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Steve Spithray

Durham, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom

Writer at Freelance

Assistant Editor at NARC.

Asst Ed NARC. | #pressonbook out now https://t.co/wvKWTscMWt | Press at @tkasg

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  • 2 weeks ago | corridor8.co.uk | Jay Drinkall |Ghada Habib |Pamela Crowe |Steve Spithray

    Fæthm, Fæþm – noun, m (nominative plural fæþmas):1. Outstretched arms; embrace, bosom. Kelham Island Museum takes its name from the spit of land it stands on, which is cradled by two arms of water just north of Sheffield city centre. The River Don is on the north side, a South Yorkshire waterway that is the central focus of fæthm. It rises in the Pennines and flows east through Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster and many towns between until it joins the Ouse in the East Riding.

  • 2 weeks ago | narcmagazine.com | Steve Spithray

    Image: Sel MacleanAs a writer of non-fiction, I was intrigued to find out more about Ruth Lyon’s relationship with words and books. Indeed, the lead single from the Newcastle indie folk singer’s debut album, Poems & Non-Fiction, is an allegorical homage, simply called Books.

  • 2 weeks ago | narcmagazine.com | Steve Spithray

    Music writers have been trying to instigate a grunge revival ever since getting sick of Britpop way back in ‘97. Well, praise the lord because Middlesbrough’s Offski have finally arrived to appease them. But that might be doing Offski a huge disservice as The Hole subtly builds from a quiet/loud homage to Smashing Pumpkins to a crunching tribute to Soundgarden.

  • 3 weeks ago | narcmagazine.com | Steve Spithray

    Newcastle’s Trev Gibb channels his best Antony And The Johnsons meets Flaming Lips inner being on King Of The Sea’s All Desire Is A Desire For Living. It’s an introspective and hopeful ambient pop track with a moving message of community built upon an oddly distorted organ (or heavily effected guitar?).

  • 1 month ago | narcmagazine.com | Steve Spithray

    When I was an art student I used to spend hours studying Cornish bays and beaches, cynically reinterpreting them as immature red, blue and green watercolours for marks. Despite this clinical quest for grades, I always found some kind of melancholic solace in the tranquillity of a place I hardly knew, of a place where romance was no longer dead but the sadness was as authentic as the fishing boats.

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Steve Spithray
Steve Spithray @underthehillss
11 Jun 25

I might be biased but I think the cover design of #pressonbook is nuts. Please judge (and buy!) this book by its cover 🤩 Order by Friday to nab one of the last few remaining physical books in time for Father’s Day from https://t.co/jHxkTCghir, or message me here… https://t.co/aDlyaQ6jFJ

Steve Spithray
Steve Spithray @underthehillss
4 Apr 25

Hello? Is anyone still here?? North East musicians - this is the last call for reviews of singles/EPs in the May issue of @narc_magazine. If you've got a release planned in May, we want to hear about it! 👉 [email protected]

Steve Spithray
Steve Spithray @underthehillss
26 Mar 25

RT @narc_magazine: 🎉 The April issue of NARC. is out now in print, online and in glorious digital format! Grab a copy from outlets across t…