Life can be only understood by looking backwards; but it can only be lived forwards. In that lies the central conceit of The Day of the Doctor. Beneath its Saturday night tea time family viewing […]
Music | Review – Robbie Williams
Robbie Williams – Swing Both Ways (2/5) I have no problem with karaoke. I’ve never done it myself, but I have seen Lost in Translation and looks like a wild old time. Who wouldn’t want […]
Music | Live in Leeds – MONEY
Money – Belgrave Music Hall (5/5) In Manchester’s unforgiving industrial landscape, MONEY are the latest musical outfit to emerge from its crevices. Fronted by Jamie Lee – a clown-like and enchanting creature – they deliver […]
Music | Live in Leeds – Summer Camp, Editors & Gold Panda
Summer Camp – Belgrave Music Hall (3/5) Summer Camp is a married couple from London who compose mellow lo-fi indie-pop with a hint of retro bits from the 1980s attached to it. They seem to […]
Music | Live in Leeds – The Family Rain, Palma Violets & Hayseed Dixie
The Family Rain – Brudenell Social Club (4/5) If you watched Made In Chelsea on Monday (yes, I do), then you have already listened to The Family Rain. It featured the band’s cover of ‘Enjoy The Silence.’ […]
TV | I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here A.K.A The Joey Essex Show
The nation’s favourite duo Ant and Dec are back on our screens hosting the new series of I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here. The 13thseries demonstrates the usual structure of washed-up celebrities being thrown […]
TV | The Sound of Musicals – The weird and wonderful ways of the West End
Whenever I have been fortunate enough to watch a West End production, I have never been preoccupied with the hard-work and effort that goes in to all of the technicalities. However, after watching the first […]
Music | LS Introducing Dev Hynes – Blood Orange
On announcing his new album and his second as Blood Orange, Dev Hynes explained that “a lot of the record is about transitions, life transitions.” Any followers of Hynes will know that he is one […]
Music | Live in Leeds – Vampire Weekend & Savages
Vampire Weekend – First Direct Arena (4/5) As the current music scene leaves us aching for new bands to present an original and unpretentious sound, it is a relief to hear Vampire Weekend moving from […]
News | School of Healthcare facing closures
Six areas of the School of Healthcare are in danger of closing, despite outrage from trade unions. A review by the University has recommended that six out of the eight disciplines in the School of […]
Books | Marriage Material – A fascinating and witty insight into racial politics
For his debut novel, Marriage Material, Sathnam Sanghera has chosen an unusual looking glass through which to analyse the world: a newsagent’s. Inconspicuous though it may sound, the fictional Bains stores provides a fascinating insight […]
Video Games | The Jane Austen games we've all been waiting for
It is a truth universally acknowledged that video games based on the works of Jane Austen are like buses – you wait forever for one and then two just turn up at once. Stride and Prejudice is […]