As we reach the end of the 2010s, it seems apt to reflect on what has been the most defining decade of most of our lives here at The Gryphon thus far – especially in […]
Festival season kicks off in Heaton Park with Parklife 2018
You’re caught between the heavy bass magnetising you from one stage and intoxicating indie-pop coming from the main stage. You’re four Smirnoff Ices down, with Mancunian spirit sending your serotonin levels off the scale. You’re […]
Grammys 2018: The year white men stand back
Year after year, the Grammys epitomise the whitewashed music industry, particularly within the Album of the Year category. In 2015, Mumford & Sons took Best Album over Frank Ocean’s seminal Channel Orange; A year later, Taylor Swift’s […]
Lorde @ Birmingham O2 Academy
“The room was alive and was filled with so much colour and community.” I don’t think I’ve ever waited in a queue as long as I had for Lorde. But I’ll tell you now, it […]
Lorde @ Alexandra Palace, 27/09/17
There’s an awkward kind of restlessness amongst the Lorde crowd at Ally Pally tonight. Everyone’s excited, but no-one really wants to show it. It’s a whole different story when the lights go down though – […]
‘Melodrama’ by Lorde
If there were an album that was made to be relatable to the average uni student, it would be Lorde’s latest album, Melodrama. You could go through a list of millennial tropes and they’d all […]
Music | Interview with Pulled Apart By Horses
Ahead of mammoth Reading and Leeds gigs, and the release of third album “Blood”, we had a chat with Lee Vincent, drummer in Leeds post-hardcore favourites Pulled Apart By Horses. Hey man, how’s it been […]