The 2014 AV Festival begins today across the north east of England with one of the main venues being Sunderland’s Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art. This year’s theme is Extraction with the AV Festival describing it as art and video, which explores the raw materials that create our experience of […]
Pop Recs LTD have announced what will be arguably their biggest gig to date as Scottish indie rockers Franz Ferdinand play the shop on Thursday March 27th. In what is undoubtedly a major coup for Pop Recs and the Sunderland music scene, Franz Ferdinand, most famous for their 2004 single […]
Three new acts have been announced for this year’s North East Live at the Stadium of Light. Katy B, girl group Neon Jungle, and newcomers Rixton have just been confirmed for the event which is taking place on June 22. They will join headline act Jessie J, Jason Derulo, Rizzle […]
Sunderland is hosting one of the UK’s biggest jazz festivals with over 600 musicians gathering in the city next week. The Great North Big Band Jazz Festival is coming to the city for 11th successive year on Friday, February 28 and will last until Sunday, March 2. It is estimated […]
Sunderland based music organisation, The Bunker, has launched a ten week Rock School project for a group of young carers. The Young Carers Can, part of the The Carers Trust, has provided funding for up to 16 young carers, aged between 11-13, to attend Rock School, where they will […]
The North East Comic Book Festival, the first Comic Con in Sunderland, is to take place in the city this summer. The new event will be held at Sunderland Software Centre on August 9-10, where it will see comic book writers, artists and creators attend from all over Britain, making the North East […]
Forty five Sunderland University students are leaving to visit the European Parliament in Brussels on Friday thanks to a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the North East Stephen Hughes. The students will be visiting the European Parliament (EP) on February 18 where they will be welcomed by Mr […]
Nick Clark and Amy Bruce Young writers are to get the chance to win free tickets to a ‘spectacular’ summer concert at the Stadium of Light. Full-time students from North East secondary schools, colleges and universities are being asked to submit mock reviews of the North East Live 2014 event […]
After taking 2013 off, Split Festival is back and it has been announced that the event will take place on August 9-10. This news will definitely please music lovers in the area, who have been treated to the likes of The Charlatans, Maximo Park and Johnny Rotten over the past […]
Sunderland is one of only six cities in the UK to hold the 5k fun Color Run. The registration for the ‘the happiest 5k on the planet’, run by Dulux, opened at 9am on Friday in the city. Forty per cent of the tickets were sold out within just three hours. […]