As well as promoting live music I write for Rocking Magpie.
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NARC/Ouseburn Festival 2022
Newcastle
Despite the ubiquity of online music content today, I confess to a liking, no … to be honest, a genuine preference for its analogue bedfellow; old-fashioned ink on paper.
Newcastle’s NARC magazine is now 185 issues old, so by my reckoning for the last 15 years, they have been the independent reference point for alternative music, art, literature, comedy, film, theatre and culture in the North East.
In fact, I’m underselling NARC here – they do loads more than just publish a monthly FREE magazine, they have an online TV channel, an excellent website and are across all the social media sites. They also release an annual free compilation download on Bandcamp, and importantly for this live music aficionado they put stuff on.
Case in point; a stage outside The Cumberland Arms on a sunny July afternoon, which was their contribution to the 2022 Ouseburn…
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