Online dating sites now allow for us to meet all kinds of people from all kinds of places. This is both a good and a bad thing. In the virtual world, you might bump into […]
Blogs | Salvo's, via Memory Lane
It is often said that during austerity, we have a habit of looking backwards towards more familiar, comfortable times. The human race have been doing it forever, and sometimes we call it Romanticism. Born out […]
Blogs | Catching the Oscars – And the Oscar goes to…
The movies nominated in the Oscar categories this year are all undeniably brilliant in their own unique ways. With the ceremony looming, I genuinely cannot predict the winners this year. Last week, the BAFTAs showed […]
Music | Album Review – St. Vincent
St. Vincent St. Vincent 5/5 St. Vincent doesn’t take selfies. It’s hardly believable, one might think, while gazing at her latest self-titled album’s cover and locking eyes with Annie Clarke sitting on a throne, looking […]
TV | My Mad Fat Diary – Not suited to a post-15 age group
Released only last year, My Mad Fat Diary has received large critical acclamation for its honest portrayal of adolescent turmoil. The series recounts the life of a 16 ½ stone teenage girl, Rae (Sharon Rooney), […]
Theatre | The Laramie Project – stage@leeds' company's successful debut
Image: stage@leeds The Laramie Project is a piece of verbatim theatre written by Moises Kaufman, in memory and response to the murder of gay student Matthew Shepard in 1998 in Laramie, Wyoming. A unique way […]
Music | Cate Le Bon Live
Cate Le Bon Brudenell Social Club 5/5 Cate le Bon’s catchy, psychedelic, 60s inspired music with a west Wales lilt was musically complex and tightly performed at her gig playing to a sold out crowd […]
Film | 2014 Academy Award Predictions
Image: Lupita Nyong’o, Michael Fassbender and Chiwetel Ejiofor in 12 Years a Slave, Regency Enterprises It’s that time of year again. On Sunday 2nd March the red carpet will be rolled out and the stars […]
Music | The Boxer Rebellion Live
The Boxer Rebellion Brudenell Social Club 3/5 The Boxer Rebellion approach the stage with comfortable confidence and are enthusiastically welcomed by the packed out crowd at the Brudenell Social club. They lurch into a triptych […]
Music | Album Review – Lo-Fang
Lo-Fang Blue Film 4/5 There is a fine line between making the most of your talents and simply throwing everything you know at a project and hoping it sticks. With a classical training in cello, […]
Music | Little Comets Live
Little Comets The Cockpit 4/5 Little Comets play the kind of kitchen-sink indie that refuses to believe 2005 ever ended, all jaunty guitar riffs and anthemic choruses; their gig tonight at the Cockpit showcases the […]
Food | Chorizo baked fish
I love fish and one of my vivid memories as a child was when we used to bake fish on a fire wrapped in soaking wet newspaper. The flavours created from cooking the fish in […]