Annelouisekershaw365
I’m Anne Louise Kershaw, Music Editor of Blankpages and Manchester's Finest.
This is my blog where I write about popular culture, specialising in music, fashion, theatre, gender & equality issues.
Every time I blog I post a picture because i'm obsessed with my camera.
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Recent Posts
- Miss Julie at The Royal Exchange – Electrically charged and beautifully bleak
- Inside Exhibition at Blank Space
- No Ceremony – just music worth making a fuss about
- Vivienne Westwood Spring/Summer collection in Selfridges – not fast fashion, but trashy/clashy style!
- The Gospel According to….. (Part 1) – 30th Anniversary of The Smiths at the Holden Gallery
- The Slow Show Brother EP – both summer and shade and beautifully rueful
- Ren Harvieu & the album launch at Matt and Phred’s Manchester
- Saturday Night And Sunday Morning at The Royal Exchange – exhilarating, sharp and real!
- It was The Slow Show – and delightfully so!
- Women affected by the cuts still have ‘Bags of Attitude’
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Tag Archives: Manchester
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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No Ceremony – just music worth making a fuss about
Having been sat waiting for a great new band/artist to come along for what seems like an aural age, suddenly three come along at once. One of these is No Ceremony. Now I know they’re from Manchester (as everyone who … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged CPR Agency, Electronic, Manchester, Music, No Ceremony, Review, Scott & Baily, The Rough Guide To Berlin, youtube
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Vivienne Westwood Spring/Summer collection in Selfridges – not fast fashion, but trashy/clashy style!
Ooh I do love a bit of Vivienne Westwood. Very much like Alexander McQueen’s designs in ethic, Vivienne Westwood’s are ultimately, at their core, a little bit scruffy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know – exquisite tailoring, beautiful bold pattern, supreme … Continue reading
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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Edward II at the Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester – A review.
It is surely a challenge for any director, to make a play, first performed over four centuries ago, understandable and relevant to a modern day audience. Yet, under Toby Frow’s direction, Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II at the Royal Exchange Theatre, … Continue reading
Posted in Film & Theatre, Reviews
Tagged 1950s, Chris New, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, Emma Cunliffe, Fleet Foxes, Gaveston, Isabelle of France, Jolyon Coy, King's Speech, Mad Men, Manchester, Mortimer, On The Road, Red Wine, Royal Exchange Theatre, Samuel Collings, Simon & Garfunkel, Toby Frow
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115 – The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart live at Sound Control 10th June 2011
115/250 Having been listening to Belong by The Pains of Being Pure At Heart on repeat for well over a month now (nicely alternated with Feel It Break by Austra, another on my must see list), I was as giddy … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Reviews
Tagged 10th June 2011, Austra, Band, Belong, Bjork, Fanzine, Feel It Break, Fender Telecaster, Gig, Gigs, G`olden Glow, Kate Hogg, King Kayak, Lady Behave, Manchester, More Dash Than Cash, Music, Sound Control, Tailor Bird, The Pains of Being pure at Heart, Vogue, Volta
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85 – Keep on running! No, more than that lazy!
85/280 I’ve mentioned it to pretty much everyone I know because I am not modest or unmartyr-ey and appreciate acknowledgement for my pains and efforts. This year I am running the Bupa 10k Great Manchester run for Anti-Slavery International. Now … Continue reading
Posted in Health & fitness
Tagged Bupa 10k, Dire Straits, Great Manchester Run, Manchester, Money for Nothing, Running
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