Take a look back at how the arts world has treated President Trump over the years and what new material he has given them to work with.
Rishi’s Arts Recovery Fund – a Saviour or a Nightmare?
After seeing the other week Rishi Sunak’s comments about retraining, realising I’m doing a useless humanities degree, having a brew and a good cry, I hopped onto the National Careers Service website [available here] to […]
Ofcom – Silencer or Amplifier?
Scrolling through the recent list of unpursued complaints on Ofcom’s website is baffling and hilarious; there’s a drinking game in there somewhere. On the 11th July, 2020, some poor sap was so horrified by Channel […]
REVIEW: Enola Holmes
Enola Holmes is pretty fun. It won’t top anyone’s favourite film list or their 2020 best-of. It doesn’t need to. Because it’s harmless, laid-back fun. Above all else, it is Netflix’s attempt at a blockbuster, […]
Green Day Leave Fans Blue With New Album Father of All
Father of All is just… boring. A product of an aged band and a style that has aged with them, Green Day bring us their latest album, teeming with insipid, tired rock clichés and unimaginative […]
FONTAINES D.C. Prove They are Going to be ‘Big’ at Stylus, 22/11/19
It’s always interesting to see how a band with relatively little material will tour. FONTAINES D.C,, with only one album under their belt – Mercury prize-nominated 2019 banger Dogrel, which isn’t a massively long album […]
We’re Not Scaremongering. This Is Really Happening.
So goes Radiohead’s ‘Idioteque’, from 2000 album Kid A. An album that Rolling Stone ranked as the best of the noughties, an album which, upon release, charted at number 1 in the UK, the US, […]
Foals Come Back With A Second Helping To Make Sure We Know Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost
March’s Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost, Part 1 offered us impending doom combined with immense energy. Foals’ most critically acclaimed album to date, it established a mammoth reputation for the second part to live […]
Credit Where Credit’s Due?
Tom Poole investigates the continuing influences of Black musicians on the soundscape of Britain. It seems very relevant to talk about the history of Black influence on such a crucial element of our pop culture, […]
Labrinth, Sia & Diplo Present…LSD
Reviewing old pop is weird. It is to assess something that, a lot of the time, is crafted with a shelf-life; designed to be fit-for-purpose at the time, hopefully, reach a few million streams and […]
Foals Save Themselves in Stunning New Album
In 2018, when Arctic Monkeys released Tranquillity Base Hotel & Casino, fans were divided and faced with a band once energetic and explosive, refined to weird lounge jazz and piano-plinking. To some, it was viewed […]
Weezer’s ‘The Black Album’ Disappoints
1994 was a phenomenal year for rock. The same year that gave us Green Day’s Dookie, Jeff Buckley’s Grace, the Oasis/Blur clash of Definitely Maybe against Parklife, and even Kurt Cobain’s posthumous Nirvana album, MTV […]