Being a Fresher is a time most students will never forget. Some parts are also a blur that we will never remember (we do have the knack of killing off a few brain cells from […]
Art | Art and Life at Leeds City Gallery – A Creative Partnership
Image: Leeds City Gallery 3/5 Stars Art and Life’ follows the artistic partnership between Ben and Winifred Nicholson in the 1920s and the varying influences their friends and fellow collaborators (Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis and […]
Music | Live in Leeds – Nina Nesbitt & Simian Mobile Disco
Nina Nesbitt – The Cockpit 20/10/2013 An atmospheric darkness ascends on The Cockpit as the hordes of eagerly awaiting teenagers anticipate their newest musical icon and it is not long before the countless pairs of […]
Opera | Peter Grimes – Britten's harrowing production
Image: Leeds Grand Theatre 3/4 Stars Benjamin Britten’s production of Peter Grimes is an epic tragedy set against the backdrop of a seaside town, playing at Leeds Grand Theatre until October 26. The opera is based […]
Art | Tom Stoddart stands out at The Whitecloth Gallery
Image: Tom Stoddart 4/5 Stars The utter magnificence of Stoddart’s photo- graphs is difficult to appreciate fully in rela- tion to the environment within which they are displayed. Filling two small rooms, the images are […]
Music | Live in Leeds – Bowling For Soup, Scroobius Pip & Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit
Bowling For Soup – O2 Academy Leeds 14/10/13 You know it’s going to be an epic gig when a band has their own themed intro music (‘Here comes bowling for soup’, not imaginative lyrically but damn […]
TV | Karl Pilkington – The Moaning of Life
The “little round headed buffoon” is back and oh how we have missed him. Karl Pilkington’s new series sees him go it alone without the great contribution of Gervais and Merchant. The first episode addresses […]
TV | Made in Chelsea
Pseudo-reality obsessors all over Britain need wait no longer for the return of E4’s BAFTA Award winning show for its sixth series (yes, really). This is reality television at its finest, so long as the […]
Food | Gastronaut – Trinity Kitchen
Trinity Kitchen represents exactly what you don’t expect to find in a sparkly brand new indoor shopping centre owned by the corporate captains of the land in the middle of a bustling city. Land Security, which is responsible for […]
TV | Hello Ladies
This sitcom and its main character have one thing in common; no one wants to keep seeing them each week. Stephen Merchant’s first solo endeavour has just launched on HBO but Hello Ladies seems to […]
Music | Album Review – Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire – Reflektor (3/5) Arcade Fire is back with their fourth LP, “Reflektor”. Unlike the gradual progression of their style heard across their last three albums, their latest offering is a significant departure from […]
Books | The Quarry
In the great author’s posthumous novel, fans of Iain Banks will recognise the bleak surroundings of The Crow Road and perhaps the misfit protagonist who appears to mirror Banks’ best known novel. Kit, like Frank […]