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International Venue Week was more important than ever this year - so many live music venues are closing or turning away from keeping it live. What happened Tees-wise and Darlo seemed a real success. Read our review and photos and also see what the fortnight ahead holds for live music locally...
As much as the Chelsea mauling was a real sobering affair, as things stand, I’m rather positive about Boro right now.
Of course, missing out on Wembley is a blow, but the fact we were even in with a shout as we entered the 2ndleg at Stamford Bridge is ridiculous. Not half as ridiculous as some...
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Avoid Sunday morning shopping - you can buy the fanzine now - sent out in the post.
A review with photos of a fabulous set of gigs and wokshops for Peterlee new town's 75th birthday.
It was an amazing line-up. A who's who of north eastern live music performers. Many of the songwriters also took workshops with Peterlee school children. Their compositions were then performed live...
Tracy took the photos, compiled the gig listings and reviewed Benefits the band in their epic tour ending gig at Middlesbrough Town Hall Crypt - so please do pause to take a look as it took her a fair while to do this.
Off The Beat is a means to and end - promote the local live music scene as we...
Companion to Issue 642 v Aston Villa in FA Cup 3rd Round + Boro press conference.
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Get Up For The Cup with our special FA Cup issue v Aston Villa.
The magic of the 3rd Round - Up The Boro
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Cattle &.Cane xmas gig with Jodie Nicholson - Dead Voices on Air - and a remarkable come back after 36 years!
I review these gigs. Tracy takes the photos and we look ahead to a fantastic musical Chistmas. Keep the music live by the Tees.
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With added Michael Carrick press conference interview.
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Escape To Victory we hope.
Issue features tribute to Teesside Tel - Terry Venables by Tosh Warwick. Anthony Vickers talks with Thomas Bartley about his new Boro book - The Games That Shaped The Boro. This issue's Boro Nemesis is Robbie Savage. Daniel Johnson looks back at Boro's play off victory...
“UNCOVERING A TREASURE TROVE OF CLOUGHIE STORIES”
The remarkable goal-scoring record of former Middlesbrough striker Brian Clough is remembered in a new book which will remind Boro fans of Cloughie’s cheeky humour.
‘Brian Clough The Lost Tapes’ includes newly-uncovered quotes from the...
Songs From Northern Britain - reviewed and photo'd.
+ Tees Gig Guide for the 1st two weeks of December when there are loads of gig to see.
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Industrial Coast have brought superb live music and musicians from all over the world to Middlesbrough over the past 12 months.
Here a performer from Germany was live at Off The Ground Coffee Shop in Grange Road - but it was also a platform for poet/activist Julie Easley and a debut for punky...
Q: How much do you think we have learned as a squad from the last three games, the defeat to Stoke and then playing away at Exeter, the character needed there and then Plymouth, the back and forth in that game?
MC: Yeah hopefully a lot. Sometimes it takes a little set-back to move forward, you...
November 1988 to November 2023 - Not Out.
640th edition - Boro v Leicester City includes some Fly Me nostalgia and a cracking cover from Big City Paddy D.
You can snap it up now and beat the Saturday rush..
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Twisterella - one of the most vibrant, exciting day in the Middlesbrough calendar. Live music takeover of the town centre.
This year Avalanche Party, Opus Kink, Irked and Dutch Uncles were amongst the stand out acts - reviewed here with photos -...
Middlesbrough Art Week has been fabulous - expanded out from a weekender for the first time this year and what a success the inaugural Tees Folk night was at The Globe, Stockton. The Young 'uns, Kris Drever, Megson and Amelia Coburn. What a lineup. Surely this will become an annual event...
Off The Beat #11 - a round up of all the gigs across Teesside for the next fortnight and as we kick on into autumn this is where things start to get busy and so now is the time to step out and take in some live music.
We kick off with a review of BBC Introducing at Middlesbrough Town Hall Crypt...
Fantastic little one day annual festival at stages clustered around the mainline railway station in Darlington.
This year, for the first time the main Hippodrome Theatre stage was one of those venues.
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