How do you plan your holiday? Do you go it alone, and prowl the internet for the very best deals? Or, do you sit back and let the travel agent plan your perfect getaway? Here […]
Editors’ Choice w / 7th October
To give you a glimpse into the hearts and minds of your four favourite people at In The Middle, we the music editors have decided to lovingly curate our favourite tracks into weekly playlists. Week 2 […]
TV | Is it time The Simpsons left our screens?
On December 17th 1989, The Simpsons first aired. Margaret Thatcher was still Prime Minister and the Berlin Wall had fallen only a few weeks earlier – the world was a different place. Weathering comments from […]
Music | In The Middle review Iceage ‘Plowing Into the Field of Love’
Iceage don’t strike as an ordinary post-punk group; over just a couple of years this Danish team has managed to become the flagman of the narrow subgenre of raw, almost warrior-like in its aggression Scandinavian […]
Music | In The Middle review Ex Hex ‘Rips’
The Washington trio of Ex Hex, have a thing for sixties garage rock. Every stomping second of Rips is a loving tribute to guitar slingers past and present. The album opens with the ray-gun guitar […]
Music | SBTRKT @ O2 Academy 26/09
Ahead of his forthcoming album Wonder Where We Land, producer Aaron Jerome, more commonly known as SBTRKT, graced the O2 academy with the first night of his UK tour. Scuttling onto the stage in a […]
TV | Transparent a success for Amazon
Transparent, set in Los Angeles, focuses on a divorced transgendered father’s transition from Mort to Moira, and the lives of her three emerging adult children. We’re introduced to the oldest child, Sarah’s mundane family life, […]
Art | Light Night Leeds – Digital Narcassus is interactive, effortless and beautiful
Image: lightnightleeds.co.uk I’ve been a fan of dance ever since I was a little girl, admiring the elegance, the flaw, the whole beauty of a performer. When I heard of the Digital Narcissus performance showing […]
Music | In The Middle with Pallbearer
It’s a mild, quiet Sunday in Hyde Park, the perfect opportunity for some Funeral Doom from the aptly named 4 piece Pallbearer to rain down from the PAs of The Brudenell. I meet with Brett […]
Food | Perfect Recipes for the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning
Macmillan Coffee Mornings are a great way to get friends and family over for tea and cake, and raise a bit of money for a good cause while you’re at it. So, why not get […]
Theatre | A Streetcar Named Desire – Gillian Anderson portrays Blanche in all the right ways
Image: National Theatre Benedict Andrews recently brought Tennessee Williams’ ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ to the Young Vic theatre in London for what truly was the most brilliantly uncomfortable piece of theatre I have seen to […]
Film | Magic in the Moonlight – forgettable, unadventurous and fomulaic
Image: Perdido Productions For me, Magic in the Moonlight seems less a film and more a feature-length TV drama episode. I would like to assure you I am no expert on the Woody Allen film […]