Stan Graham's Leisure Guide for North and West Yorkshire
This morning I received a text purporting to be from the NHS inviting me to follow a link to receive my on-line Covid Passport. Whilst it looks totally genuine, after my experience last night I feel a bit wary about taking things at face value. I don’t want to become prey to scammers and end…
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It is not often that I come home after spending part of the morning being spoken to by a bridge. If you are going to have a river crossing talk to you then you could do worse than make it Crown Point Bridge. This area is the hub of the Leeds waterway. The River Aire,…
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I hate being late for anything, so much so that when I have to be somewhere I always catch the bus before the one I need. I was so pleased to be going back to the theatre on Saturday that I didn’t go for the bus before the one I needed, I didn’t even go…
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How about a trip to The Tetley this Easter. OK, we can’t go in person just yet, but thanks to modern technology, we can have a private viewing of this new exhibition by Mel Brimfield. I’m not talking about a series of photographs of the items on display but a 3D interactive tour complete with…
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I went to see this production in sombre mood after having been out for lunch the previous day to what was my local pub when I lived at Candle House in Granary Wharf. It was 1.45pm on a Friday so I had booked a table but when I arrived I entered to the sound of…
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The rapper and playwright Testament gave a performance with members of the Orchestra of Opera North and the result was stunning. Could it be the world’s first Hip Hopera? I have to say that even at the tender age of 71 I am quite the fan of rap now that it has evolved into a…
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Samuel Beckett is one of the quirkiest playwrights of his, or any other, time. Although he was Irish he wrote his early plays in French and one of his works featured the leading actress buried up to her waist throughout the performance. Even he would be surprised at the way this performance panned out. Krapp’s…
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It is not every day that I get to go to the world premier of a classical music piece but on Sunday, 23rd February I had just that privilege. The setting was Huddersfield Town Hall and the piece in question was Arya by Jasdeep Singh Degun. It is described as A Concerto for Sitar and…
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Tyke It To The Limit 