From the makers of Twenty Twelve, W1A is the new BBC comedy show recycling the Twenty Twelve the main character, Ian Fletcher (Hugh Bonneville). Fresh from screwing up his role as head of the Olympic […]
Music | Festival news – Soundwave Festival Croatia
Seated in the idyllic setting of The Garden in Tisno, Soundwave Festival returns to Croatia for it’s sixth year from the 17th – 21st July for another monumental week of the finest Dance, Hip-Hop, Electro, […]
Clubs | Review – Butter Side Up with Rick Wade
The most recent edition of Butter Side Up saw another Detroit house originator come to the smoky confines of Wire, in another smart booking which only adds to BSU’s credentials as the foremost house and […]
Music | The Telescopes live
The Telescopes Belgrave Music Hall 4/5 The Telescopes’ leader Stephen Lawrie and his bassist are hunched over on their knees in an agonising tension between pleasure and pain. Lawrie howls wildly and ear-splittingly into his […]
Travel | Brighton – Top of our LSi bucket list
If you’re anything like me, and want to see more of England than just Leeds, Brighton should be at the top of your bucket list. Located on the south coast of England, the city has […]
Features | What could you afford with BBC Three?
Earlier this month it was announced that in order to cut costs, BBC Three is being axed as an on-air channel. With an operating budget of £85 million, LSi looks at what we could buy […]
Luscious Two Lemon Cake
This lemon cake packs a powerful citrus punch, wasting none of the lemons that go into it. Yielding a marvellously moist, and quite sizeable, sponge, there’s plenty to go around. This is a slight twist […]
ART | A look back at the Immigration//Représentation festival
Immigration makes the headlines on a daily basis. It has become part of the national vocabulary in a such a way that we don’t often stop and question how it is represented. Politicians and newsrooms […]
Theatre | But Then There Was Ella – MA Student's play debuts at stage@leeds
But Then There Was Ella, a LUU Open Theatre production, debuted in Stage One in stage@leeds. Written and directed by MA Student Jess Macdonald, Ella beautifully and expertly captures the failures in the human condition, tackling […]
Books | How should a person be?
“We live in an age of some really great blow-job artists. Every era has its art form. The nineteenth century, I know, was tops for the novel” In How Should a Person Be? memoir, fiction […]
Music | Interview – Factory Floor
Factory Floor, an electronic, industrial outfit from South London, are currently playing a series of live dates around the world off the back of their self-titled debut album, released in September. LSi caught up with […]
Comedy | Russell Howard – Wonderbox
Image: Coventry Telegraph Midway through Russell Howard’s show, something weird happens. While delivering the punchline to a joke condemning the EDL, a heckle comes from the first few rows. Howard, stopped in his tracks, tries reassuring […]