When someone inevitably tells you that Punk Rock, by British playwright Simon Stephens, is ‘like The History Boys’, don’t listen to them. If you go into Punk Rock expecting it to be like The History […]
Music | Review – Heavenly Beat & The Fratellis
Heavenly Beat – Prominence (3/5) Captured Tracks is arguably the hottest independent record label around these days. Mac Demarco, Wild Nothing, DIIV, Beach Fossils; the list goes on, but suffice to say that the Brooklyn-based […]
Music | Live in Leeds – Deptford Goth, The Story So Far & Goo Goo Dolls
Deptford Goth – Belgrave Music Hall 16/10/13 Deptford Goth’s debut album Life After Defo certified the south Londoner as one to watch in the UK electronic scene for 2013. Boasting strands of How to Dress Well […]
Film | The Witches – digitally remastered
‘The Witches’, released for the first time in 1966, is the story of Gwen Mayfield (Joan Fontaine) as she struggles to deal with haunting memories from her past. The film has recently been digitally restored, and […]
Music | Live in Leeds – San Cisco
San Cisco – Belgrave Music Hall 14/10/13 San Cisco instantly send their small but fervent Belgrave Music Hall crowd into a summery furor with their turbocharged opener ‘Lyall’, which is rammed with playful melodic discourse, […]
Art | Nocturne at Leeds City Gallery – creatures of the night
4/5 Stars The Leeds City Art Gallery cites James Attlee’s ‘Nocturne’ (2011) as the inspiration behind the exhibition, from the section in which he states that ‘it is scarcely more than a century since the […]
TV | Boxset Essentials – Sex and the City
Best for when you are feeling bad about your own love life… Before I had ever viewed a single episode of Sex and the City, I had a preconceived idea of what it was all about; four […]
TV | Homeland
It’s become a bit of an accepted view amongst most critics that Homeland has lost its edge. The first season’s excellence is universally acknowledged but many criticise the second season for shedding the veil of […]
Books | Vicious Circle
“Love. Loss. Revenge.” After reading the tag line for Wilbur Smith’s new thriller I didn’t hold much hope. Pick three of the most generic words relating to literature and these three would probably come out […]
TV | Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D
Being the small screen spin off of one of the biggest films of all time, Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD had a lot to live up to. And with god of nerds and fans, Joss Whedon […]
TV | Gogglebox
“Have you seen Gogglebox?” You ask your friends. “No, what is it?” And then you brace yourself, because now you have to explain the concept that invariably makes people think that the world is ending […]
Books | The Flamethrowers
If I’m completely honest, when I first picked up The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner I was all set for a tale about a crack military squad systematically offing bad guys by burning them to a […]