The NeneQuirer

No Hipster guilt here – supporting your local cafe is about community and a decent cuppa

January 12, 2018 // 0 Comments

A regular visit to an artisan coffee shop and bakery might sound like an extravagance in these straitened times, but it’s worth so much more than a one-off treat. It’s a [...]

Fabulous fine dining in theatre’s top room – Hibiscus, Northampton review

November 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

Penda had been looking forward to this. A promise of an up-market dining experience in Northampton for less than £30 a head? Yes please. Hibiscus is tucked away upstairs in [...]

Review: Education Education Education, Royal and Derngate, Northampton

October 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

By Hilary Scott. @nosylocaljourno Twenty years ago, in 1997, I interviewed the relatively unknown Tony Blair as he was campaigning in Northampton. It was just before the [...]

Finding yourself in Skegness

October 23, 2012 // 1 Comment

Wrangle, Leake and Drainside pass by as I drive. Small settlements and thoroughfares with names that remind me England can still be remote and unusual. It’s a surprise [...]

Being bombarded

September 13, 2011 // 0 Comments

Being shelled, the way I was shelled, was a bit like having high explosive hiccups. There was a long enough pause between each blast to make me wonder if that last one was [...]

Cherie immediately created a buzz, flirting her way through us like a knife through butter. I was surprised by how curvy she looked. My photographer for the job was a young lad who had arrived in a leather biker's jacket and Cherie homed in on him. [...]

Will Self interview 2006

February 14, 2006 // 0 Comments

IF you type the name of novelist, satirist and journalist Will Self into an internet search engine, apart from sites dedicated to the man himself you will find several [...]

Howard Marks interview 2004

November 12, 2004 // 0 Comments

HOWARD MARKS is a 59-year-old nuclear physicist but that’s not why theatres across the country have been selling out when he arrives to perform his spoken word [...]

Alan Moore interview 2003

October 20, 2003 // 0 Comments

ALAN MOORE is not talking about his book The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. This might seem strange of the Northampton author because the Hollywood film version, starring [...]

Why you can now believe in Ghosts

April 25, 2019 // 0 Comments

What a night of degenerate filth. It was quite superb. The new Made in Northampton production at the Royal Theatre in Northampton is Ibsen’s Ghosts. It’s first [...]

Gripped by the Cobblers: NTFC needs proper investment

April 24, 2019 // 0 Comments

Northampton Town’s financial statements for the year ending June 2018 were depressing if not unexpected. A club cannot go through the upheaval of the ill-fated Chinese [...]

The NeneQuirer Digital Edition for April 2019

April 23, 2019 // 0 Comments

Here is the digital edition of the April 2019 NeneQuirer [...]

The rise and fall and rise of Northampton

April 20, 2019 // 0 Comments

Mike Ingram takes a look at the ups and downs of Northampton throughout history from the medieval solution for empty buildings to dirty politicians and when the shoe trade [...]

Cobblers slice open the Silkmen but style of play remains rough

April 20, 2019 // 0 Comments

“If you tolerate this, then your children will be next” sang The Manic Street Preachers. Such a phrase could also be apt for the football on offer at Sixfields [...]

The battle to stop our history turning into dust

April 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

When Edward I’s queen, Eleanor died in 1290 at Harby, her viscera, less her heart, were sent to the Angel Choir of Lincoln Cathedral for burial, and her body was then taken [...]

The ever humble Joe Martin

April 17, 2019 // 0 Comments

Renowned previously as the enigmatic, hip-shakin’ frontman of punk-rock group, The Mobbs, Joe Martin, aka Joe Go Loco, has adorned a Chuck Berry stance, and formed new [...]

Pollock the player to build around as Cobblers hunt down Stags

April 14, 2019 // 0 Comments

Cobblers claimed a creditable point from promotion chasing Mansfield on Saturday but it was the performance of 18 year-old Scott Pollock that caught the eye, writes Tom Reed. [...]

The psychedlic road movie that started at NSB

April 9, 2019 // 0 Comments

A shimmering lake surrounded by mountains, fresh air palpable. A small red rucksack catches my eye in the corner of a field. It’s my corporate screensaver but something [...]

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