BEHIND the closed doors of a certain office tucked away in the upstairs of Leeds University Union, big things are happening. Phones are constantly picked up, meetings scheduled and emails monitored in a hawk-like among […]
Discoveries and Exploration: A Modern Adventure
Reading the word “discoveries” and “exploration”, it is difficult to not conceive images of impressive galleys out at sea and intrepid middle-aged men in beige and khaki. This is part of a portrait of history […]
Wetland Futures 2015
What do you get if you cross a sheep with a starfish? Sheepfish? Shish? Steep? No, a solution to water policy. The high moorlands of the UK are home to thousands of sheep, all respiring, […]
Weekly Chart – Harry’s Picks
Don Armando – Deputy Of Love Regularly played by Derrick Carter, this disco classic keeps getting better and better throughout. Don Armando, a spin off of Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band with vocals by […]
Review – Just A Little Downtown Boogie
With Disco making a popular come back over the last year, it seemed only fitting for Just a Little to host ‘Downtown Boogie’, a night filled with disco balls and flares to get the Saturday […]
Review – Headrow House Opening
As we queued in the late afternoon sun outside Headrow House there was a gentle hum of excitement for this, the opening party, for a brand new venue: a the ultimate culmination of art, music, beer and […]
‘Bigorexia’: When fitness goes too far.
The Gryphon explores the crippling effects that newly coined ‘Bigorexia’ disorder can have. The pressure to look good has often been seen as exclusively a women’s issue. However, with the new pressure on men, particularly the […]
Music Complete by New Order
Back with their tenth studio album, their first since 2005’s Waiting For The Siren’s Call, dance royalty New Order are back with an album that sees a return to their classic electronic pop style. Music Complete sees […]
Rub By Peaches
On first listen, Rub is a frightening mixture of confident electronic beats and aggressively sexual lyrics; unashamedly attention seeking, the album boasts tracks titled ‘Vaginoplasty’, ‘Dumb Fuck’ and ‘How you like my Cut’ to name […]
Every Open Eye by Chvrches
Building on the success of their first release The Bones of What You Believe, Chvrches’ second album Every Open Eye sees the Scottish synthpop band engage in sonic consolidation as they look to further define […]
Swift Or Adams?
Ryan Adams’ cover album of Taylor Swift’s 1989 has been out a few days now, and Adams is just getting around to all those slots on all those chat shows to support its release, standing […]
Silence In The Snow by Trivium
Of all of the bands knocking about in Metal these days, Trivium are perhaps the one band with the most to live up to; their 2005 breakthrough album, “Ascendancy”, helped to forge the sound of […]