the “number one movie of the Sundance 2013 Film Festival” The Moo Man follows a year in the life of farmer Steve Hook and his unruly 55-strong herd as they battle to keep their family farm afloat. Director and cameraman Andy Heathcote took four years to make the movie, most of them spent flat on his stomach in a damp field, trying to keep the shot steady while half a tonne of dairy cow nibbled at his sleeve.  Andy will be at Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle on Thursday August 22 to lead a qu...

Calling all cinema fans!   On Saturday 17th August new improvising quartet   Mister Q   (Mariam Rezaei, Hapsburg Braganza, John Hails and Posset) will improvise/live score Dziga Vertov's 1929 dada classic Man with a Movie Camera   as part of Whitley Bay Film Festival.   This frantic, thought provoking, stream of consciousness experimental film features brain-scraping visual jump-cuts that make your third eye water bitter tears.   Mister Q bring heavy sub bass, music box echoes, greasy tape squall and electrical doo-hickery to the table for your listening delight to compliment Vertov's genius sepia spew.   Music starts at 8pm with special cinematic-themed pieces from all of the above.  The main event kicks off with Mister Q playing with/against/above and below Man with a Movie Camera at 9pm.   This sensory cinematic experience takes place in Whitley Bay's historic Spanish City Dome....