The Stranglers – ‘Mercury Rising’ (Coursegood) Post-punk veterans release second single from new album Giant. Serrated metallic guitar over frenetic synth is comfortingly typical Stranglers. However, it’s quickly let down by a combination of badly-judged semi-rap and worryingly […]
Album Review // Tracey Thorn – Tinsel & Lights
As Christmas encroaches, out crawl the opportunistic money makers ready to flog Quality Street tins, roasted chestnuts and line our record stores with tasteless festive albums. Tracey Thorn, one half of Everything But The Girl unashamedly […]
Album Review // Cemeteries – 'The Wilderness'
Having gazed into the forest near his home in Buffalo, Kyle J Reigle (aka Cemeteries) decided to write music in an attempt to escape his bleak urban surroundings. Six months recording in his spare room […]
Netball round up – 24/10/12
1sts vs. Newcastle 1sts: 24-36 After a well fought, well deserved game against Manchester last week, the firsts had plenty of confidence travelling to Newcastle for the 2nd match of the season. With Newcastle […]
Halloween Film Special | Paranormal Activity 4
2/5 stars Picking up from where Paranormal Activity 3 left off, it helps to know the background behind this series. That said, if you’re someone who just wants to see a scary film, plot plays […]
I got 99 problems but a Snitch ain’t one
On a chilly autumnal afternoon in Hyde Park, magic was in the air as the Leeds University Quidditch and Harry Potter Society met to practise and to prove you don’t have to be a […]
The Growing Cost of Football
After the BBC’s recent ‘Price of Football’ survey, LS Sport‘s Euan Cunningham shares his thoughts… About a year ago I was travelling back from a match. The team I have a season ticket with had […]
Art | Rebecca Lowe
3/5 stars The Bowery rightly deserves the title of Headingley’s ‘hidden creative gem’. I’m ashamed to admit I’ve only ever been to Headingley as part of an Otley run in the past, and on my […]
Opera | The Makropulos Case
4/5 stars To quote Gavin Plumley from the programme, ‘on paper, protracted legal cases are hardly the stuff of great drama.’ Indeed, Janacek’s decision to adapt Capeks 1922 play The Makropulos Case into an opera […]
Met Edge Uni in tight clash
This week the 2nd Netball hosted a powerful Leeds Met side in the Gryphons centre. The match started evenly enough. Both teams breaking through each other’s midfield defence and gaining every opportunity to score the […]
A Closer Look At… Psycho
Psycho ranks highly on many Top Halloween Film lists. Considered to be Hitchcock’s greatest cinematic achievement the psychological slasher laid down some of the foundations for later Halloween movies. Many more modern horror films draw […]
Halloween Film Special | The Alternative List
So it is that time of year again, Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, and all the other classic horror films come off the shelf, but maybe this year it is time to try something different […]