'a whole new breed of women are really kicking ass and taking names'
DJ Paulette talks to Andy Murray following her nomination for DJ of the Year at the inaugural Northern Music Awards.
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PAULETTE Manchester University Press Nordoff and Robbins
#DJ #music

New doormat for Northern Soul Towers.

#CatsOfTwitter

'you need to warm a crowd up before you bring out a puppet of a raven with a Mancunian accent'
Alasdair Beckett-King talks to Andy Murray about his Nevermore tour, comedy and being silly.
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Alasdair Beckett-King

England's Football League was officially formed #OTD 1888 at the Royal Hotel, Manchester (at the corner of Market Street and Mosley Street). All 12 founder members came from the north and midlands, including six from Lancs. Only Bolton Wanderers was from the Manchester area.

Here's what Paul Hanley had to say about Sixteen Again, his nifty paean to Pete Shelley and Buzzcocks. The book's available from all the usual sources from today.
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It's a timeless truth.

'you need to warm a crowd up before you bring out a puppet of a raven with a Mancunian accent'
Alasdair Beckett-King talks to Andy Murray about his Nevermore tour, comedy and being silly.
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Alasdair Beckett-King

Oooh, a new book to review arrives in the post. If it's as good inside as its exterior suggests, we're in for a treat.
(A Year of Women's Diaries edited by Sarah Gristwood, published by Batsford)
#books #reading #womenwriting Batsford Books Sarah Gristwood

View from a Train, by Geoff Butterworth. Rochdale as in the 1960s, copied from an old black-and-white photograph. #NorthernArt

Many thanks to new Kate Winslet drama The Regime for our new favourite admonishment: 'you mewling vol-au-vent'. Rest assured we will be using this daily from now on.

Northern robin by Paul Hunter.
#birds #thenorth

Northern swan by Paul Hunter.

'against the backdrop of a strange and unsettling time comes a strange and unsettling debut novel'
Book Review: The Borrowed Hills by Scott Preston
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#reading #books

'against the backdrop of a strange and unsettling time comes a strange and unsettling debut novel'
Book Review: The Borrowed Hills by Scott Preston
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#reading #books

At least someone's happy with Northern Fail.

The horror, the horror...

Food and drink as theatre? Yes please.
Review of Tattu Manchester's spring menu coming soon on Northern Soul.
Tattu Restaurant #manchester #food

Phew, it's Friday....

Rebels with a cause: in the 50s they fought the ban on women playing in FA grounds, went on a global winning spree, played to capacity crowds, won 50 trophies, and had to wash in a duck pond. Meet the Corinthians Ladies Football Club.
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#Manchester