Alistair Robinson’s Stereograms of the Dead launch in Sunderland

Last night saw the launch of Alistair Robinson’s new poetry book Stereograms of the Dead at Waterstones in the Bridges Shopping Centre. Read more

Budding entrepreneurs reach for the sky with Cloud9

The North East is due to host an event this month known as the Cloud9 Summit, which will enable young and aspiring entrepreneurs to gather and share their ambitions and knowledge. Read more

Dave Courtney at The End Bar

The second edition in ‘Gangstar’, a series of talks by famous and infamous members of Britain’s underworld, is lined up for Friday February 27 at the End Bar in Newcastle’s city centre.
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The Mighty Boosh Live

Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle, 26/11/08.

The Boosh have been together almost ten years now, so it has hardly been a meteoric rise, but for a comedy duo to play an arena tour is still mighty impressive.

The question on most fans lips was, however, would the pairing of Noel Fielding and Julian Barret’s unique style of psychedelic, irreverent story telling translate to a stage that even the biggest of rock bands can disappear on? Read more

Oxjam festival at Sunderland

Oxjam in Sunderland

Chief organisers of the national Oxjam music festival are confident that the event will be a roaring success when the bands roll into Sunderland this Saturday.

This month has seen the launch of a programme of gigs leading up to the Oxjam festival in March 2009. Drawing on the North East’s diverse range of bands and artists, Oxjam will be hosting four very special launch events in the region and will be coming to Sunderland’s Independent venue this Saturday. Read more

Breaking into radio, Karen style

Karen Wight is part of the breakfast duo ‘Steve and Karen’ on one of the most listened to radio stations in the North East ‘Galaxy FM’. And it was her work at Utopia that gave her the radio bug.

Karen’s interest in the media world began back in 1995, when she started her degree studying Media and Communications. Like all media degrees at the University they involve aspects ranging from TV to film, journalism to public relations, but the part of the degree that interested Karen most was radio. Read more