James on tour supporting a greatest hits compilation, supported by Doves who are also releasing a greatest hits compilation? That’s a hard yes!! #newcastlearena@wearejames.bsky.social@dovesofficial.bsky.social
On this day in 1987, The Smiths released their fourth and final album “Strangeways here we come”. The cover shows the face of actor Richard Davalos in a scene from the 1955 film East Of Eden . In the original photo, Davalos is looking at actor James Dean.
#nowwatching Sean Baker has a trend of bolstering socially “unwelcome” characters and making them sympathetic, and with this new film, I believe he’s found the perfect formula for that. A brilliant exploration of love, laughter longing, laughter and the complexities of human connection. Superb
Every time I come across this photo it completely stops me in my tracks. Crude oil supertanker Esso Hibernia under construction at Swan Hunter shipyard, Wallsend, during 1970. The scale and spectacle of this thing is incomprehensible. (📸 Harriet Berney)
So Advance UK decided to march to an Asylum seekers hotel in Newcastle 100 of them turned up. 3000 people turned up not to let them . They forget that on 13 November 1967, Newcastle University gave Dr Martin Luther King an honorary degree; the only UK university to do so during his lifetime.
