Fran Yeoman
Journalism Lecturer and Writer at Freelance
Head of Journalism at LJMU. Ex-assistant ed @theipaper. Journalist when I get time. Tweets are personal views. Blue Sky: @franyeoman.bsky.social
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
northernsoul.me.uk | Fran Yeoman
In the end, the biggest act of the weekend wasn’t even on the bill. It just after noon on Saturday, as early arrivals milled around Liverpool’s Sefton Park or foot-tapped appreciatively to upcoming singer songwriter Liang Lawrence over on the BBC Introducing stage, when news emerged that the 1.15pm ‘special guest’ set would be coming courtesy of a certain Ed Sheeran.
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3 weeks ago |
northernsoul.me.uk | Fran Yeoman
There was chanting on Mersey waterfront. Chanting and stomping of feet. “Let’s go Thunder, let’s go!” (stomp, stomp). Whisper it though: Thunder are from Manchester. Nevertheless, their Netball Super League clash against Birmingham Panthers at Liverpool’s M&S Bank Arena (as nobody calls it, notwithstanding a presumably considerable sponsorship outlay) was billed as a home fixture.
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2 months ago |
northernsoul.me.uk | Fran Yeoman
The problem with rhinos is that they don’t always appreciate that there’s a major media launch happening. And so, at 9am on a chilly Monday morning, a decent chunk of the North West’s broadcast media, as well as several writers clutching notebooks, waited in vain for a glimpse of one of the star residents of Chester Zoo’s huge new Heart of Africa zone.
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2 months ago |
northernsoul.me.uk | Robert Martin |Fran Yeoman
As DaDa turns 40, Northern Soul writer and DaDa’s chair Rob Martin writes about the professional becoming personal. In 2025, one of the North’s most important arts organisations turns 40. But it might well be new to you, despite four decades of groundbreaking work, national and international collaborations, revolutionary artist development programmes, and a biennial festival which has taken place in and around Liverpool since 2001.
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Mar 9, 2025 |
northernsoul.me.uk | Desmond Bullen |Amy Stone |Fran Yeoman
It starts in flames. Flickering on the screen of an old BlackBerry, its landscape display diminishing them in scale, they could, at first glance, be part of any number of blazing bodies – logs burning with homely warmth in a living room hearth, a bonfire lit in ambiguous celebration of a failed regicide, a beacon to signal an alarm across breadth of an imperilled nation.
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