It’s 2012. One Direction have just released their second album, Take Me Home. Everything is right in the world. You and your friends are practicing your dance moves for the Video Star you’re about to […]
Glastonbury Gets to Grips With Gender
Glastonbury has been a pioneering force in the world of music festivals since it first blessed our ears in 1970. But can it go one step further and lead the way in balancing the gender split […]
The Gryphon’s Best Albums of 2018
Ask a crowd of 500 people what their favourite album of 2018 was and you’ll get 500 different answers, because there was just that much good music which came out this year. From the return […]
The 1975 Have A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
The subject of major debate around being overhyped and the questionable pretension of frontman Matty Healy, the release of The 1975’s third album was met with trepidation and intrigue – it was distinctly hard to […]
“Shame, Shame, Shame, That’s the Name,” 20.11.18
“Enjoy yourselves.” Shame’s effervescent frontman, Charlie Steen, encourages a packed crowd in LUU’s Stylus to do as such innumerable times throughout their dynamic, high-powered set. Perhaps it was sheer will power from the amount of […]
Art and Artist: Unchangeably Intertwined?
Shrouded in controversy long before his death in June, rapper XXXTentacion left a trail of increasingly shocking criminal charges in his wake; the likes of which include homophobic attacks and the aggravated battery of a […]
Sam Fender Electrifies Chapel, 02.11.18
Chapel’s backdrop of graffiti and neon signs fits the atmosphere of Sam Fender’s alt-rock perfectly. On the precipice of his debut EP, the North Shields born musician took to the sold-out venue for a show […]
Alt-Rocker Sam Fender Comes to Leeds, 02.11.18
Newcastle native Sam Fender has had quite the year. Beginning with being named one of BBC Sound of 2018 was only the tip of the iceberg, as the months following saw him tackle almost every […]
Tom Odell Tugs at the Heartstrings with ‘Jubilee Road’
Having taken a two-year hiatus, the release of Tom Odell’s third album was both long-awaited and surrounded by high expectations. Jubilee Road, an album full of fictionalised tales of Odell’s life in an East London terraced […]