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Top of the Popera is an evening of music, performance and spoken word exploring nostalgia and what it feels like to fall in love with music for the first time. Featuring: Top of the Popera by Stabbing Les: The story of one man's doomed love for analogue music technologies, in four acts. - This Is Your Tomorrow by Treva - Artist Trevor Pitt presents songs that tell the tale of alienation, sartorial glamour and teenage exile growing up on a council estate. - Dr. Guy Mankowski reads from his post-punk novel 'How I l Left the National Grid' - Music from artist and performer Edwin Li - A short talk on pop music and nostalgia by Dr. Adam Hansen (Northumbria University, founder of the Lit-Pop Book Club) A multi-disciplinary art collective (and the North East's foremost fictional band) Stabbing Les are best known for their anarchic stage shows straddling the boundary of performance art, cover band and unfulfilled aspiration.