One half of the most successful songwriting partnership in history (Lennon/McCartney), writer of a whopping 32 songs that have topped the Billboard Hot 100, recipient of an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, eighteen Grammy Awards, and appointments as a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1965 and a knighthood in 1997 for services to music, Sir Paul McCartney needs no introduction. Songwriter extraordinaire, proud Scouser and all-round good egg, Macca has made chart topping music for over six decades and recently played a career defining three hour headline slot at Glastonbury, aged 80. He’s made some of our most enduring, heartfelt and treasured contemporary recordings, and this playlist focuses on his post-Beatles career in Wings and as a solo artist, covering amazing albums such as McCartney, Ram, Band On The Run, Flaming Pie and Chaos And Creation In The Back Yard.
M&S Bank Arena Auditorium | 23 November 2025 If you ever belted out “Shine Jesus Shine” with more passion than a West
Carrie-Anne Ingrouille directs a bold new revival of the cult classic musical at the Playhouse, 3 Dec 2026 – 9 Jan 2027
Children’s literature often gets pushed to the side in the “serious” literary world—dismissed as cute, simple, or somehow less worthy of analysis
The Broken Spine is a poetry and arts collective proudly published on the coastal edge of North-West England. Founded in 2019 by Alan Parry and Paul Robert Mullen – two school friends reunited after twenty years through a mutual love of poetry.
