Bingley Music Live has always presented festival-goers with huge acts early in their careers, with past performers including Jake Bugg, Catfish & The Bottlemen and Jess Glynne. We’ve put together a selection of our predictions […]
Review – The Garden Party
The Tetley is the seat of future-reading creativity in Leeds, a place where artists and punters alike can let their minds wander and meet in its colossal spaces, or look north through its windows at […]
Depression Cherry by Beach House
On first impressions it would be easy to award Beach House the fattest of zeros for their fifth LP, Depression Cherry. The cheaply made velvet packaging malts away under the slightest of breezes, spiralling fluff not […]
Fashion Fortnightly: The News Round-up
As London Fashion Weekend (24th-27th September) approaches, collaborations, changes and controversy dominate the headlines. New releases have got us heading for the shops and we’ve pencilled in time in our 2016 diaries for the currently […]
Straight Outta Compton: A Lyrical Masterpiece
Straight Outta Compton is a lyrical masterpiece: a feat of storytelling that manages to squeeze drama, passion, musical genius and a rags-to-riches biopic into a blistering few hours of searing, soaring film. Cynics will say […]
Green Man Festival
The rolling hills of the Brecon Beacons taper down to one particular valley, in the shadow of Sugarloaf Mountain, where musical newcomers gather, forerunners and legends perform. This can only be Green Man Festival, now […]
Muslim Drag Queens: Looking Fabulous
When I found out that Channel 4 was to air a documentary on Muslim drag queens it came as a slight shock. Partly because it is somewhat unusual, even in this ‘modern’ day, to release […]
What Went Down by Foals
The cumulative buzz that Foals generate with each album release is nothing short of astounding, but it’s cleverly planned. 2013’s Holy Fire was unleashed to the world off the back of the hype of the […]
A Semester in Oxford, Mississippi.
I spent five glorious months at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, otherwise known as Ole Miss, which welcomed me with open arms and quickly left me with impressions that I will not soon forget, […]
In The Middle with Palace
Day four of Green Man, the diverse and mellow festival set in the beautiful valleys of the Brecon Beacons, and my legs are covered in mud as a result of the torrential rain of the […]
A/W High Street Collaborations
Zoe Jordan for River Island Release Date: 21st September Price: £35-£250 The Design Forum Initiative has bought us collections from the likes of Jean-Pierre Braganza and Eudon Choi and now Irish designer Zoe Jordan is […]
Preview: No/Gloss Film Festival
It’s no secret that low-to-no budget filmmaking is on the rise across the UK and the rest of the world. With advancements in technology and ever-reducing software costs, amateur and wannabe directors, actors, editors and […]