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Poem Of The Week: 'Fox' By Graham Mort
Fox The fox in the headlights knows it shouldn’t be here, caught on the road through the larch wood, just stepping out to the chicken coop. The fox is skittish; it’s made a faux pas, executes a sorry jump from pointed toes – a ginger novice in the dancing class. This is a thin fox caught in sharp light, nervously swishing the white tip of its tail, painting itself out into the dark.
Next Seven Days In The Arts (Sat 22nd Jan - Sat 29th Jan)
Bradford Alhambra
Blood Brothers
ThuTosca
FriCarmen
Bradford Cathedral
Nicola Moody’s Tear and Repair exhibition
First Direct Arena
ThuJames Taylor & His All-star Band
Grand Opera House, York
The Osmonds - A New Musical
Harrogate Royal Hall
Mayors Christmas Carol Concert
Leeds Playhouse
Wendy & Peter Pan
Masham Town Hall
The Ultimate 70s show
Scarborough Art Gallery
The Ant-ic Museum – a new exhibition by Feral Practice
Theatre@41
FriNunkie Theatre Company presents 'A Warning to the Curious…'
York Art Gallery
The Yorkshire Tea Ceremony
York Theatre Royal
FriThe Pasadena Roof Orchestra
Review: The Naked Don’t Fear The Water: An Underground Journey With Afghan Refugees By Matthieu Aikins
Paul Spalding-Mulcock
Features Writer
Ezra Pound once said, “Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use”. Hold that thought. During his inauguration speech, Barack Obama said, “Our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared”. An epiphenomenon of living is the story and those who tell it.
8:53 AM 22nd January 2022
Album Review: Aurora: The Gods We Can Touch
Jeremy Williams-Chalmers
Arts Correspondent
Aurora: The Gods We Can Touch The Forbidden Fruits of Eden; Everything Matters (ft.
3:00 AM 22nd January 2022
Album Review; Night Call Years & Years
Jeremy Williams-Chalmers
Arts Correspondent
Olly Alexander was, without any hesitation, one of 2021's most celebrated talents.
4:00 AM 19th January 2022
An Unreliable Narrator: The Outsiders By James Corbett
Steve Whitaker
Literary Editor
James Corbett’s immensely skilled and absorbingly old-fashioned storytelling does for a Liverpool in turmoil and change what Howard Spring did for a fin de siècle Bradford on the cusp of social and economic evolution.
8:29 AM 18th January 2022
Preview: Trio Klein, Skipton Music
Photo credit: Alice Lubbock
Skipton Music’s next concert at Skipton Town Hall features Trio Klein, a dynamic London-based string trio with an innovative programme spanning some 250 years from Bach to Penderecki.
2:00 AM 22nd January 2022
Still Life Worth More Than £6m At Risk Of Leaving UK
Banquet Still Life by Jan Davidsz. de Heem, which is valued at £6,109,200, is at risk of leaving the country unless a UK buyer can be found.
A temporary export bar has been placed on Banquet Still Life by Dutch artist Jan Davidsz. de Heem
1:00 AM 22nd January 2022
Remembering Meat Loaf
Back in 1977 when the music scene was a mixture of disco and punk, the thought of anyone releasing an album that contained songs considered epic, overblown and Wagner-like lasting up to nine minutes, appeared to be going against the grain. Having sold over 43 million albums worldwide Bat Out of Hell went on to become one of the most successful albums of all time.
9:38 PM 21st January 2022
Harry Styles Announces Huge Manchester Concert
Harry Styles has established himself as one of the biggest and most influential artists in music. His self-titled debut solo album became one of the world’s top-ten best selling albums of the year and had the biggest first week of sales by a male artist in history.
5:11 PM 21st January 2022
Album Review: The Sherlocks- World I Understand (Teddy Boy Records)
The Sherlocks were certainly a slow-burn overnight sensation.
1:31 PM 21st January 2022
Sophie Ellis-Bextor - The Kitchen Disco Tour Comes To The North
Sophie Ellis-Bextor will bring her Kitchen Disco from the screen to the stage this March, with her highly-anticipated Kitchen Disco Tour 2022. Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s now infamous live Instagram Kitchen Discos during Covid-19 were means of virtual escapism.
9:10 PM 18th January 2022
Interview With Steve Hackett
Graham Clark
Features Writer
Hot on the heels of his most successful solo tour ever, Steve Hackett will be touring with his i Steve Hackett Genesis Revisited - Foxtrot at Fifty + Hackett Highlights tour in the autumn. The tour will mark the 50th anniversary of the legendary Genesis album Foxtrot which, in 1972, was pivotal in establishing the band as a major force in British rock.
5:09 PM 18th January 2022
Classical Music: B-A-C-H Anatomy Of A Motif
Andrew Palmer
Group Editor
B-A-C-H Anatomy of a Motif JS Bach Contrapunctus XIV à 4 (unfinished Fugue) from Die Kunst der Fugue BWV 1080; Ricercar à 6 in C minor from the First Part ‘Regis Iussu Cantio Et Reliqua Canonica Arte Resoluta’ of Musikalisches Opfer BWV 1079; Mendelssohn Sonata on the Chorale ‘O Haupt voll Blut and Wunden’ in D minor;
5:41 AM 16th January 2022
Review: Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Jack Bottomley
Media Correspondent
We have all waited a long time for 'Ghostbusters 3’. Hell, we have waited years for a worthwhile follow-up at all really. After Something strange went on in the neighbourhood back in 1984, we could not resist wanting to see more from the ghoul-snatching gang, but director Ivan Reitman’s 1989 sequel to his own classic was - and remains - one of the most polarising movie sequels ever made.
4:00 AM 16th January 2022
WHO Knew? - The Murder Mile By Lesley McEvoy
Artis-Ann 
Features Writer
I don’t normally like psychological thrillers but this one was different and quickly captured my attention... well and truly. I knew from the start that it was an impossible scenario and that there would have to be a rational explanation, so I was happy to embark on the journey.
6:14 PM 15th January 2022
Classical Music Album: Martin Suckling – The Tuning
Martin Suckling – The Tuning Principal players of Aurora Orchestra Marta Fontanals-Simmons mezzo-soprano Christopher Glynn piano With poetry by Frances Leviston Recorded in the Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York.
3:30 AM 15th January 2022
Review: Eternals
Since “there was an idea”, all the way back in 2008, as the Marvel Cinematic Universe got started with Iron Man, Disney’s comic book juggernaut franchise has become arguably the most dominant series in modern movie-making in the decade that has followed.
2:00 AM 15th January 2022
Album Review: Elvis Costello And The Imposters - The Boy Named If
Elvis Costello and the Imposters - The Boy Named If Farewell, OK; The Boy Named If; Penelope Halfpenny; The Difference; What If I Can't Give You Anything But Love?; Paint The Red Rose Blue; Mistook Me For A Friend; My Most Beautiful Mistake (guest vocal by Nicole Atkins); Magnificent Hurt; The Man You Love To Hate; The Death Of Magic Thinking; Trick Out The…
12:10 AM 15th January 2022
Poem Of The Week: 'At The Juliet House, Verona' By Chrissy Banks
At the Juliet House, Verona You can buy a heart. Plastic, sealed with a seam. It’ll sit in your palm, unbeating. You can rub the bronze of Juliet’s right breast, wish for a new love to come to you within a year. You can stand on the balcony in blue shorts or a wedding dress and call your Romeo’s name. But the balcony was carved from an old sarcophagus for a Hollywood film of the play.
6:30 PM 14th January 2022
Interview With Tony Clarkin From Magnum
Graham Clark
Features Writer
British rock band Magnum is rightly regarded as one of the best rock bands to have come out of the UK. Their new album, The Monster Roars was released today (14th January) and is bursting with melodic and powerful rock songs as well as a few ballads that constitute what makes a fine Magnum album. I spoke to Tony Clarkin, guitarist and songwriter in the band.
12:30 AM 14th January 2022
Review: Mrs Pinto Drives To Happiness, By Reshma Ruia
Paul Spalding-Mulcock
Features Writer
“Once you label me, you negate me”…Søren Kierkegaard David Sedaris once said, “A good short story would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized now, and uneasy with the fit”. Chekhov’s short stories partly derive their visceral force from thematic accretion.
6:27 PM 12th January 2022
Swan Lake – Ballet At Its Best
Sarah Crown
Theatre Correspondent
One of the most popular of full-length classical ballets, and technically the most demanding, Swan Lake, has been performed countless times by many world-famous companies and tonight’s performance by the Russian State Ballet of Siberia did not disappoint. It was breath taking.
5:17 PM 12th January 2022
Wolf Alice Reschedule Tour
Wolf Alice has announced details for its rescheduled UK tour for February and March this year, the first UK headline shows since 2018. They were originally scheduled to take place in January. The tour will see the band performing songs from last year’s third album Blue Weekend, which reached #1 in the UK album chart.
4:20 PM 12th January 2022
Violeta By Isabel Allende - A Review
Violeta traces the life of our eponymous protagonist, born ‘one stormy Friday in 1920, the year of the scourge.’ The opening passages, depicting her country’s reaction to the Spanish flu pandemic now feel uncannily familiar – and it is perhaps this understanding that brings Violeta’s world firmly into the forefront of our imaginations.
10:39 AM 12th January 2022
Dr Francis Jackson CBE, York Minster Organist Emeritus Dies Aged 104
Internationally renowned organ recitalist, composer and former Master of Music at York Minster, Dr Francis Jackson CBE, has died at the age of 104. He died peacefully in York surrounded by family, on 10th January 2022. Born in 1917, Francis Jackson spent his childhood in the town of Malton. He first became involved in York Minster’s music as a schoolboy chorister in 1929.
11:00 PM 11th January 2022
Classical Music Album: The Florentine Renaissance Orlando Consort
The Florentine Renaissance Sung by The Orlando Consort Countertenor Matthew Venner. Tenor Mark Dobell & Angus Smith Baritone Donald Greig.
9:00 AM 9th January 2022
Neverland Gets A Politically Correct Makeover
There is a political narrative flowing beneath the bow of Captain Hook’s galleon that is sure to shiver the odd timber or two in Leeds Playhouse’s latest ‘Christmas’ (and New Year) offering: Wendy & Peter Pan. After two Covid cancellations I finally arrived in Neverland, courtesy of First Bus, not quite sure what to expect from this joint production with Tokyo’s Bunkamura.
7:00 AM 9th January 2022
Poem Of The Week: 'Hunt' By Róisin Tierney
Steve Whitaker
Literary Editor
Róisin Tierney, Image by Arc Publications
Hunt Say, as the springbok twists, say as it turns In contradictory prongs above the veld, say as it turns and twists, say as the sun burns the black earth and turns it into dust, say as the hooves electrify the air and tap the dust upwards in spiral twists, so turns the earth, so turns the yellow sun, so hefts the huntsman to his blue-barreled gun and twists to catch the springbok in it…
1:59 PM 8th January 2022
Interview: Alison Bartram Of The Heart Gallery, Hebden Bridge
Paul Spalding-Mulcock
Features Writer
The Heart Gallery
Anyone strolling through the bohemian delights of Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire is likely to benefit from the palpable, resolutely resilient creative energy which connects its denizens with each other.
5:00 AM 8th January 2022
Classical Music Album: Felix Mendelssohn The Complete Solo Piano Music Vol 6
Andrew Palmer
Group Editor
Felix Mendelssohn: The Complete Solo Piano Music Vol 6 Albumblatt in E minor ‘Lied ohne Worte’ Op 117; Lied in A minor OP19b No 2; Capriccio in E major Op 118; Perpetuum mobile in C major Op 119; Prelude and Fugue in E minor WoO13; Musical Sketches WoO19 No 1 & No 2; Reiterlied in D minor; Piano Sonata in B flat major Op 106; Lieder ohne Worte Book VII OP 85; Lieder…
4:30 AM 8th January 2022
Review: Dune
Jack Bottomley
Media Correspondent
It has been said about a great many written stories that they are “unfilmable”. Some have remained that way, but others have managed to make it to the silver screen against all odds.
2:00 AM 8th January 2022
Meeting Norwegian Trio KEiiNO
Winner's on the public vote at Eurovision 2021, Norwegian trio KEiiNO has been riding high ever since. Having re-released their stunning debut album, OKTA, as a deluxe edition featuring some of the highlights of their new releases, they close 2021 with the optimistically titled single,A New Beginning.
1:01 AM 8th January 2022
Album Review: James Blunt - The Stars Beneath My Feet (2004-2021)
James Blunt - The Stars Beneath My Feet (2004-2021) CD 1 Love Under Pressure;1973;Wisemen;Same Mistake;You’re Beautiful Monsters;Tears And Rain;Bonfire Heart;I Really Want You (live);Champions;The Truth;Heart To Heart;Postcards;No Bravery;Adrenaline CD 2 Smoke Signals;Unstoppable;Goodbye My Lover;Coz I Love You (live at Glastonbury);So…
12:01 AM 8th January 2022
A Spell For The Departed: How To Burn A Woman By Claire Askew
When John Berger indirectly suggested that Francis Bacon was a ‘prophet of a pitiless world’ it was as a mark of reconsidered respect for an artist whose percipience is made continually relevant by an extreme cogency of thinking.
1:36 PM 7th January 2022
Third Sector Leaders Commissioned To Support Kirklees Year Of Music Volunteer Initiative
Ahead of the dedicated Kirklees Year of Music in 2023, the project team organising the event has announced a new partnership with Third Sector Leaders, which has been brought on board to support their volunteer initiative.
10:27 AM 6th January 2022
Sad Cafe To Play Rare Concert In Whitby
Graham Clark
Features Writer
Manchester band Sad Cafe had their first hit in 1979 with Everyday Hurts after 3 years of constant touring and releasing albums. Now the band are visiting Whitby Pavilion on Friday 4th February - their only date in the north. The band was always popular in the north west with concerts at the Manchester Apollo selling out before the rest of the country had heard of the band.
9:30 PM 4th January 2022
Interview With Jean-Jacques Burnel From The Stranglers
Graham Clark
Features Writer
(L-R) Jean-Jacques with Baz Warne Photo: Hiroki Nishioka
From their early days as punk pioneers The Stranglers has been one of the most successful groups of the genre. The singles No More Heroes, Something Better Change and Peaches became punk classics. The band released a new album last year entitled Dark Matters, which was their eighteenth album and their first one to reach the Top Ten album chart since 1990.
1:27 PM 3rd January 2022
Classical Music Album Review: CPE Bach Sonatas & Rondos Marc-Andre Hamelin
Andrew Palmer
Group Editor
CPE Bach Sonatas & Rondos Marc-Andre Hamelin Sonata in A minor H247; Rondo in E major H265; Fantasia in C major H291; Sonata in E minor H66; Abschied von meinem Silbermannischen Claviere, in einem Rondo H272; Arioso with 9 variations in C major H259; March in G major BWVAnh124; Solfeggio in C minor; Rondo on C minor H283; Sonata in F minor H173; L’Aly Rupalich H95;…
4:00 AM 3rd January 2022
Album Review: Seth Lakeman - Make Your Mark
Graham Clark
Features Writer
Album Review: Seth Lakeman - Make your Mark (Honour Oak Records) Catalogue No: HNR4CD Hollow; The Giant; Love Will Still Remain; Bound To Someone; Make Your Mark; Coming For You Soon; Higher We Aspire; The Lark; Side By Side; Fallen Friend; Shoals To Turn; Underground; Change; Constantly.
4:00 AM 2nd January 2022
2021 Top 60 Albums 10-1
So the big moment has arrived. We’ve all experienced music in our own way over 2021, and while there have been some jaw-busting sales figures from household names over the last 12 months – commercial success is not a pre-requisite of featuring in our Top 60 Albums of 2021. So, without further ado, he are our Top 10 Albums of 2021… 10.
9:00 AM 1st January 2022
O Yes It Is! Bradford’s Favourite Panto Star -Billy Pearce
Yorkshire born Billy Pearce continues to break box office records at the Bradford Alhambra pantomime (oh yes he does!). After a two year absence from the Alhambra stage he is back playing King Billy in Sleeping Beauty. After the challenging past year we need our spirits lifting and who better, than Billy, to lighten the mood in a show that is spectacular, funny and entertaining.
2:16 PM 31st December 2021
Poem Of The Week: 'Good Riddance, But Now What?' By Ogden Nash (1902-1971)
Good Riddance, But Now What? Come, children, gather round my knee; Something is about to be. Tonight’s December thirty-first, Something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, Like a time bomb in the hall. Hark! It’s midnight, children dear. Duck!
12:56 PM 31st December 2021
Choices, We All Have Choices: Both Of You By Adele Parks
The weather having been what it has over the last week or two, and Covid having restricted activities just a little, it’s been a great opportunity to read, if only to escape yet another ‘Christmas Special’ on TV. And this book was a good one! It is a hard review to write without giving away the plot but I’ll give it a go without need of a spoiler alert!
10:41 AM 31st December 2021
New Albums To Look Forward To In 2022
Tears for Fears
Usually the first few months of the New Year are quite barren in terms of new album releases but 2022 looks set to buck that trend with a plethora of new albums to come. First up is Leeds band Yard Act releasing their debut album Overload on January 7, the post-punk band are tipped to be the next big act to break through.
10:32 PM 30th December 2021
2021 Top 60 Albums 20-11
Jeremy Williams-Chalmers
Arts Correspondent
Claire Laffut
Being able to return to the cinema and immerse ourselves in the big screen experience has been so rewarding in the post-lockdown life. With huge blockbusters from Marvel, Bond and even Paw Patrol to thrill us, we simply couldn’t resist. While we ask you to ponder your favourite film soundtrack of 2021, our own makes an appearance in the next stage of our Top 60 Albums of 2021 countdown… 20.
9:00 AM 30th December 2021
Album Review: Katie Melua - Acoustic Album No.8
Graham Clark
Features Writer
Katie Melua - Acoustic Album no.8 (BMG Records) Catalogue number 538751522 Joy (Acoustic); English Manner (Acoustic); Leaving the Mountain (Acoustic); Voices in the Night (Acoustic); Maybe I dreamt it (Feat. Simon Goff) (Acoustic); Heading Home (Acoustic); Your longing is gone (Acoustic); Airtime (Acoustic); Remind me to forget (Feat.
5:35 PM 29th December 2021
2021 Top 60 Albums 30-21
Jeremy Williams-Chalmers
Arts Correspondent
Danielle Lewis – Dreaming In Slow Motion
The rise of streaming platforms has once again dominated our viewing habits. We all found ourselves heartbroken by It’s A Sin, we crowned several new Drag Queens in the ever growing RuPaul franchises and found ourselves compellingly disturbed by the latest series of You.
10:51 AM 28th December 2021
Album Review: Ministry Of Sound - The Annual 2022
Around this time of the year Ministry of Sound release their Annual compilation which features the best dance tracks of the last twelve months: the complications are always a good barometer of where dance music is at the moment.
12:00 PM 27th December 2021
2021 Top 60 Albums 40-31
Sport played a huge part in 2021. Not only did Tom Daley finally earn his Olympic Gold, but Emma Radacanu won the US Open and football took a very large step closer to finally coming home. As we celebrated these huge achievements, we did so to the soundtrack of our albums of 2021. Our countdown continues… 40.
9:00 AM 26th December 2021
Album Review: jackie: Hey Angel
jackie: Hey Angel My Best Years; Love To Give; Right This Time (Don't Wanna Be); Leaving Tomorrow (Figure It Out); Filter; I Can't Forget The Feeling jackie is a Toronto based trio comprised of vocalist Jackie Mohr, drummer Max Trefler and guitarist Marc Girardin.
4:00 AM 26th December 2021
‘From Small Things, Greatness’: A Single Thread By Tracy Chevalier
It’s strange how books make their way to you. In this case, a passing remark to a friend about my sister-in-law hoping to join the embroiderers’ group that maintains the altar cloths at York Minster, led immediately to her offering to lend her A Single Thread.
7:06 PM 24th December 2021
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