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Tees music scene review, gig guide and gig photos from Off The Beat - June 2023 edition. This is a little bi-weekly what's on, review and photo blog that hopefully helps support a live music scene that is many ways still recovering from a ravaging from covid, recession and austerity. We hope...

Last Friday was a massive date in the history of Middlesbrough Women, becoming officially part of Middlesbrough Football Club and appointing a new full time manager Mick Mulhern. Mick was the man that guided the women's team at Sunderland for almost a decade and a half in which he steered the...

Tackle This? The Biography of Football Hardman Mick Kennedy by Johnny Meynell – Legends Publishing Biography of Mick Kennedy – Boro, Pompey and Rep of Ireland midfielder. (Born 9 April 1961 – Died 9 February 2019) Right Place Wrong Time would perhaps be the best phrase to sum up tough...

A wonderful little festival, Songs From Northern Britain showcases the brightest new talent from either side of the Anglo-Scottish border and rounds them all up to entertain audiences in the Georgian Theatre and Green Room, Stockton. Jointly promoted by The Kids Are Solid Gold and Tees Music...

No. 1 of Off The Beat - a new bi-weekly music review/listings from Tracy Hyman and Robert Nichols. Once, many moons ago we combined Tracy's photos and my words in a weekly review in the Evening Gazette - now we have revived the format to do our little bit to bring some extra profile to the...

And so it all comes crashing down. Not on the crisp turf of Wembley, as perhaps seemed the stronger possibility, but at fortress Riverside. It seemed like a statistical improbability. Not only had we not failed to score in a single game there in Michael Carrick’s tenure as Middlesbrough...

No. 1 of Off The Beat - a new bi-weekly music review/listings from Tracy Hyman and Robert Nichols. Once, many moons ago we combined Tracy's photos and my words in a weekly review in the Evening Gazette - now we have revived the format to do our little bit to bring some extra profile to the live...

Fmttm Issue 636 v Coventry City - possibly the first of three games in a row against the Sky Blues - important interview inside with Dr Judith Gates - Head for Change; Unpleasant End of Term Exam; The Many Moods of Michael: Upwards and Onwards Boro in the play offs etc etc. And so...