Laura Davis
@lcdavis.bsky.social
Journalist, podcaster, art & theatre lover and book addict. Writer of @www.stored-honey.com North West arts newsletter among many things
This piece by Miranda Sawyer brilliantly encapsulates the joy and eccentricity of a night at Bongo’s Bingo - and makes me want to hide in a quiet room www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...
Rave, games and showers of Coco Pops: a night out at Liverpool’s Bongo’s Bingo
The city’s madcap mix of bingo, dressing up and dancing has become a cultural phenomenon, bucking the trend of a declining UK club scene and expanding nationwide
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March 5, 2025 at 8:36 AM
This piece by Miranda Sawyer brilliantly encapsulates the joy and eccentricity of a night at Bongo’s Bingo - and makes me want to hide in a quiet room www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...
It was lovely to meet so many of the artists exhibiting at North Yorkshire Open Studios’ and Rural Arts’ exhibition Idea of North, which I’m helping with the publicity for. So much talent and interesting, diverse processes. And yes that is an enormous beetle
March 5, 2025 at 8:31 AM
It was lovely to meet so many of the artists exhibiting at North Yorkshire Open Studios’ and Rural Arts’ exhibition Idea of North, which I’m helping with the publicity for. So much talent and interesting, diverse processes. And yes that is an enormous beetle
Having a lovely time interviewing people about their memories of this incredible place - Theatr Clwyd - that will form part of a new heritage trail. It was so misty there yesterday that I couldn’t get a photo of the view - so here’s the theatre under construction
February 13, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Having a lovely time interviewing people about their memories of this incredible place - Theatr Clwyd - that will form part of a new heritage trail. It was so misty there yesterday that I couldn’t get a photo of the view - so here’s the theatre under construction
In this week’s Stored Honey, I make myself at home in Chila Kumari Singh Burman’s new exhibition at IMW North and remember a time I nearly pursued Alistair Campbell into the gents
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Corner shops and tigers
Chila Kumari Singh Burman: Chila Welcomes You at IWM North | HOME's new artist development hub | Latest NW arts news
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February 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
In this week’s Stored Honey, I make myself at home in Chila Kumari Singh Burman’s new exhibition at IMW North and remember a time I nearly pursued Alistair Campbell into the gents
www.stored-honey.com/p/chila-kuma...
www.stored-honey.com/p/chila-kuma...
Feel like I’m being haunted by the ghosts of old intros this morning. Everytime I think of a way into the article I’m writing I can hear echoes of things I’ve written before
February 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Feel like I’m being haunted by the ghosts of old intros this morning. Everytime I think of a way into the article I’m writing I can hear echoes of things I’ve written before
Loved meeting Chila Burman in her new exhibition IWM North yesterday - and chatting about her work and memories of growing up in Merseyside. The show is like being invited into someone’s home to listen to their stories
January 30, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Loved meeting Chila Burman in her new exhibition IWM North yesterday - and chatting about her work and memories of growing up in Merseyside. The show is like being invited into someone’s home to listen to their stories
If you’re a fan of Turner then this is the year for you - latest edition of @www.stored-honey.com
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Great year for lovers of landscape painting
Galleries across the North West celebrating 250 years of Turner | 5 arty skills to learn in 2025 | Latest NW arts news
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January 29, 2025 at 9:12 AM
If you’re a fan of Turner then this is the year for you - latest edition of @www.stored-honey.com
www.stored-honey.com/p/turner-250...
www.stored-honey.com/p/turner-250...
A foolish move to read A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter during some of the chilliest days of 2025 so far? Her descriptions of a year spent living in a tiny hut on the frozen Spitsbergen carry you off to that beautiful, terrifying world - but you don’t have to eat bear. It’s a win-win
January 21, 2025 at 9:27 AM
A foolish move to read A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter during some of the chilliest days of 2025 so far? Her descriptions of a year spent living in a tiny hut on the frozen Spitsbergen carry you off to that beautiful, terrifying world - but you don’t have to eat bear. It’s a win-win
Jack Frost showing off in the woods opposite our house. I can overlook ego when it’s accompanied by this level of talent
January 10, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Jack Frost showing off in the woods opposite our house. I can overlook ego when it’s accompanied by this level of talent
Given the weather, I’m dipping back into Fifty Words For Snow by Nancy Campbell. My favourites include Tykky (‘thick snow and frost that accumulates on tree branches and other structures’ - Finnish) and Cīruļputenis (‘a blizzard of skylarks’ - Latvian)
January 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Given the weather, I’m dipping back into Fifty Words For Snow by Nancy Campbell. My favourites include Tykky (‘thick snow and frost that accumulates on tree branches and other structures’ - Finnish) and Cīruļputenis (‘a blizzard of skylarks’ - Latvian)
Why do I work so much better with deadlines but also resent them?
January 9, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Why do I work so much better with deadlines but also resent them?
Liverpool folks - does anyone know if the statue of John Lennon is still at Liverpool Airport please?
January 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Liverpool folks - does anyone know if the statue of John Lennon is still at Liverpool Airport please?
We’re at that point in January when Christmas seems like a fever dream
January 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
We’re at that point in January when Christmas seems like a fever dream
Spent yesterday writing about a musician who spent six months living on a boat and now there’s only one thing stopping me from swapping life on land - no room for my towering to-read list
January 4, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Spent yesterday writing about a musician who spent six months living on a boat and now there’s only one thing stopping me from swapping life on land - no room for my towering to-read list
While I’m waiting for the inside of my car windscreen to de-ice, here’s a small diversion: a quiz on NY folklore I wrote for the BBC www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/art...
Quiz: How well do you know the UK's New Year folk traditions? - BBC Bitesize
From burning straw bears to hanging toast in trees, test your knowledge of the UK's New Year folk traditions.
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January 2, 2025 at 9:45 AM
While I’m waiting for the inside of my car windscreen to de-ice, here’s a small diversion: a quiz on NY folklore I wrote for the BBC www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/art...
Going for a walk in my old stomping ground of Formby pinewoods with some friends today. Wondering if my favourite tree has survived. Here’s a polaroid of it by Nathan Pendlebury that sits on my mantlepiece
December 29, 2024 at 11:03 AM
Going for a walk in my old stomping ground of Formby pinewoods with some friends today. Wondering if my favourite tree has survived. Here’s a polaroid of it by Nathan Pendlebury that sits on my mantlepiece
Finished my Christmas Eve book this evening: The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel. Well- constructed story of a man who chose to completely isolate himself. Provokes questions of why we are compelled to pathologise someone’s behaviour that’s different to the ‘norm’.
December 26, 2024 at 11:37 PM
Finished my Christmas Eve book this evening: The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel. Well- constructed story of a man who chose to completely isolate himself. Provokes questions of why we are compelled to pathologise someone’s behaviour that’s different to the ‘norm’.
Hope everyone who celebrates had a lovely Christmas Day - and that those having a tough time were treated kindly. After a whirlwind of family time I will mostly be catching up on Christmas TV today
December 26, 2024 at 8:53 AM
Hope everyone who celebrates had a lovely Christmas Day - and that those having a tough time were treated kindly. After a whirlwind of family time I will mostly be catching up on Christmas TV today
I’d love to know the story behind this festive photo of my grandparents and their friends/relatives (?). My grandma is in the front row with the pig and my grandad is far left at the back. He was a keen photographer so we have lots of photos from a time when it was still fairly unusual
December 24, 2024 at 9:41 AM
I’d love to know the story behind this festive photo of my grandparents and their friends/relatives (?). My grandma is in the front row with the pig and my grandad is far left at the back. He was a keen photographer so we have lots of photos from a time when it was still fairly unusual
My son just tried to burn me by saying I’m so old I had to wait for the DVD to launch when I was a kid. Erm…
December 21, 2024 at 9:02 PM
My son just tried to burn me by saying I’m so old I had to wait for the DVD to launch when I was a kid. Erm…
Happy Old Midwinter, chaps
December 21, 2024 at 11:34 AM
Happy Old Midwinter, chaps
My seven-year-old son recommended CBBC’s take on this to me yesterday. It stars Andy from Andy and the Band. There’s a version of this tale for every demographic!
This is a fascinating film. Don’t expect anything like the Alistair Sim version — it’s not as effective. But it’s interesting seeing a different approach to solving the problems Dickens’s tale presents to filmmakers.
The first British talkie version of the Dickens classic starring Sir #SeymourHicks
🎄 SCROOGE (1935) 9:30am #TPTVsubtitles co-stars #DonaldCalthrop as Bob Cratchit.
🎄 SCROOGE (1935) 9:30am #TPTVsubtitles co-stars #DonaldCalthrop as Bob Cratchit.
December 19, 2024 at 9:27 AM
My seven-year-old son recommended CBBC’s take on this to me yesterday. It stars Andy from Andy and the Band. There’s a version of this tale for every demographic!
Caught up with friends from UCLan’s Journalism Innovation and Leadership Programme a year after we finished this weekend. I miss talking to people from all over the world every week
December 16, 2024 at 8:09 AM
Caught up with friends from UCLan’s Journalism Innovation and Leadership Programme a year after we finished this weekend. I miss talking to people from all over the world every week
It was a treat to chat with @wildtwin.bsky.social for an hour for this interview in Northern Soul. If you’re still writing your letter to Santa - stick Wild Twin at the top of your Christmas list. It’s a wonderful book www.northernsoul.me.uk/interview-je...
'a poetic approach to the sediment of memory' Author Jeff Young talks to Northern Soul
There’s a man running full pelt down Winslow Street in Walton, a cardboard shoebox held out in front of him as he sprints. Watching is a four-year-old boy with a quizzical expression. Where is the man...
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December 14, 2024 at 8:32 AM
It was a treat to chat with @wildtwin.bsky.social for an hour for this interview in Northern Soul. If you’re still writing your letter to Santa - stick Wild Twin at the top of your Christmas list. It’s a wonderful book www.northernsoul.me.uk/interview-je...
Looking forward to listening to the latest @folkonfoot.bsky.social episode later. When my Dad was very sick mid-lockdown I discovered John Kirkpatrick’s Carol Chariots and found it very comforting (not to mention beautiful) podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...
A Shropshire Christmas with John Kirkpatrick
Podcast Episode · Folk on Foot · 13/12/2024 · 58m
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December 13, 2024 at 8:44 AM
Looking forward to listening to the latest @folkonfoot.bsky.social episode later. When my Dad was very sick mid-lockdown I discovered John Kirkpatrick’s Carol Chariots and found it very comforting (not to mention beautiful) podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...