5:39pm Tuesday 11th November 2008
POPSTARS Girls Aloud are to perform in the region next year.
5:35pm Thursday 16th October 2008
BOSS Sounds festival of reggae is back on Tyneside this weekend celebrating Black History Month in fine style with a line-up of both classic reggae names and newcomers.
4:40pm Thursday 9th October 2008
THE Killers will be touring to the MetroRadio Arena, Newcastle on March 7.
4:15pm Friday 3rd October 2008
AGIRLBAND from the North- East, formed in two months, have sung their way to the regional final of the Idol 2008 competition by performing a Red Hot Chili Peppers song in an earlier round.
4:16pm Friday 3rd October 2008
SHARLEEN Spiteri has announced her debut solo UK tour, which takes in Newcastle City Hall on January 29, Box Office 0191- 261-2606 and Harrogate International Centre on February 2, 0845 130 8840.
12:35pm Friday 22nd August 2008
Jim Entwistle looks at the attractions of this weekend’s Leeds Festival.
12:13pm Friday 22nd August 2008
PETE Gilgan and Neil Hunter met at Middlesbrough College of Art, and typically, formed a band.
10:42am Friday 11th July 2008
UP and coming rock band The Hold Steady play in the North-East tonight (Friday July 11).
6:08pm Thursday 26th June 2008
THIS Saturday, Bishop Auckland College marks its 50th anniversary with a free Live Outdoor Music and Arts Festival.
5:42pm Thursday 19th June 2008
MUSIC lovers are being offered a treat with one of the most fun and influential bands to come out of Manchester visiting the region.
Actor Bruce Byron, who plays tough guy DC Terry Perkins in The Bill, tells Hannah Stephenson how he sought therapy for his self-hatred and poor body image before learning to tackle his weight problem.
TEN years is a long time in the editor’s chair – probably too long. An eventful decade as editor of The Northern Echo passed for me yesterday, so I thought I’d mark the milestone by looking back at some of the headlines in the paper on the day I took over.
Piers Browne is bursting with creativity and ideas. Ruth Campbell visits the Wensleydale artist at his remote hilltop studio where he paints, writes and composes music and is now busy working on huge seascapes which are full of light and movement
LIKE the detective she plays in Lynda La Plante’s new drama Above Suspicion, actress Kelly Reilly briefly contemplated following in her father’s footsteps and joining the police force.
WE are entering a year in which we have repeatedly been told we will all have to make sacrifices.
AN immediate ceasefire in Gaza is the only way to start to bring a peaceful future to this troubled part of the world.
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