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 […]
TV | Freeview Flicks of the week – From Heath Ledger to Zombies
There’s always a wide selection of great films available on Freeview and seeing as staying in is the new going out, TV presents the ideal opportunity to catch up on what you might have missed […]
Music | Album Review – Illum Sphere
Illum Sphere Ghosts of Then and Now 4/5 Once we have confronted the Ghosts of Then and Now there is only dread. Fear for what is yet to come, the ghosts of later, if you will. It’s this […]
Music | Interview – Mø
The last time LSi caught up with Danish indie-electronic artist MO it was October, she was supporting Aluna George at the Cockpit and had just released her debut E.P ‘Bikini Daze’. Now, four months later, she is […]
Books | People in the photo – A page turner full of secrets
Say what you will, Hélène Gestern writes a good page-turner. Narrated in the epistolary form (and translated form the original French), the novel follows the correspondence between the two characters of Hélène and Stéphane, as […]
Music | Basia Bulat Live
Basia Bulat Belgrave Music Hall 4/5 Upon arriving at the Belgrave, I expected to witness a girl sing and play an acoustic guitar, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that Basia Bulat is a […]
Music | Album review – Tinariwen
Tinariwen Emmaar 4/5 Desert Blues masters Tinariwen are perhaps the most Rock n’ Roll band there is; they are true rebels. Having actively experienced reality-affirming political situations in their home country of Mali, and recently […]
Food | Peckish – Caramelised Red Onion, Rosemary and Goats Cheese Tart
With Spring almost here, what better way to celebrate than to abandon the heavy, filling meals that take hours to make and cook up a refreshing Caramelised Red Onion, Rosemary and Goats Cheese Tart. Ingredients For […]
Interview | Nick Helm
He’s charmed us on 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown, but now comedian Nick Helm has made his way onto BBC Three’s new sitcom Uncle. LSi talks bellies, Eurovision and, of course, Uncle. We […]
Features | Online Dating – Great or not?
It’s Valentine’s Day, that time of year when being single is no longer the paragon of excitement and opportunities it’s usually made out to be. In an age of technology, we’re plunged into the virtual […]