One of the highlights of the Manchester International Festival is a special architectural and musical creation called Music Boxes. It’s a spellbinding mini city within a city – namely the impressive Media City in Salford, the new home of the BBC Children and a host of other top media-based companies. Specially created for children aged …
Victoria Wood – That Day We Sang – Manchester International Festival: “It was joyful.”
My mum never goes to the theatre but the offer of my spare ticket for the world premiere of Victoria Wood’s musical play, That Day We Sang, was met with an instant acceptance: “Victoria Wood? Oh yes! I’ll like that.” Indeed my mum did like it. In fact, along with the sell-out audience at Manchester’s …
Blogging – so what’s all that about then?
So, after several technical glitches and an obvious lack of expertise (just yet – the site is being tweaked daily!), I am finally blogging! I will link most of my entries to the www.HuffingtonPost.co.uk which has kindly invited me to be a blogger covering entertainment and comment from the north of England. I’ll continue to …