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Interview with Hatari
Hatari are best known for bringing their anti-capitalist BDSM techno punk rock to the Eurovision stage in 2019. The Iceland representatives were firm fan favourites in the build-up to the contest and finished in a respectable 10th place. Since then they have released their debut album, Neyslutrans, and continued to build on their solid fanbase.
Next Seven Days In The Arts (Sat 25th Jun - Sat 2nd Jul)
Bradford Cathedral
‘As we journey together: an exploration of Faith in Bradford’
Wed'Wednesday @ One' Organ Recitals
First Direct Arena
SunGladys Knight Tour
Halifax Victoria Theatre
ThuJack Savoretti Tour 2022
Howard Assembly Room
SunBrudenell Piano Sessions
Hull New Theatre
Les Miserables
Leeds City Museum
Money Talks
Leeds Grand
Dreamgirls
Masham Town Hall
The Ultimate 70s show
Piece Hall
The Age of Optimism tour - Paloma Faith
Scarborough Open Air Theatre
FriBryan Adams
York Art Gallery
The Yorkshire Tea Ceremony
York Theatre Royal
Theatre Tour & Tea
Nile Rodgers And Chic Give A Piece Of The Good Times
Graham Clark
Music Features Writer
Nile Rodgers
Sometimes an idea can seem so obvious you think why has someone not thought of it before. One such is using The Piece Hall in Halifax for outdoor concerts. With a wide open space ranking alongside some of the most historic outdoor venues in Europe it is rather perfect. This year's run of Summer concerts is well under way with a series of top performers appearing at the venue.
2:00 PM 25th June 2022
The Best And The Absolute Worst: The Dressmaker’s Secret By Lorna Cook
Artis-Ann 
Features Writer
It’s true that war inspires the best and the absolute worst in people; brave heroism is juxtaposed with cruel atrocity on a regular basis. Inspired by information which has come to light in the last decade, The Dressmaker’s Secret tells the story of Coco Chanel’s war, as seen through the eyes of her assistant.
2:00 AM 25th June 2022
Portrait Of Three Talented Yorkshire Artists At Sunny Bank Mills
Three talented young Yorkshire artists have won prestigious prizes at one of the county’s most respected annual exhibitions. Sophie Jones, Kedisha Coakley and Sam Henty were the major winners at the Ones to Watch 2022 exhibition at the Sunny Bank Mills Art Gallery in Farsley, between Leeds and Bradford.
10:06 AM 23rd June 2022
Dreamgirls – The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of….
Sarah Crown
Theatre Correspondent
photo Matt Crockett
From the opening swish of a lime-green, sequinned fishtail skirt via the megawatt smiles of an ambitious girl group the Dreamettes, to the sharp, shiny suit of their manager, a former car salesman, Dreamgirls is a musical full of glitter and sparkle.
7:00 AM 23rd June 2022
International Busking Day Is Back
Over 120 performers - including The Shires and Seth Lakeman - 10 stages - 1 day - A big celebration
2:00 AM 25th June 2022
Poem Of The Week: The Wireless By Jean Stevens
Steve Whitaker
Literary Editor
The wireless Kathleen Ferrier on the wireless. It’s my father’s way of getting close. I hold my breath to listen.
3:00 AM 23rd June 2022
Bradford Based Fortress Films Announced As Finalist In Deutsche Bank Awards For Creative Entrepreneurs
The Deutsche Bank Awards for Creative Entrepreneurs (DBACE), in collaboration with MeWe360, announce this year’s finalists for the annual awards programme that aims to uncover the UK’s brightest young entrepreneurs aged 18-30 years who are driving positive social impact through creative enterprise.
11:33 AM 22nd June 2022
Burned By Light: Dovetailing - Gathered Notes
Never underestimate the simple pleasure of contemplative quiet. Several visitors to Dovetailing - a collaboration of artwork, installation, music and word, which was exhibited at the Quaker Meeting House of Farfield near Addingham in the Summer of 2021- were moved to feelings of ‘calm and wellbeing’.
6:30 PM 20th June 2022
Download Festival Welcomes Home The Rock Community
Every June thousands of rock music fans gather at Castle Donington for what is unquestionably the rock event of the year - the Download Festival. Held over three days alongside the famous racing track the festival attracts the biggest names in rock music.
10:35 AM 19th June 2022
Interview With Kirsten Branston From Bradford Live On Winning UK City Of Culture 2025 Bid
The wait is finally over as Bradford has been named the UK City of Culture 2025. This will be a game changing, once in a generation opportunity to welcome the world to the Bradford district, to tell a myriad of stories and to showcase the creative dynamism of a young and diverse population.
2:00 AM 19th June 2022
Classical Music Album: Reynaldo Hahn Poèmes & Valses
Andrew Palmer
Group Editor
The cover photograph from the series of ‘Scattered Dreams’ by Susannah Baker-Smith sums up the spirit of this album. Hahn’s beautifully evocative and delectable miniatures are ethereal which Pavel Kolesnikov conveys so brilliantly.
1:13 PM 18th June 2022
Inspired By Morecambe And Wise
Diane Parkes speaks to the stars of The Play What I wrote prior to its visit to the north
2:00 AM 18th June 2022
Harrogate International Festivals Announces Spectacular Summer Programme
Harrogate International Festivals is bursting back into life this summer with a blistering programme featuring world-famous writers, flamboyant musicians, samba dancers, burlesque artists, Shakespearean performers, children’s entertainers and one of the best-known names from the Manchester rave scene.
2:00 AM 18th June 2022
The Railway Children Return To New George Clooney Movie – A Young Yorkshire Actor’s Star Is Rising
At the age of just 13, Austin Haynes has a seriously impressive body of work under his belt. The Leeds youngster has worked with the likes of Jim Broadbent, Tom Courtenay, Christopher Eccleston and Sheridan Smith - and was recently directed by George Clooney in his forthcoming movie The Boys in the Boat.
2:00 AM 18th June 2022
Top Gun Is The UK’s Favourite Tom Cruise Movie Of All Time
Top Gun has been crowned the UK’s favourite Tom Cruise movie of all time, according to new national research released.
2:00 AM 18th June 2022
Diana Ross Reigns Supreme In Northern Return
Fresh from her headline appearance at the Queens Jubilee Platinum concert Diana Ross made a welcome return to the north for an all too rare concert at the Leeds Arena. Of course there were no wellingtons in sight as the acclaimed Motown singer wore a selection of glittering dresses that matched the sheer sovereign power of her show.
12:45 PM 17th June 2022
Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain Strikes A Chord
Has Panto season come early? No, it's the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain who graced the stage at York's Theatre Royal last night to a rapturous reception from the locals. And we were treated to a new joke! Yes, the band had clearly not wasted their lockdowns.
11:25 AM 16th June 2022
Books By The Beach 2022 - Scarborough
Scarborough's Books on the Beach has seen best-selling novelists with their tales of dark secrets, espionage and desire, TV presenters and journalists bring history and geography to life, and thrilling recollections from experts in disaster recovery.
7:06 AM 15th June 2022
Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year 2022 Shortlist Revealed
The shortlist for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2022, presented by Harrogate International Festivals, has been announced today, with six bestselling authors competing to win the UK’s most prestigious crime writing prize.
3:00 AM 14th June 2022
Night Swimming:Towards A General Theory Of Love By Clare Shaw
Steve Whitaker
Literary Editor
Clare Shaw
A paradox lies at the heart of Clare Shaw’s shattering new collection: striving, almost childlike, to order love in an anxiety of intractable images, her disclosure of unease is counter-intuitively strident. For performance is one of Shaw’s strongest suits and the banging of a resounding drum is a sincere means of attempting to negotiate a passage towards self-understanding.
7:37 PM 13th June 2022
Concert for Ukraine
Bradford Festival Choral Society perform Purcell's opera, Dido and Aeneas at 7.30pm at the Ukrainian Centre on the 25th June. The choir’s last concert, J.S Bach St Matthew Passion achieved their largest audience since before the pandemic, and a bucket collection raised over £400 for the Ukraine appeal.
1:16 PM 13th June 2022
Farewell Mr Bond – Your Time Is Up
Phil Hopkins
Group Travel Editor & Theatre Correspondent
James Bond Concert Spectacular
Bradford was honoured last night as one of the few cities given the chance to say a final farewell to the magnificent ‘James Bond’ orchestra, as its players prepare to hang up their boots after 18 years paying homage to the likes of John Barry, Paul McCartney and Don Black.
10:00 AM 13th June 2022
Classical Music Album: William Bolcom The Complete Rags
Marc-André Hamelin provides an opportunity to momentarily forget the woes of the world with a fun-filled, entertaining album celebrating the high-spirited world of ragtime.
6:50 AM 12th June 2022
Poem of the Week: 'Together' By Robert Gibson
Together flax jute cotton wire willow wool raffia grass bamboo even a ripped newspaper’s weasel words may be twined braided or knotted woven into a common bond warp and weft synergy from vibrant difference As if to illustrate a sense of natural overlap and complementarity, Robert Gibson’s fine poem of condensed, serpentine power is rendered entirely without punctuation.
6:48 AM 12th June 2022
Crimson Soil: Only Killers And Thieves By Paul Howarth
Sometimes a book comes my way which, under normal circumstances, I would not look at twice but which I am persuaded to read for other reasons. This is one such, the debut novel of Paul Howarth, and it is very different from my usual reading matter, falling as it does into the broad genre of the Western. It did not, however, disappoint.
2:00 AM 11th June 2022
Classical Music Album: Schubert Die Schöne Müllerin
This CD, telling the tale of the emotional difficulties of a young journeyman Miller’s infatuation with the miller maid, her acquiescence and subsequent rejection of him for a glamorous huntsman and his suicide in the millstream, completes Gerald Finley and Julius Drake’s survey of the great Schubert song cycles.
2:00 AM 11th June 2022
A Mesmerising Riot Act
Our roving theatre reviewers Emilie Moon and Claire Haddleton had a riotous time in the STUDIO at York Theatre Royal Alexis Gregory’s Riot Act was nothing short of outstanding. We were lucky enough to catch this show in the intimate Studio theatre at the York Theatre Royal, sitting just metres from the actor himself.
2:00 AM 11th June 2022
Art To The Park!
Artist Howard Bowcott.
An innovative arts programme encouraging people to enjoy the superb outdoor spaces the city offers, has been installed at Norfolk Heritage Park, Sheffield.
11:49 AM 8th June 2022
What The Hell!
Sarah Crown
Theatre Correspondent
Rob Fowler as Falco giving his stage wife Sloane a Hellish time! - photo credit Specula
Shows do not come bigger, bolder or more brash than Bat Out Of Hell. Based on the songs of Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman the jukebox musical is not just a run through of the songs from the three Bat Out Of Hell albums. The songs from the trilogy were always theatrical so it is no surprise that they translated well to the stage.
4:00 AM 8th June 2022
Review: Voices of Craven's Summer Jubilee Concert in Skipton
Steve Whitaker
Literary Editor
The moment at which all other considerations melted away, towards the end of Saturday night’s shimmering concert at Skipton Town Hall, was pivotal: collectively bearing the symbolic weight of a blue and yellow national flag, the ladies of the Voices of Craven joined with their male colleagues to deliver an emotionally-charged rendering of a Prayer for Ukraine.
3:00 AM 6th June 2022
Interview With Michael McKell As We Will Rock You Comes To The North
Queen and Ben Elton’s smash hit musical We Will Rock You is back for 2022 to celebrate its 20th anniversary with a new tour that arrives in the north. The worldwide smash hit musical arrives at Stockton Globe from Monday 6th June until Saturday 11th June before visiting Newcastle, Sheffield and Manchester.
11:47 AM 5th June 2022
Opera North’s Parsifal: An Achievement Of Considerable Grandeur
Whether an opera lover or not, you probably have an opinion about Richard Wagner. Wasn’t he the favourite composer of Adolf Hitler? Yes he was. Wasn’t he that paranoid anti-Semite? Yes he was. Didn’t critics in his own time describe his music as ‘immoral’, ‘poisonous’ and ‘degenerate’? Yes they did. However, wasn’t he also one of the greatest musical theorists of the European tradition?
2:32 PM 4th June 2022
Classical Music Album: Greig Lyric Pieces Vol 1
Peter Donohoe has chosen a lovely selection of Grieg's Lyric Pieces on this first volume. Starting his recital with Klokkeklang, he immediately sets the scene for what is to follow, delicate, expressive playing with well-controlled crescendos and diminuendos. Donohoe’s playing has an aura of warmth is immensely lyrical and intimate.
2:29 PM 4th June 2022
Settle Orchestra Goes To London – By Way Of Bogota
Settle Orchestra continues its 2021-22 series of live concerts, under its dynamic Columbian conductor Elizabeth Gallego, with two popular and attractive concerts in Settle (18 June) and Skipton (25 June).
12:00 PM 4th June 2022
The Script - Rewrite The Hits Live
Graham Clark
Music Features Writer
I was never really a fan of The Script until my partner recommended that I should see them at least once. When I eventually got around to attending one of their concerts I could see what the attraction was: good melodic songs all presented with an Irish charm.
10:25 AM 4th June 2022
Music At The Jubilee
Andrew Palmer
Group Editor
Around the world it is widely acknowledged that the British do pomp, pageantry, and ceremonial extremely well. Whether it be the Trooping of the Colour or a service in our de facto national cathedral, St Paul’s, the grandeur of the music from the Kneller Hall State Trumpeters, military bands, organs, or our cathedral choirs, make us proud of our long traditions and our heritage.
10:14 AM 4th June 2022
HRH Queen Elizabeth
Jan Harris
Deputy Group Editor
A North Duffield artist called Shany Hagan has just finished a painting with a difference. The painting is called The Jubilee High Tea. Shany Hagan is a mum to one son and spends her time painting and donating her art to different charities, so far raising over £250k for some 30 charities. She paints for the NHS, celebrities and their charities, film covers and Royal commissions.
8:41 PM 3rd June 2022
Jubilee Poem Of The Week: 'The Patriarchs - An Elegy' By Simon Armitage
Steve Whitaker
Literary Editor
View from the cruiser HMS Sheffield as she sails on convoy duty through the waters of the Arctic Ocean. Image - Wikipedia
The Patriarchs – An Elegy The weather in the window this morning is snow, unseasonal singular flakes, a slow winter’s final shiver.
2:00 AM 3rd June 2022
Liam Gallagher In Fine Homecoming Return
If you had to name the last big band to come out of Britain in the last twenty years or so then Oasis would definitely be one to spring to mind. The Manchester group provided the soundtrack for a generation whist even today their music resonates with a younger audience - as witnessed at The Etihad Stadium in Manchester - when Liam Gallagher made a memorable homecoming return.
1:04 PM 2nd June 2022
Fantastically Great Women WHO Changed The World
Whilst this is a show that everyone would enjoy whatever their background, age or gender, this show should be a ‘must see’ on every school curriculum. ‘Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World’ shadows an eleven-year-old Jade, who fears she has been forgotten about and has been left behind whilst on her school trip to a local gallery.
12:22 PM 2nd June 2022
Skipton Music - Borealis Saxophone Quartet
The final concert of Skipton Music’s 2021-22 season on Tuesday 7 June at Skipton Town Hall features the exciting Borealis Saxophone Quartet.
12:37 PM 1st June 2022
Brooding At Twilight: Vinegar Hill By Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín is both present and not present at moments of immense significance to the teeming protagonists of his poems. As otherwise invisible as the bronzed figure of Icarus in ‘In Los Angeles’, as seemingly extraneous as the boy who falls into the sea in Auden’s ‘Musée des Beaux Arts’, the novelist contrives an invaluable detachment in his first poetry collection.
3:00 AM 31st May 2022
Classical Music Album: Nazareno Celebrating The Union Of Classical And Jazz
Andrew Palmer
Group Editor
Simon Rattle and his band of musicians certainly seem to have enjoyed performing this toe tapping, finger clicking, fun infused repertoire that traverses jazz and classical music.
3:54 PM 29th May 2022
A Sower In The Desert: Smoke By Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883)
Paul Spalding-Mulcock
Features Writer
Cover of First Edition. Image - Wikipedia.
Nestled amongst my collection of often tenebrific Russian classics, the works of Turgenev seem to pulse as soft lucent beacons. His novels do not scar the retina of the reader with the blinding, dramatic lightning of Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy, but instead offer us the altogether more subtle tones and hues of a literary sonata.
2:00 AM 29th May 2022
Jazz Album: Hot Lips Page: A Retrospective Perspective
Andrew Liddle
Features Writer
If your taste in popular music is Jazz, Blues, Swing, Country or, more broadly, what these days gets called Nostalgia thenthe Retrospective label, brought out by Nimbus Records,might well be for you. Out on the 1st of June is a fine budget-priced 2-cd collection of 48 of the best of the legendary jazz trumpeter Hot Lips Page.
2:00 AM 29th May 2022
Alice Cooper - Welcome To The Nightmare
Graham Clark
Music Features Writer
“Is he still alive?” was the question asked when I disclosed I was off to see Alice Cooper in concert. The alter ego of Vincent Furnier has been entertaining rock fans for over fifty years, and at the age of 74, shows no sign of stopping. His voice much like Cooper himself did not seem to have aged. Cooper dressed in his trademark top hat and make-up somehow felt comforting.
11:06 AM 28th May 2022
Album Review: Hanson Red Green Blue
Sibling trio Hanson may still be best remembered by the majority for their break-out single MMMBop, however, over the last 30 years of their recording career, they have proved time and again why they are one of the world's biggest ever independent acts.
2:00 AM 28th May 2022
Album Review: Will Young 20 Years: The Greatest Hits.
Will Young 20 Years: The Greatest Hits. CD 1 Evergreen; Light My Fire; The Long and Winding Road with Gareth Gates; You and I; Leave Right Now; Your Game; Friday's Child; All Time Love; Who Am I; Changes; Grace; Jealousy; Come On; Losing Myself; Love Revolution; Joy; All The Songs; Daniel; Why Does It Hurt – New Track; Breaking Free – New Track. CD2 Leave Right Now - Z…
2:00 AM 28th May 2022
Ordinary Evil: A Spoonful Of Murder By J. M. Hall
Coincidences do happen. I was house sitting for a friend recently and, investigating the area, I discovered Thirsk Garden Centre. Well worth a visit with its lovely café and shop. When I got back to relax in the sunshine, I picked up my new book and it began in….Thirsk Garden Centre! Now that’s spooky.
2:00 AM 28th May 2022
Diana Ross Doppelganger Stuns!
When an impersonator walks on stage and your heart momentarily skips a beat because the resemblance with the original artiste is uncanny, you know you are about to witness something between stunning, disappointing or interesting!
8:00 AM 27th May 2022
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