Stan Graham's Leisure Guide for North and West Yorkshire
Well, LeedsBID have only gone and done it again! After turning the city centre into a giant MONOPOLY game in 2024 and then Wonderland in 2025, 2026 sees them tackle Trivial Pursuit. The aim is the same, in that people are challenged with visiting various landmarks in order to answer a question and fill in…
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It’s not often I get to review a film so this was quite a nice change. OK, so it wasn’t a multibillion pound IMAX Hollywood action movie featuring every star in the galaxy, but a short whose main characters were every bit as impressive as Tom Cruise riding a motorcycle over the rim of a…
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Kiele Sacco, or Ki as she is known to her friends, and me, is an American harpsichordist based at Morley College, London, specialising in historical performance and early music. The concert began at 1.00pm which I suppose is pretty early really. The programme, being works from Renaissance England to refined French Baroque was perfectly suited…
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This is my second Yorkshire Fringe event and one which I hadn’t planned on seeing, until a friend of mine said that she had been speaking to a mate at New Headingley Club, who thought I might like to go along to review it. The reason I didn’t put it on my ‘must see’ list…
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This was my first taste of a Yorkshire Fringe event, and what a great way to start. The venue was small and intimate, which was perfectly suited to the theme of the work; the relationship between a man and a woman, played out in their home. At times it felt that we were being quite…
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In 1965, when I was 15, I used to get the New Musical Express every Friday to check on my favourite acts. The LP chart was mainly occupied by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones until, one week, 17th April, The Sound of Music Soundtrack suddenly appeared, rubbing shoulders with the aforementioned groups, The Pretty…
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Thursday, 3rd July, 2026 saw the official launch of the inaugural Yorkshire Fringe. To celebrate this eight-day long series of events throughout the county, we were gathered in Leeds Conservatoire for a briefing, some snippets from the works on offer and a networking opportunity for those in the various strands of the arts featured to…
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There can be fewer more incongruous places to hold a Baroque concert than The Old Woollen at Farsley, especially one dedicated to music from the Restoration Theatre. This was the period immediately following the restoration of the Monarchy – obviously – after the rule of Oliver Cromwell and The Protectorate, who later went on to…
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I usually try to post my reviews within a couple of days of seeing the work, but, as this play runs until 11th July, and I don’t have an editor screaming at me, I thought I would take an extra day or two to do it justice. It is always difficult reviewing a piece which…
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Now here is a useless fact about ABBA, only tenuously connected with this show. Before curtain-up, there was the usual reminder regarding mobile phones etc, before a trigger warning that the show contained platform boots and white lycra. The reason that they wore such outlandish outfits was not a fashion statement per se, but came…
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Tyke It To The Limit 