At over £103million, music streaming services such as Spotify accounted for 10 per cent of total music revenues last year, compared to 7 per cent the previous year. Despite its dramatic rise to fame many artists […]
Music | Festival News – Jamie xx, Neneh Cherry and more added to Field Day lineup
If you’re fortunate enough for your exams to finish in good time, London’s Field Day festival – which is extending its stay in Victoria Park for an extra day in 2014 – is the perfect blowout. […]
Music | Album review – Pharrell's G I R L
Pharrell G I R L 4/5 He’s dominated the charts, filthy rich, as popular as ever and yet Pharrell is still motivated enough to release his first solo album since 2006. It says a lot […]
Theatre Simulcast | War Horse – A truly landmark production
Image: National Theatre One hundred years on from the start of the Great War provides the perfect time for the National Theatre to bring their ground breaking show War Horse, adapted from the wonderful book […]
Clubs | Interview – Werkha
Tom A Leah finds himself in a precarious position musically, straddling different music scenes both within his native Manchester as well as more broadly in the musical landscape as he sees it. With the forthcoming […]
Music | Album review – Schoolboy Q
Schoolboy Q Oxymoron 4/5 On ‘Control’, the infamous Big Sean track that featured Kendrick Lamar bluntly calling out the biggest names in hip-hop, we could hear Kendrick proclaiming in a mad, intentionally idiotic voice “I […]
Food | The Gingerbread Lad – Alternative breakfast menu
We all know we should eat breakfast, but sometimes it’s too much hassle/just boring. Swap the rock hard toast and soggy cereal for these four exciting dishes which will make you look forward to the […]
Sport | Six Nations – Triple crown in sight for England
One of the most exciting Six Nations for many years enters its fourth and penultimate round this week, with Ireland hosting Italy at the Aviva Stadium as they attempt to rekindle their championship hopes, Scotland hosting France […]
Video Games | Star Citizen – The beauty of crowd funding
Crowd-funding has revolutionised the way that new products make it to market. Rather than relying solely on huge corporate backing, product developers have now got an effective way of securing funding straight from the customers […]
Fashion | Brand Alert – ZONEgirl
There are few things as restorative to the female psyche as a spot of retail therapy, particularly in the current Leeds campus atmosphere ridden with pre-exam stress and post-presentation trauma. In comes ZONEgirl, a […]
Music | New Yorkshire – 8 Leeds bands you have to hear
With a steady flow of investment rapidly transforming the city into a prominent financial and cultural hub, the floodgates have opened for an array of eclectic talents to emerge and fill the creative spaces of venues like Brudenell […]
Film | The Book Thief – Nazi Germany, as told by death
Image: Fox 2000 Pictures Film adaptations of books are always a tricky one, especially when it comes to something like the Book Thief. It’s one of those much loved international best-sellers by Markus Zusak, and […]