Annelouisekershaw365
I’m Anne Louise Kershaw a freelance writer; Music Editor of Blankpages and Manchester's Finest & I write for Guardian Northerner and Clash Magazine amongst others . I'm Senior Editorial & Designer for Carel Press.
This is my blog where I write about music, theatre, fashion, arts & culture, gender & equality. Every time I blog I post a picture because i'm obsessed with my camera.
Latest Tweets
- very boring tweet I know but do like to share my baking dilemmas with everyone when there's nobody about to see my dramatics! #bakingdrama 1 day ago
- Going to use whole milk instead of the full amount of yoghurt in my soda bread. Guessing ill regret this! 1 day ago
- How is it possible not to get up and dance to Michael Jackson #smoothcriminal #dirtydiana Good choice @KevBurkeGuitar 1 day ago
- Whoever is seeing @bipolarsunshine tonight at @AntwerpMansion will have a great night!!! Gutted I can't catch any of his Manchester dates :( 3 days ago
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Recent Posts
- Exclusive interview with Skin from Skunk Anansie
- Twitter: Procrastination, productivity and pain
- The drawbacks of Twitter bitching
- The Accrington Pals, Royal Exchange Manchester. Bitter, brutal and beautiful!
- Rats’ Tales at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre
- The Country Wife at the Royal Exchange
- I interview Shell Zenner – The godmother of new music
- Bringing classical music out of the concert hall and into the art world!
- I discuss ‘Madchester’ with Dave Haslam
- Blank Media Collective Projector Series
Category Archives: Art
Bringing classical music out of the concert hall and into the art world!
Following a fantastic summer of arts in Manchester, three students plan to further expand the musical and artistic landscape of the city. For the social butterflies amongst us, summer has been wonderfully rammed with artistic excitement. Organisations like Blank Media … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Music
Tagged Blank Media Collective, Classical Music, Guardian Northerner, Music, RNCM
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Blank Media Collective Projector Series
Anyone even semi-familiar with the Manchester art scene will be more than aware of Blank Media Collective. Whether it be in their Blankspace gallery on Hulme St, in their magazine Blankpages or on their website, Blank Media Collective have, since … Continue reading
Inside Exhibition at Blank Space
Manchester, the lovely city I live in, offers no end of fantastic and, usually, free art, to indulge in. Curators, practitioners and viewers range from the well versed and experienced, to the cutting-edge and emerging. It seems there is room … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Reviews
Tagged Art, Blank Media Collective, Blank Space, blankpages, Exhibition, Inside, Manchester
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The Gospel According to….. (Part 1) – 30th Anniversary of The Smiths at the Holden Gallery
This spring marks the 30th anniversary of one of the most critically acclaimed and influential bands in modern musical history, The Smiths. What better way to celebrate the musical mark they have made than with a singing, refrigerated bear, a … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Music, Reviews
Tagged 30th Anniversary, Andrew Bracey, Brave Music Agency, Cornerhouse, CUBE, Diana, Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, it carries the sound, Jan Timme, Jane Anderson, Jeremy Deller, Last Harbour, Lucienne Cole, Manchester, Mike Joyce, Morrissey, National Portrait Gallery, Salford Lads Club, Stephen Wright, The Gospel According To... (Part 1), The Holden Gallery, The Independent Online, The Queen Is Dead, The Smiths, This Charming Man, Your heart
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Women affected by the cuts still have ‘Bags of Attitude’
Getting ready to go out to the Bags of Attitude exhibition this morning, I spotted a facebook ‘friend’ casually criticising the orientation and body size of feminists. Following a swift report, block, delete (if only real life were that simple) … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Gender & Equality, Reviews
Tagged Bags of Attitude, Charlotte Newson, Claire Mooney, Gender, Oxfam, poverty, Spending cuts, The Pankhurst Centre, Women
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Exemplar: Joy Division exhibition by Kevin Cummins at Manchester Photographic Gallery
Amidst a week of ‘back to work’ and ‘January blues’ tweets came a sudden and unavoidable buzz amongst the creative Mancs in my network (in particular Debbie Manley who is the ‘what’s on’ font of all Mancunian knowledge. Statuses and … Continue reading
54 – Exit Through the Gift Shop – Banksy’s bluff, bollocks & bloody genius!
54/311 A hoax or not a hoax… who the hell cares? As one of the many Banksy cohorts says near the end of Exit Through the Gift Shop “The joke is on… I don’t even know if there is a … Continue reading
47 – London Fashion Week; plus-size, androgyny and glamour
47/318 London Fashion Week is drawing to a close – the event that has been hogging our fashion mag spreads and arts & culture headlines. Whilst I would like to say I am so in the know that I have … Continue reading
45 – Alexander McQueen’s Savage Beauty
45/320 Today I saw a picture preview (courtesy of the BBC) of some of Alexander McQueen’s fantastic designs soon to be displayed at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Organized by The Costume Institute, around 100 items are to make … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Fashion
Tagged Alexander McQueen, Art, BBC, Central St Martins College of Art, Depeche Mode, Electronica, Exhibition, Fashion, Feathers, Gaisha, Gary Numan, Gimp, Life by the Drop, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Savage Beauty, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Thomas P Campbell, Wuthering Heights
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40 – Banksy – The soap opera of art
40/325 In Banksy goes to Hollywood in The Independent today was the news that the graffiti artist has again crossed the pond. As the Oscars draw closer, for which his film Exit Through the Gift Shop is nominated for Best … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Pop Culture, TV
Tagged Banksy, Charlie Brown, Child Soldier, Documentary, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Film, Hollywood, LA, Melrose and Fairfax, Oscars
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