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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent

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King Street Social Club in North Shields.
King Street Social Club in North Shields has welcomed acts such as Caribou and Daniel Avery to its stage. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

You can’t miss the King Street Social Club.

Its exterior is made up of hundreds of coloured tiles and a no-nonsense red sign that make it stand out on the North Shields street it occupies. Inside the club, which is at the centre of the former fishing community around Newcastle upon Tyne, something else is brewing.

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