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Tyne Idols Dates and Times for 2013
Festival of the North East - Tyne Icons Tour
A series of 3 hour tours around places of interest and connected to the heritage of the area, to be celebrated in June 2013 under the banner of the ‘Festival of the North East’, will be conducted by TyneIcons and organised by TyneIdols
Tours will be undertaken in a Routemaster London Bus with PA and commentary provided by Visit England Tourism Superstar 2012, Alan Fidler of EastCoast Tours.
The format will be similar to the highly popular TyneIdols musical and cultural heritage tours operated for the past three years.
A double-deck bus with hard top and sound PA system will take customers on a tour of important places of interest connected to a series of historical events/important locations in the history of the Newcastle and Gateshead area, with particular reference to the great Tyneside inventors of the Victorian era, who gave us many of the inventions that would change the life of people all over the world – George Stephenson – railway locomotives; Lord Armstrong – hydraulic power, armaments and water supplies for the city; Sir Joseph Swan – the incandescent light; Sir Charles Parsons – the steam turbine for electricity generation and ship propulsion.
Tours will be accompanied by musical references to the development of Tyneside and its industrial heritage.
Sunday 2nd June at 11.00
Festival of the North East
Tyne Icons Tour
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Tuesday 4th June at 11.00
Festival of the North East
Tyne Icons Tour
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The Lindisfarne Tour - unfortunately both tours have been cancelled for personal reasons.
The Lindisfarne Story is a concert celebrating the music and high times of Tyneside's most well-loved group and is being presented at Newcastle City Hall on 8th June.Tyne Idols have collaborated with the show's producer's and are presenting two special Tyne Idols Lindisfarne tours the day after, Sunday 9th June. In the late 1960's and early 1970's Tyneside was bursting with music makers, film makers and venues of all sizes. Tyneside was the catalyst that helped to create Lindisfarne's music.Find out what it was like to be part of that vibrant Geordie scene. Guided by Lindisfarne's Ray Laidlaw.The tour leaves from our usual bus stop outside of the Royal Station Hotel at the Central Station in Newcastle.
Sunday 9th June at 11.00
Lindisfarne Tour with Ray Laidlaw
Sunday 9th June at 15.00
Lindisfarne Tour with Ray Laidlaw
Tyne Idols Music and Movie Heritage Tours of NewcastleGateshead
Join us for a three hour tour of the music, movie and televisual history of NewcastleGateshead onboard our rather well know London Routemaster bus. Our history of the genre is peppered with anecdotes that only chaps who were part of the scene are authorised to share so with Ray Laidlaw or Chris Phipps we will not be short of a tale or two.Our guides on the tours are:Ray Laidlaw, drummer with legendary Lindisfarne and now involved in the production side of all things musical and creative.Chris Phipps, a name linked with over three decades of music on television including co-producer of Tyne Tees Televisions 'The Tube'
Bank Holiday Monday 6th May at 15.00
Tyne Idols Music & Movie Heritage Tour
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Sunday 16th June
Fathers Day at 15.00
Tyne Idols Music & Movie Heritage Tour
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Bank Holiday Monday
26th August at 15.00
Tyne Idols Music & Movie Heritage Tour
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EXPLORE MUSIC
BRITISH LIGHT ORCHESTRAL MUSIC - THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES
TUESDAY JULY 2 2013
SQUIRES SEMINAR ROOM SAGE GATESHEAD
7PM
TICKETS £7 @ SAGE BOX OFFICE
Music historian Chris Phipps takes a personal trip through the golden age of British Light Music composers who have left an indelible melodic mark on our lives ,often without credit.
The event marks the 60th Anniversary of the death of Arthur Wood, whose "Barwick Green" movement from his suite "My Native Heath" has been immortalised as signature tune to the world's longest running radio soap opera - "The Archers".. Chris will be showcasing rarely heard Wood compositions as well as revealing the iconic tv,radio and film scorers who gave us everything from the "Dam Busters" to "Hancock's Half Hour" .Chris' previous talks have both been complete sell -outs.
indulge!
Our Tariff
Bus Tour — £15.00
(£12.00 Concessionary)
River Cruise — £25.00
Event & Bus Tour Package — £23.00
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